Hello!!!
This week has flown by super super quickly!! So... what
should I talk about....
Lets start with the quick rundown of all the craziness going
on! I LEAVE IN 11 DAYS!! I am getting so excited and we also are starting to
get really crazy and everything. Our flight plans should be here either Friday
or Saturday and we are really excited to get the info. We know that these
flights are going to kill us, since we are going halfway around the world
(literally). It will be interesting to see how we are going to travel there.
Also as far as when we are going to play the piano as a special musical number,
we do not know yet. Hopefully it is this sunday at the sunday devotional that
will be broadcasted from Wyview. That would be so awesome!! But if not, oh
well! The time here is flying by quickly and I am really excited to get out of
here and back into the real world.
This last week we have grown a lot. The language is really
starting to come along and I think that it is going to be possible after all.
The teachers keep telling us how impressed they are and that they are so proud
of how we are handling the 6 weeks. We keep teaching investigators, but after
the middle of next week we will be done with that and the last few days we do a
ton of other stuff. We lose all of the Malay's and Indonesian's the beginning
of next week and so then after Tuesday next week our zone will be down to 17
people. The 13 Malagasy's and the 4 new greeks we got last night! I started
talking to one of the new Greeks last night and he is an inspiration. His name
is Elder Boyce and he has only been a member for 14 months and he is really
cool. He is 26 and is from South London. He has a really interesting story and
its amazing that he decided that he wanted to serve a mission! Hearing his
story last night was such an inspiration to me. We also have 1 other new
greek elder from Scotland, and two sisters, one from Italy, and the other from
Finland.
So on Tuesday this week, we had the first Tuesday Devotional
at the Marriot Center! It was really neat walking and meeting together with all
of the missionaries. It was a really neat experience, and the choir was
massive. We sang one of the songs that will be sung at the Worldwide broadcast
and we will sing the other song next week for practice. The choir ended up
about 1800 people on Tuesday night which was really interesting. It was like
half of the missionaries that were there were in the choir. Devotionals are
always good here and they make everything else in the week go better.
On Tuesday we also had our Malaria meeting with the doctors,
and I picked up my drugs today. They have us on Doxycycline which looks like
the best medication for us to be on. We compared three different drugs. The
first one, Lariam, can cause serious psychological problems including hallucinations and depression and anxiety. That pill was a once a week pill that
cost $1.50 a pill. Doxycycline is one that is commonly used as an acne
medication and the only side effect is if you lay down within 30 minutes of
taking it, it might burn a hole in your esophagus. Not the best, but it will
make us not lay down after taking it. It is once a day and is $0.20 a pill. The
last one isn't even remotely and option even though it is the best medication
because it is a daily pill and costs approximately $5.00 a pill. That would
cost the church several thousands of dollars per each missionary. We do have a
missionary in the 13 of us, who is not planning on taking the medication
because of his own personal opinions. He thinks he can use some natural oils
and keep himself from getting it. In my personal opinion, and the opinion of
the doctors, its a stupid idea. The CDC says that the whole country of
Madagascar is a risk area and the chances of contracting it are moderate. Not
going to risk it, you can bet that I will be downing the pills daily.
Today I got my hair cut, and I'm not sure how much I like
it. The rules here are that they cannot cut the top less than finger length,
and so they didn't do anything to the top, but they cut down the sides nice and
short for me. It looks different then I have ever had my hair, but it will
work.
I am not sure what else I should write about today, so I
think that this is all for this week.
I saw Michael, and I got my picture book (which I love), and
I got the package from Kim!
Lots of love until next week!
Elder Weber
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