So another week has flown by.
It was a great week, including 3 baptisms. We have a little
wait until our next baptisms, Probably in March,
But transfer news came out, and my current companion is
headed to Tana. I will be getting a malagasy companion for at least this next
transfer. When I worked in Ivandry, I lived with him so I already know him. He is 6 weeks
behind me in country. So I will be senior companion still. So it will be lots
of malagasy for me, because he is still learning english and is not that good
yet.
Other transfer news, is not much that you guys would be
interested in.
This area is doing really well. Yesterday at church though,
we had a drop in Attendance, both of investigators and members. It probably had
to do with the rain, but who knows. The work is still progressing, and I am
hoping to have at least 10 baptisms in March if all goes well. It is all about
the investigators. My branch has set some really good tough goals, and they are
working hard to achieve them.
I would like to take the moment to praise my branch council.
My branch council is wonderful, and has been working very effectively. They are
still learning, but it is a lot better than what I have seen in my other areas
in the mission. They are really affective and they make assignments, and then
people do the assignments. There was a goal set to reactivate 5 families by the
end of march, and so they first picked the 5 families. The next week they made
assignments nad schedules of when to visit them, and know they are following
up. Yesterday they had a great discussion about how they are visiting these
people, and they are all really happy to be visitied, but they havent returned
yet. And so the assignments were made to visit them all again this week, and to
also visit them on Sunday morning and bring them to church. We will see what
happens. They are learning very well, and they are excited to work.
We are really doing a lot of work here in Mahazoarivo, and
we are hoping to increase the branch quite a bit over the next few months. We
have a large pool of investigators, and now it is just helping them all
progress to the important step of baptism.
We have some great members that go out and work with us.
There are 3 main guys, all preparing for missions, and one girl, also
preparing. They are extremely active in helping and they are so excitied to
continue preparing for their missions. The members in this branch are awesome,
and so willing to help. Everyone is focused on the work at hand, and there are
good goals to go with the goals. All it is is work, work, work. I love to work,
and this area needs people who are ready to work.
We have a bunch of investigators that are really active in
learning, but have problems with Vita Soratra. We are hoping all of those
problems can be solved somewhat quickly and that it wont cause to large of a
problem in their progression towards baptism.
Mom Note: From a previous email, we learned that Vita Soratra is the government recognized marriage that requires official birth certificates. This can sometimes be a difficult and expensive situation.
Quick story about investigators. We have these two
investigators, that showed up to church one week, so we started to teach them.
They are blind, the guy very much so, and the wife can see.... barely. When we
started teaching them, they said that someone told them that if they went to
church with us they could get money. Which is false, and so we assumed when
they learned that, that they would no longer want to learn. But they are still
very interested in learning about the gospel. Their house is extremely humble.
It is the smallest home I have taught in. There are the husband and wife, and
one little child. They live in a room that is probably less than 5' by 5' and
there is nothing inside, except a little mat. I wouldnt even be able to lay
down inside the house comfortably. There is a door, and one small window, but
no furniture, and very little possesions. But they are humble, and ready to
recieve the gospel.
God Speed!
Until next week!
Elder Weber
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