Elder Roskelley: # 10 The Philippines are still awesome!

Wednesday, Sept 25, 2013

Hey everyone

Well, let me start by saying the Philippines is totally awesome. I have had a lot of struggles and am still struggling but I have never been so excited in my life. I feel amazing but I am a lot skinnier and one of my investigators pointed that out to me. The people here will tell you how it is and they don't feel bad. If someone is fat and you say to them that they are fat they will just accept it and move on. It’s funny. Also I have seen some beautiful views while tracting. Hopefully I have time to send them all. It is absolutely amazing here. I got to watch "The Other Side of Heaven" while I was eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. That movie has some of the same things I am experiencing except for toned down. We had a typhoon hit and some trees fell but it wasn't too bad because the surrounding islands protect us. This morning I woke up with blood on my foot because of a bug bite and my feet weren't covered. This Friday for a service project we might get to harvest some corn in the mountains. I have been informed about three single girls that were living with their fathers. They think that all Americans are here to marry a Philippine. We actually have one man in our ward who is here for that exact reason. The people here are very nice at first but they don't usually let you comeback and they have so many excuses. It is kind of funny. I love being here. It is beautiful and many of the members are very faithful. For breakfast I usually have cereal or oatmeal and a hard-boiled egg. Lunch is usually cereal or ramen and vegetables. Dinner is usually at 8:00 so we don't have to stop working. We had pizza that I made last night. My companion made some tomato sauce with vegetables and sausage and we used a slice of bread and some weird cheese and melted it. It was actually very good. I also have a lot of rice but not with every meal. I kind of like rice. We usually have a dinner appointment each week. It is always good food. I now call it delicious but I still mess up words, but this week I got complimented by two Philippines on my Cebuano, they said I am doing very good for how short of time I have been here. I actually had to say the sacrament prayer this Sunday and I only had to read it once. I felt great. The gift of tongues is real. The Lord helps me so much. I see His hand everywhere, just the other day we felt like we should go tract an area so right before we started we met this guy that said he was a member but didn't know where the church was so he wasn't going. He said that he would love to go to church so this Sunday we are going to help him meet members and become part of the ward. All because we listened to the spirit.

We are in a little store that is on the side of the highway in sabang danao, that is where I am emailing you from. Also, we went to the temple last Friday and it was awesome.

Elder Roskelley