July 29
So yeah last week I was
kind of depressing haha I'm sorry... Anyways! So this week I had the
chance to teach the lesson in District meeting... and I decided to teach about
Hope! Which is my new favorite christlike quality! So! Hope..
So important! I read a lot of conference talks because we have a lot of
liahonas in our apartment and it gets lonely... So I found two talks this week
that are just so cash money I can't take it. The first which relates to
hope is called "beautiful mornings" and it's from this last
conference. It talks about how life is all about your outlook. As
long as you wake up thinking oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful
day.. You can have a beautiful day! Life is all about the way you look at
it! now... It's freaking hard! haha i can talk the talk but i must
walk the walk! The other talk is "of regrets and resolutions"
by elder uchtdorf and ohhh i read it yesterday and it was just what i needed
after a hard day! He talked about finding happiness! He said don't
look at things in retrospect because you'll get to a point and you're like...
wait.. It's over?! He said find happiness in what you're doing no matter
the circumstance! That's something i'm going to really try to do!
Also Alma 26:35... #perf haha look it up! So yeah hope... It's awesome!
You must have faith if you want to have hope... ANd if you wnat something to
happen you must have hope!! The coolest thing i realized is yeah... This
is sarotra be! really hard. But guess what.. I'm bringing people
the hope of the gospel.. I'm planting that seed! Hah so yeah that's
fun. now. Some business! Happy anniversery to mom and dad
this week!! You people are great and i love you! Second... If aunt
kim is reading this... I love the daily quotes so much! I read one every
day! I'm like halfway through and i'm already scared i'm going to run
out! Thank you so much. I love you also :) Now tuesday... We
had a split because we had a baptisimal interview for this man named
justin! So it was me and elder dickson in my area! Yeah that's
right I ran the show in my area on tuesday.. Nerveracking but I did it! I
gave a sweeeeeeeet lesson on faharetena hatramin'ny farany (E2E) and dickson
said.... That was beautiful haha :) Also! I have made it one month
in Madagascar! Haha honestly that first night in my apartment a month
seemed very, very veryyyyy far away. But heck i did it! Now... Haha
a story i must tell you.. we're teaching this old man and his wife and my comp
was doing his thing and i was super lost haha so i was kind of paying too much
attention to their little baby grandchild... i looked at her and she was
playing with scissors! What?! AND THEN! Rusty, sharp, old
train track nails... Haha i was dying and the grandma just kept handing her all
this crap... I was like... THat child. Done for haha. Anwyays!
Haha i'm super short on time so I'm just telling nareo makaskany ny highlights
any ny herin androko! That guy I tlaked about last week we wnet to visit
him and his wife and she wasn't there... so he asked if we'd help him! so
yeah for like an hour I worked at a malagasy recycling plant! HA!
We played bollo ball after... Madagascar is apparently like the world champions
at it... i got demolished so I just started come up with as many different ways
as I could to throw the ball. My personal favorite was the John Beck vs
Utah 2006 scramble all over the recycling yard... they looked at me like i was
crazy but it was my best throw of the day haha! Anyways! the
highlight of my week was friday! Because we got to baptize a man named
Justin which in malagasy is prounounced dzustin haha. Anyways his two
daughters were baptized in february and we've been working with him and his
wife. We go to them everysunday and monday... on
monday athte end they always give us this herbal tea and cookies that are
my favorite thing in the world! I get it tonight! Woot! Anyways we
committed him to baptism my first sunday here but she still isn't
ready. BUt she's super close. Anywyas. My
first monday lesson with him was that one where I really just felt
hte spirit super strong so i really like them cause they always compliment me
with my malgasy and i feel pretty close to them. anwyas so he and his
family show up to the baptism like 5 minutes before it's supposed to start and
he is wearing the most fly ivory suit ever and he just has the biggest
smile. We do the baptism, Elder Rakotonjanahary did the deed... And he
comes out and he just has the bigest smile... He looks up as if to say... Here
i go, let's do this thing! ANd he just kept smiling. At every
baptism the person always bears their testimony he get's up there and just goes
off.. He's up there for like 5 minutes and I didn't really know what he was
saying but I could feel the spirit so hard! Haha THEN I swear he was
looking at me and he said like i know this church is true and stuff like that
and i totally understood it and he was just smiling and i was smiling and i was
like.... This man will be the first malagasy general authority hahaha.
But really he has such a strong testimony already and is super smart.
After we were invited to their house for a soiree and we just chillled with him
and some other people and man he just looked so dang happy! Anywyas that
made me happy. We're teachingthem about FHE tonight and i'm really hoping
that we can prepare him and his wife Vololona enough to where he can be the one
to baptize her! I really needed that experience cause we taught alot this
week but we lost some solid investigators which stunk. Anywyas for the
last item of business y'all will be impressed. Me and rakoto
made sunday dinner saturday night (our new tradition) and
it was soooo goood. It was a loka (stuff on top of the rice) that was tomato,
onion, potato and beef. We made it while listening to french rap called
sexion dassault (WATI B) and hahah it was soo much fun.. Those congans have
some mad talent. I was cutting the onions and oh my lanta my eyes were
watering sooo much haha but it was fun. anywyas i thought that would make
dad proud. I love you all!! Remember to wake up every morning and think
"oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day, i've got a
beautiful feeling, everything's going my way!" Because even when
life sucks... You ALWAYS have Christ pushing along the road of life with
you! Mazotoa nareo! Be diligent y'all!
Fitiavana BE! (much
love pronounced feeteeahhvahhnaa bay) :)
Elder Roush
I love this selfie i took today :)
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