Farming fact number 4 - 3/9/15

Trying to keep the cabbages from falling off

Elder Christiansen and Elder Lehr

Elder Lehr with his Malagasy friend

Elder Lehr and Elder Galbreath

SO! When you harvest your rice, and.......Mikapka vary....Hit the rice?....and then you dry the rice, and put it in your 250 Kilo bags...It is a very good idea to hire help because you could spend up to 20,000 ariary for all the help and what not, and then sell the stems of the rice for 30,000. SO You get a 10,000 ariary profit! WHAO! Ny fambolaina is SO SWAG!

This week has been pretty crazy! We had some meetings with the district and the other branch presidents about using agendas, talked about branch council, had dinner with our district president and his AMAZING WIFE (Literally the malagasy version of my dear Aunt Kathy) and then we had more meetings and interviews, and then went to work :)

Excitingly, due to the branch presidency change, our sunday school president is now on fire wanting to fulfill his calling. It is incredible to see someone that in one sense wanted to start another church, and now just wants to have this branch rolling! Some amazing things are happening in Fort Dona right now :)

This Week we also had the APS with us, and that was super fun. Me and elder Payne went out to Ibity and talked with a Dadabe about getting his sewing machine that he had that the church let him use. And the church needed it for a different thing. HOLY COW! I have never seen a more peeved dadabe in my life. He literally told us to come back tomorrow with the police and take it with his dying fingers still around the sewing machine. Elder Payne was getting pretty frustrated with the guy. Haha he even told him that "We are men of maturity and we don't need to act like this" And the dadabe responded "I am not mature and I will never be mature as long as you are trying to take this sewing machine away from me." Then he started to spew out apostasy like it was yesterdays breakfast. I love FORT DONA! Haha get to deal with ALL Types of people here :)

On Saturday we went to a tree planting activity for the district and it was super cool! I got to use all my cool farming skills that I have acquired and it's been a blast :)

Well thanks everyone for all of your prayers :) I am very grateful for that.

Love Elder Lehr