Elder Alexander L. Shill

Well hello there friends and family, sorry I haven’t written in nearly a month, I've been rather busy. More over, I just could not be bothered, I love you guys though, so here I am. Well, where did I leave off, its my black out year... We’ve been kicking it off good. Working hard and pushing forward. I got to try some new things like balut which is the embryo of a duck. It wasn't as bad as people made it out to be.  We also attended a born again church, not sure if I wrote about that already, so I'll go on. I did some exchanges with Elder Phelps and we had a good talk. I learn every day what I want my own mission to look like more and more. Speaking of Elder Phelps, he's now gone. We had transfers and he is in a different zone now. I'm going to request to be his last companion and hopefully by then I'm fully fluent in Tagalog. On another note we got to work on this guys farm, and I moved piglets in sacks, it was chill. We are going to go cobra hunting with him s...

Sorry for no email last week, idk why I didn't write one. Basta these have been some intresting two weeks.  Muna Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Blackout year 2026, yay.  Anyways Christmas was chill, we just ate with some members and called our families then really didn't do anything cause everyone was drunk. Then came New Years, holy these people get lit. We were freaking chilling at the house cause early curfew but then people were getting lit outside our apartment so we went and looked and it was just a crazy experience that I can't even explain. I'll put a video in my Google photos. The rest of the week even more people were wasted. Its crazy, its like everyone was drunk for Christmas and then all those same people were drunk for new years and then its like more people spawned in to be drunk people. Sometimes this place doesn't feel real, it's wild. Besides that, not a ton has been happening. The work is hard when most people are drunk because yo...