Elder Jake Roush's Madagascar Adventures: November 25, 2013

November 25, 2013

HELLO hello, hello :)

So. THe subject. LIZARD SUICIDE!!! In no way does it really tie in withthis week other than about this morning haha :) So. I had just showered and went into the room when on our curtain i saw a gecco!! Now, that's not a rare occurance because, well there are many, we even caught one this week and made him our pet for a day! anyways elder hardy and i triedto catch it... well.. he ran away. We live on the 4th floor and we have a balcony.. well. poor little guy ran straight off and jumped... lizard suicide! Poor guy didn't know what he was doing, we heard a splat.. looked down and he was down there. Crazy thing is.. .5 minutes later. HE WAS GONE!! ZOMBIE GECCO!!! Gotta love Mada :) Haha so this week. Was sllloooooowwww. THe work here in betongolo has a lot to be done and it's hard sometimes. But I know it's just gonna make me appreciate something, sometime down the road haha. we'll see. Stay tuned! Anyways so Nalyse! prayer rug guy! So crazy guys. This dude. Haha. So we're still teaching him and his mom and now his brther and they are... awesome! Nalyse is still kind of ... slow. but he's sooo smart. He knows a lot about Christ and has a profound love for him, if we teach something easy enough, nalyse has it down pact. Anyways we were teachign the book of mormon to them and they had so many questions and were so excited to read. I felt like i should give them a bap date cause aloi and i had talked about it... so i did! And they accepted! January 25th! It was cool, Lucy (the mom) said. She will if she knows its true, if she does, she would love to. Now it's all up to the big man upstairs! looks like we've won :) Another cool thing. We already ahve a fellowshipper. A mmeber named erneste. he's an RM from and speaks perfect english, he also teaches or gospel principles class. He met nalyse and told us he wanted to help. When we tuaght, he taught alot, in perfect malagasy (obviously.. he's gasy) and it was really cool. They love him, and it's really helpful. I have a good feeling about them. CoOl stroy about how we found em. Aloi and i were walking afeter a time fell through and we saw this guy on the side of the road smiling at us. So of course i went and talked to him. We gave him a fanasany (invite to church) and got a return time with him. Later that day we were walking and he runs up to us saying "this is where i live! it's destiny!" Then yeah... He comes to churhc, prayer rug and all, next week has epiliepsy.blah blah blah. I didn't think about how cool it was that we found him until this week. I thought i'd share that with y'all. HAha anyways so... RAIN!!!! THis week i went on another split in anjanahary, this week with EldeR Hardy, the trainee in the house. He's been out almost 2 months now and is a good kid. I like him. Well we had a good day and around 5 it started to rain. Well. I had no rainjacket or umbrella, because it was beautiful earlier... Well.. BAD IDEA!! I was SOAKED!!! When it rains, it pours. Seriously. So. We going around, hardy had an umbrella and i was wet... Many times fell throgh and finally we went to the last time.. fell through ahha. Anyways so the path we were going on startedto flood, and flood, and FLOOD! Up to our KNEES!!!! It was insane!! so we're walking and all the sudden we feel a jolt go through our legs... we look up and its a telephone pole near the water... WHAT! ELECTRICUTED!! WOOO!!! haha we screeched like little school girls and ran away ahha. Pretty coolio! The work has been alright this week. Slow as i said. Stephanie, the 11 year old who is being aptized in december is still going well. She's a cute little girl and we're getting her family active again. They all came yesterday! Now andry, our other bap date who is supposed to be baptized next week. Well we haven't taught him in two weeks and he didn't come to churhc. Come to find out his grandma forbid him in the name of the family frm coming to churhcand being baptized... GREAT! "you're born a catholic, you die a catholic." I'm gonna kill this bebe (grandma teny gasy) So we'll see wehre it goes cause family is everything here. Now. cool story! Frere Nikola, a guy who has been very cold (inactive) becasue of a trial of his faith... We teach him once a week. Well saturday we had nothign to do and we were tracting by his house. He saw us and told us to come in. I shared Helaman 5:12 and told him how we need to focus no christ. He then babbled on for a good 30 minutes how he was focusing on moving out of his wifes mothers house... Aloi took over and told him. BRO. Focus on christ and it will work out. i bore testimony of it and then... He laughed ahha. He told us we were right and said! Tomorrow! Im gonna come to churhc! I'll go for 5 weeks! then we tld him he should probably go for more. And he said he would, as long as he gets an answer... so... we'lll see. he also asked for a coke and biscuit hahah. But.. He came yesterday!! WOOO!! First time in a while he came. So yeah. That was my week! I also had a vision, i'd liken it unto Lehi's dream...about caleb's mission call. I saw in a vision. Manchester, England. So yeah.. Whatever. Tha'ts where he's going.. ANd my stateside guess is sante fe... Boom! Done. Anyways I hope you all have a happy thanksgiving and knwo that I am thankful for each and every one of you. You're thoughts, emails, prayers, testimonies and most of all friendships. I love you all. Keep on keeping on. Fight the good fight all day erry day. Loves :)

Elder Roush