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!