Farming fact number 6! - 3/23/15

Note: Elder Wiscombe (a member of our previous ward) arrived in Madagascar on Wednesday with one other missionary. It just so happens that he has been assigned to Fianarantsoa where Elder Lehr served for 7 months. The missionaries stop in Antsirabe on their way to Fianarantsoa and stay overnight. Elder Wiscombe and Elder Covey got to stay at Elder Lehr’s apartment.  So awesome for them to get to see each other so soon. A couple pics are attached as well as some of the baptism.

Elder Wiscombe, Elder Christiansen, Elder Covey and Elder Lehr

Elder Wiscombe and Elder Lehr (so good to see a friend from home)

Baptism in Manandona

So good for Elder Lehr to see Elder Mack again

In madagascar, matetka (Often) when you have a cow that has given birth, it can get about 3 liters of milk a day :) 

So this week was SUPER BUSY! I am SO Tired haha We have just been goin going going! Its been way awesome since my companion is going to be going home at the fara-parany april and is still working his socks off. Elder Christiansen is a great companion and a super great example to me. I am grateful to have been able to be with him for so long already :)

So, our branch has been getting better little by little. And we had a baptism on saturday! Nirina is a way cool investigator and even though not alot of people came she was still way cool about it.

We had a soire de quartie (family home evening) with an inactive family, and we had the entire branch council there. It worked out really well and i feel like this family is going to come back. They would be a huge support since their family makes up about 90 percent of the primary. They have SO MANY KIDS!

I did have the chance to go on a split with elder Morse in Ambohimena and it was so fun! We had Tahiry and Sitraka come with us as member help and they are way cool members. They are both getting ready to go on missions by june and are a huge help to the antsirabe branches.

One way cool experience this week for me was when we went to an inactive family who is related to our DMB. (Our new branch mission leader) And she was just talking about how she was kind of discouraged because of all the stuff that she had heard about with the branch and all the gossip about it, and we just sat in silence as Max (the DMB) testified with all his heart that this church was true and basically gave a first lesson right there.It was such a powerful experience to hear him testify that there was an apostasy and that God restored the Church of Jesus Christ again on the earth through the Prophet Joseph Smith. It was SO COOL! We have some of the Coolest members here in Fort D, but we also just have some small obstacles to overcome :)

Well, i need to head off now, but thank you all for your prayers and for actually being interested in how the work goes on here in madagascar. It is the best place in the world.

Am-Pitiavana 

Elder Lehr