#thegrind

ubject: #thegrind Haha as nareo (y'all) can see this week has just been #thegrind. One might ask.. oh well why is it #thegrind? Well my dear friends it is #thegrind because it's just been a solid week here in tanjombato. Not a bad week, not a spectacular week. just a normal week in madagascar.. WE started the week with not teaching on monday and having the people who we usually teachon monday nights say they can't on mondays any more and it will have to be tuesdays.. which is fine but now we don't have anything to dotonight haha... my comps fault! he's the trainer!  Anywyas the work... It's been a bit tough this week but good.  It's been tough because a lot of people have been 1. going on vacation, where they leave to go to province for like a month. 2. not been home. 3. just kind of given up on us.  so tha'ts been a bit frustraing but hey.. it's fine.  This week i feel like we arethe word of wisdom missionaries... we taught it like 4 times and 3 of the times the people agreed to quit!  Fingers crossed! haha On tuesday i found a quote that i absolutely love by Henry Ford.  It says "if you think you can, or think you can't, you're right!"  I love that!  Well m ydear friends!  I think I CAN do this whole Madagascar and Malagasy thing!  ANd that attitude has carried with me throughout the week and i've kept a super good attitutde!  I've realized that yeah... sometimes i want to just cuss out my comp in english becasue i'm pretty sure he is in malagasy... and sometimes i wnat to kill a small child... but hey the lord is testing me and i should be thankful for that because it's making me a better missionary and a better person!  THa'ts something i've really realized this week.  I have actually learned a lot and grown alot these past 7 weeks.  Yeah my comp is hard and I hate having the two man house but i'll be real with you gusy.  I wouldn't change it!  I've learned to grow and stretch in many different ways!  For the good!  So yeah!  Tkae that!  Okay so a highlight of my week this week was... I madea  kid cry!  Now one might say that oh! THats horrible!  But it's totalyy okay in madagascar and even a little bit welcomed!  so... we were heading to a soiree with some members and this little kid was being annoying as H and just woldn't stop calling me vaza and followed me around for like 5 minutes.... Dude even had a nasty unibrow!  So i had finally had enough and so I pick him up, put him on my shoulder adn said "mandeha any amerika isika!" We're going to america!  I then fireman carried him for about 20 seconds before he started screameing and crying.. everybody around me was laughing, his brother and dad were laughing, i was laughing and the little snot was bawling his eyes out.. I might be a horrid person but I loved every second of it!  Well... shoot!  We commited one of my favorite investigatosr to baptism for next month becasue he's finally vita soratra!  So that was aweseom!  I'm super excited for the futur!  WEhave two people getting baptized saturday and hoefully 3 next month!  Maybe i'll get my first baptism!  Woo!!  Saturday we did a big service project with some other missionaries and all the yoth in our stake and it was super fun. We, the missionaries went to the other missionaires hosue and made pizza, talked, gossiped and had a grand time! Last niht we also went back, kind of breaking the ruels andhad a my comp year mark, my 3 month mark, elder smithsons year in country mark, etc party with this lady called mama-be.  SHe is insane. sHe's so funny, so pushy, makesthe best food, I had a great time. Well! I'm sorry this is so short but I love you all sooooo much!  Until next time! MAzotoa! lvoe love love,  elder roush