Elder Cal Robertson's Mission

Transfer board babyyy Yoyoyo mornin buddies. We going to the Dagat todayyyyy! (The beach.) Cant wait. Also this week was pretty successful kay--we got to teach some really cool people and also go to mommy jollys birthday yesterday which was pretty fun. [We call some of the sisters in the ward "mommy" then followed by their first name.]  We got to go the mountains and teach people there to.  Nuthin super crazy happened this week but I finally dropped my shoes off at a guy in our ward to fix my shoes. He's gonna put new soles on the bottom and then imma polish them too.  I got my sick new Tac Town Jersey #7 Robertson. It's pretty lit.  Also, we got it guys. The transfer board is out. My comp and ZL 1 are leaving and imma be.... a trainer. It's GoNnA BE HYPE. Can't wait. Actually it's gonna hard but awesome at the same time. Sometimes if you got the himmy jimmys, you gotta take those himmy jimmys, put em on a hook and catch a fish, then cook that fish and eat...

Hospital hotel Wuts up home slice. This week we went to zone conference, it was fun. Then we went to district conference, it was fun. Then we went home. Then we went on a hike. Then we went to a restaurant then we mag uli'd back to our home and now I'm chillen.  This week was fun and we got to teach some cool people and also are teaching a girl named Champagne and she's super cool. I hope she finds the happiness from the message we shared with her. I just hope her and the others we're teaching gain a testimony for themselves of Christ and His plan for them.  I learned this last week that all the spirits of the dead that are around us, hear all our thoughts, especially Heavenly Father too. So that boosted me to also think positively as well which can be hard sometimes because it's natural to think certain ways sometimes.  I really like the coconuts here too, they're good.  We did surgery to this one elder here in the hotel room we were in. He had like a boil thin...

Sploosh (the not good kind) Morningg peeps. Hope yaallr doin' good. This week has been good. I finally went down the bawal (not allowed) road. Every time we should go down that road, we don't cuz there something not good down there. That's what my comp would always tell me just emphasize to me to never go down and if I do I'll regret it. Anyways he went to Manila this week for visa stuff, and of course I had to plan a person to visit in that direction so I could walk down the road. That day my plans changed and I actually walked down it on the way back home at night, so I was on edge the whole time. But I didn't really see anything so I asked the other zone leader here, Elder Castañeta, and he was like, ohh cuz u went at night, and he told me there's a fat lady that sits outside all day and curses people, especially missionaries, if they walk by. She speaks in a weird language and screams at you as she waving her fingers at you. Didn't catch a rat this week....

Sakit :( exep me Morning people! This week was way different, mostly cuz everyone got sick. Sorry it's late too and so not much work happened which was depressing.  For zone council meeting we had sisters bring some rice as part of the meal that everyone chipped into but the rice they brought was rotten, no one noticed somehow and a ton of people were eating it. Hilarious, the next day my comp and both zone leaders were sick. And half the zone called them saying how they were sick too. Anyways eventually we got to go work by Friday.  And Saturday we had a baptism of Brother Nash, cool kid. Then Sunday we got to eat at a members house so that was fun. And the next day we got a pday.  One of the days we visited this kid and when we pulled up to his balay (house thing) we saw him standing outside with his dog in a headlock. Giving this kid is like 5 years old, somehow the dog couldn't do anything about it. Then proceeded to yank up the dogs head and then started pounding its...

Guys! Caught another rat! Prob the most fun I had trying to catch a rat. We named him Remi.  For pday we played some games and bought groceries. At night we cooked and made a bunch of food for the Zone council meeting Tuesday. We were making jalepeno popper things too, but out of different peppers we found in the market. Elder Fruean, my comp, was cutting the peppers open and afterwards his hands started burning and eventually his face and stomach, basically everything. And then was sitting with his hands in the freezers for an hour, and a fan on his face, couldn't really help him, which was sad. So that's the last I remember before going ta bed. This week we did exchanges and I got to go with Elder Phillips. We traveled far in the morning to the sisters area to do 2 different baptismal interviews. I was supposed to give them both but then noticed right away both were 75+ and only knew deep Bisaya. Payita. Couldn't understand 'em. But luckily Elder Phillips is the Zone ...

U Hello again everybody! Sorry this email is late but a lot has happened. I got to my new area on Thursday and felt like I got to a new mission, different scenery, different language, different people. It's definitely been hard having to restart learning the language, Cebuano J. But the Waray Waray I do know has been helpful. It was kinda a rough getting here and working cuz my comp also has only been here in the mission a month more than me and said he didn't know the language that well. So I was giving most the lessons the first couple days in broken Waray-H, Cebuano J, Tagolog, and English. But just yesterday my comp started opening up a lot and he actually knows a lot of the language, and even led a couple of lessons. So proud of him:)  I was also kinda stressed on leading a district 2 times bigger than my last one. But after leading our district council meeting and talking to them, it should be good. Or at least I'm not stressed about leading the district. The only thi...

Luv Hello. Happy new year. This day was good. I had fun. I am transferring. To Sogood zone! Hopefully it'll live up to its name.  Rn im jus chillin here in Tacloban. So yeah, jus havin' a good time here in the phils.  We had 2 meal appointments in a row. I almost exploded. I also rode in a truck so that was fun. I also need some new shoes. Said bye to Sister Ug's today from our district cuz she's going home. And also to the rest of my district cuz I'm leaving anyways. C'ya guys next year! A drawing of a frog by our Zone Leader Elder Dick ️ Also idk y everything's upside down and sideways on the email.