I Love Conference!

MALO!!!!!!!

I hope you can feel how happy and excited I am to email you all!  I can even feel it in my finger tips. =D

How are you all!?

I'm great.  the last few days have been awesome and i'll get to why in a bit, but lets start back at last Thrusday. :)

-The temple was good, the Provo temple is BEAUTIFUL!  i really enjoyed doing a session there, and today we are going again, probably doing initiatories though. :)  i like doing those.

-Firday evening's class we had lesson on stress, how to recognize it, and how to manage it without exploding. :) Bro Blaser and Bro Tolley had us run outside for about 3-5 min in  a circle to put our bodies under physical stress, we then wrote down how our bodies reacted to it to start the lesson. good idea huh!?   anyway the lesson was helpful and made me feel like i wasn't the only person freaking out. so that was good. :D

-I LOVED CONF!  especially saturday!  i know you all got the letter i sent home, but definitely elder bednars talk on tithing, and elder dube, and elder uchtdorf, and bro holland and bro ballard. :)  i dont know about you all, but before conf they had a slide show of info going, and one of the slides had hashtags i thought it was hilarious... we missionaries dont have a need for hashtags, but it was funny to see - #ldsconf #RS #GenCon #MoTab hahah!

Sunday nights we always have devotionals then a "movie" 

-for the devo, BYU's VOCAL POINT (their acapella group) came and each member of the crew gave an uplifting thought followed by a favorite song form their mission.  VERY WELL DONE. i thoroughly enjoyed it.

-the "movie" is usually a recorded talk from apostles that have spoken at the MTC years past of the Joseph smith movie, etc... so sunday we watched a tlak from elder bednar titled, "How do i recognize the holy ghosy??"   it was awesome, needless to say, but i loved his answer. SO SIMPLE.... QUIT WORRYING ABOUT IT! stop fussing.  just be a good boy/girl, keep the commandments and your covenants, and any good thought you have comes from god, so just ACT ON it, and you will see (sometimes years down the road) the effects of you acting on those thoughts, so quit worrying!"  :D  pretty self explanitory, no?

this past week i've also learned a lot more from my soas.  by learning more about my soas, i've gained an even greater respect and love and tolerance for them.  i love how everytime sis lasike shares her testimony, she smiles, BIG! you can see the light of and love for christ in her countenance.  She is one STRONG WOMAN.  I love Sis.  Pe'a's love for everyone! She is so friendly and gets excited about anything!  she makes me laugh, and teaches me how to love more and to be honest in all things.

Monday morning we did our bathroom cleaning service hour, which i love because it changes up the week a bit.  we did toilets this week (:  then during gym time this week i've been running stairs and it makes me happy.  if only it were at my spot at the westminster rec, but i'm happy about it nonetheless.  each day goes by so FAST HERE!  i'm greatful for my journal entries otherwise i wouldn't remember a thing that happens!

SO.  as of sunday i "turned a new leaf" with the language.  i realised i hadnt been pushing myself as hard as i should, so i am tyring and actualy DOING BETTER! WOOT WOOT!  So much prayer and faith has gone into my studies this week and i am starting to see P_R_O_G_R_E_S_S!  yesterday it was my turn to meet with brother blaser (Who BTW reminds me SO MUCH of austin, it is almost ridiculous.  basically is austin spoke samoan, they'd be the same people - mannerisms and everything) we do one on ones with the teachers to check in and see how it is all going.  so we sat down yesterday, and all the sudden i started to cry. (shocking, i know) but i really didn't feel like i was that stressed or upset until i stopped and thought about it.  it was good to get it out, and bro blaser is so patient and just listened to me.  we talked about the lang struggles and how to fix my studying.  i told him of my frustrations of when there is no teacher, and we are supposed to be studyign, all the elders (almost 30 of them) hang out and joke around, and it gets SO LOUD that i had a hard time focusing.  so we came up with solutions  and it was mostly nice to have my voice be heard.

in both classes yesterday bro duke and bro blaser spoke ONLY in Samoan, and i understood a lot of it!!! WHAT???? :D  and in one of our "lessons" to TOE (pronounced TOY) i came up with a question and statement ON MY OWN WITH OUT NOTES! IT SERIOUSLY WAS A MIRACLE.  it still is a ton of work, this samoan language, but i do love it, and am SO THANKFUL i can see progress in myself.  light bulbs are flickering in my head people! =)

yesterday we also got a new sista comp!!!! her name is sis. Fa'alogo! (in samoan= sis. listen) she is from sydney australia! and her comp left early b/c she new samoan already, so she is with us for 2 weeks so technically me and pe'a are soas and lasike is with fa'alogo.  she is wonderful and i lvoe listening to her speak.  she is in a pic i will attach. 

well imrunning low on time.  i'm trying this whole OBEDIANCE Thing, were i follow the rules.... so i have 10 minutes left in my hour.  i'll attach some pics, and hopefully they will be smaller ;) oops... hahaha.

thats all for now!  I LOVE YOU ALL DEARLY! this gospel is true, the atonement is real and god knows each of us BY NAME, what we are feeling and if we BUT GO TO HIM in prayer with REAL INTENT, he will answer us, but we have to be willing to listen.  i've learned that this week.

talk to you soon! enjoy the pics!

LOVE from provo,

Sista Camilletti