Adam Kimball Roberts Mission to Philippines Quezon City Mission

Haha I just realized how different my life is now.  It honestly feels like I've been dropped into a Twilight zone episode here is a few stories to illustrate this. Cookie rage: Cookie monster looses it! Construction: One of the service projects I did this week Bukol (Coconut): The classic story of mans fight for survival Repentance: If you don't have time, this is the only spiritual thing in the email. Cookie rage Let me start this story off by thanking my fam for the package they sent me! Everything in it made my life like 5 times better and I don't know if you guys knew this but I really love the soft chips ahoy so getting those made me like cry for joy.  So yeah I finished the entire box  in one day  because I don't really get things like that anymore. So I'm just chowin down like goin full cookie monster on those bad boys and I'm at my last cookie and as I'm putting it into the gaping black hole called my mouth some how i missed my...

Ok so really just one story this week!  So we always have tons of youth from the ward that come and work with us and a lot of the time we have 2 or 3 that are older than 18 so we can do splits. Because my Tagalog is so bad and because I don't know the area very good we haven't done splits. . . . until yesterday.  I'll be real when my companion told me we were going to split after church I was basically peeing my pants. We have really just recently been able to trade off teaching our investigators instead of just me bearing testimony of the lesson at the end.  Yeah I had members with me which helps, but they aren't missionaries so they don't know the lessons enough to really trade off with me like a companion would. So yeah I was freaking out!  So after church I went up stairs and knelt and prayed and this wasn't just "God please help me!" this was like:  "Ok listen Father, we both know there is no way I can do this. My Tagalog is still s...

It's weird because things here have become normal. For example just walking down the road and it's just like yep, buncha naked lil' boys just ran past. That's cool. Oh look some dude is just going #2 on the side of the road. Whatever. One of the zombie dogs from "I Am Legend" just started barking at me. Good thing I know that most the dogs here are just bark and no bite. A cart that is being pulled by a caribou just got passed by a sports car. I guess the car is cool.  This hut is made of bamboo and has dirt floors but they have the nicest flat screen TV I've ever seen. Yeah they got their priorities straight. I saw the chicken runnin around 45 minutes before I ate it.  Wow that spider is bigger than my hand and is right next to my bed. Whatever I'm tired!  Wow that lady just handed me food on a banana leaf instead of a plate. That's kinda cool I guess.  Google example of Filipino dinner on a Banana leaf It actually bums me out cuz th...