WEEK 7 YEE!
Jumping jellyfish, I’m in the field nerds.
It took me two days to get to my area but I am finally here. It was crazy, on my drive to my area, Primavera do Leste, which was like 5 hrs, I woke up from my nap on the bus and looked out the window and saw this little hillside that looked super familiar. Then I recognized it as THE PLACE I SAW IN MY DREAMS WHEN I WAS EXPECTING MY MISSION CALL. I was so freaking shook it was crazy. It was such a rad tender mercy from God.
On my first day I went out with my comp Elder Martinez. He’s from Mexico. The other two dudes living in our apartment with us are Elder Castro from Lima Peru, and Elder Dias from Cape Verde. Nobody speaks English haha, not even a lick. But I got the opportunity to teach a lesson about faith to a super nice dude who is investigating the church. I shared Alma 32:34 with him and bore my testimony about faith. I felt the Spirit so flipping strong it was so rad.
If I were being completely honest it’s pretty hard to learn a new language. I try to talk to people but it always just ends with me telling them God loves them and also me smiling super big haha. They seem to love it so I’m not worried.
As soon as the people investigating the Church find out that I’ve only been here for like 7 weeks they ALWAYS want me to pray haha it’s so funny. I always offer the most broken, wack prayers and they just love it. I always feel the Spirit tho and its dope so I guess I’ll just keep praying for people.
In my area there is one branch, and it’s pretty small. The church building is an old house that they converted into a cute little church. It’s pretty cool.
On Friday I was reading the talk “Joy and Spiritual Survival” by President Russell M. Nelson and I stumbled on a nice line. “Our afflictions shall be but a small moment, and be consecrated for our gain.” It kinda really hit me in that moment that God doesn’t just give us random trials for no reason. They are always going to be turned around to bless us. That’s so freaking rad. I think it’s super interesting he uses the word small when discribing times in our life that seem hopeless and neverending. It’s super important to remember that it is not our decision to decide how big “small” is. But it is our decision to choose how long we’ll keep faith and be patient with God and his perfect plan for all of us.
I love getting all of your emails!! So freaking much you have no clue. I would love to see pictures of you guys doin dope ish, so if you don’t mind, i mean, it would sorta, like kinda, be cool to see pics of yall. So please send em on over!
Love you guys.
Keep doing what your doing.
Read your scriptures.
Love,
Elder Roskelley
proskelley@myldsmail.net
Porter in his first area - Primavera do Leste
