Oops I Missed Another Week

 

              Caleb sent this email a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't taken the time to blog at all.

In a nutshell...more baptisms lined up, new area, new companion from 

Philippines (no pic with him yet), and training.

Four elders living in the same boarding. One of them is teaching Caleb

some Malagasy. He is also working on some Zulu, and he picked up a bit of siSwati while in

Eswatini, so he might come home knowing multiple languages! 

Here's his email from a couple of weeks ago and more pics: 

 

Hey Everyone! I hope your doing well!

I'm sure you've realized im terrible at consistently sending emails, and I'm even worse at responding to them withthat being said I've got some things to catch up on!

Last week was transfers! So I have 2 comps until this upcoming Wednesday (the 18th)  both of them are around the same age as me on mission (7-8 months) they're pretty cool amd they're really lively its definitely been a nice change of pace at the boarding, it feels a little more homey. 

On the day we were waiting for all the missionaries to come me and 2 other elders were at the chapel and a guy named Roy came in we had never met him before and had never seen him at church but he knew that we were the Elders, so we gave him a warm welcome and asked what we could do for him. He explained that his car had broken down but he didnt have the money on hand to get it repaired, he need a little bit of cash to get home and he would come back and pay for his car and reimburse us. I felt the spirit say it was fine, he gave us the key to the car and his phone number and I gave him a little bit of cash and he was on his way a couple days later hadn't heard from him tried to give him a call, and 2 weeks later, I still have the key not exactly sure how i should feel about it, I'm not worried about the money but I'm not sure what to do with the key  but maybe someday we'll hear back from Roy

Next person I'd like to mention is Youngdawg, and while thats not his real name its what he is adamant he should be called! He will introduce himself as youndawg "from the hood of new york" he is in fact from South Africa, full blooded Zulu, hes really awesome though! He diligently reads and seeks understanding of commandments and scriptures! And he is willing to keep the commandments even ones he didn't understand at first. Youngdawg certainly is a character though. If I had to put it in a sentence. Youngdawg is unafraid to speak whatever comes to mind. Since being taught the Word of Wisdom, everytime he sees someone drinking or smoking on the street he boldly proclaims that they need to be taught the Word of Wisdom not to the missionaries but to the person doing that thing! 

Youngdawg is a good example though of what we learn from many prophets, many accept not the truth because they know not where to find it. Youngdawg had a heart and mind prepared by the Lord to accept His Gospel and all that needed to happen is for someone to come along and teach Youngdawg the word. May we all strive to be the person that can bring the light of truth and knowledge, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to those who are looking for it, so that we may all be edified in our faith.

Love, 

Elder Roskelley

 

                            Caleb's steamed bread is looking better and better each time he makes it.

                        They had a little visitor in their church house that wanted to come to Christ! 

 

 

 

 

Transfers Again!?!

 Last week ended up being a bit too exciting and I failed to blog,

but Caleb is doing well. Aside from hearing about some of the missionaries 

have experienced in his mission (kidnappings and carjackings),

I'm feeling okay about Caleb being where he's at!!!! Yikes!!!

One of the AP's came and did exchanges with Caleb and his two companions.

The AP went with Caleb and he is the one that said he was carjacked! Scary! 

Caleb was excited to find a volleyball only to have it pop 7 hours later on a barbed wired fence. 

He was hoping to find another one this past p-day. 

The work is progressing, but there are some changes taking place starting next week.

Caleb explains in his email from last week. No email this week,

but he did share some pictures. Here's the latest email and pics: 

Hello Everyone! I hope you doing well! As for me I'm just peachy over on this side. This week not too much happened. I went on exchanges with Elder Herizo, my District Leader, hes from Madagascar, hes pretty cool and one of the few non-americans I've met that likes basketball 🏀 more then soccer ⚽️. While I was in his area, Elder White took my spot in our area and the Senior Couples gave them cake 😭😭 never while I'm around i suppose. On Saturday we got transfer news! We found out that Elder Jamo will be leaving Ladysmith to go to Eswatini! Which is super exciting because thats where ther work is the best, so its kinda of every missionaries hope to go there😅 As for me, I'll be staying in Ladysmith but my experience certainly will change. For the first 2 weeks of the transfer, I will be in a trio with Elder Butler(american) and Elder Randrianomenjanahary (malagasy) but then on the 18th of this month I will start training a new missionary from the Phillipines! And my area will get split and we will have 4 missionaries living in my apartment🤯😵‍💫 And one of my new Zone leaders will be Elder Ott! He was in the MTC with me so i'm super excited to be around him again. On Sunday, I had the privilege of baptizing our friend, Simphiwe, and speaking as well. What came to mind was to speak about how special baptism is. Here we have baptisms quite often, and even back in Utah, its commonplace for someone at church to be a baptized member. So I think sometimes we all both here in the Durban Mission and even back home in Utah we under appreciate and take for granted how sacred and special baptism is! Baptism is our first covenant with our Heavenly Father and is what opens the gates of Heaven for each of us. Without baptism the priesthood couldn't be conferred, temple Ordinances couldn't take place, we would never be clean from sin. And without Jesus Christ, we wouldn't have baptism. Hope you all have a good week! Love, Elder Roskelley 

 

I can't remember this young man's name, but he was excited to read The Book of Mormon. 

                                Caleb said they went out for bbq and he got brisket for $2.00.      

                                               

                                                            It was fun while it lasted, I guess!

                                         

                            Young Dawg (red bandana) is excited to get baptized on February 22nd

                                      

                     Trevor has waited a year and doesn't want to wait any longer to get baptized!

                   Caleb, Mosa (Simphiwe's brother), Simphiwe, Elder Jamo... Baptism was last week!