Ahoana zalahy?! Inona vaovao? Man I don't even know where to start about this week! It was a great week. We had lots of awesome experiences and found tons of prepared people just waiting for the truth to come knocking at their door. It was great. We have a very full program and are teaching just awesome families and people. There's nothing better than being a missionary! Rodeo and Paula and her family are doing great. They all have baptismal dates for the 12th of May but we are gonna see what happens. They will for sure be baptized but they are deciding if it is right for them to do it right now or if they should learn more. Which is great! It is awesome that they understand the importance of baptism and they are taking it very seriously. We invited Paula and her kids to pray and ask Heavenly Father to know if they should be baptized on the 12th. I loved her response. She said "Whenever I ask him about stuff like that its always a yes!" Haha I just laughed and said yep there's a reason. They are awesome! This week we had a cool moment with Amboara, who is the 20 year old son of Saholy. They are a great family, we have been teaching for awhile! Anyway we went to visit them and Saholy and her daughters weren't home yet so it was just us and Amboara. He opened up to us a lot and said he doesn't know for sure if there really is a God. He said sometimes he feels there is and sometimes he feels there isn't. We talked a lot with him and bore testimony that we knew there was a God and He is our Heavenly Father. In Preach My Gospel, the first paragraph says this, "God is our loving Heavenly Father. We are His children. He has a body of flesh and bone that is glorified and perfected. He loves us. He weeps with us when we suffer and rejoices when we do what is right. He wants to communicate with us, and we can communicate with Him through sincere prayer." Man, I wish the whole world could have a testimony of that simple paragraph of truth. Just imagine if everyone truly believed and knew that God, their Heavenly Father, wants to speak to them and He wants to help them. I always tell people at the end of lessons, "We are not trying to convince you and we are definitely not trying to force you to believe this and join this church. We are trying to explain to you the truths that we have come to know and we hope that you will trust your Heavenly Father enough to ask Him. God doesn't lie and He doesn't deceive so you can trust any direction or guidance that comes from Him. He loves you and wants to help you. Please ask Him if what we have shared with you is true." I am so grateful for that knowledge. I hope we all can know that God is wanting to direct us but he wants to hear it from us first. If you have any questions or confusions please ask God. If you ask the Mormons if Joseph Smith is a prophet of God they obviously will say yes. If you ask anyone else if Joseph Smith is a prophet of God than they will probably say no. But please just ask God. He's the one you should trust. And you can ask Him about anything. I hope you all have a great week!! Mazotoa!!
A pic of our group at lunch one day.
A pic of some Malagasy houses.
A snack we get sometimes called brochetes. Just like meat shishkabab things.
Some kids and views of our area with rice patties.
And some little girls talking to us out of their window while we were tracting.
And a pic of Bruno who is a member we visited this week. He's a stud.
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Mother and son who we bought our vegetables from this week.
Some more views of rice patties in our area and people working in rice fields.
Another basic Malagasy missionary pic with a lemur ha.
Elder Smith and I in front of our Malagasy "great clips" haha.
