IT'S ELDER MILLER'S BIRTHDAY TODAY! YEA! We have some really
cool plans for my companion today. We are planning on making homemade burgers,
and getting some hair cuts, making chocolate donuts and a bunch of other
shimididigs.
Sadly on Tuesday and Wednesday Elder Miller was pretty sick.
So we stayed in and I read A LOT of D & C. It was a really fun time to do that,
and to take a well needed nap.
We have these 2 investigators that come to church every week
but they can't read or write and can't understand the Merina accents. So the ward
and us have made a plan where we teach them after sacrament and someone from
the ward repeats what we say in Betsileo so that they can understand. They
should be getting baptized on the 27th of September!
So for some reason our times
have just been bouncing on us, but we have had some small miracles that let us
know that God cares about us. Yesterday it was raining a bit and both Elder Miller and I love the rain. As we went to church we were hoping that a specific
investigator would come to church. We met him on Friday as we
were talking about where we should tract and suddenly he just came up to us and
showed us where he lived. He is kind of older, and is not married and lives with
his mother. His room/house is absolutely disgusting. If you have seen movies
where the person enters a room, and there is just a steel bedframe, and flies
buzzing around and it looks like there is a disease/ pestilence inside the
room....well they probably filmed it here. He had learned from the
missionaries before but because he was sick all the time, he was not able
to go to church. So the missionaries dropped him. As we talked with him I had
the clearest thought of him going to the temple, and of him truly "Being
apart" of a priesthood quorum. I felt such a strong desire to help this
guy, and had the thought that if we helped him clean his room, that 1) his
mom and sister wouldn't be mad at him anymore and 2) It would help him to not be
sick as much and he would be able to go to church, and 3) We haven't done a
service project in awhile. So we talked to him about us coming on Thursday and
helping him do that. And he came to church on Sunday! Yea!
Sorry this is kind of random in
writing, but I have been very grateful for these small miracles that we have
had. It is so easy to look them over, BUT! When you see them for what they
are... They make all the difference in what you do, and what you want to
become.
Elder Lehr
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