End of May update

Thank you!  I got the package it was sweet.   I had to eat the fish outside they couldn't handle it.   To smelly for the land locked people. We met a less active guy who has the phantom drone and all sorts of stuff for it priced around 1000 dollars total, that's crazy! I’m fully content with the 30 dollar one its so fun.

 

This week was tough but so worth it.  We had a ton of fun and my testimony grew as did my appreciation for the missionaries and church members in the area.   They are awesome!  We are tracting in the sun a lot and I have yet to get sunburned so ha everyone that says how white I am ha. Met some strange people and some super angry people but they all make me laugh. We also met some great people. Our zone did a zone fast for the work in Page and I cant wait to see what the Lord has in store for the zone. 

 

This morning I got to flip some huge tires for workout it was awesome!   Today our plan is to go check out Horseshoe Bend that should be sweet.

 

 My Ponderize for this week 

is Haggai 1:5,7 I like this scripture 

5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 
7¶Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways .

 I love this because it is so simple and the lord says it twice within a couple of verses. I know I need to consider the way I do things and ask myself is this the Lords way?

 

I invite you all to do this too. I guarantee that if you do this coupled with scripture study you as an individual will improve immensely.  

 

I love ya’ll a lot and miss you.

 

Hagoonee

 

 

 

May Day

Wow,  I am jealous of the burgers in the picture and Ian's tie in that homecoming pic or whatever it was.

 

 This week was so weird but I loved it. It was really hard to leave Dilkon because I grew to love it there a lot but it had to be done for me to progress.  So far so good in Page lots of work to be done. I am so happy that Elder Echohawk and Sister Echohawk could come out as well as Elder Cook and Sister Cook. Their talks were so good and the spirit was amazing.  I loved it so much and I really needed it. He said some things that absolutely blew my mind and almost brought the whole audience to tears (300ish) During the closing prayer everyone was sniffling it was awesome. One thing he said I bet you guys would like is that he and Elder Holland where missionary companions on there missions... how crazy is that?! 

 

 Page seems good. This area is only like 7 mins across though which is super weird because my last area was a solid 45 miles.   So yeah, but there are awesome people here that need the gospel so I know there is something I can do here. My companion is 6'4' and is a baller so that awesome.   We play ball every morning almost. It’s rained here for the whole time. I have been here.  Im so thankful for that. My companion is the District leader so that awesome. The zone is amazing and I can feel how close they are and I am already close with them and its been like 3 days sense I got here.   It helps we all live like 30 mins away from each other.

 

 Anyway, my ponderize scripture is Doctrine and Covenants 87:8

 

     8)  Wherefore, stand ye in holy places, and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come; for behold, it cometh quickly, saith the Lord. Amen.

 

This is pretty self-explanatory, just be in good places mentally and physically if you don't know how to do that, find some missionaries if you cant do that get some scriptures and read them.   I'm confident that you will get the help and guidance you need.

 

 I love you all and hope you can stand in a holy place and bring others with you.

 

Hagoonee

 

 

 

First Transfer!!

Okay so first I got a package with socks protein powder and mints thanks that stuff looks good. also I got Kelsey's package.  It was a sweet package and I enjoyed the candy already but the jerky and granola bars are going with me.

Dang Its transfers and I have got the news I've been dreading. I have to leave Dilkon. It is and will be tough but I knew it had to happen eventually.. I have been in Dilkon for 7 months and it was awesome.   I love the people there so much.  Sunday was really hard. 

 I am going to Page AZ and will be serving in the 5th ward. It will be weird being around so many white people (no offence ). I am looking forward to it though.  It sounds like almost everyone from Dilkon has immediate family that lives there so hope fully I can find them. 

This week was a pretty good last week we saw most everyone at some point.  I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to get to know all of them and hopefully to have taught them something at some point that they will remember. Because I will definitely remember what they have taught me. I had a lot of fun in Dilkon too.   (probably to much, ha ha)  Anyway, this week was super windy so I got a kite.... it broke in like 2 days but it sure was fun and I learned something from it.

                  The kite only worked with a constant wind blowing against it. and when the wind really picked up like 20- 40 mph the kite would nose dive. Then when it was at the right angle to catch the all the wind it would take off right as it hit the ground and go back up as fast if not faster then when it dove. The kite only broke when I misused it and misguided it .  The string broke and it was gone and I couldn't catch it.  I believe that this applies to life.  We cant move forward or go up (progress) with out resistance or opposition.  Also, when life blows to hard we sometimes nose dive because we weren't in the right position to take the force but once/if we adjust we often shoot back up even higher. Finally,  the flyer or guide is God and unlike me when I flew the kite He wont misuse or misguide you or tie a lizard to you and see if you can still fly. He will guide you so that the wind or your life experienced will make you more like Him. 

My ponderize is Mosiah 4:21 this scripture talks of how much we rely on God and how He gives us so much so we should also give to one another.

love yall

hagoonee!

PS:

my new address is

PO box 86

Page AZ 86040

General conference weekend update

So this last week was crazy and this next week will be too!  We just had zone conference which  was amazing and so was General Conference.  I have so many notes I cant believe it. I Loved all of the talks I cant choose just one. There were a few that where especially helpful for missionary's and they helped and inspired me. This last weeks weather was cold but today is 84 degrees and its awesome. I may have gotten sunburned. We went on a hike after I emailed last week it was sooo awesome we found an old, old wall that was built by the natives out of the rocks around the butte.  It was also like 50 mile per hour winds -that was crazy!  I thought we were going to blow of the butte. Today we went to our branch first councilors house in joseph city and ate lunch, shot some pool, and oh yeah got to cut down some trees. He is a 7th generation woodsmen . He is awesome. The drive to their house is beautiful. This week we found some very promising people and I cant wait to get them progressing towards baptism.

My ponderize scripture is mosiah 5:2 which was talked about a little in conference (that's kinda why I chose it ) it says ]
2:And they all cried with one voice, saying: Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually.

I really like the part that says ..."which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually."

I know if we let it the gospel can do that for all of us. I know because I have seen that happen for lots of people, myself included , slowly but surely.

I love you all and wish I had more time to email ya'll but I don't so
Hagoonee

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Your son is doing great. He helps us out each week with the addiction recovery program. He is doing great.

Last 2 weeks of March

March 21: 

Okay, so sorry for not emailing last week it was spring break so every place to email was closed.  We have been doing good.   Its been nice and warm here. I love it but don't at the same time. We have slowed down a little bit on finding people to teach.  We need to focus on actually teaching the people we have found but we have had some very serious discussions with a lot of people. Its funny how bold you can get with people when you care about what you have to share with them. 

  We have been doing soooo much service with a super awesome guy who hasn't been to church in forever.  He came last Sunday it was awesome!  He is a cool guy he showed us (we didn't touch or fire them in anyway shape or form) his guns.  He had like 9 they where sweet!   I think one was illegal but who cares it the rez....lol. 

 

A girl we where trying to talk too was a little rude she was ignoring us at first then I went to pet a dog that was barking and she said it was going to bite me (mixed with some choice words). But it didn't.... it liked me ha!!! I showed that lady!!   But we teach like everyone that lives around here so she better get used to us. 

We helped a guy out with some trash and we found some super old Gatorade bottles so that was neat and I got to stab a couch at the dump.  It was very satisfying. Another lady told us we can’t use the Book of Mormon when we teach her so yeah, but we will keep trying.   We will have to stop teaching her the Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion.   My ponderize scripture is Alma chapter 7 which is way to long but its a good chapter especially verses 10-16. that counts for last week to since its so long. 

 

March 28

Hey guys!  I got the one  package for ST Patrick's day but we aren't going to Winslow this week cuz we don't have a ton of miles. But its nice cuz that gives us 2 extra hours of whatever we want because we wont have to drive so far. I did get a slip for a package of the 25th and Ill pick it up next Monday.

 

 I have some sweet pictures and I’ll be sending them home today.  We found some cool stuff.  Are you guys sending the other SD card back?  I have been thinking of Mexico a lot lately just because it keeps coming up while talking to people. That was a lot of fun.   I am curios as to what Ian will choose for his trip. Anyway, this week was weird in  fact  every week is weird when your on the rez.  I have so many stories that just make no sense. This week was so so so windy Tuesday, Friday and today are crazy I had to pull over at one point because I couldn't see anything it was so cool. My eyes hurt though.   We got to chase some sheep into the sheep pen this week. It was sweet they liked us too.   They let us pet them it was fun.  

This Easter was awesome!  The video the church has, the one that says hallelujah a lot, is so awesome.  We got to share that with people and we also shared Mosiah 16:7-10 it was good and it helped us focus on Christ.

 Hallelujah means “praise ye the Lord”.   So with that in mind, the video has a lot more meaning and now every time you say hallelujah remember what your saying.

   My ponderize scripture is Helaman 14:17 it says

 17) But behold, the resurrection of Christ redeemeth mankind, yea, even all mankind, and bringeth them back into the presence of the Lord.

 I really like this, it is the reason we have Easter. The reason being the resurrection which is part of the atonement of Jesus Christ. Which had to be done by and only by Jesus Christ or else we could not go "... back into the presence of the lord." 

 

Hope ya 'll had a good Easter and  don’t forget to watch conference  Don't just clean your house and listen to it in the background---take notes.

 

 

Love you all .

 

 Elder Roskelley

March update

OKAY  So, this week was pretty good!  We got transfer news and I am staying in Dilkon for 7 more weeks! (usually when you're the trainer its for 12 weeks so we knew he'd be staying) 

 I am afraid it will be my last so I want to make the best of this time.   I have set some pretty difficult goals for myself but I am confident that we can reach them. This week was nice it was about 70 every day except yesterday it was super windy and it snowed...?! So that was weird but it was nice to get some precipitation.   I really miss all the Washington rain haha and the dark grey clouds. 

  This week we had a cool experience we went to go try to teach some one we had met at the bball courts and we saw his dad and a friend of his dad working on something outside.   So we tried to help him.   Upon walking up we said  “Hey, how's it going is there anything we can do to help?”  and he said "NO I don't have time for God.... "  We shrugged that comment off and said “okay when would be a good time?”   and he said "probably never." So we left and I have thought a lot about that comment "I don't have time for God..." here is the answer that has been playing in my mind since then.   “You don't have time for God but he took the time to make you and to make a world for you, to provide you with every divine opportunity to excel and to become like him but you don't have the respect to give him  or just a fraction of your time the same time that in all seriousness is his time ?”   .. I get kinda upset when I think about it but yeah. I really hope all of you ARE making time for God how you do that is up to you but the best way I can think of is to ask God what he wants and then to do that.  

Anyway, this week was a lot of fun we met some new people that are very promising future members of the church. my ponderize scripture is mosiah 24:14-15

 14 And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions.

 15 And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.

 I love these go didn't take away there burdens but he made them stronger that they did become light "that they could bear up their burdens with ease..." then they where happy and thanked him and continued through until the lord delivered them out of bondage. we all go through things that hold a lesson that we must learn and until we get help from god to make it manageable enough to take a look at the bigger picture we wont learn what we need to so seek help from god he will help you.

 I love you all and hope ya’ll have a great week-Chase

Feb update

Wow that's all awesome about the house! Ian should try some Navajo phrases for his shirts.   I’ll think of some and send them next week.  There are some cool ones I can already think of.  This week was hard but so rewarding. It started off with an exchange. I was in Winslow with the district leader. I learned a ton from him and the other set of elders in Winslow. While tracting in Winslow some senior (old 60s and up) missionary pulled up and started taking pictures of us doing missionary stuff.   That was cool they will be on the church website in about a month they said!   so yeah maybe....next Ensign cover??? Then I got back to Dilkon. Thursday and Friday we only got to teach one person it was rough but we just kept trying and trying. I believe it was a test because on Saturday and Sunday we got a reward.   On Saturday we found a new investigator who we both feel will get baptized.   He is awesome and the spirit was there. Then on Sunday a lady showed up at the church and long story short her fiance said he is ready to get baptized and she wants us to start teaching him and to help him get baptized.  So yeah, that is definitely the work of the Lord and a diligent church members example.  I hope you are all a good example to those around you.

My ponderize scripture is in Mosiah 3:19 its a good one .  It talks about how we all have natural things, desires, problems etc. that we need to overcome to be like God and to be with God.

  Its getting warm here I love it and just got a hair cut today so now I have some funny tan lines on my head hahah

 Well love you all and see ya'll later.