What the mahatrunky emails that
you guys sent! Haha I miss being with family So much :)
Yesterday we actually had the
beginning of a white christmas! We were coming home from church and we see this
huge gigantic wall of rain coming toward us from the mountains. It was almost
like "The Nothing" From the Neverending Story. It was SO COOL! As it
was coming we could hear the sound of the rain getting closer and closer until
all of a sudden we were getting pelted by hail and rain. YEP! We had little
ice cubes hitting the house and causing flooding. I am going to count that as my
white christmas here in madagascar :) Hehe
Elder Mack and I also ran into
a.....Little problem....on Wednesday. So here is my back story: Someone started to gossip about us as missionaries because he
got offended at us for kidding around. When we tried to apologize he wouldn't accept
it, and we heard from some people that the trust that missionaries had with
members was broken because of that one thing. So we became very.....how to say
that in english...Discouraged? (Kivy) and it was just a fun week because of
that....But here is the good part about everything... I talked to him again and
now he is ok with everything! So now we are just trying to restore our
relationship with members. Lesson learned. It's good to joke around, but you
have to be careful with what you say. And also Gossip is one of the worst
things I have ever seen in my life. Done.
We have also had a wonderful
time trying to get people to go to church, But it's kind of hard right now. We
are praying and really striving to help these people, but I also recognize that
there is only so far that you can go, and then they need to choose to go.
This week is going to be way
fun. We have an open house for the church this Thursday and Friday, and then we
have the zone conference on Saturday. SO we have a way fun week ahead of us. :)
So a little bit of the plague
that is going around madagascar right now. The missionaries here are supposed
to take DOXI for malaria and bubonic plague prevention. In fact the Missionary
Nurse is saying that we really need to not get lazy in taking it. SO! We have
been trying to follow the guidance of our leaders, and we know that if we will
obey then we will be blessed, and we don't have to worry about the plague or
malaria. So moms don't need to worry but the mission is taking good care of us
:)
OH! Here is a little vaovao!?
So we might be getting a new branch president right as soon as President Adams
gets here. :) So that is a little news.
And aminy farany dia farany, We
were at frere Etiens house and his little kids are SO CUTE! I almost died and
just went home right there. Dang those little mongrals make me want to have a
family SO BAD! Haha but it's ok :) We are still being blessed with the strength
to Mandà the Fakam-panahy (To reject the temptation) To take some of these kids
home with us :)
Well I love you all. I hope you
are having a merry old time preparing for the christmas season. I love this
mission. I love madagascar, and I love the people so much.
Love Elder Lehr
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