I have had some strange weeks here in Madagascar......But
this is definitely up there in the way of "What the garglemesh just happened
this week?"
The story begins on the 13th of January 2015. When we had
one of the best days in our entire program because we get to go to the promised
land of Besoa. What an absolutely amazing beautiful place. I love the people
there, and it was awesome because we got to teach a lot of people, and one of
our investigators was like "So I have been reading Jacob chapter 5 in the Book of Mormon. What does all of it mean? We just laughed and were like "I
barely understand this in English and now you want me to explain in Malagasy!?" Haha it was way funny, but this girl is one of our golden investigators
in Besoa. She will definitely be a needed strength here in Manandona. After all
of our lessons it was pretty dark, but because of the rain we found out that
the river was like flooding, and there are also no bridges to get across to the
other side. So Elder Christiansen and I get our pockets unpacked, and become
giddy with excitement as we realize that we are going to cross a river so that
we can get back to our car. It was NUTS! As we were wading through the river it
came up to our belt line, and we were just soaked. So we took some swag pics
and had a blast.
Tuesday January 13th part 2: After wading through the river
and getting into the car, we start going home. On our path home there are 2
checkpoints where there are 2 separate sets of cops. The 1st one is no problem,
and the 2nd one isn't either, but of all the days, this was the day that we get
pulled over and policeman Eli, started to interrogate us for our papers and
permits. After going through all the papers, he finally asked the dreaded
question. "Do you guys have
your Drivers Licenses?" Now we must understand that we have been trying to
get people to send up our permits (drivers licenses) for all the time that we have been here in Manandona, but no one has actually done so. We said that
we didn't have it today. So he tells us that The sister misisonaries were teaching him and
that because of that he would leave us with a warning, but if we didn't send
missionaries to his house then he would write us up and throw us in jail. WOW!
Wednesday (Happened to be Elder Lehr's birthday): Well.....We can't drive the car since our permits
are in Tana.....We shall go on an immediate split - the split with the
zone leaders! Yea! Yep, This day I had the awesome opportunity to go with Elder
Fox to the Dona, and we had a blast and some way good conversation, and then to
top everything off, we went to this vaza restaurant and I got these chicken
fajitas, with a brownie and it was SO GOOD! :) Then I talked to these people
from Finland, England and another France. IT was a lot of fun. :)
Thursday: We took bikes! It was way swag, we went out and
almost died a couple of times, but we had a couple of miracles. 1st miracle is
that we tried to stop by this less active who was not home and out of the blue
this guy ran up to us and was telling us to come to his house right then. So we
did, and they are the most balling family ever. They learned before in Ambositra from some elders, but then they moved to Tana and then moved here. SO
WE GET TO TEACH THEM! And they actually understand what is being taught to them
which is a great miracle.
The 2nd miracle of the day is that we went to a less active
that was never home and we were able to catch them and we have set up a program
with them. Thus so far we have seen the work of the Lord in preparing us to
meet these families. If we had not been stopped on Tuesday, then we never would
have rode our bikes to Vaninkarena and if we had never done that we never would
have received those miracles. Thus we saw the hand of the Lord in our
week....even though it was crazy.
Friday: Still rode out on our miracle bikes and found
another miracle family, then returned and got our permits, from Tana. Then we
went on splits with Ambohimena, and we got to teach this super Betsileo family
from Ambositra. That was way awesome cause I got to speak Betsileo with them
:)
Saturday, and Sunday: We had some good times, and I got to
attend a meeting with the branch presidents and the district
president.......And then some problems happened in Manandona. It
is so much fun dealing with Old church history type problems :)....... But the
work is going going going, and I love it here in Manandona. It's the BEST!
Love Elder Lehr
P.S. Oh! Btw on Saturday we got hit with my first Cyclone. It was
AWESOME! All night I felt like the house was going to be destroyed, but the Lord was looking out for us.....and frankly I was so tired that I was like
"CYCLONE! Well thats cool....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
SO TIRED! But everything is ok. Haha President Adams was in Mahajanga and we
gave him a call about something and he was telling us that they were in the
2nd story of this hotel. Super high up, but the water was so high that they
were still getting buckets to try and get water out.
That makes me so grateful to be in Antsirabe :) haha But now
our lake dona is now covering all the rice patties....everywhere....it's SO
COOL! :)
Well keep strong and don't die guys
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