Hello
Everyone,
It
has been another week in not so cold Philippines trying to learn a language
that is nothing like I have ever heard before. But despite this I love
being here. I am learning so much about the atonement and what the savior
has done for us. I thank him for his sacrifice every day and I strive to
be like him. It has been interesting this last week. All God asks
is that we strive not to overwork ourselves or beat ourselves up for the
efforts that we have exerted. We don't always give a perfect effort but I
know that because of Christ the effort that we give is perfect. Let me
give you an example. My companion and I both just hit our six month mark.
I don't know cebuano that good and my companion doesn't know the
doctrines all that well, but because of the Lord we are able to help these
people come closer to Christ. I am not perfect but I know that because of
the help from the Lord I am doing just fine. My baptism went well.
It went a little too well. When we were filling up the font we were
with our bishop and he said that the water level looked good so we turned the
water off and got everything else ready. When I stepped in the water it
only came to my knee. Luckily the kid that I baptized, Randulf, is only
eleven. The baptism went fine and when I stepped out I realized that my
garments didn't even get wet. I realized I could use them for like three
more days:) My zone leaders' names are Elder Fabiano and
Elder Hale, both from Utah. Elder Fabiano was my trainer. In the mission we call our trainers our
fathers or Tatay in bisaya. After hearing about Elder Benjamin I am now
going to make sure that I drink more water and less soda. The main drink
here in the Philippines is Coca-Cola so there is a lot of it and it is allowed
in our mission. Something interesting, I have probably drank more coke
here in the Philippines than anywhere else. The ward here was
at first not supportive at all because of the last missionaries that were in
here, but they are super awesome now. The whole bishopric had dinner at
the first councilor’s house and they invited us too. It was really
awesome. Our bishop said that he had never been like this with any other
missionaries. He liked that we were good people and willing to work.
It has been awesome. We have gotten other dinner appointments too, we
have just eaten very simple food like rice with leave soup. I am serious
when I say leave soup. All they do is boil some water with some leaves in
it and that is what they put on their rice. I have also had some fish and here
we just eat the skin the meat and the bones. It was very hard to adjust
to at first and I still try to avoid it. When we are in the apartment we
try to not have rice so that we can still be healthy. Today for p-day we are
going to cook some fish and eat rice as a zone. It will just be fun
hanging out with everyone. Hope everyone is doing good.
Love,
Elder Roskelley
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