Another day, another week, another time to serve the Lord. - 10/27/14

Another day, another week, another time to serve the Lord.

This Week was full of adventure. I Also got a miracle call from the Assistants telling me that this person that I had met in Tana was Coming to Fianarantsoa and he is going to bring a bunch of people to church. His name is Norbert. He lives in Ambohiboa and is a stud. He has already brought about 60 people into the church by himself. I love the guy.

So on Sunday we went to meet him and once I saw him he just came over and gave the biggest hug to me. What a cool guy! He totally remembered me from being in Ivato, and we had a great reunion. So we then went to church and I had the great opportunity to play piano. And to add more to that, both branch presidents told everyone "Every Saturday the Elder is teaching piano. So if you want to learn go to the class." What the garglemesh!!!!? Well, that's how life goes :)

After church Norbert and his family basically kidnapped Elder Connult and Elder Coleman to go to a Vody Ondry (The Malagasy way of getting married). And then they called us and wanted us to come. So we did! It was a super fun experience and we got to do a lot of missionary work there. After that we visited a recent convert whose husband had died. It was a really cool experience as we went with people from both branches and sang songs to help them and to pray for them. Death, birth, marriage. These things are SO IMPORTANT to these people. It is a very very sacred time for them, and the fact that you go to that shows in more ways than one that you care for them.

The work is going good here in Fianarantsoa....Haha at least there is so much work to do that we are always busy :) I love being with Elder Mack. It's been fun to be with him and preach the gospel.

Well sorry this is such a short email, but the power went out today so we don't really have a lot of time to email. Love you all and I hope you have a great day.

Elder Lehr

(Funny thing about Elder Lehr and the piano is that he didn't have a desire to take lessons when he was younger. So he didn't. But after being in Mr. Blackburn's choir class in junior high and learning to read music, he really wanted to play. So he taught himself to play the piano. He does a pretty good job of it, too. He also desired to play the organ. With the help of his dear friend, Brian Plummer, he can even do that pretty well Now his musical talents are being used to serve and benefit others. So awesome!)