So I just found out that I am able to email. This will be my email address for the next two years: j.tyler.bates.PCM@myldsmail.net I will be able to read email from everyone but I have only a half hour to spend on the computer a week, and I can only email my family. 

This week has been crazy. From Wednesday I have been going non stop. Reporting in with me were 50 other missionaries who are going to the Philippines speaking Tagalog, we more than doubled the existing branch. Thursday language class started. The teachers walked into our classroom and started talking all sorts of things in Tagalog. Our classes are as districs, mine has 14 elders in. As of half way through the first day of class we were told from then on we would be praying sa Tagalog. The next day we were taught how to bear our testimonies sa Tagalog and we have been going around the MTC sharing it with everyone we come in contact with.

Alam ko na totoo Ang Aklat ni Mormon, at buhay si Jesucristo. Nagpapasalamat para sa ebanghelyo at ako pamilya. Sa pangalan ni Jesucristo, Amen.

That is my testimony sa Tagalog. I am excited to serve my mission. It will be hard. So letters and emails would be great. Please everyone write me at:
    Elder J. Tyler Bates
    MTC Mailbox # 280
    PHI-CUA 0920
    2005 N 900 E
    Provo, UT 84604

Love,

 Elder Bates
 aka: J. Tyler Bates