A better letter for Fall

Sorry i have gotten out of the habit of writing in my journal and I need to.

 This week was good !  In district meeting a couple of weeks a go we set some goals and its so great to have them.  Elder Williams had us put them somewhere we can see them every day and its helped a lot.  One of my goals was to have 3 good progressing investigators and we have 4 now! It amazing. Ron, bro Paul, Dennis and Lyle are the 4 that are doing so well and as I reflect I again see we have done very little and that it was the spirit that has brought about the change. 

Lastly my ponderize scripture this week is 

Moses 1:39  39 For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. yep and we get to help and it really does bring joy. 

 We got into a crossfit gym its amazing here are some pictures.  

Also, ran to Horseshoe Bend again and found a pear tree in our area( free food!!!) and cut and insane amount of wood for some investigators in the rain it was great. We also helped some people move for about 6 and a half hours!

IAlso have had some humbling experiences lately. The reason being -- we where committed to pray for humbling experiences so I have,. ha I remember one point I was laying on the ground and offered a silent prayer that basically was me saying" I think this might be to much Heavenly Father.   I didn't want this many experiences in one day then i remembered the words of nephi "

And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hathcommanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall preparea way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.

So of course I can handle it AND so can ya'll 

well love ya guys lots
elder roskelley 

Sept 9.19

Okay, this week has been slow and sometimes was aggravating.   People are very confused.   The spirit is so important in finding Gods true church. So i have been studying the articles of faith and wow they help alot for every one you can find scriptural back up. The articles of faith constitute Gods church as in the times of Jesus Christ. The articles of faith are--
   We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
 2 We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.
 3 We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
 4 We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
 5 We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
 6 We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
 7 We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
 8 We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
 9 We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
 10 We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
 11 We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
 12 We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
 13 We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

 These are important because its the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I challenge you all to use these to answer Qs from people about the church.  It will work.

Also, we got to chop a ton of wood for people that needed it.  It was so fun!  I loved it, my hand hurts still though.   We are going again tomorrow to chop more.  I cant wait and I will bring pictures well

I love you all kinda ha ---i will send the audio thing this week i dont really have many pictures though.

Love you all mom dad ian jaden elle and grandma but not bud.....

Update:

OK so Sorry everyone. We just finished moving and it was so crazy. But hopefully we'll be on a regular schedule again. Also Chase isn't awesome at updating us on things that I always want to know. We also get letters from his mission president every time he gets a new trainee. He is on his third person he's training and he's also a District Leader and has been for some time. Cracks me up he doesn't let us know those things but obviously he is just loving serving and details aren't important to him. 12 more months as of last week!!!!!! There are a few letters to post: 9/6 Well this week was great & a little more fruitful then last week. Some tough lessons though. Some people we teach have hit the wall. That wall I think is the wall of faith. So that's fun. It also seems we have run into a few people who struggle with same sex attraction. Its good we can talk with them and help them because they start to understand what the church really says about it . for more info look up (https://www.lds.org/topics/same-sex-attraction?lang=eng ) So this week has cooled off a lot it even rained like crazy for 40 minutes it was great I went and stood in the rain. It was nice. This week my testimony has again been reaffirmed that prayer works and that we relay do have to ask sometimes. We prayed that we could talk to one person before we went in for the night and when we said amen and opened our eyes there was a guy walking super fast. So, we walked a very brisk pace with him and talked with him -it was good. This experience showed me that God answers prayers but often times He still wants us to work. He didn't give us a slow person who would just stop and talk for a bit He gave us a guy with a super thick accent and a very brisk walk. But I am glad He did. My ponderize scripture this week is Ether 12:26 " And when I had said this, the Lord spake unto me, saying: Fools mock, but they shall mourn; and my grace is sufficient for the meek, that they shall take no advantage of your weakness" This scripture reminds me that gods grace is sufficient for my weakness and it reminds me to not focus on others weakness or I am a fool. well love you all- Chase 8/29 Well it was TRANSFERS ........ I am staying in Page with Elder Johnson yippy! This week was kinda tough we had a lot of people not be there for the set appointment. So yeah, we need to help people understand the importance of that. We have some wonderful people we are teaching. This week I learned don't judge. I sometimes form false opinions predicated on story's and look and then I conjure up in my mind whether or not they will be a good investigator, and that is dumb! I have been proven wrong several times this week by our Heavenly Father and I finally got it after a while and so I am really trying to change that. I know it will help. yes its true in just over a week I will have been a missionary for a whole year! Kinda crazy but boy do I love it. My ponderize scripture this week was Alma 34:37 its a good one it says And now, my beloved brethren, I desire that ye should remember these things, and that ye should work out your salvation with fear before God, and that ye should no more deny the coming of Christ; yeah its just good there is undoubtedly a God, and i know that that God sent a savior Jesus Christ. Love Elder roskelley 8/15 Hello this week was great it was very weird though still not sure why? None the less we had an amazing stake conference Elder Stevenson was there from the quorum of the 12 apostles. So we where the only zone in the whole mission who got to see him. Pretty lucky to be in Page right now, the adult session on Saturday night took a dramatic turn towards missionary work ad he said he didn't want to not follow the spirit and so he scratched his whole talk and just talked on missionary work. Then the new stake president was the stake high councilor for missionary work ha this zone is going to be on fire! Today some members are taking us out to some cliff ruins and stuff should be great. I am excited for that too. Also making some changes to the personal routine that I think will help me a lot with everything( organization, spiritual, etc) my ponderize scripture is moroni 10:3-5 yall should read it and then do it. well I love you all- Sincerely Elder Roskelley