Monday Jan 5, 2015 Letter
Its a brand new year and looking forward to all of the
excitement that is coming up!
The end to 2014 was pretty good. We got to teach some
lessons and things. Watching the drunk people from our house was also rather
enjoyable.
But this week was work as usual. The mission is so greats,
but I feel like I dont have things to report on each week.
So Tuesday we did office work, taught english, and then we
did a short skype with Sister Turley to help Jules learn english.
Then on Wednesday President Collins, the Johannesburg MTC
President, and his wife visited Madagascar. We organized a small meeting for
them with some current missionaries and returned missionaries to talk about
their different experiences in the MTC to find out some things that could be improved
on in their MTC. So there were representatives from the Johannesburg MTC,
Ghana, and Provo. It was a good meeting and everyone was able to participate.
Then in the afternoon and evening, we got some good work done. AKA we did a lot
of tracking, and because it was New Years Eve, nobody let us in. But thats ok,
it was a good day nevertheless.
Mom Note: MTC is Missionary Training Center. The church has them all over the world and missionaries go to an MTC for 2-6 weeks to learn to teach the Gospel and to learn the language where they are serving if necessary.
Thursday we went on a split. I ended up in Ambohipo with
Elder Tavo and Elder Armando. We had a good day, but it involved a lot of
walking. A lot of walking. But they are doing well, and we got to teach some
really good times. We also got fed three times that day, because it was the
1st, everyone had lots of food and was excited to share it with us.
Malagasy's do not have much money, but they go all out on
the parties. They save up money just to have some good parties for Christmas
and New Years. A lot of the people do it to get drunk, but not the
members.
So then on Friday we were back in our area working on some
things. We had another good day, but it involved more contacting. Good day of
hard work.
And then on Saturday we had another split. This time I ended
up in Ambohimanarina 1. We had an excellent day of work. We taught english
class in the morning and then in the afternoon got a full day of teaching in. I
got to run into some old investigators that I had taught before and it was a
good day. We worked hard and got a lot done.
And then on Sunday. So we now go to church at 1 instead of
10. And so it was a long day. So one really exciting thing that happened.
Jules, the deaf member, bore his testimony in church, and he did it without a
translator. He spoke it. It was mostly understandable. All of the members were
amazed at what happened. So then they have assigned him to give the opening
prayer next Sunday at church. So church went well and then we had a good rest
of the day as well. Took some stats, and now its Monday again. Time just goes
by so so fast. I cant believe its already the 5th.
Time keeps going, and the mission is reaching an end, but
its going to a crazy marathon to the end.
Elder Weber
