Hey everyone,
This
week like all has been awesome. One thing that was really funny
that happened on Sunday was with me and my companion and
the other companionship that is in our ward. We were waiting in front of
the church and my companion pretended to shoot one of the other missionaries.
The other missionary, Elder James, yelled, "Ha, I am
invincible." My Filipino companion then yelled, "Ha, I can
still see you." It was very funny and the two Americans just
started laughing. This is just one example of what challenges you face
while learning a language. My companion is pretty
good at english but sometimes I have to use bisaya because he understands that
better. We are encouraged to use english inside the apartment and bisaya
outside so that both cultures can learn a new language. Bisaya is the language that I actually speak. Cebuano
is just a dialect. They have another dialect on Bohol but it isn't that
much different so they just say bisaya. Another dialect is Waray Waray.
It is spoken in Tacloban but not everywhere. It isn't that hard to switch to
these dialects but they are considered different. What is really
confusing is when they use tagalog. I understand a lot of Tagalog but it
is harder to speak. My
companion has done many things like this before but this is just the most
recent. I love my companion. He is very fun and he loves the
gospel. I gave our Christmas
card to my companion as a remembrance and he really liked it. He always
says that when we go home together he is just going to go to Idaho with me.
Today for p-day we are going to SM which is a huge mall and it
is a lot like an American mall. I went there last week but not for too
long. We already played basketball this morning and I had an interview
with my district leader. I do still have my first baptism scheduled for this Saturday.
He passed the interview just fine. I know that we must rely on the spirit when we teach and that the
spirit is the real teacher. I know that all of these people are amazing
because they are all children of God.
Love
Elder
Roskelley
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