Well my dearest friends, family, loved ones and children of Heavenly Father. Hi. How are you guys? Me personally, well. I've had better weeks to say the least. BUt. Kaka (poop) happens and ya gotta move on. So. This was my first week in the area of Betongolo, as an office elder with Elder Aloi. Firstly. Elder Aloi is from Quebec. Speaks english, french and lackluster teny gasy haha. He's a really good guy though. He might be a bit odd haha. He speaks very proper and business like. He calls dinner, supper and says essentially alot. And he loves office work... too much. i'll need to get him to do more missionary work. Betongolo has work to be done. It's strong but there are many inactives AND this area had the least amount of lessons in the mission last month... I guess i've got a handful! So. THis week was transfer week and well.... May I liken transfer week to office elders to 2 a days in high school football. I hated it, it sucked, it was tiring and hard and i ended up gettign super sick after haha. Pretty much during the week we had to always be in the office to prepare for new eldedrs coming in, buy tickets for elders moving to province and diffedrent areas, logistics crap then... DRIVE. Yes some may say "oh you got to drive! so cool!" NO. Aloi can't drive so it's just me and its stick! I can drive stick but it's hard. Safe to say ive become quite good as of this week. Anyways driving sucks here for 2 reasons. 1. The malagasy people. First of all the pedestrians have no common sense. They cut in front of you, they walk in the middle of the road and always think they have the right of way, and can take on any car.... it's the samw with the drivers.. WORST IN THE WORLD! I've never been cut off soo much hahaha. Oh it was soo frustrating. 2. traffic. There is always traffic. so much traffic. On wednesday and thursday alone i spent proabaly 9 hours driving, many of them in traffic. So that was very frustrating. Just driving other elders around, waking up at unheavenly hours and staying out still driving... grr haha. So anyways i was exhausted and..... got sick! halloween night as we were driving aorund i slowly felt horrid. got home went straight to bed (no candy :( ) then... it started. Malagasy flu! Me and the toilet were the best friend for Friday and Saturday! so much fun :) no throwups but yeah... you get it friends. I'm still weak! haha but i'm okay!! I got a SWEET priesthood blessing from elder rassmussen the old ap who is from west point before he went to his new area! love that dude. So Saturday night i felt wel enoguh to go to the office and do productive stuff and on sunday i felt pretty better. We went to churhc and i got to transalte for the office couples. MAN that was hard but i did it! Crappily? Yes. But i did it! Yessss...! I had a big headache after haah... I needed water. very dehydrated. So church happened, things happend and we went to work finally! I hadn't taught a leson all week, so i was nervous haha. We tracted for 2 hours befoer we finally ahd our first time. Taught a good lesson to some guy that's become active again about he priesthood. Cool lesson. The priesthood really is the power of God! His power! Did you ever think of that? Pretty neat! So! We get out and we'\re walking and what do i do? I roll my ankle! CLASSIC ME!!! So i'm in pain and i feel super dizzy.... really weird and clowdy. So i go to like grab my companion then all the sudden everythign is black. WHAT? So then i open my eyes and i'm on the ground... I fainted!!!! I guess the pain of the ankel mixed with dehydration and not eating very much was just too much for my body and well... i gave up the ghost for 7 seconds hahahahaha. My comp and some member help helped me into the txi and i guess they heard somebody saying i "look! a drunk white guy!" So that's me in my new area. THe drunk one. Now. All is well-ish. jsut still have a headache hahaha. Now yes this email has been depressing and this week..... sucked but i made it through. So. To all my friends. Sometimes you have really poopy weeks... (hehehehe) but ya gotta push through until you faint with exhaustion (hehehehehe) haha so yeah! do it! And that's all for this week! I lvoe all of you and i will send some great pictures to you all later... YOU DO BEST!!!!
LOVES :)Elder Roush
Tea after fainting
New view from apt in Betongolo
Inside taxi
Driving the car!
My mom, Elder Naef
Office life.
Tastes like fruity pebbles
Tea time with Hardy
The kids
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