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Hello everyone!
This week has rained tons and tons! I don't think there was a single day where there wasn't any rain! How amazing! I love the rain, because it reminds me of how nephi the prophet asked the lord to pour rain again and the lord gave the rain back to his people. It is a sign of his tender mercies, and symbolic of jesus christ, the living water. the most beautiful thing that comes with rain as if it were a gift is the thing every gift needs: a bow. The rainbow is a perfect ornament for the perfect gift. Rainbows are amazing to me and I thank heavenly father so much for them.
Now for the week!
Tuesday: On tuesday, elder keener was still sickm so we stayed in pretty much for the whole day again, which was pretty boring. But on that day we had the baptism interview for our most progressive investigator: Lalaina. He passed the test, and weill be baptised this saturday! I am super proud and excited for him! SOmething really scary happened that night, though.
At around 12 am tuesday night, elder keener ttok a dose of benadryl for stomach pain, and a nyquil pill (which happened to be one of mine) for his cough. You medical people out there may already know that this is very BAD with all caps and underlines, because this causes hypersensativity and incoherancy. This is precisely what happened to elder keener at around 1 25 in the morning. We had to call the mission nurse and she came and picked him up. I was a freeloader up until the morning. I felt super bad because elder keener was also emotionally unstable and he was crying a lot. Poor guy, i knkow he didn't know any better.
Wednesday:We went and visited some of our newest investigators, Larissa and elisa. We put them on date and they are really good with all that we have taught them thus far. They are going to be baptised in february. I am trying to learn another malagasy dialect right now, and Larissa is fluent in that dialect, so she is helping me a lot with that right now.
Thursday was very unorganized because elder keener got sick again so he had to go to the office again to get medicine for his stomach. We had to go everywhich way that day and so really we didn't get a whole lot done to my dissapointment. But to suffice for now we had a lot to do and we got some of it done.
Friday:We had another lesson with another investigator, Kristina. She is doing good right now, she is just a slower learner than everyone else. We recently taught her the plan of salvation. She can't really understand us for a lot of reasons, but her father in law herlps a lot with that. We went to go do service at sr florene's house that day also, but we couldn't due to the fact that she was moving, so that was kind of sad. But we had a great bishop meeting that night and elder meldrum didn't get sick again, which is good!
Saturday:This day was interesting, because i went on a split with elder allen. He is a great elder, but he doesn't study very much with the language and he doesn't like to talk very much, so a lot of my day with that was just talking for him and teaching the lessons by myself, which was awkward, but after I got back with elder keener, everything was ok. That day, it rained so hard that the roads got flooded and it looked like rivers. There was a current and I almost got swept away a couple of tmes. Scary! I helped a man that had his car stuck in muddy trash in the middle of the road. I said a silent prayer to have the strength sufficient to move the car, and through my faith I was able to move the car out of the trash and into motion again. I am so grateful that heavenly father gave me another opportunity to serve again!
Sunday: I didn't play piano in church that day because the piano player for the ward actually came to church that day which was really good. I got to sit with elder keener in the congregation again with my investigators. I really felt the spirit as I partook of the sacrament and pondered on the tender mercies of the lord. After church we went and taught kristina again and we also taught Sr diamond, an inactive, about eteranl families. We had a great discussion and I think that she felt the spirit say that she needed to be sealed.
Well, that was my week! I hope that this was edifying to those reading this and I hope you all can have a great fantastic rest of your week!
Mazotoa!
Elder Johnson
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