Caleb slept in so we ended up not doing a video call, but we did message for a little bit.
A few more baptisms this week. There is one scheduled for next week,
but the individual Caleb and his companion have been teaching lives in
a bit of a dangerous area, and that man's brother was beat up over the weekend.
The family is a bit scared to leave their home at the moment, so we're praying
that this individual will feel safe enough to be baptized.
If not, Caleb's sure it will happen at some point.
In addition to the individual that Caleb mentions in his email, a mother
and two of her children were also baptized over the weekend. Her
oldest son was baptized just before Christmas. The work is moving forward!
Here's Caleb's email (he sent a link to his photos but not sure if it can
be accessed from here, so I'll post the photos from this week):
Hello Everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful day! And an exciting start to your week!
As
for me, I am doing pretty good. Nothing too crazy happened this past
week so I'll instead share a fun fact. The language dominant in my
mission is Zulu, its most notable by the way they pronounce q, x, and c
which they use clicks for. But something I find interesting is that much
of the language and grammar is based on prefixes, their aren't
individual words for things like "we", "i", "they" instead the word
you're putting it with gets a prefix. For example, ibona means "see" to
say "we will see" would be Sizobona. One word with a prefix instead of 2
seperate words. I just thought it was interesting.
On
a little more missionary work side of things this week we had 4
baptisms! One of which was on Saturday! Which is kinda of uncommon here,
theres a large culture of "everyone needs to see the baptism" so
they're normally done right after church on sunday, which is great! But
sometimes people take that to mean they can only happen on Sunday. We
had a friend that had put off baptism in the past because he was afraid
to be baptized in front of so many people
so when we had invited him to be baptized and he shared his concern, he
was happy to hear that he could be baptized on any day where fewer
people would be present! It was an amazing and intimate baptismal
service and I'm excited to see him continue to follow the Saviors
footsteps!
The Lord loves
us all and has given us simple steps to make it back to Him! The 4th
article of faith teaches us that Faith, Repentance, Baptism, and
receiving the Holy Ghost are the first steps to lead us to God. These things
are simple! Not always easy but simple none the less, because this
allows everyone to understand and follow the steps of Christs Gospel
Love,
Elder Roskelley
Here's the google photos, join if you'd like to see a little of my South African Journey
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