Elder Schyler Shoemaker: Week 101 - Hafaliana Foana Tsiky Lava

Akory aby!! Tonga soa aty ambanivohitra. Nandeha tany Antsirabe izahay ary mangatsiaka be mihitsy any fa tsara ihany. I hope you all had a great week. This week was great! We went to Antsirabe will President and Sister Duckworth and that was cool. The best part of the week though was definitely getting all the baptismal interviews done! Everyone is locked in and ready. We will have 6 baptized this Saturday. I'm so pumped! Nirina still has some things to take care of but he will be baptized in a couple weeks! I cannot imagine a better way to spend my last Saturday as a missionary than seeing these great people baptized. I'm so excited. This week was lots of thinking and just sitting back and wondering how I'm so blessed to be here and have the opportunity to be a missionary. I have LDS youth album songs on my phone and listen to them in the mornings sometimes and this song came on this week and it was just perfect for all the things I've been feeling lately. Part of it is this:

From all the things I’ve seen

I couldn’t even guess

Why others are in need

and I’m so blessed.

When hearts are crying out

I want them to believe

That life can be a beautiful thing

This light that I feel has opened my eyes

Now I wanna give

All my life

All I am

And everything I have

I’ll give away

All the truth

I’ve received

Wasn’t just for me

So I’ll give away everything

I love the words of this song. We are promised blessings as we live the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I know that the blessings we are given are not necessarily for just us to enjoy but we need to share them with everyone we can and use them to bless the lives of others. I cannot bear a stronger testimony of the truthfulness of this gospel and the happiness it brings. I hope you all have a great week!! Mazotoa!