#49 Still Loving the mission

Monday, June 30, 2014

Hello everyone,

  I am doing good here in the Philippines.  We are starting into the rainy season and it is wonderful.  It feels like the world is being refreshed.  We have got to teach a lot of people this week.  We are still working on our finding area.  We talk to and meet a lot of people but we haven't found that many people that are really interested.  My comp and I have been reevaluating our efforts and we have found some ways we can improve so hopefully in the future we can see more fruits from our labors.  One cool thing I did get to do this week was interview three people for baptism.  I knew one of them pretty well when he first started investigating the gospel and now it is amazing to see how much humbler he is.  He is more willing to submit to the Lord's will.  It was a very spiritual weekend with interviews and branch conference.  We are continuing to work hard and love the people here.  I love being here and I hope everyone back home is doing good.   Some days I do feel like it was just yesterday that I left.  I have very few days where I feel like it was a long time ago.  I am loving the mission and I almost can't believe that at some time I will have to go home and I won't be a missionary.  I had one of the missionaries in my district explain it this way.  " I can't remember the time when I wasn't a missionary and I am not close enough to the end to believe that I won't be a missionary some day." Yesterday for our branch conference we had 78 people.  The sacrament hall was completely full.  It was way cool.  President Tanner and his wife even came.  It was really cool.

We pretty much don't ride the bikes anymore.  We pretty much hate them but sometimes we use them and they are very useful but it depends on where we are working. 

Love

Elder Roskelley