February 10. 2014

February 10, 2014

Manao ohoana daholo! vaovao?

So Elder Cartmill and I have been coming up with a quote from our experiences every week.... so this week. Swag loatra!!! Haha we were teaching Stephanie (RC) and her fam and we were talking about Justin Bieber... well her older sister said she didn't like him... I asked why? She said swag loatra!! Or, too much swag!! hahah super funny! I hope one day i have swag loatra :) So this was a pretty darn good week too. We taught 26 times, and the crazy thing is that I feel like we totally coulda taught more. The area is going really good and i really hope we can keep it going like this. Cartmill and I have been working hard, and having a good time. So I'm enjoying it!! So... We had a pretty sick experience I wanna tell y'all about. So during planning we had gotten a call from a member that said a friend of his wanted to learn... the member is like 60 so we were expecting some old grandpa... Anyways we go and it's a man named Setra, who owns an episserie (little shop on the side of the street), my guess is he's like 30ish.... i guess the member gave him a teachings of the prophet lorenzo snow book in french and well... he's already read it all and wanted to learn more!! So we gave him a first pamphlet and told him we'd come back that night... Well we came back, he had alrea   dy read the pamphlet (unheard of here) and we had just like the perfect first.... sooo sick! When we first got there it was raining pretty hard and when it rains here it's really hard to teach because a lot of people have tin roofs... Well Setra's episserie had a tin roof too and we couldn't hear a thing... Well i said the prayer and I asked Heavenly Father to stop the rain.. It didn't stop immediately but it slowly went down till at the end of the lesson it wasn't raining at all.... what?! haha anyways it was just like the perfect lesson cause he had already ready the pamphlet and had some knowledge about it and so he answered everything perfectly, didn't need much clarification and accepted a lot. He agreed he was a bit skeptical about the message but he's excited to pray. He told us he read about prayer in the pamphlet and read the pray to the father in the name of the son... he said with all the different kinds of prayer he read that and he felt that it was right... yes! And... He was STOKED to get a BoM, he already had questions about it before so we gave him a pamphlet about jospeh smith and the BoM. We came back yesterday taught a quick lesson about it last night, he was rushed but it was good.. Seems like an awesome guy. I'm super stoked for him. And... He's an FLF ahah. yes. sick. Other than that it was just a normal week. We had 3 people with bap dates for the 22nd but we've skimmed it to one, Lalatina. She's going well and is excited to get dunked. She's a great chick!! (can i call her that?) hahah and she wins the award for the cutest kid. We moved Andry's back a week cause we felt like we're going too fast... But he's super ready and a stud. I'm excited for him. Transfers are in 3 weeks and it feels like they're super close, even though they're not.. i'm just worried i wont be here to see people progress. I'm really liking betongolo and the office and wouldn't mind to stay until april (next transfer if i stay this one.) But we'll see, it's still far away!! oh also last night we were a bit far from our next time and busses weren't going anymore so we tried to hitchike and a dude let us in! I guess he's already learned from missionaries and stuff... but doens't anymore cause he does international trading (super rich dude) but super duper cool!! He was just gonna take us up a hill (big hill) but he took us all the way cause he wanted us to speak english to his two daughters in the car... SUPER COOL DUDE!!! Haha when we tried to give him funny he was like "oh no no no no no!! This is out of love! I don't need money." Just a good guy and a fun time. haha. Oh also I kinda went a bit crazy with kid pictures this week, but I can't help it.. THey're the best! I gotta take one home haha. Anyways i love you all... Just a shout out to Caleb... GOOD LUCK AT YOUR FAREWELL... i love you:) and everyone else!! Smile, be happy, and well... Have a good week emailers.

 

Biso,

 

Elder Roush