Elder RoushSo whats up people. This keyboard is like a french keyboard or something so the keys are totally in the wrong place... forgive the typos. Lets see... So yeah. I am actually in madagascar. REAL LIFE. Geez they said it would be a culture shock, honestly i wasnt prepared for this. Well i guess ill start with the traveling to here. The flight to London wasnt too bad. I probably slept like 4ish hours but that thing was a plane topped full of temptation! Seriously the coolest like inflight entertainment id ever seen. All i could do was play with the interactive map to track where we were... Which was still a pretty dope map. Hethrow was huge and there were like a bazillion cultures there... but all the announce,ents were with a british accent haha so that was fun. Honestly we got there an hour later but the layover wasnt too bad. Now the flight to Joberg SUCKED. I was next to Elder Rawle who I LOVE, but hes 325 lbs. we didnt fit very well. so yeah i didnt really sleep so i was miserable. The S Africa airport was neat.. I felt like I was in Africa! Haha we all placed a BOM to this Muslim guy he was super nice and gave us a karan haha. THe flight to mada was a breath of fresh air, NOT it smelt so bad hahah. The mada airport is sooo small haha. When we got there i swear as soon as we landed it started pouring rain.. the perfect arrival gettign off the plane! There we met pres adams who is awesome and the two APs Elder West who I love and Elder Rasmussen zho is from west point! We got there and it was their independance day so that was crazy. We met a bunch of people at theoffice, ate dinner then we stayed the night at the house of a couple who had just left. It was me rawle fox christiansen webb lee and then E West, Rasmussen. Oh by the way.... Only like two or three pairs of garments and a white shirt were taken... So NBD. Well our first day they gave us the rundown of how to stay healthy, gave an intro to some areas and then lunch then they told us our trainer and area! It was pretty funny it was in an envelope and it was liike we were opening ,ission calls. So my area is Tanjombato (tanzoombaatoo) and my trainer is Elder Rakotonjanahary (rakootoonzanahary) haaaa... yeah he is a native. He speaks a little english... Our area is gigantic, its the southern tip of tana the capital city and its just us in a pretty nice apartment So far around our apartment building ive seen: chickens, roosters, ducks, turtles, cats, dogs, big spiders... well lets get to it I have like noo ti,e so it will be quick. mada has beautiful natural landscapes, ALOT of hills. But it is sooo poor. They arent kidding when they say its less than a third zorld country. It constantly smells like poop if were walking around crowded areas... but really. It is so crozded. You kind of have to walk on the street because either its too crowded or the sidewwqlk is like too beaten down: They are chickens dogs cats etc everyzhere and its suer gross. Honestly it is just really poor here. Its sad because the natural beauty is overrun by the poorness of the country. So I dont understand anyone zhen ze teach: In fqct i dont reqlly understqnd elder rqkoto sometmes: Its reqlly hard zhen he doesnt speak your native language very zell and you dont speak his very well: The first couple of nights were really hard on me because its just us and somtimes we cant co,,unicate really well. My second night with him was extremely hard. I had not understood a thing all day and him and i were having trouble communicating and i just broke down and thought i couldnt do it. I seriously thought I was gonna go home because it was so hard. But i realized why would i be herre if the lord did not KNOW that I can do it: I can do this. I a, going to be honest: This is really really hard, i dont understand anyone, i dont knoz zhqt is going on, im so sick of being called vaza and having everyone speak french to me because im white.... but i can do this and i know that eventually i will love it here. Today I got to talk to a lot of elders zhen ze played basketball at the office and went into dowtozn tana. All of them said i am so blessed and am in the best position possible because I have a malagasy comp... It will come its just going to take a lot of work. Please keep praing but dont worry, im in the lords hands. Im out of time... we have a lesson in 20..Tiako Ianao
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Andrew Roush <andrew.roush@myldsmail.net> wrote:So whats up people. This keyboard is like a french keyboard or something so the keys are totally in the wrong place... forgive the typos. Lets see... So yeah. I am actually in madagascar. REAL LIFE. Geez they said it would be a culture shock, honestly i wasnt prepared for this. Well i guess ill start with the traveling to here. The flight to London wasnt too bad. I probably slept like 4ish hours but that thing was a plane topped full of temptation! Seriously the coolest like inflight entertainment id ever seen. All i could do was play with the interactive map to track where we were... Which was still a pretty dope map. Hethrow was huge and there were like a bazillion cultures there... but all the announce,ents were with a british accent haha so that was fun. Honestly we got there an hour later but the layover wasnt too bad. Now the flight to Joberg SUCKED. I was next to Elder Rawle who I LOVE, but hes 325 lbs. we didnt fit very well. so yeah i didnt really sleep so i was miserable. The S Africa airport was neat.. I felt like I was in Africa! Haha we all placed a BOM to this Muslim guy he was super nice and gave us a karan haha. THe flight to mada was a breath of fresh air, NOT it smelt so bad hahah. The mada airport is sooo small haha. When we got there i swear as soon as we landed it started pouring rain.. the perfect arrival gettign off the plane! There we met pres adams who is awesome and the two APs Elder West who I love and Elder Rasmussen zho is from west point! We got there and it was their independance day so that was crazy. We met a bunch of people at theoffice, ate dinner then we stayed the night at the house of a couple who had just left. It was me rawle fox christiansen webb lee and then E West, Rasmussen. Oh by the way.... Only like two or three pairs of garments and a white shirt were taken... So NBD. Well our first day they gave us the rundown of how to stay healthy, gave an intro to some areas and then lunch then they told us our trainer and area! It was pretty funny it was in an envelope and it was liike we were opening ,ission calls. So my area is Tanjombato (tanzoombaatoo) and my trainer is Elder Rakotonjanahary (rakootoonzanahary) haaaa... yeah he is a native. He speaks a little english... Our area is gigantic, its the southern tip of tana the capital city and its just us in a pretty nice apartment.... well lets get to it. mada has beautiful natural landscapes, ALOT
