ARE YOU TRANSLATING FOR HER?

Megan Smoot

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Fri, Jul 6, 2018, 4:50 PM 

 Whattup whattup friends and fam?? Hope you all had a great 4th of July. Here at the MTC we got to stay up past 10:30PM. :) livin the life :) For real, it was mediocre. They served nasty food though & that was definitely a bummer but the best part was that we were able to see all of the fireworks going off through out the whole valley and front row to stadium of fire fireworks so that was sick. Sunday we watched a devotional by Elder Holland on "Missions are Forever" and SANTOS (holy) COW it was amazing. Listening to that talk honestly helped my week run more smoothly. He put a lot of different things into perspective about our attitudes toward our missions and literally the whole talk I just needed to hear, so Heavenly Father definitely answered my prayers on that one. One thing that I absolutely LOVED was when he was explaining why missions are so hard. He said that he has asked that question for years, and doesn't know the right answer, but shared with us an answer that satisfied him. He said that the reason is because "Salvation is not a cheap experience"... woah... he then added on saying "Why would it be easy for us, when it was never easy for Him?" (referring to Jesus Christ & His Atonement) I WAS SHOOK. Elder Holland is such an amazing speaker ahh I wish I could write down everything he said. I know that this is going to be the hardest thing I have ever done, but it is going to be SO worth it. We had TRC's on Monday which is when we teach a lesson in 100% tagalog to members that volunteered to be taught by us. We had to teach two 20 min lessons. Sis Rob and I were a little nervous because we had only been in the MTC for about a week and a half so our tagalog is very rough lol. The first member we taught was an older filipina woman. I made a mistake by telling her that my mom was filipino, making me half. Sis Rob and I had a whole lesson planned and got to probably our first two bullet points. The woman was laughing. so. hard. She reminded me of my family and honestly, im not even joking when I say that we were all in tears from laughing so hard. She thought that the way we said things was so funny. And then Sis Rob was teaching, and I wasn't following what she said so i whispered in english "what did you just say" and she told me then the member stopped and said "wait... did she just translate for you? you're half filipino and SHE translated for YOU?? Im just imagining your mom sitting right here laughing with us!!" me: haha... my mom doesnt know that much either.. haha.. im half filipino and so when i get to the philippines theyre gonna think im fluent. RIP. im just a basic white girl who is actually brown :/ (or as dad would say, a coconut lmao) All in all the lessons went well. Well, the best a lesson could go for knowing 5% of Tagalog. We also taught our teacher who pretends to be a "person we teach" (PMG changed things so we no longer call them investigators) and he goes by Jesse Bueno. I SWEAR this is probably our teachers favorite part of his job. I think he loves being Jesse Bueno more than he loves being himself. he is sooo serious and never breaks character. We planned a lesson on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and he asked us so many questions that our vocab could not answer. It was supposed to be a 20 min lesson but he was throwing us so many curve balls that we were in there for 45 min legit digging holes for ourselves. He was asking us why The Book of Mormon testifies that Joseph Smith was a prophet and I knew exactly what to say in English, but I dont even know how to say " i am a missionary" in tagalog, let alone the word "translated" hahaha we literally walked out of the room laughing so hard. But honestly, if we gave that lesson last week I would've been bawling right after feeling discouraged. Now, we just laugh about it and try to realize that it doesnt matter if we are fluent or not, the real teacher is the Holy Ghost. I have received so much comfort from friends and fam at home. And I definitely feel all your guys' prayers. Thank you SO MUCH i love all of you and am truly blessed. oh also... I broke the news to the elders. I told them I was narcoleptic.There was no reaction. haha surprising right?? joke lang. Then, one of the elders told our teacher out of random and bro higgins didnt know what it was?? him: talaga? (really?) odd. Thats all. No one was surprised lol. its gotten bad so ive had to come up with some ideas to keep me awake-- pic provided below Hope you all have a good week! 

Miss all of you.

 Pray always xoxo Sis Smoot 1. LOL

2. Class all day every day yeehaw 

3. just tryin to get our vocab in so we can tell jesse how joseph smith received the golden plates amirite 4. tatts for the fourth lmao