Well dearest friends and family it's that time again, my favorite time of the week! Writing all those who i love the mostest!! Anyways to start... I'm pretty sure that rainy season has come early this week because we've had lots and lots of rain since wednesday. But i'll get to that later! Anyways... The work here in Tanjombato is struggling a bit to be honest. We're really struggling to find good/solid investigators and keep our investigators progressing. I did 6 hours of tracting this week, which is the most i've done in a week since coming to mada. It probably doesn't seem like too much, but it's a lot for this mission... so that's been hard. But we have found 4 new investigators. Two of them from tracting and two from referrals! That's right i finally got a referral! I really wished we recieved more but hey, i'll take what i get! But yeah that's how the work is. Trying my best! But cool story, the guy i got a refereral from, Huga, we teach his wife Irene. I think i've told y'all about them. Anyways i was talking to him and he told me how he thinks irene is really started to get a testimony and he thinks its because of my testimony and how i teach her.. It's not that big of a deal but it made me feel like i was actually making a difference. Honestly one of the first times i've felt that since coming out here! Now. THE RAIN!!! So i have a couple cool stories but i'll tell two. So the first story is we were coming home from work and we could tell a storm was brewing so we ran home and it started literally jsut as we got to the apt. Our power was out cause the lightning was crazy so... we sat on our porch and watched the lightning and thunder and well.... it was absolutely gorgeous. I took some videos that i'll try to send sometime. Anyways it started to rain a lot harder so we went inside and watched from the window hahaha. We just like got two chairs and watched. It was amazing. the lightning here is unlike anything i've ever seen. It LITERALLY lights up the whole night with just these huge cracks!!! So crazy, scary, but exhilarrating. Is that how you spell it? Tsy Rarako! I don't care! Okay so the next story.... Saturday night we were ya know doing our thang and the rain started to come down a bit during a lesson... it was just sprinkling but we still prepared cause we knew IT was coming... We got out and it was raining pretty hard but it got progressively harder and harder! It was sooo crazy! First there were puddles, the puddles turned to streams and then into freaking rivers!! It was pitch black becase of the clouds except for the huge thundering strikes of lightning every 5 seconds! We were just yelling at the top of our lungs "FREAKING MADAGSACAR!!! WOOOOO!!!!" Hahaha we were skipping throuhg puddles, but it turned into a river up to my shins so we tried to hug the side of the path, but i tripped and fell in! Earlier in the week i had the same experience but jsut fell into muddy pooop haha! for real. My whole leg was covered in poop! But when i fell into the river i was just like... well i'm already this wet ahah so i skipped through the river up to my shins. So crazy but soo fun. We finally got to the road and it was totally flooded. We tried to catch a bus but noone would stop for us. We had one mroe time and it was that referral. We didn't know if we should go cause they literally live in the middle of a rice field but we decided to go cause it would be a sweet stor yahhaha. which it was! So we trecked out to the rice field and cool freaking story.. they had made a big path made of grass and mud that was elevated over the rice field that pretty much turned into a lake.. Super cool! Also it was completely calm over the field, you could even see the stars. We sat there for a bit, took some pictures of the thunder in the distance, it was absolutely gorgeous! So we went to the time, their names are olivier and fando, they work for Huga. It was a really good first about god and families. I guess they had been taught a while ago but they watned to keep learning and they seem super excited! I had this really good feeling when we taught them so i think they might be something big. Im excited to see where it goes! Anyways... That was my week out here in MAdagascar. Still political craziness going on, haha just saw a marching band all wearing Hajo's shirts... he's one of the big ones running. Anyways. Hope all is well in america! I love you all and pray for you daily. Mazotoa!
love,
Elder Roush
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