Farming fact number 10: I cant believe that it has already
been 10 weeks since this insatiable desire to raise chickens and farm has taken
a hold of my very being, and has coursed through my blood purging all other
desires in life. WELL! On to the farming fact! So it is SO Important to know
the economics of farming. I believe I have already discussed this in previous
farming facts, but I want to reemphasize (I have totally forgotten how to spell
this word. Heck I almost forgot what an ambush was!) it. SO! During the times
of October is the best time to get....What are those in English....DUCKS!
Because it is right before the rainy season, and it just works out. Also you
have to be careful and vaccinate all of your farm animals when doing this,
because some sickness and plagues are more common in certain months of the
year.
The week: Usually when we report statistics to the
Zone leaders we have things like number of baptisms and lessons and families we
are teaching....BUT This week we wanted to do something a little different
since we usually end up having to do other things. So we sent in the number of
hernia checks that happened this week: 4 number of facebooks made for
investigators: 1 number of times cried in sacrament meeting: 5 number of
requests for welfare to fix bikes: 5 and 1 partridge in a pear tree.
We really had a crazy week and it was awesome to have a lot
of member help when we were doing so much;..ness... But we are having a baptism
THIS FRIDAY!!! WHOA!!! Yep our dear bebe nety is getting baptized on Friday
because we are having general conference on Saturday and Sunday. SO THAT WILL
BE AWESOME! In accordance with everything that has been going on, I was able to
go on a split with the couple missionaries which was super fun! We got up way
early to go to the dona, I went back with my son Elder Mack, and then they
dropped me off at the Tolmans. We then had a wonderful language study and it
was fun teaching them Malagasy. Afterwards we went over to get keyboards from
the church and started to do piano lessons for Manandona and then
Andranamanelotra. SUPER FUN TIME! Sady! We gave a blessing to one of our
investigator's kids because she is kind of sick right now. Fun experience.
OH yea! So I mentioned one of our members I think in the last
email or the one before that, but he is SO FUNNY! We got an order from both the
mission president and the district president to get him married as fast as
possible, SO we get to be MATCH MAKERS! :) From what he says he should be
married by next month. :) With a person who has as much faith as he does...I
have no doubt in my mind that it will happen :)
Fort Dona is such a special place. It is a place of miracles and hardships, and chickens, pigs cows, ducks, mixed duck chicken things, and hope. Its been such a blessing to be in a wonderful area with an awesome companion. I love this work and I love being able to see the atonement not only take hold of an individual, but a hold of a group of saints. It's the best :)
am-Pitiavana
Elder Lehr
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