Hey everyone!
And I'm back to good ol' Antananarivo! I have been enjoying seeing all of the things that I saw when I was still here in Itaosy about 4 Transfers ago or so. I even get to go to the same cyber that I went to. Tana isn't as humid as Taolagnaro, where you just melt to death due to humidity. That changes from melting to death to just burning to death from the dryness. Gotta love the sun!
I am in a house with Elder Stepan, Elder Sinclair, and Elder Allmon, who just got here to Madagascar this past wednesday. It is very interesting to be living in the house that I did missionary exchanges in. It's a great house; The water works 24/7, electricity isn't that bad, and it's very quiet with no way for someone to intrude our privacy by just looking up into our patio door...all things listed above are polar opposite to those same things in Fort Dauphin. Biggest blessing of all? I FINALLY HAVE A DRYER TO DRY MY CLOTHES!!! AND A DECENT WASHER TO WASH THEM WITH!!! For the first time in my life, I have never been so grateful for electricity, water, and decent plumbing.
Shoutout to my favorite cousin Sister Johnson serving her mission in America! Happy birthday!!
The work here in Ampitatafika is going well...we don't have anyone on date as of yet, but that hopefully will soon be changing. Our area isn't totally big, but there are tons of people that live inside. A funny part of our area is a river that is beyond gross, where in order to get to the other side, my companion and I have to take a short canoe ride driven by a malagasy for 500 ariary apiece.
A spicy part of our area is the dogs. They aren't too bad during the day, but the nighttime can be sketchy. They get a little more meaner in the night, but the most we can do is throw rocks and run away (and pray XD). No bites so far, but there have been some close calls last week. Please pray that I won't get rabies.
A really neat experience that my companion and I had was when we were tracting and it was raining really hard, and we knocked on a door. There was a lady who shouted ''Iza?'' which means who is it? And we said Missionaries! But she didn't get it the first time so she asked again and we said it again, and she STILL didn't get it so that went on for a while, until another lady came and opened the door for us. We came in and the lady who was calling for us told us to come inside. We went inside and the family members all gathered in the basement for us to teach them. They had absolutely no doubts or concerns about the things that we were teaching, which came as a big shock to us since a lot of people have questions or concerns. We have a return appointment with them next sunday.
Well, that's what's been going on here in Madagascar!
Love,
Elder Johnson
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