Riddle Missions

Everyone thinks that their mom is the best cook. But they are all wrong. Its true. My mom is literally the best cook. Except for maybe when she cooks quinoa, I can live without that. But seriously she really knows her way around the kitchen. Especially Mexican Food. She must have some Mexican ancestors. Those of you who have known me for longer than 5 minutes know that I love Taco Bell, and if you have been reading my blog you know that my first month here I ate at Taco Bell for virtually every meal. But all that changed when I realized I couldn't afford 15 dollars a day for food at Taco Bell so after I got settled I started cooking for myself. And its largely thanks to my mom that I am able to do that. Now I have always been able to cook. As far back as I can remember I have been able to pop a frozen burrito in the microwave and have it come out near perfect. Its a skill that is hard to find these days. As time went on I needed to learn to cook more complicated dishes. Like pastas

Hello Everyone, Its been a while since my last blog post so I decided to do a quick one before I went to bed. I need to get in more of a routine with these things. Things are going good here. Projects keep piling up but I created a digital request form for IT and maintenance needs to make things more organized and efficient. As with anything new the staff here will have to get use to it, but in the long run, it will be a much easier system. The plans for updating the school WiFi and Internet are going great. I got our new WiFi controller hooked up last Friday and it seems to be working great. Soon as IT&E gets their act together and updates our internet connection we will have high quality high speed internet at the school. My apartment seems to be coming together and by that I mean I got my smart lights hooked up and my computer hardwired to the internet. It may seem dumb, but being able to tell Alexa to turn off and on lights and security cameras, sure beats walking around the pl

After church today I got to relax a bit and do some gaming with Stephen. I was a bit worried about the internet connection but everything played smoothly. What a great technological age we live in. I'm writing this post from my phone in the church parking lot because I have nothing to do and home is like two minutes away and I felt I needed to prepare myself for the long trip home. Plus all I have at home is my computer, games movies... wait, what an I still doing here? Anyway I am in the church parking lot because we just got back from a hike to a place called Forbidden Island. The Islands Your group does a hike every now and then. It was a neat hike almost all downhill. Of course if you go down eventually you have to come back up.  This picture is from the half way point. It was a great day for a hike. We got to the bottom and did some exploring. There was this one place that had a underwater cave like thing. It's usually pretty full. After playing around here for a bit, the

1. If you are pulling out of a driveway on to the main road and there is a car coming towards you about 15 feet away, go for it. You have plenty of time. 2. If you are driving and you see a bright pink Mustang stay clear, it is a tourist and they probably do t know how to drive. 3. Laundry can be done by someone else for about 4.50 and they fold it much better than you can yourself. 4. Salt water does not taste as good as salt does on food. 5. Fish will swim all around you, but if you have a camera they get away as fast as possible. 6. IT&e routers do not support 5GHz networks. Lame. 7. Tools cost alot more. Like enough where I could pay full price back home pay to ship here, add 100$ and still make a huge profit selling it for less than the stores. 8. If you plan to jump off the 40 foot cliff with your GoPro, double check that you actually pressed record.  9. Mexican blend cheese is not a thing here. 10. 7up tastes so much better here than in the States. 11. Water doesn't cost

Its been a while since my last post. Mostly due to the fact that I was really busy with the remodel but also just a little bit of laziness. Hey I'm tired at the end of a 12 hour work day, don't judge. Today marks exactly one month since I landed in Saipan to start a new job, a new home, new everything. At first I was not doing well. There were days when I wanted to turn around and go home. Of course I could probably just keep going the same direction and make it home just the same. It was tough at first, but I'm slowly getting use to it. I watched a movie last weekend that really made me see mission work differently (and appreciate what I have here all the more.) Its called "The Other Side of Heaven" Its about a Mormon missionary, the Mormons make a lot of movie, who gets sent to Tonga, It took him roughly 83 days to get to the place he served. When he gets there he doesn't know the language, He has to wait weeks at a time to hear back from his girl back home