#92 Madala ra- We will continue

Monday, April 27, 2015

Hey everyone,

Last week was kind of hard for me but this week is going quite a bit better.  We are kind of in a transition phrase for our branch because we are changing branch presidents.  One is moving so we need a new one.  It has affected the work with the members.  It is kind of hard but nothing we can't handle.  We just work our best.  We have a couple good investigators but our area is kind of poor so they have a hard time with getting them to church because they don't have fair to ride to church.  All in all we are doing pretty good.  They have cebuano saying that means we will continue "madala ra" that is what we are going to do.  This week we have a mission conference with the area president here.  It should be good.  Conference really helps me. 

Love

Elder Roskelley

#91 Translator for a Day

Monday April 20, 2015

Hello every one,

  I hope you are doing well.  I am doing pretty good.  I am still getting used to my new area.  We haven't seen a lot of progressing, but we are working very hard, even if it is super hot.  The weather has actually been pretty nice and the senior couple here even came and worked with us.  I was a translator for a day.  It was awesome to have the senior couple with us though.  We are just working hard in our very poor area in the mountains.  It is pretty fun but a little lonely some times.  I am in a very small branch. We had 47 people come and 7 of them were priesthood.  It is a puny little branch that needs tons of help.  I have lots of challenges but I am doing pretty good.

Love

Elder Roskelley 

P.S.

Right now I am trying to help our branch not fall apart.  It is ridiculous what I am having to do here.  These people need so much help.  I am still trying to figure everything out. The area is a challenge and my comp is a challenge.  I will not be ending my mission in peace and rest. It kind of feels like that time when we crashed in Washington during the rally and we barely made it in to the pits.  That is what I feel like right now.  I have been hit but I am still cruising along.  Sorry I didn't email you last week.  We lost power in the internet shop.  My area right now is not doing very good either.  I don't have any baptisms planned right now like I did in my last area but I could still find some.  I had another wonderful experience the other week also.  While I was sleeping about 12 at night a mouse started running on my legs.  I was sleeping on the top bunk also so we moved our bed to the second level of our apartment and haven't had any problems since.  I have lived in some the worst places.  I still have quite a bit of fun though too.  I love hearing that you guys are doing good.

#90 Working Hard

Monday April  13, 2015

Hello everyone,

  I hope everything is doing good at home.  I am now in the area of San Remigio, Bogo.  It is very far from everything else and we live in a little house that has a couple of cockroaches to keep us company.  It is a nice little house that is only cement.  The area is very different and I have a pretty new Filipino companion.  I am actually finishing the training of my companion and back to district leader. We have been working hard and getting a lot of work done.  This last week we were able to also see conference with about 15 other people in our branch. It was pretty good.  It really helped me a lot. I am trying to better myself especially this last part of my mission. I can’t wait till Mother’s Day to Skype my family.

Love,

 Elder Roskelley

#89 New Area-San Remigio, Bogo

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Hello everyone,

  I have had a wonderful time here in Danao but the time has come to pass that I have been called away.  I am now being transferred to San Remigio Bogo Cebu.  It is farther north.  It might be the farthest north.  I will find out tomorrow.  I am going to finish the training of a missionary that started his training.  It is really hard to say good bye to the people here.  This last week has been crazy. Monday we had a meeting for MLC and then on Tuesday we had MLC and then on Thursday we had ZTM and a baptismal interview for the district leader on Camotes.  That is where the pics of the sunset are from.  We had dinner on the beach.  It has been a lot of meetings.  We did get some pretty good work done in our area also.  We finally helped our investigator Tuto accept a baptismal date.  It was sweet and maybe I can come back and baptism him.  He is supposed to be baptized at the end of the month.  I am excited to see a new area but I really loved being here in Danao.  

Love

Elder Roskelley

This is our zone uniforms

#88 Fellowshipping

Monday, March 30, 2015

Hey everyone

Well this last week has been pretty busy for us.  One thing that I really did good this week and was working with members. We got some great help from the members here and they also fed us a ton of food.  It was really sweet.  My investigators now have pretty good fellowshippers and the ward knows about some new less actives.  It would be awesome if members could just go to the missionaries and ask if they have an investigator that needs a fellowshipper.  Then have them teach you what to do to be a fellowshipper.  I think we all kind of know.  If the missionaries don't have any investigators for you to visit then just find a referral for them.  I promise you will see many blessings in your life.  It isn't something hard.  It is called being a good friend.  I hope everything is going good.  I am feel good and healthy.  I don't really have any big problems. 

Love,

 Elder Roskelley

A cool spider in our apartment

a pineapple

Camotes

Grinding corn

#87 Maayong Adlaw sa tanan

Monday, March 23, 2015

Hey everyone

Maayong Adlaw sa tanan.  I hope you are all doing good.  This week has been pretty good.  It was a little hard with some of the challenges that we have faced but we have some awesome investigators.   We have a new investigator that we gave a book of Mormon to and told him to read the introduction page.  He read that and then continued through the testimonies and the brief explanation.  When we started the lesson we asked how his reading was and then he summarized everything that he read.  He had a couple questions and then we taught a little bit.  He learned so much through the spirit.  It was awesome. We pray that he will continue to progress well.  

Love,

 Elder Roskelley

#86 New investigator

Monday, March 16, 2015

Hey everyone

This week was pretty normally awesome.  I don't have a lot of time today. Later we need to go to the mission home. This morning we played basketball. I am mostly staying in shape. I have been running about every other day. We met this great new investigator the other day that has depression and he just stays home most of the time.  He said that he has seen his depression start when he stops following the commandments of God.  We had a great discussion with him and will go back there in a couple of days, really fun time.  That is really all for me.  Obedience is so key.  

Love

Elder Roskelley