#52 One year mark

Monday, July 21, 2014

Hey everyone

 This week was pretty sweet.  There were many things that made it sweet. First, I officially hit my one year mark and didn't really do anything special for that.  I should probably burn a least one of my shirts.  They are starting to get pretty yellow.  Also this week we had interviews with president Tanner.  He was sweet to talk to and he has a great vision for this mission.  The last thing was the great work and support from the members.  We had 2 members that went to an investigators house without us and had a great discussion with them.  That made me really excited.  Right now we are trying to give the members more opportunities to do things so that they can receive training and become great leaders in the future.  Also we had our branch activity this week.  It was way fun and a pretty good success.  We had 3 less actives come and hopefully they can start coming to church.  We had some sweet lessons this week too.  My comp has been kind of sick lately so Elder Johnson and I have been going on splits a little bit.  Some people use the phrase "a wrench got thrown in to our plans" I would have to say "I think parts of a car got thrown in our plans but it all worked out really well.  It was really cool. I love the many assignments that the Lord gives us.  Lately I realized that I have been volunteering for more activities too.  Recently I have started translating the Church Handbook of instruction into Cebuano.  It was translated once but it was kind of bad.  They are having problems over here with leaders not knowing what to do so sometimes I feel like the branch president.  We have seen a lot of success like last week because we were talking to president he decided that we should do a branch council meeting.  It went okay.

 We receive so much help from the Lord each day.  I know that the Lord is always there and I can and will rely on him.  I hope all is well at home because it looks like typhoon season is here.  

Love,

 Elder Roskelley

Mom's post on instagram: 52 weeks! I can't believe it has been 52 weeks, a whole year! Some days it feels like he left yesterday and some days it feels like longer that a year, In a recent email he said this describes it best, "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." Love my missionary!