Adam Kimball Roberts Mission to Philippines Quezon City Mission

July 29,2018 Dear Great, Great, Great Grandchildren, This week you will commemorate  our families  journey to Zion as you dress up as pioneers and reenact the sacrifices and trials of our westward trail. Please remember that although your experience will be hard, it will be impossible for you to fail. Food will be plentiful and you will have resources for medicine or other things should you need them. Our journey on the other hand was not so guaranteed.    We didn’t have the Twitchell’s providing our food. We were hopeful that the price we would pay would not require our lives. Alas the price was our four small children. Our first babies were twins and they were only 4 years old when we left Denmark to follow the saints to Zion where we hoped we would find the religious freedom our hearts longed for after we were converted through testimony born by the Holy Spirit to our souls that we could not deny no matter the cost. We knew that God knew and he would hold us accountable

The Problem OK so I was preferring to have no one know this but this story is pretty funny so I'll just tell you.  Both the toenails on my big toes decided to go into all out rebellion and tried to dig for gold in their designated toes. it didn't start out that bad. What caused it is since it's the rainy season right now I've been wearing these airtight water proof rubber shoes and they are nice for keeping water out but they are pretty tight so it caused the little chitin monsters down stairs to go on strike. Which was just kinda painful. But then they went into all out rebellion when I decided to listen to their painful objections, and wore my normal shoes. My normal shoes do not have the helpful function of being water proof when the rains came down and the floods came up. So my feet got soaked and apparently toenails do not like being soaked in filthy poisonous Filipino rain water so they were completely irate and just made a massive mess of the mining sight t

Yeah things are going good!  We are teaching a ton and got more new investigators this week than this area has gotten in.. I think they said 3 transfers so like 5 months but that wont be the most new investigators we get this transfer!  City life is pretty rough, I lived in city before in Marinkina but Marikina is way clean and nice and has parts that were more like province but here its straight city and not like the nice neighborhoods of Marikina (when I say nice neighborhoods imagine like the sketchier places in America)  Its all straight squatters areas, like nothing, but which is actually pretty cool like this place is crazy. It reminds me of the labyrinth from the Percy Jackson books. Its straight like I swear we are on the one side of our area and my comp will be like "Hey we need to go to this person and then this 78 year old Tatay (Tatay means dad but in this case it means more like grandpa) who works with us everyday and has lived here all his life will be like "

Hey everyone!  Things are going really good here in Baesa (thats my area)!  Alright,  so here's the thing language is such a big deal here in the Philippines there are so many freaking languages here. Like Tagalog is like the official language of the Philippines so everyone speaks it but they also all have their native tongue that's only spoken in the part of the Philippines that they are from that they would prefer to speak.  For example here's a list of the different languages my companions have spoken natively  Ilongo, Illocono,  Bisaya,  Bicolono,  Pangalatoc,  and Chebocano Yes I have not had a companion that has had the same native language as another companion so that should tell you how many freaking languages there are here! Which is kinda cool because the last three companions I have had have tried to teach me their language but its really hard so I didn't really pick up a ton. I know "Yes" and know in like 5 languages now though.