Kumusta,

Kumusta, 

SO.. big news. My zone is moving to the West Campus on Tuesday. We will be living in the Wyview apartments!. It's going to be great, West Campus has it's advantages :) We get nicer rooms, and we also have more freedoms. We can go to food places that are super close to our apartments, I think there is a Jamba Juice and a hamburger place! So it will be fun. Except we found out last night that our district is getting SPLIT... :(. NOOO,  we are all so sad. We have so much fun together. Everyone just about started crying when we found out, it was so sad. I guess we just have to do what we are asked, and we will still see each other at mealtimes and in between classes so maybe it's not the end of the world. 

This week has gone by so fast! The days are long but short, and the next day I can barley remember what I did the day before. It's crazy. I am learning so much every day. The Tagalog is rocky but for how long I've been here I know quite a bit which I am excited about. I can pray in Tagalog!! It's a very short prayer but still all Tagalog.. Heck Yes! We taught our Investigator Joy twice this week and it didn't go as well as planned. But we still did it in mostly Tagalog. After we taught we found out that this was our last week teaching her and that she is going to be our teacher now! She taught us on Thursday and it was really good. She is a great teacher, I really like her. Brother Ward still teaches us too. They switch off teaching during the day. Starting next week we are going to be teaching Sister Sharp (JOY) AND brother Ward. Oh how fun that's going to be. Sister Sharp is going to play a new investigator. 

I had some great experiences this week. For some reason I was super homesick. Super homesick. I was fine for the most part and then I got a Dear Elder from  Jess and I just started bawling while reading it. I guess had a breakdown or something, it was so embarrassing. My district is so great, right away they were helping me and my district leader Elder Divver offered to give me a blessing of comfort. I got a blessing and I felt so peaceful afterwards. I love the Priesthood. I know that it is so powerful, I am so grateful for that. Then last night after we found out from brother Ward that we were going to get split we were all sort of angry and grumpy. We didn't start class for awhile and Brother Ward just counseled us on how we need to be obedient. We finally started class and we were learning about sentence structures. It was going great for a few hours and then towards the end we were all so confused and just not getting anything. Brother Ward decided that we needed to stop class and just have personal scripture study. He encouraged us to say a prayer before we read. I did and I just opened my scriptures to a random page and I came to D&C 84:87-88. It is literally talking to missionaries. It gave me so much comfort and it made me think why I am really here. It was such a great experience. The scriptures are the answer to everything! I know that for a fact. If you are struggling, then go to the scriptures. Trust me. 

Other than that my week was just the same old schedule. Eat, have class, study, eat, have class, more studying, eat, more studying, sometimes gym, and more class!! Sound kinda horrible but it's really not that bad. The food isn't that bad either. It just depends on the day. Last night we got Pizza from Papa Johns! It was so good. Also I'm pretty sure I've gained a few pounds because they have BYU creamery ice cream with so many toppings. It's so good. They also have brownies that are to die for. I pork out when they have those. 

Also everyone should make use of DearElder.com it's so great. You go to that website and you can write me a letter and they will print it off and give it to me the next day! I love getting letters.. (hint hint). 

The sisters in my district are so funny. We were just messing around this morning and we came up with this song. It's not completely finished yet but it's to A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. 

Here it is. (Pito means 7, Ako means I, intindihan means understand) 

Pito Miles 

By Sister Romano, Sister Jensen, and Sister Chancellor

making my way to class 

walking fast, faces pass

and I'm smiling

danananan nananananna .......

staring blankly ahead

at brother Ward 

at brother Ward 

drawin' a blank

dananananan nananannana......

danana nananana  the food's gross

danana  nanananan I really miss home

danana nananana and now I wonder... 

If I can speak in Tagalog

do you think they 

will intindihan

cause you know I'd fly

pito thousand miles 

If I could just teach them 

the truth

dananannn...... nanan....

ako, ako just wanna 

let them know

ako, ako know that 

God loves them

ako, ako won't ever 

let them down

ako, ako won't. 

Anyways... it's stupid but we were laughing so hard while writing it! Just thought I'd share :) 

Oh yeah last Sunday we had a devotional and the speaker showed us some clips from the movie called Ephriam's Rescue. Go see it, it will change your life. It's like 17 Miracles so it's guaranteed that you will cry. I think he said that it comes out on DVD on the 24th or something. Go buy it!

Mahal Kita, 

Sister Chancellor