This week has been amazing! I know I say that every time, but it still is! I love madagascar, the contrast of culture has taken its toll on me and as a result i don't really feel a culture shock here anymore. Also, i've pretty much gotten over my sickness which is really good.
Here's the fill-in for the past week...
Tuesday:Elder Keener and I had to tract a lot since a lot of our appointments fell through. It was a little disappointing, but it gave me a chance to improve my malagasy a little more. I am not quite mahay (fluent) yet in the language, but it's coming quick to me! I can understand quite a bit know that I am fully 100% immersed in the language. That night we had dinner at a members home and had some soup, I'm not sure what was in the soup, but what I do know is that the pepper I ate afterwards was super hot! Its called the (and I don't know if this is completely right) sakai pepper. It's actually hotter than a habenaro, and just a few weeks ago I had a habenaro pepper, but the sakai pepper gave me little blisters on my lips afterewards. Yeah! It was fun!
Wednesday-Friday:Lots and lots and LOTS of walking, talking, and member-meeting-up-with. The only reason I am combining these days is because i cant really tell the difference between these days. But, there was a specific day where I got called vazaha a lot, and it ticked me off!! I have learned to kind of ignore it when the people call me that.
Saturday:Craziest day of the week! (Or the weekend?) We were invited to a fanambadiana (wedding) and it lasted from 10:30 AM to 3:00 pm. The wedding was crazy fun! I never danced because it's against the rules in the white handbook, and neither did any of the other elders. Before the wedding (so right around 10) we got seriously lost. But, we were blessed when I think it was Elder keener that found the way to the wedding. It was a miracle, it would've been a long day if we didn't find it.
After the fanambadiana, I had to go on splits with one of the zone leaders for a baptismal interview. I went with an elder named elder oberhansley, and after we went to a lesson, I crossed around a concrete corner, and a chicken flew up against the wall right next to me due to the fact that elder oberhansley scared it, and then it slapped me in the face, full contact. I doubled over for a second, and I heard, "Elder Johnson, are you okay?", and I went, "Yeah, I think it might've scratched me." It hadn't luckily. That rest of the day was filled with more and more blessings.asthe day went by.
Sunday: Fast and Testimony meeting! I didn't bear my testimony, but I will next time! I promise. After the fotoam-bavaka (sacrament meeting) elder keener and I taught the young single adults. we taught an investigator about fahafolonkarena (tithing) and she understood a lot about it. After church, I was walking around with elder keener and we had to go to a members house to give a blessing. After the blessing, we went home. When we were walking home, we were going down some stairs, and it was pretty dark outside. I made a wrong move, and plopped my meaty left leg right into a poop river puddle about to my knee. I was trying to walk it off, but the smell didn't leave. I won't describe it more, but the whole experience was humbling. Elder keener was chewing me out saying that it happens all the time and that I needed to stop whining about it. I guess he knows what he's talking about.
This morning, I was able to go to the zoo with Elders Latola, Keener, and Allen. It was really fun, because I got to have some lemurs climb off me and lick some honey off my arms and face. I'll have to send some pictures next week, because the computers here don't accept USB. Walking out from the zoo, Elder allen got pooped on by some storks from about 50 feet up. It was pretty funny, and we had a good time.
Well, that's all there is for now! I would sure love to hear from y'all about your weeks! Have a great one, and I'll talk to y'all later.
Love y'all,
Elder Johnson
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