Elder Jake Roush's Madagascar Adventures: October 21, 2013

October 21, 2013

Well my dearest people to my heart it's THAT time again! whoop! Well sadly it was a super slow, boring week and i dont have much to say but i am sending pictures on pictures on pictures. for the other missionaries i apologize.. ish. but hey! nareo gets to look at me! MMM! :) okay well. #wasted haha we taught 3 lessons with drunks this week. i will tell of two! To first one was with Haja, a new investigator of ours. We planned on teaching apostasy through the restoaration and we was stoked! but as soon as we start his DRUNK brother comes in and says he wants to learn. so. here we are trying to teach the importance of prophets and this drunk guy was just being.... difficult. i shared amos 3:7 and what the drunk guy got out of it was that... jesus is one god. I'm like... YOU DRUNK FOOL! I know im supposed to see people as they can become but it's difficult when they're wasted. Anyways we decide not to teach the restoration and cut hte lesson short cause it was going nowhere so at the end he shares some crazy scriptuer in isaiah his pastor probably shared last sunday and then prays... we're like.. well okay then! Gr.. anyways later that day we went to teach another new investigator. Michelle and his wife odette. we went at 730 ish cause she works and we get there and dude is WASTED. Haha so we start and his wife is soooo mazoto!! She asks what is the book of mormon? what the apostasy and we're jsut like... wooooo!!! But the whole time her husband whenever we would stop would tell us how its soo important to: pray, not be racist, and beleive in jesus... oh my gosh it was so frustrating. hahah also he called his little daughter a devil because she gaave me a dona (knuckles) during the lesson.. cutest little girl! HAha afeter the lesson he followed us halfway home and told us how he's soooo sad because he's ALWAYS drinking. We're just like... You can change man!!! haha oh man. Finally naef stops puts his hand on the mans shoulder and says. go home, be with your family and pray for strength to not be drunk... the man is like... I'LL DO IT! hahha i was busting up. luckily we taught them again and the lesson went well and he was sober! Anyways we ran into many drunk people this week, broke up a fight, and are preparing for the election craziness this week. Last sunday we ahd american food day... Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits and KOOLAID! What? Yes. We did that crap and it was tantalizingly good. ahha then yesterday we were fed by my "mom" elyse my favorite members mom... she fed us raftoto.... the food that looks like poop! Crushed up leaves and pork fat! Safe to say i loaded my rice with tomatoes haha. anyways... We finaly got to watch conference in ENGLISH and it was great. I loved Uchtdorf's talk about DOUBTING YOUR DOUBTS! Soo cool! I loved elder bednar's talk about tithing but i took it for just life. Sometimes the lord blesses us in sublte ways we dont realize, sometimes the trials are a blesing in disguise, and we almost must trust and give our best. Elder Hollands talk was cool... it opened my eyes and helped me realized its okay if sometimes im sad out here... its human! Holland knows how to peirce a mans very soul! Also i lvoed elder ochao, ochoa? the manthat talked about marbles! Never forget to LOOK UP. when he shared his story about the marbles and his family i thought. It's the same with us. We have a father in heaven that is anxiously awaiting our return and we shouldn't do anything to refrain, stop, or lengthen that return to him! so always LOOK UP and use your whole strenth to get through the day. I love you guys! Hope my thought helps. it's nothing profound but those are some thigns that i loved and helped me personally alot. Always remember to trust in heavenly father guys! sometimes it might feel like he's not there, but i promise as elder bednar says, he's there, watching over us, blessing us subtly to strengthen us down the road. Mosiah 23:21 love you people! you da bestest.

Fitiavana be,
Elder Roush