Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Meo Koza aho Koalahy! - 8/17/15



I love teny manakara! It sounds so dope! Just those southern dialects baby!
Roger, our wonderful man that Elder Obioma taught in Ampifiloha is getting baptized!! He is a stud. Been waiting forever but NOW IT'S HERE!! :)
Paul and Susan and their family are doing really well. It's just trying to have them get their answer to prayer. So critical. It will come though.
Holy Benwa and his family are DOPE! After teaching them, and them asking if they can come to church on Sunday, they taught me some teny manakara which is SO AWESOME! Literally sounds like garglemesh when they speak....but hey! I feel that is how my English sounds anyway so it shouldn't be too hard now!
Also we did some way awesome Fifanakalozanas this week which was super fun and we got permission from the APs to do it with Ambohimanarina this Wednesday! WHAT!!? SO SWAG! I am super stoked.
I have always been tired on the mission...but I never realized how your body just...shuts down near the end of it.....just almost nothing left.....But that is life!
I have loved Mahamasina SO MUCH! I literally feel like I have had my own "A Christmas Carol" and have been visited by the ghost of Christmas past, present and future. And in all honesty, like Scrooge, and I can say that "I am not like the man I was." I am not the same as I was in the beginning of my mission, nor when I was in Fianarantsoa, nor in Manandona, but literally here in Mahamasina I feel like I have become a new creature. A new man, and have received a second chance. To give all and more. Even though there are failures that have happened in my mission, even though I have done things that I am not proud of....I can look at anyone in the eye, and with complete confidence say that "I have changed. I am new, and I will continue to change." And according to what President Adams had taught..."If you are more converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ by the end of your mission, then you are a successful missionary. Even if you did not baptize a single person." I honestly believe that is true. With all my heart. The mission has changed me, and I am so thankful for it.
I love you all and hope you have a great week.
am-pitiavana
Elder Lehr

P.S.
They came out with the 1st bowling alley in Madagascar 2weeks ago.....Special P-day activity???? YESS!!!!

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