April 7, 2014

April 7, 2014

 

Ry firenena izao tontolo izao,

Well because of a pretty sweet p day adventure we went to today i don't have too much time to write this email... but don't worry i'm sending lots of pictures and honestly this week was pretty boring haha.  It started out pretty good and we hopefully found some new people that could progress... but with all the contacting we did do this week... we really struggled to find people.  Tracting hasn't been bringing forth much lately and we've tracted the poop out of our area... so we've decided that we really need to focus on the branch.  Getting good relationships with ALL the members whether cold or hot (active/not) and trying to get referrals from them.  E. Rigby and I watched the work of salvation on sunday and thought... why can't that happen here in mada?  Then i realized... well it won't unless we don't give 110% and try our very best with this branch... So that's our goal right now.  We're planning an activity in 2 weeks that will be solely centered on missionary work, and we really want to fill up our open times with visiting members... so hopefully that turns out this week!  I realized how close i am to my year mark this week and with that realization came the other smack in the face that I can/need to work a lot harder.  I really want to make Ankirihiry start blowing up, and well not giving my all won't cut it!  Rigby and I have worked hard the past 6 weeks but hopefully the next 6 weeks we'll go even harder.  In the words of my main man Jay-Z, we're going to "proselyte so hard, them baptisms trying to find me, but first them members gotta find me."  Safe to say i've been a bit trunky for music this week.  And NYC... hint hint mom and dad.  Other than that I just want to let you members out there know how important, but awesome you are.  It's crazy how just visiting and talking with members can just turn your day around and help you feel sooo much better, that's the way it is with our DmB tahiry and his family... man they're so cool haha.  Also some of my other favorite members are Sr. Alida and Fr. Francois.  They're some members we get help from sometimes and they're always making me laugh.  we went to a RC with francois one day and I told him that he was teaching the lesson today cause my head hurt.  he said "no... i'll just be like the holy ghost.... yes i feel like that principle is good and you should follow it."  Man i was busting up laughing hahah.  Then the RC we taught was Yven who's a 9 year old genius.... After the lesson francois said, "this branch is great.  You have me the holy ghost and yven the prophet."  Members are dope.  The last thing i'll talk about it a cool/weird/a little sad experience we had this week.  We tracted into a dude named moses earlier in the week and i had a good feeling about him, and we had a pretty good first lesson. well we show up for the second lesson and before we start he gives us a paper... it was a letter he wrote for us in english telling us how much he appreciated us, but that he is studying to be a lutheran pastor.  he said he's not very good at verbally expressing his feeligns so he thought to write it down... To be honest i was sad but I appreciated his honesty and sincerity.  So we left and I gave him a book of mormon, i felt that maybe one day he'll read it and take moroni's promise.  That'd be sick ahha.  Other than that.. not much news this week.  Oh i got flipped off by a dude in a car... I had to cut a guy off on my bike to avoid hitting a truck and he didn't like that... so he honked really loud and called me mean names... so i stayed in front of him and went slow.. he pulled up close to me... yelled some thigns in french and malagasy.. and then flipped me off.  So i gave him a thumbs up and yelled "have a good day."  maybe one day he'll accept the gospel too hahahha.  Anyways.  That's all folks. I heard conference was dope... can't wait to listen to it in 3 weeks... but! Until next week.  Have a good week emailers. 

Loves,

Elder Roush