Summer Rains!

 

 Caleb did not email last week, but we were excited to hear that his friend, Mel, 

had been baptized. He's been working hard so he could make 

covenants with Heavenly Father, and Caleb said Mel is doing great!

No baptisms this week, but there are some on date for this Sunday. 

Transfers will take place on the 20th. All of the missionaries throughout the 

mission will meet in Durban that day and spend the holidays there.

A senior couple purchased the old mission home which allows space for

the missionaries to stay. Caleb is looking forward to seeing 

the Elders who were in his MTC district. He's in a very rural area,

so doesn't get to see to many missionaries. I have a feeling he may be 

transferred this time, but we'll see. 

He is doing great, although he does say that the summer rains impede the work a bit.

Most people just like to stay home and sleep during them, 

so no one wants to really have the missionaries come visit them,

but the work continues to move forward.

Here's his latest email along with a few pictures: 

Hello Everyone! I hope you are all doing well! This week not much happened, although its starting to feel slightly like Christmas, stores have lights and play Christmas music but other than that, its hot and sometimes rains, which isn't exactly Christmas weather to me but the work is going well!

Fun fact for this week since i don't have much to report on. In South Africa and Eswatini, gogo refers to a grandmother, however its also used to address elderly women. Its quite different than in the USA because here you often say "hello gogo, how are you" just to every random woman you meet on the street, but in the USA I could never imagine just speaking to a random woman and saying, "hello grandma, how are you". Its kinda weird but it feels natural after a little while.

Today, as in today today, when you get this email, I got visited by some Korean woman who are missionaries for their church which is based in Manzini (which is 2 hours away) and they shared a short gospel message about how through adam we all fall short of the glory of God but through Jesus Christ we can go to heaven.

And I'd love to add to their message, truly we all do fall short of the glory of God, this is what we're taught in Romans 3:23, and surely by life experience we learn this. But later in the same book of the New Testemant, we learn that even though we fall short of God's glory, God never stops loving us (Romans 8:38-39) and we see this love through Christ's infinite atonement where we are shown grace in our shortcomings, and given comfort in our struggles. I have a testimony of the love of God and His plan for us, that we can return to heaven and dwell with God

Love,

Elder Roskelley

 

                                                       Picture from Mel's baptism last week. 

 

                     

                           Not sure why they're all in red t-shirts, but this is a pic with the two

                                 Korean missionaries from another faith. They all look happy! 

 

 

 Caleb and his girlfriend, Kaelie, love to bake together.

He decided to make brownies using her recipe.

He seems to cook and bake a lot on p-day! 

Not a lot to do in the area he's serving in.