Two and a half months? What the fast!
Hello people
This week was tighter than a young boys shoelaces.
Lazaro’s (our investigator who was supposed to be baptized on Saturday) step son got hurt and ended up in the hospital, and is somehow still alive. Lazaro was in the hospital a lot this week and doesn’t feel like it’s time for him to get baptized. I poured my heart out to him about just everything that I was feeling. Sheesh, satan really is a dirtbag. Never letting anybody catch a flippin break. It broke my heart hearing Lazaro tell me the things he told me, but I know the Lord has a path prepared for him to be baptized. Just gotta be patient.
This week we did splits with the Zone Leaders and it was so funny. Elder Andrus, the ZL who I was with, is from Idaho and speaks English so every time we didn’t want someone to know what we were saying we’d talk in English hahaha.
On Friday, Kevin (E. Castro) and I were watching the Preach My Gospel videos and he accidentally put one of them on in English and went to the other room for a sec and then came back and for some reason asked me if I was understanding the video and I was so accustomed to saying “more or less” so that’s what I said. I didn’t even realized the video was in English until after he returned like 30 seconds later and told me ahhah. That was crazy to me. I thought about it all day and realized that the language of the Spirit is the same. In our lives we become so accustomed to the garbage we hear every day that when the thoughts and prompting of the Spirit come into our minds, if we aren’t paying attention, will go right over our heads. We must be ready and listening if we want to hear His voice. I challenge everyone at home to stay ready to hear the Spirit so you never miss the promptings He gives you. Really try to listen for Him in your lives every day, it will bless you more than you know.
Goodness, the sweetest thing happened on Saturday night. Thursday, Friday, and all day Saturday were an absolute doozy for me. I was praying like a maniac for some relief, and it wasn’t until Saturday night that the raddest thing ever happened. We were in the house of Joao, and Branco was there also and we just talked to them for an hour and a half. Joao was going off about how he is so exited to watch his kids grow up and serve missions and how he has already seen God change his life so much through the gospel. Amazing. The only reason he’s not baptized is because his ex-wife is being difficult about their divorce but I think it’s almost finalized. After that happens he can get married to his girlfriend here in Primavera. He was just going off about everything it was the most beautiful night. We were a little doubtful about his baptism until we talked to him about everything on Saturday. Mother of pearl it was a good night. I literally have no doubt that God will always deliver us when were ready for it.
A new President got elected yesterday so last night everyone was out in the street screaming and yelling it was so crazy. They were just throwing fireworks around in the streets everywhere haha. Reminded me of the Fourth of July in the States.
Anyway that’s about it. Keep doing the things y’all do best. Don’t be shy to shoot me an email.
Peace love and blessings (:
Elder Roskelley
email: proskelley@myldsmail.net
