Catcing Up!

 It's been a couple of weeks since Caleb's sent an email, so I was excited to see when he

sent one this morning. (We, of course, talk to him, so have known what was going on, but

I know others love to hear from him, too).

He said not much happened last week, but they did have 3 more baptisms last 

Sunday, September 28th! Transfers also happened. Caleb knew he would stay put

 because they keep new Elders in the same area

for at least two transfers. I'm grateful for Elder Kohlani and his gentle and humble way in 

teaching Caleb. He's excited for Elder Christensen. I think they're probably a little more alike than

he and Elder Kohlani and Caleb says he's amazing! 

No baptisms yestereday, but they have 5 lined up and will do those on October 19th since

October 12th will be their general conference weekend. (No ability to stream so they'll

gather to watch a recording of conference). I was so touched by Elder Godoy's talk in conference.

He is the President of the South Africa Area and I kept picturing all of those that Caleb is 

teaching with "smiling faces and grateful hearts." (refer to Elder Godoy's talk). 

These people are humble and ready to receive the blessings of the gospel!

Here is his email and some pictures from the last couple of weeks: 

 Hello everyone! Sorry that I haven't sent out an email the past couple weeks! Not too much has happened until this past week we had transfers! I stayed in the same place but Elder Kohlani left to go down to South Africa and my new trainer is Elder Christensen!!! He is from Houston Texas, hes awesome and I've loved working with him so far. When Elder Christensen came up to Eswatini we go to go work in our area with an AP thats in his last transfer, I loved working with Elder Boyce just because of how outgoing he is. He also gave me a recipe to make jeqa, its a bread but you cook it by steam in a really big pot. Its super tasty and my goal is to perfect it. I also received news that I will get to attend the Durban South Africa Temple on Tuesday this week!! And whole we're down there we will be doing zone conference which I'm excited for. I also received a Swathi name. For those that haven't heard of anything like that, Swathi people will give like honorary names to missionaries and people that aren't from Eswatini, so an older man gave me the name Dumisani Nkosi which means praise the king. 

On a more spiritual note, we have a sister that is preparing for baptism and her first interaction with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was in 2013 when her aunt who was a member invited her to church, and nothing really ever happened until we met her, but its not just because us missionaries were really good at our job but because the seed of the gospel had been planted by the aunt, and the Lord prepared this sister to here Christs Word. I know that any member of the church has the capacity and ability to help plant that seed, and while it might not develop in ways that we can see, the Lord is working on them in ways only He knows.

Anyways thats all for the past couple weeks!

Love, 

Elder Roskelley