This week was awesome! Much better than last week as usually everything gets better with time when one breaks out of a comfort zone. But now the mtc is great! Basically everyday we do the same thing. Class, study, food, study, class, food, class, study, etc. Gym is still awesome! so i played 4 square for the first time this week. i'm addicted. it is so much fun. also, i dominate. like i'm trying to be more humble, but for reals, i dominate. it is actually kind of bad because people will put a 'target' on me to get me out and i don't think some people like playing with me anymore. i need to be smarter in the way i play and make some alliances. ha ha it is soo great. Also cool thing, remember the DI bin that i loved at campus plaza? Well check it out, the mtc has 2 di bins on each floor in the residence hall! Score! Sisters will put things in there that they don't want anymore/things that won't fit into their suitcase. Saturday night, Sunday night, and monday nights are the golden nights because everybody leaves either mondays or tuesdays. I've scored.

Tagalog is coming along! Slowely, but surely! We taught our first Tagalog lesson without any notes this week. Before we've always taught in Tagaglog, but we brought notes with us. The lesson without notes actually went way better. Granted i'm sure the investigator didn't understand everything we said, but we think we got out point across. ha ha it was great. and it is a testimony to me that the gift of tongues is real. The gift of tongues is absolutely real, and i also have to work really hard to qualify for it i feel like. i'll be honest i sort of figured i would just pick up the language-not so. i have to study a lot, and mentally it is like i'm back at school studying for finals. except for the fact that there are no tests. just people that we have to communicate with. which is kind of a big deal. i love learning how to understand tagalog though! no joke, it is so cool when my teacher will say something and i can understand it 3 seconds after he says something. Also something cool, i love that my mind has started to thing in Tagalog, actually more like Taglish, more than English.

the devotionals this week were super great! on Tuesday we had this man who works with the church come and he was really funny. He taught us as well as the spirit taught us how important prayer was. i learned a lot about how the way we can communicate with our Heavenly Father and how much He truly cares about communicating with us. What i learned from that devotional has helped me improve and change the way i pray with my Father in Heaven. He really does love me sooo much and check it out, He loves you also! And wants each of us to communicate with Him all the time! He cares about what we are doing in our lives, nothing is too small or too unimportant to Him. I also learned in the other devotional how much our Savior loves us and how it is so wonderful that He took upon Him all of our burdens, sins, griefs, pains, etc. He knows how each of us feels always. What a neat thing for us-that He loves us so much!

So next week, i'm going to bring my journal along with me as i email as i forget what specific things i do during the week. That shows how much our weeks run together. I think we only have 27 more days here? Luke left this week and i didn't see him again which was a bummer, but oh well. i'm excited for him! Anyway i love you all so much and thank you for your love and support! I love getting letters and it makes me feel so loved! I hope everyone is doing FANTASTIC! I LOVE YOU!!

Cordially, Sister Davidson :)

Pictures:
1. My kasama (Sister Tauiliili) and i holding the samoan flag
2. My kasama and i jumping in front of the provo temple. SAvanna i thought of you and hs musical for this one
3.Most of my district