This week has been fantastic, and i have been waiting all week for this moment to share what has transpired the last 7 days! I hope that everyone has had a great week and I hope that it's not too cold in the USA. But, lets get into what happened!
Tuesday: Elder Keener and I went out to a members home and their names are suzanne and francois. Francois and suzzane are both inactives that we have been trying to get to come back to church. Unfortunately, we didn't get a whole lot of time with them, as it started to rain considerably hard. So, we had to cut that meeting pretty short. But, overall we had a pretty spiritual experience with them. We also went to a place in Tana called Tsimbazaza where we usually go to knock on doors, but we went to go visit another member. They weren't home, unfortunately. We did a lot of walking around that day, and in my area, mahamasina is probably about 3/4 of a mile uphill and down. I walk around 3 or 4 miles a day or more.
Wednesday: That day was by far the raniest and coolest day of my mission.
Elder Keener and I were out finding when the rain just started pouring! And it wasn't stopping! We had to hide under little episserie roofs in order to shelter ourselves from the rain. We had to very carefully make our way down the little mountain with the water rushing from behind us. It was practically like a little waterslide from 6 flags. When we had gotten to the bottom of the hillm we saw that the streets had been completely flooded and that some of the taksibes were swamped from the rain. The natives were telling us to stay on the center of the meridian, but at that point there really wan't a meridian. We came home and stayed home for the rest of the day. All of my clothes were sopping wet and when I took off my shoes they were fillled with little puddles. It was a very interesting experience. It was really amazing because I love the rain and I just felt so blessed because madagascar is in great need of water.
Thursday: It rained a whole lot AGAIN and this time we didn't stay home. We went out to go visit another investigator, lucy. We knocked on her door and taught her another restoration lesson. She is really solid but she needs to be able to understand us a little more because she doesn't really understand a whole lot about preisthood authority. I came home again that day will tiny little puddles in my shoes from all the rain and puddles.
Friday:I was cleaning a little bit on this day when I noticed a few things next to my bed. for the past few weeks I have been bittien by an unknown bug in the night. Butm as I was making my bedm I noticed that I had killed what had been biting me and sucking my blood: Cockroaches. The bites were big and red with a redder dot in the center of the bite. They were very itchy and painful, but if Elder keener heard me say something about it he wouldn't really care about it much so I didn't say anything. (I don't really think he knows it, but he has taught me a lot about patience already). We went out again and tracted some more, and to our pleasent surprise we were able to find 4 new people to teach! I am so grateful for the chance I have had to find some new people to teach here in madagascar.
Saturday:We taught english class from 10 to noon on this day and I can already tell that my malagasy is getting better by the day as long as I am trying my hardest at it. I taught 25 kids in a little classroom with elder keener about elements and the alphabet. Before we had english class, Elder keener aqnd I taught our most progressing investigator, lalina. She is set to be baptised next saturday. We practiced the baptismal interview with her that day and sunday. She is a sweet young lady and I can't wait to see her get baptised.
Sunday; We had sacrament meeting and while the sacrament was being passed out I let a little malagasy kid draw in my notebook because he wanted to draw in it and He wanted to sit next to us. We sat through elders quorum and gospel priciples. We learned about the last war that happens when satan is loosed for a little season. I was really interesting, and It taught me some new great and meaningful words.
Well, I hope this was very entertaining for you all and somewhat spiritually edifying. I love you all and hope you have a great fantastic week!
Mazotoa!
Elder Johnson
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