Elder Jake Roush's Madagascar Adventures: February 17, 2014

February 17, 2014

Bonjour daholo!

How are all of you doing on this fine monday afternoon, morning, sunday night? Still not too sure haha. Soo. On Saturday we were walking around and we passed by the Adventist church and we heard the lady preacher doing her thang and then we hear her say "Hallelujah!" then the crowd says it too, "hallelujah," crowd... "hallelujah" crowd... THen she says... "izay." Which means just like... yeah. hahaha so pretty much it was hallelujah! hallelujah! hallelujah! Yeah.. Hahah pretty funny. Anyways this past week was pretty good, we got a pretty good amount of lessons this week, which was surprising because we spent ALOT of time doing office work... A little (lot) more than we woulda liked... even did some this morning! on p day! haha but it's fine... i'm over it! So. on tuesday we had a district leader council with president, which was super good. President is a pretty dang good, smart, and dang spiritual guy. I definitely learned a lot about how to be a better missionary and leader... Even though the only people i'm techincally leading are the ap's... so that doesn't really make much of a difference ahah. No worries. Maybe one day i'll just be a senior comp to a comp that isn't as mature as cartmill haha. He's a stud. I'm not much of a senior comp to him! It's really fun. So this week we had a quiet week teaching, just cause like i said, we spent a lot of time doing office work for the couples (especially the financial missionary.) dang auditors.. who woulda thought i'd have to worry about that stuff on a mission! Hahaha. But our investigators are going well. Setra, the guy from last week I told yall about is such a stud!! We went back on Thursday to teach him and he was already on 1 nep 12... and he had started on tuesday... haha he's such a smart dude.. even more impressive cause he was doing it in french... A member that lives by him gave him a french triple combination... ahha members give the weirdest things to people sometimes! No worries though. But it's fun cause he loves reading the book of mormon. Thursday the whole time we just answered his questions about hte book of mormon. Questions ranging from "Do you think nephi knew he was a prophet when he was writing," to "what does the river mean in lehi's dream, and pretty much what does it all mean," and other sick questions like that. Then he like had a heart to heart with us and told us he had been praying but he hadn't gotten an answer so he asked us to teach him about prayer again. Such a stud of a guy! haha then on saturday we were teaching him again, we teach him in his eppiserrie. And we were stopped like 4 times by people buying stuff and then he told a couple people he was out of stuff... then he was like... "i have a question. is it a sin if i lie and tell people i'm out of a certain thing, but i'm really not, i just want to focus on learning with you guys..." hahahah!! we were like.. uh yeah that's a sin but... we love you hahahha. Other than that Andry and lalatina are going well.. Andry is such an awesome guy, and he's super ready to be baptized on March 1st!! We taught about modern day prophets and we asked if he would follow and sustain presidnet monson as a prophet and he said yes and then testified that he would because he knew that the prophet was a man of God and could guide him.. He's so sick! haha and we think he has a sipa kely!! (girlfriend) we ran into him a couple times one day and he had a girl with him just walking around, and then she was there for the lesson too hahah. He's such a funny guy. He said "she's my.. friend." classic. Lalatina is going good, she opened up to us and told us she wasn't ready to be baptized because she wanted to completely finish her divorce before she was baptized... I thought that took a lot of courage to say, cause the member she lives with was pushing her pretty hard. So things are good!! Also we're teaching a 10 year old named Medien, his parent live out in a province named Diego and he lives with his uncle who's a member. And he's the smartest 10 year old ever. already knows everything. I think him and max would get along well.. haha but... Yeah in other news i had a misison baby this week! 9 MONTHS ON THE MISSION! How crazy is that? It didn't even hit me but yeah! I'll hit my 1 year in two transfers. Surprisingly it really has gone by so fast. Crazy how time goes.. Super slow, but like super fast. Anywyas I hope all of you had a happy valentines day, elder cartmill and i made a cake and got a bit sad and stuff... hope yall like the picture!! Haha anyways i can't really think of anything else to tell you. And sorry... Nothing too spiritual hahah. But.. Umm. GO CALEB!!!! WOOO!!! MTC! So... Remember. I love and Jesus loves you. Have a good week emailers.