OK! So to begin with, I have
not had any bowel problems, but it was just the puking of the food. 2nd I am
doing a whole! lot better and mom I am very glad for the food that you sent.
That was very needed :)
OK so on Tuesday we had a
very...hard day....all of our appointments fell through and so we had a lot of
time to tract. After tracting for about an hour or so we took a 5 min break.
Then I remembered something that was said in a devotional at the MTC. "We
as missionaries do not find people, but God has already prepared them. And then
we get to be there to see Heavenly Father do his miracles. So in the 5 minutes
that we had I began to pray that while we were tracting if it would be possible
to have Him lead us to someone that he had already been preparing. After the
prayer, we got up and tracted for about 15-20 more minutes when we met an older
woman who was painting. Right as we said we were missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ...She said MANDROSO!!! Or COME IN! She sat us down on her couch, grabbed
her daughters and told them to sit down and listen to us. (Her husband was
getting the grandchildren from school at this time) One of the daughters is
married and has a couple of kids, and they were perfect! As we have met with
Monique (The older woman) and her daughters rhey have been so responsive to
the message of the Restoration. They told us "Yes we are catholic but we
don't like any of the churches here. We are going to ask God if this is true and
if it is then we want our entire family to hear the discussions and then to get
baptized in the church."
I think you can imagine the surprise that we had when they
told us this :) They and a couple other people
that we have been teaching truly are just like this. The Lord has prepared them
and we get to watch the miracles. :) So that was Tuesday :)
Now some other things happened this week that were pretty
crazy. As we were walking home on Friday from our investigator that was going
to get baptized the next day, we heard a huge CRACK behind us. It seriously
sounded like thunder had hit the ground right next to us, but in reality a
taxibe had come and hit a person about 10 feet behind us. His head was bleeding
pretty bad, but it was cool to see that people started to direct traffic and
others called a taxi so that they could get him to a hospital. The Lord was truly protecting us as we were going home. I
feel that if the Lord had not been protecting us then we could have been
seriously injured and that there would have been a high probability that it
would have been one of us.
THEN! On Sunday we were walking
to church when we saw ANOTHER TAXIBE hit someone except this time the person
was completely dead (as opposed to "partially dead"?). How do I know this? Elder Rasolofonirina went over to him
and said that he was completely flat. No I did not go over to see this for
myself since I know that I would have had no breakfast left, but WOW! So crazy!
Then later on Sunday we found out that this man that died was a friend of one
of our investigators.....Ya we are going to be praying for him a lot this week.
Other then those crazy
incidences this week has been a blast. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE my companion and the
people of Ambohiboa. The people are so incredibly kind and they have such a
special spirit about them.
Today we are not going to the
lemer farm since I guess some elders are going to the Croc farm NEXT week. So
that's what I will be doing next Monday...which means that I don't know when I
will have time to email but nevertheless it shall be done!
I love the Book of Mormon, and I love that the Church of Jesus Christ is again on the earth and that it has
been restored in all of its totality.
Sometimes when I am thinking of home, and the things that I
miss...I see the little children here and how they throw rocks at cans and are
laughing so intensely. People that truly have nothing are SO happy together. O
how my d
(loss of internet connection – results in hurried response to
Dad’s “What??”)
dang it. The connection went out so I had to go to a
different internet cafe. Sorry about that.
Maybe you could explain that the children and families are
so happy because they do things together. It's in the simple things that we can
be happy. Being here has opened my eyes to how important family truly is.
Whether it's in taking walks or playing a board game or eating together at the
table. Family and the gospel is what makes us happy.
Also could you give me a really simple pancake recipe? I
want to make pancakes :)
(He would have ended with at least “Love, Elder Lehr”)
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| Elder Rasolofonirina sent us this picture from the baptism they had on 2/8/2014 |
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