Small and simple things.

Dear Mom, It's crazy how much can happen in a matter of days. For you non-Tagalog speakers, (ehem Jason & Farah) "pa" means yet or still. So the subject of my last email literally means "Peaceful still." I thought it was a cool little jingle - mapayapa pa. Elder Taulelei's last day was simple and a little sad. I was going to miss my big, friendly giant companion who couldn't hurt a fly. We were treated to bowling that day, and I didn't do so well haha. Marcie nearly creamed me, who has only bowled for the second time in his life. It was a nice way to end the transfer.  Transfers came out really surprising, especially for the elders in my district. I felt like all my elders grew up that day. All my juniors became...

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Mapayapa pa.

Dear Mom, I'm glad to hear that you liked my last email. This email will be comparatively short. The news about Jason getting to go to Australia on virtually nothing is amazing! His talents are taking him so many places and I'm so happy for him. He's been to so many foreign countries since I've left and I'm really jealous, Europe last year and now Australia now? I guess in all fairness, I've been living in a foreign country for almost two years now so I can't really complain haha. This week has been very challenging. I've found out that the only real enemy I have in life sometimes is myself most times. Our schedule for the most part this past week has been fairly normal as far as appointments are concerned, but frustrating...

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Understand to Battle the Unfair.

Dear Mom, Get ready, this could possibly be the longest email I've ever written in my life. I wrote it out this morning and it took a good two hours, there's just so much I want to say, and I really hope you enjoy it. Time has taken off yet again and we're now in the last week of the transfer again. Somehow, someway, I have no idea how on earth it's happened! This week wasn't too full of events. Just a nice, normal week for the most part. But not really. This week was a really hard week. Lots of let downs, lots of turn downs, lots of disappointments, lots of stress. Wednesday was a doozer. As in a horrible day. We walked for about five hours in the heat and got absolutely no where. That's not an exaggeration. I...

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