Adam Kimball Roberts Mission to Philippines Quezon City Mission

Elder Tune, Elder McQueen, and Elder Roberts Hey everyone! Yeah its actually been a pretty crazy week! We had Elder Cook come on Tuesday which was so cool honestly the only thing I think I'll miss about the MTC other than the chocolate milk and the English is the occasional visits from the apostles. Also now I'm in a companionship with 3 people which is weird! but cool! its me my old companion Elder Mcqueen and Elder Tune who was in my first email. OK so I have two actual stories this week which were awesome! For the first story I'll have to jump back to last weeks TRC (basically its just practice lessons members) in which my companion and I spoke such terrible Tagalog that the person we were teaching just could not stop laughing at us. It was extremely funny but also very discouraging! Anyways I found out we got her again for this weeks TRC and was pretty nervous about it! Anyways when we went in it started not too great but then I bore my testimony and ask...

Well things have started to go a ton better this week! The language is finally coming along I can a very condensed version of my testimony and can speak to the "investigators" fairly well. Didn't get along too well with my district or my companion at first but honestly things have gotten leaps and bounds better! I think you will all also be glad to hear I have been putting on weight I was told to eat until I was sick every meal which for these meals doesn't take long but its paying off. Also thanks to all the beautiful delicious packages I've been able to snack almost constantly! Only four more weeks till I'm in the field I keep wishing I could leave earlier than that until I have practice discussions and realize how much more Tagalog I still need. Also just a fun fact the word for happy in Tagalog in Masaya pronounced Messiah which I thought was extremely fitting. Lastly I'd like to finish with my Testimony or patotoo sa Tagalog. Alam ko po na b...

  Well I finally made it to pday! Its been such an amazing and trying week but above anything else this week has taught me that I am in no way qualified for this mission!  I am not patient enough to deal with a companion, I am not smart enough to learn Tagalog, I am not disciplined enough to wake up at 630am  everyday,  But despite all these short comings I know that through Christ I can successfully complete this mission. Philippians 4: 13 Here are all the resources I need for learning Tagalog.  I find myself wishing more and more I could have a tablet. The first thing the MTC president said to us was how he knew Spanish but went to the Philippines as a mission president and had to give a talk in Tagalog. He thought "How different could Spanish really be from Tagalog?" and then told us that the Spanish word for faith was el fait or something like that, well in Tagalog faith is pananampalitya. No joke hear...

2 Nephi 10:25 1 Nephi 8 and 11

August 20,2017 Hello everyone for those that don’t know me, my name is Adam Roberts and I have been called to the Quezon city Philippines mission but I don’t leave for another 10 days so anyone who doesn’t know me and is down to send me packages with tasty food we still have time to hangout. Like I said I have been called to the Quezon City mission I will be speaking Tagalog which before I opened my papers I didn’t even know was a language so… yeah pray for me. In all seriousness, I am so excited to serve the people of the Philippines and share the gospel with our Filipino brothers and sisters. Today I was asked to speak on the talk “ A Sin-resistant generation ” given at this last general conference by Joy D. Jones. I honestly wasn’t pumped for giving this talk because after listening to the talk I knew I couldn’t do such a great talk justice but I will do my best. In this talk Sister Jones outlines the things we can do to raise a sin resistant generation and would like to shar...

President asked Adam to read: What I want my son to know before he leaves on a mission By Elder James E Faust April 1996