tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39507550448917638832024-03-07T19:53:37.292-08:00AntananarIAN McCrary, Missonary/BoyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11178462215332762061noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3950755044891763883.post-741907891360206702016-10-26T19:09:00.000-07:002016-10-26T19:09:32.314-07:00Finale: Take Care Of Yourself<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Thank you so much to everyone who wrote me this week. Im not going to respond well right now to you all because id rather do it in person in a little bit.</span><br />
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Thank you so much to my parents, who sent on this mission have done eveything for me my whole life and are my role models in everything I do.</div>
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Thank you so much to my Grandmother who never failed to write me or take time to involve herself in my life, and to all my extended family who supported and prayed for me as well.</div>
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Thank you so much to my great friends, especially Jeff, Jeremiah, and Reed who have unfailing been everything a friend should be and more no matter how physically distant we've become.</div>
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Thank you so much to Elders Cyusa, Heiden, Horspool, Ahlstrom, Garcia, Te'e, Johnson, Liao, Wilmot, Band, Walker, and Reynolds, each and every one of my perfect companions who each became a bizarre replacement of friends, family, and girlfriends, a man-wife who literally never left my side (they werent allowed). Im severely indebted to all of you for your care and for whatever personal development Ive had over the past two years.</div>
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In addition to that, every great missionary Ive ever lived with, perhaps too long of list to write. Each of you were a brother to me.</div>
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Thank you so much to Presidents and Sisters Foote and Adams, who were my parents. I can distinctly remember meeting each of you and feeling impressed that I was standing in the presence of someone who was truly great, like shaking hands with Lincoln or Einstein. </div>
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Thank you so much to God and Jesus Christ for literally every thing.</div>
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Ive never been good at bearing my testimony or talking about spiritual things when writing you guys, but I think I must get over that now. Henry B Eyering taught me i should fear God more than i fear being trite. I want everyone who reads this to know that I know its all true. God. Jesus Christ. His Atonement. Joseph Smith, and all the prophets after him all the way down to Thomas S Monson. Ive felt it, seen it, said it far too many times to count. I know it more than I know anything else. I want it to infect and permeate through every part of my life until God stops me from being me and makes me into something better. Im still working on it. But i know fully that it can happen and will happen, through Jesus Christ and His church. It can happen for you. Im sure it already is happening for you. YOu already know it, probably better than I. But Id like to remind you. </div>
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I love you all so very much. I thank God for you every day.</div>
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And I thank you for reading.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11178462215332762061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3950755044891763883.post-74302329812829700832016-10-14T10:32:00.002-07:002016-10-14T10:32:32.081-07:00On A Siggler From The Conductor<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Seriously it must be an in joke in the first presidency to never say signal right. </span><br />
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Uhhhhhh I have very little to say sorry. Im loving and a ppreciating my mission more every day. Im both sad and ready to go home. I loved General Conference, even though it was less bombastic than last time. It taught me a lot. It made repent. Therefore, its of infinite value to me.</div>
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"Milk Sheck" and "T Shirtererie" are among my favorite french/english abominations seen in madagascar.</div>
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Modia Vadiko Fa Izaho Ngoma is hilarious because it translates to "get back home spouse, for i am horny". great picture with it.</div>
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The aforementioned Tony and Gina, investigators extraordinaire. This is the couple that had a dream and has never stopped coming to church since.</div>
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And this is Clovis Sely, Claudia, Dolin, Jacqueline, and Haritina, from last week. They came to conference and i love them with my whole heart. They eat every lesson up and talking to them casually or about the gospel is among the purest joys ive experienced.</div>
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to wrap it up with the video</div>
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Elder Soper is an exceptional song writer, able to create tunes on the spot. Pretty impressive. He created a theme song for another missionary in our district, named, no joke, Jean Paul Javier Parraga. We performed it impromptu at District Meeting.</div>
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See you next week! For the last time...</div>
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A personal favorite right now is Clovis Sely and Jacqueline, not pictured above. We were tracting one day, starting talking with this friendly woman, and we hit off great casue shes from tulear and yall remember how i was there and whatnot. We had a great chat with her and her fam, i could see her husband and i thought we were in for a baller first lesson for sure. But then she revealed to me that the man was not actually her husband, he had just left for tulear the day before to attend a relatives funeral. (read: no man in the house read: THWARTED) i was very dissapointed and gave em the usual spiel about where church and "come on over if theres time on sunday". Surprisingly enough, their two daughters came and so we invited them to start attending our bap class, a place for all of our young men and women to learn the gospel on fridays who dont have grown men with them. They turned out to be super dilligent, until one week they didnt come and so we stopped by their house to find, lo and behold, they hadnt attended because they were out buying medecine for their dad for their dad who had just come back from tulear! he was, of course, very sick, as all thing that have just lived in tulear are. What proceeded after that was probably the single best 1st lesson ive ever had with their dad and mom and all them together. Clovis Sely straight up said stuff like ''Oh i get it, joseph smith continued the work of the apostles. But what about the time in between Jospeh Smith and the apostles? Oh no one had the authority. I gues that means all the other churhces are false. Wow i have like a big responsibility in the Catholic church, but i can see that church isnt true. I really need to switch over to this one.'' I cant really express how great it was.</div>
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Elder Walker officially shipped out this week for Fort Dauphin and i now eagerly await his replacement, the New Zealandish Elder Reynolds. Me liking Flight of the Conchords should be the only thing required to make this companionship work, right? I once said of this man "weve both been on our missions for more than a year and i just barely found out he existed" -ive never been credited as observant.<br /></div>
Im staying in Andranomadio in Tamatave btw for the 0 people who both care and are geography prodigies<br /></div>
Im heading into my final vestigial transfer i just kinda tacked on at the end because im afraid of going home, and i cant even express how bizarre its been seeing my mtc group going home. Heiden has already gone full portland on me, im talking a steady stream of photos of flannels and beards and old cars, and Cyusa is heading out tommorow. By the time you read all this, there will be offical no one in the madagascar mission that was here when i arrived, even all the office couples have shipped out. Im a coelacanth, a streched metaphor i brought up to mention that the fished a real coelacanth out of the toamasina coast recently. Cool!<br /></div>
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Morarano companionship of Lingani and Keyes, our resident South Africans. Keyes Is leaving tommorow to go open up and area in the city of Ansirabe with my son, Elder Wilmot. fun fact, my mission looks like the timeline of groundhog day. I went to ambohipo twice, i was with garcia twice, and now ive lived in a four man house with 3 white guys and one black guy, two being from South Africa, one being American, and one being from an island best described as "near Australia" twice. (Wilmot, Iata, and Deklerk was the first house, for those curious i.e. no one)<br /><br /></div>
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Sahidy and Perline and their family. Theyre among my favorite investigators of all time, and consitently hilarious and overwhelming. Perlines talks at all times with the urgency of a blaring submarine alarm in the thickest of Betsimitsaraka accents all the while being busy busy busy. you cannot stop her from doing stuff and shes constantly feeding you as you try to teacher her around all the flying strawberry juice, herbal tea, cooking bread fruit and fried bananas. All the while Sahidy is pontificating in his raspy halting manner as they talk over each other, all in pretty thick northern accent. Theyre pretty sahirana (struggling? busy?) right now going back and forth to the countryside to bild a new tomb for their ancestors and moving the bones and doing a the required parties and whatnot that malagast tradition dictates, as well as trying to quit coffee and alcohol, so their progress is a little slow at the moment. A favorite moment is when Perline described the health effects of cigarettes as making a spider in your insides, every time she calls us "prophet boys", and when she profusly refused for not having and food ready because she was just busy dealing with setting up her grandmass funereal, a recent robbery of her house, fixing their phone, etc., and then conjured a pot our of nowhere of cooked akondro lahy (man-bananas) andwouldnt lest us leave until we ate all of them. </div>
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Walker and i bonded over being ridiculously anaylitical. We had a lot of stupid arguments as to whether or not its possible for the universe to have a limit or whether or not its possible for your eyes to perceive 3D images. This is graph we spontaneously drew on our fridge while trying to determine the ideal amount of lessons to hit in a week, factoring in the progress of your investigators, the quality of your lessons, and your personal enjoyment. 45 to 55 was the hypothesized magic range. We experimented and determined it was correct.<br /><br /> </div>
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So Walkers departure and Reynolds arrival are separated by an unfornate gap, so ive been working with members ofr the past three days, the aforemention Be Fabio (Big Fabio) and yes thats his real name. His twin, who is even shorter, buffer, and is just as negative and reserved as Fabio is smily and hyperactive, is named Be Mario. Fabio is very good at english but sometimes he throws out a hilarious "dont camera me" or "they had a big tree christmas"<br /><br /></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and long time no write! so first things first, i should probably tell you my </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">t</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">r</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">a</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">n</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">s</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">f</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">e</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">r </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">n</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">e</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">w</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. I just finished training Elder Wilmot in Ambohipo 2, now theyre closing down ambohipo back to one area and shipping elder Wilmot, Elder Iata, and Elder ME out. Wilmots off to a city called antsirabe, Iata is staying in tana and going to go be companions with his cousin(!) and im shippinf out to and area called Ambolomadinika ("little hills" which is also gonna be the name of my first psychedelic noise pop album) in a coastal city called Tamatave (in the french) or Toamasina (in teny gasy). Im beyond excited, and ill be living with my old friend Elder Johnson again! its funny because we only worked together one transsfer, but im gonna end up living with him longer than anyone else. So im gonna be packing my bags, learning teny betsimitsaraka, and taking plenty of anoying pics of the beach and the jungle! my new companons name is Elder Band, but i havent met the guy yet. pics next week!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...of elder band, but plenty of pics of ME this week. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So one of the weird events of this week is that my old companion, Elder Garcia, went home (or "died" in the extremely narrow missionary vernacular) but i was lucky enough to get to see him on the way out, and the APs even let him have a long talk with me right before he went home. We had a great discussion about life and the mission and whatnot. Garcia has big plans when he gets home to grind out a bunch of work hours in a lumber mill and then go to BYU, get married and start haing kids very quickly. >He wants to be and english teacher and basketbal coach, as well as have 5 kids. "why 5?" "i grew up in a house with four kids, and i always felt like its just barely wasnt enough" we also talked about the insanity of Kareem Abdul Jabbar holding the all time NBA scoring record despite never shooting threes (garcia is good enough at english to make basketball interesting to me)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the cousins, the Venuatu Two, Iata and Tavo. Tavo had the same trainer as me, and Iata and i have gone on so many splits together we consider each as as having already been companions (wrote his name in my Preach My Gospel and everything) Ive learned enough of their national language, Bislama (a kind of pidgin english) to insult them and have simple discussions with them, though they prefer talking to each other in their island language of nadoar. Fun fact, their island is called Tana, which is also the nickname of the capital of Mada. ask Tavo to tell you the story abut when he was harpoon fishing and got dragg away by a shark and got his coral scars, and ask Iata about how he t-boned his horse into another during a race and got his back scars. Ive been promised a tract of land, free housing, free food, a horse and a girl when i come to visit Venuatu.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i also got a malabary made ofr myself, or traditinal malgasy mens formal wear. this is what male farmers (ie 95% of the countries men) men wear when they arent working. also tryin to collect the different tribal hats. this one is Betsileo</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Razazarohavana (im pretty sure i slaughtered the spelling of this) my old betongolo housemate, former missionary and current bum. i saw him while on a split with Elder (T)Ahlstrom in Ambohimanariona, a branch which prays at a glamour church the church built right next to the US embassy. "you the guys with that nice church by the american embassy?" is a common question.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Delphin and his family, one of the awesome mebers of Ambohipo! Delphin (the young guy) was baptized by himself and helps us all the time, and were teaching his family now. His house is notable for being built on a cliff fce, with the ladder that leads up to his families room a few inches from the edge. freaks me the right out every time. they make fun of the trepidation i take on that latter, while three year olds rocket down it like its nothing </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the missionary wall, its has all the pictures of the current missionaries. It was weird seeing garcias picture move over to the other side. all my friends are dying! im gonna watch ahlstrom and johnson die, then liao cyusa and heiden not long after that. Horspool and Te'e are already long gon, and im starting to get pretty close to the top</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the kids of Zakary and Felana, absolutely angelic investigators that Elder De Klerk and Iata Baptized. the kids are Elisa, Emmanuella, and Iando.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Elisa</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">caught a pic of this guy who got super angry at me because i walked near his shoes </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it was so nice to skype some of yall on moms day! kids, tell your mom you love her (I love you Mom)</span></div>
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part of learning malagasy is learning the indechipherable way malagasies write numbers<br />
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no joke i cut the palm of my hand on a nail and the crown of my head on thorns within an hour of each other. it taking all of my self restraint to not (sacriligeously) comment further on this<br />
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a must have for every missionary with an adequate understanding of malagasy, the malagasy dictionary (the kind the defines malagasy words in malagasy, a malagasy dictionary by malagasies, for malagasies. malagasy)</div>
i thought it was way cool but a picture of a boook is pretty boring but thankfully i quickly found a page with an entry describing the word for a person with no fingers. the dictionary is ripe with quality information like this, and entries such as "white people rice: a kind of grain grown by white people in cold places like europe. its ground and baked to make baguettes." (this is the entry for wheat, if you cant tell) Trying to explain this dictionary to malagasies is insane cause they cant understand the value of describing gasy in teny gasy and they usually think its in french and for vazahas to learn malagasy. so many more white people own this then real malagasies....</div>
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took a selfie with Mamy (means "sweet") a delighful member of ambohipo while waiting for a haircut from his relative, Hanta. They are both of the Bara tribe, who are traditionally cattle rustlers and have a large presence in toliara. Mamy is frm toliara and so naturally i love speaking to him. He has one arm. (NOTE: neither mamy nor hanta are cattle rustlers, but are in fact well to do hair dressers<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">assortted shots of many amazing church members and investigators. Rinah, the girl in pic 2280 was tracted into by me and te'e and taught for a while 7 months ago before i left for toliara. Now shes a fully baptized member, has read the whole book of mormon, is doing her family history and preparing to go to the temple. Shes amazing. and who was that stellar missionary that found her again...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2298 is Christian and Frederic, who you may remeber all the way back from Betongolo days. i call them lionel ritchie and michael jackson, which is exactly hitting the nail on the head, but they think its funny</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in other news, today is the year and six month and one day mark of my mission, making me a dead sister missionary. Extremely weird to think that if president finds out abot my extra x chromosome ill have to get sent home, and even weirder to be treated as "that old guy" by my fellow missionaries, who are largely 18 and 19. im proud also to be the weird guy at the ambohipo house, because im known now for loudly having malagasy conversations in my sleep, one of which was interuppted by a fart and chuckle (i was conscious for none of this). I dont know how to say this in a non braggy way, but im just extremely happy with the fluency level ive reached in malagasy and the people are constantly complimenting e on it and it just makes me feel all good and inflated ego-y. im currently learning Atondroy, Antaimoro, and Antainosy dialects, and i watched a movie in tandroy at our ward mission leaders house in tandroy the other day and understood all of it! feeling super accomplished. also im way more proud than i should be of sleep malagasy talking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love you all! have great week! please keep in your prayers the wounded missionaries and all those wounded and killed in the belgium bombings recently</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11178462215332762061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3950755044891763883.post-59681086131383176812016-03-27T20:51:00.001-07:002016-03-27T20:51:54.778-07:00malagasy has two different passive verb forms "to offer" (as well as different active, circumstantial and command verb forms)<div dir="ltr">
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so not a ton new since i last wrote, its still ambohipo, im still training elder Wilmot. its been slightly hard, cause i think its been a bit of a tough transistion from south africa to madagascar for elder wilmot. he got to experience his first major rainstorm/flood on saturday that pretty much obliterated our whole program and shoes and his flashlight (or "torch") so he seemed slightly down about that. with the exceptions of rainstorms though, we had some amazing blessing/luck according to your persuasion throughout this week.<br /></div>
for example, we had two amazig street contacts that were completly unexpected this week, once while we were walking a man working a taxi phone stand (he sits at a little booth and you pay a little money to use his cell phoe, he also sells cell phone minutes) waved us down and flashed a filthly looking book of mormon at us. hes like "my friend left this here. this is you guys bible, right?" were teaching him next sunday so im excited to see how it turns out. then also, as we were leaving the church, these two guys just stop right in front of us and really awkwardly smiled hugely and slowly put out their hands for a shake. the mans name is edvand, the sons name edmond, and edvand really wants his son to learn english with us as well learn how to be a missionary. (edmonds down with it too); we told him we can totally make his son a missionary but it might take a year and a couple of gallons of water first. appointment on tuesday. edmonds already called us twice to remind us. also, i called out their accents, guess where their from? toliara, of course. so we hada great time mivolabola-ing in teny vezo. being good at toliara dialect has seriously ratcheted up my contacting success, it seem half the population in ambohipo is from there and it makes us instant friends.<br /></div>
other than that, we als o got a new investigator this week, a guy who learns at the english cklass every week and is now also interested in the gospel. we had a chat about his life and he has some pretty typical malagasy college age guy problems; he left his home and family in finarantsoa to learn at the college in tana, but now hes out of money and food so he cant go to school anymore and hes looking for work. he had a job before, making clothes. they worked him from the early morning until a short lunch break, then until 3 or 4 in the morning, at which point he was allowed 1 or 2 hoours of sleep before work started again. he made 20000Ar a week there, or about 6.67 US dollars. basically a sweatshop. yeesh. i told him he was right to look for different work (does this count as counciling people?). we're working on getting him some proper clothes os he wont be too embarrassed to attend church.<br /></div>
i got to pull a slick move this week, we visited out investigator, Omea, but the man at their house bailed at the lesson and we needed a man present to teacher her, so i contacted her neighbor, Mika, a young guy i had chatted up the day before on the street and convinced him to sit in with us as a service to his neighbor and to som poor travelling preachers. so of course he agreed and we got a new investigator out of it. later on we went to teach a recent convert, Iando, but her man friend had also bailed that day so i just went right back to the investigators house we just taught (Gina, Sage, Vero, and Manda, who all also happened to be from, you guessed it, toliara) and asked manda if he wanted to know what its like like to be preacher of god. so he went with us and taught Iando. it would have been a much more graceful victory if i hadnt done so much fist pumping. (Iando also speaks teny vezo so im a pretty popular guy right now)<br /></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />i had a great idea during branch presidency meeting to form a new class during the third hour of sunday for all the youth who arent baptized but over 8 which not only gets us out of having to sit through elders quorum but is finally gonna get like 5 to 7 10 to 15 year olds baptized. and we can grab people from the ward to teach so they can help us to communicate with extremely thick extremely unable to understand vazaha speech kids. plus we dont have to waste proselyting time anymore going to visit them during the week! yay effiency. i named it the baptism prep class</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">the ward and missionaries havent got around to baptizing them for a variety of reasons: the parents went less active while they were 8, or they were living in the country, or their the only member of their family who prays at the church, etc etc<br />ones been praying since 2012<br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">one of my favorite investigators aunt died so we went to her funeral. they keep the body in the house for 3 days the vezos here "not for 3 months like those tandroys". the whole family comes out to see the body get taken to the ancestral home and placed in the family tomb. resting in the family tomb is a huuuuge deal in madagascar, and you really should live in the same neighborhood as your dad, grandad, and rest of your extended family. theres a proverbs here: one house while alive, one tomb when dead. its good cause you dont have to teach them about the importance of families or their eternalness<br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">we have dinners with the members alot here, but not as much as they want. members in madagascar are desperate to feed the missionaries, they fight about it. but we legitly have no time in our program to eat with them, too many lessons. a common convo: "hey sr noro wants a soiree, can you guys go?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">anyways when you do go they throw a TON of food at, insane amounts. and its rude if you dont almost all of it, but your not alllowed to exactly all of it. just a tiny bit left. also it rude if you thank them for it. its a hard situation to navigate.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GKvfFa6eWco/VspOi9qxHQI/AAAAAAAAIRM/j5KzVb9_5ZU/s1600/SAM_1805.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GKvfFa6eWco/VspOi9qxHQI/AAAAAAAAIRM/j5KzVb9_5ZU/s400/SAM_1805.JPG" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">but seriously look at all this rice<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qr38bGTQK5k/VspOn_lz4_I/AAAAAAAAIRU/msLRBf0PXKk/s1600/SAM_1806.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qr38bGTQK5k/VspOn_lz4_I/AAAAAAAAIRU/msLRBf0PXKk/s400/SAM_1806.JPG" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">sr zaza, a saint who would have been bishop down here long ago is she wasnt a woman. frying up some bokoboko, which translates to breadballs. imagine less sweet donuts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">went on a split to elder johnson and leos area #ToliaraUppers and we taught their super cool investigator whos a pro chef who lost it all by getting in on the drugs and women and some bad indian guys who were working in the south of madagascar and framed him for armed robbery and murder, now hes living in a little reed shack in toliara looking to cook at one of the italian places here and change his life around and is just extremely cool and nice and dilligent at reading the scriptures and coming to church and everything. completely keeping all the commandments now. 4 years in a malagasy prison, which is worse than the worst thing you can imagine. living in a nice house here already seems tougher than being in prison, honestly. they dont really feed prisoners here. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">this picture represents the despair of malagasy prison<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8cr8sEnZ__Q/VspRGgbuRFI/AAAAAAAAIRw/sri1yXukatc/s1600/SAM_1398.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8cr8sEnZ__Q/VspRGgbuRFI/AAAAAAAAIRw/sri1yXukatc/s400/SAM_1398.JPG" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">the paint arounds his eyes are because his eyes are infected. "malagasy medicine. often the vazahas do not beleive"<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FfEJNCmnN3A/VspRd-drsII/AAAAAAAAISA/gZpzlbO7aCU/s1600/SAM_1769.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FfEJNCmnN3A/VspRd-drsII/AAAAAAAAISA/gZpzlbO7aCU/s400/SAM_1769.JPG" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">theres so many people at church right now they have to sit outside and listen. unfortunately the branch will never split cause theres no men and no leaders<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vaMNYx1uMv8/VspRjy2lG3I/AAAAAAAAISI/7VLpjTw31i4/s1600/SAM_1786.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vaMNYx1uMv8/VspRjy2lG3I/AAAAAAAAISI/7VLpjTw31i4/s400/SAM_1786.JPG" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">we biked out to this beach on the far side of town last p day. ethereal, in a word<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tOHBIlTwifs/VspRogc6ubI/AAAAAAAAISQ/drIVmJUrtBs/s1600/SAM_1785.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tOHBIlTwifs/VspRogc6ubI/AAAAAAAAISQ/drIVmJUrtBs/s400/SAM_1785.JPG" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ive really sucked at writing you guys recently, actually my whole mission, but i just want you and dad to know hàow thankful i am to you guys for supporting me in this and letting me do this. its been the bestexperience of my life. if you or dad or connor or anyone want to tlk to me on pdays, im always on at 8 in the morning and 12 nooon my time; sorry i dont know what is for you. i love my companion and my investigators and my area. i wrote a little to aunt sharon today about weather, ill copy paste that here.<br /><br />As for mada, it has the climate like some sort of ancient jungle. theres only two seasons: dry and pretty hot in the summer and rainy and really hot in the winter. But mada is also huge, so it has tons of different climates. In the mountain highlands, like in the capital or Fianarantsoa, it gets pretty cold, like sweater weather during the dry cool season. from my experience tana is always too hot for long sleeves unless its raining, but it get way cold at night during dry season. Here in Toliara, its the hot rainy season but were on the southern west coast, which is a desert. So we actually get no rainfall, just dry oven heat. But we also got hit by a tropical storm last tuesday, and the city just couldnt handle it! no one knew what to do with water, the streets still havent drained from the flooding and all the water in the air actually kept the city cool for a few days. It was there first time in months i went 24 hours without sweating, so i loved that.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">we working with the recent converts and less actives here and that been extremely rewarding. also, rumor has it the mission prez might expand the toliara area and add another companiàonship of missionaries down here. Im super excited for that.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">if you looked at the pics, you can see one of our recent converts, luc, who day job is pulling a bike rick shaw, is an amatuer artist who loves spiderman, so we took some pics together.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">thats really all i have time for now! I love you guys! tell dc good job on his costume, kyle too!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">thanks for all the pics and info about the orlando trip! doesnt make me jealous or anything...</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">just living that toliara life down here, loving the work and my comp. Johnsons one of the coolest people ive ever met, hes got stories for everything and has essentially lived everywhere. went to school in new york on a volleyball schoolarship. hes an easy laugh and super open and honest, so i like him a lot. Not to toot my own horn, but we work really hard. (horn tooting sounds)</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">really nervous prez is gonna take me out of toliara. im not ready to leave. But it is hotter than satans counterfeit holy undergarments down here. it rained yesterday and so for the first time in forever theres humidity here and im sweating like a pig.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">went to a young single adult activity this week, it was cray; hour bus ride, packed in like cattle. johnson was too tall and had to ride on the outside and got filthy. the beach was worth it. no pictures cause my camera ran out of bat, oops. we also went and toured a boabab forest, and our tour guide said not once but twice "this tree is famous for looking like a vagina" about two different tree. The forest was the hottest place ive ever been and was miserable. one of our members broker her sandals so i gave her mine and had to walk on the bare sand/cactus needles and i think i got something degree burns. jk, im fine.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">also related to sandals, i bought kapa pire, or sandals made out of tires. theyre custom cut for me and cost 90 cents. worth it to be malagasy. also started growing out my thumbnails and painting them to fit in with the punk rick shaw puller crowd. again, worth it.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">also we had three investigators at the activity, which was kind of a miracle because they were told they couldnt come because they didnt bring bus money but then we heard it was oaky but they had already left. had to bike throguh random streets looking for them but we found them! boring story but crazy if your there.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">we didnt get back until 5 but we went on member splits and still pulled out 5 really great lessons so basically #dreamteam</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">just found out my year in country mark was last week, i forgot just like the year mark. i suck at anniversaires. weird that im "old" on the mission now but i like it. it means i can be confident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">transfer news is crazy. they sending two new elders down here (leo and liao) and were splitting the area. johnson and i are in charge of choosing boundaries and finding a new house and terminating the lease agreement with our current landlord. our whole pday is gonna be taken up cleaning house hunting and contract arguing. i probably wont even upload pics. theyre splitting the area because johnson and i are killing it down here, be proud of your boy.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">im am incredibly physically exhausted. i have biked innummerable kilometers this week in ties in arizona hot wheather. we taught 40 something lessons this week.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I love all you guys! sorry for the crappy update.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">this lady demanded her picture be taken. i dont know her. lots of people have really bad attituds towards white people over here. people think they shoud get free pictures, and the bike guy i was waiting for trid to charge me double the normal price. i had to argue really violently with him to get it down. felt bad afterwards. hard to represent christ cause you have not allow everyone to steal from the church through you, but you have to fight with everyone constantly to get anything anywhere near the right price. i hope i dont sound bitter, im just rushed</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">hey-o, this is gonna be way bad cause no time and no pictures, i bought a sketchy sd card and it wrecked my pics from this week, WHOOOPS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">news: we found a new house, got out of our old contract, made new one with some nice yet intimidating muslims, spent all friday picking up the two new guys and moving all the stuff, split the area and now im working with elder liao (chinese american one transfer my senior), i got called as district leader which is lame, we all live in the same house and for the first time in my whole mission im livibng with more people than just my comp and its way fun, etc. life is great. i love everything. all of our bowels arent working right now and our new house is so convieniently located and has such nice toilets (nice toilets=existant toilets) we often end up visiting it several times a day and the house is just so much nicer and cleaner and has a shower than the one before it just makes me way happy; last house had guardian/beggars that were way annoying, no lighting, no shower, no runnning water, and a healthy population of hand sized spidzers and foot sized cockroaches. and it was filthy. new house is literally an american hotel (not really but it feels like it to me right now) and its for the same price. also, our old landlady was so uneager to do repairs on our house she lets us out of the contract, no fighting! blessed, i guess. with the area split, i am now officially the little lord of toliara south, or lowers as i like to call it. were doing a lot of tracting but its way fun because people are nice and i know vezo now! not fun is the heat which makes you thirsty which makes you drink unfiltered pump water, which brings us back to the toilet situation. trouble in paradise. love you all! next week!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">December 7</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">hey i upload a bunch a pics every week to google drive, if yall want in on that send me a note and ill share the folder with you. in the meantime, my mom has access to al of them.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: normal;">So lots of stuff is going on. Mission President Foote surprise visited us and gave us interveiws, it was great experience (not in the least cause he took us out to this fancy pants restaurant to eat for free... unrelated, barracuda tastes good but fishy)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While he was down here, we talked a lot about changing the way we find and teach based on toliaras special qualifications. for example, theres absolutely zero foundation or leadership for the church here, and no one whos from toliara knows how to run anything, so like all our leadership in the branch is people from tana. but on the other hand, when looking for investigators, we can easily teach 40 people a week, and if we dropped them all tommorow, we could get 40 again, no problem. so essentially it means we not teaching peole anymore unless they start progressing, and fast, and have the potential to bring leadership ability into the church. and that means teaching a lot of people and dropping a lot of people and finding again. were working with a lot of turnover but so far ive already seen huge success with our newer and more refined strategies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">me and elder liao are continueing our work in lowers, its been more fun this week because its less cold starts with 24hour tracting and more return appoints. i think weve already found some cool people. We just met this lady, marsheline, who learned one lesson and then came to the church! who the heck does that? but because people are like that in toliara, were working on finding more people like her and working with less bums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">bowel update: i actually have reputaion for having a strong stomach in this mission which is apparently true? i was the only person who wasnt violently ill this past week so that was nice. im back to solids. I broke a paper weak muslim toilet seat this week, picture attached in the drive folder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">huge thanks to all you guys, especially mom for the package i just got! i love the ties and socks, im now officially the flyest dressed person in toliara (sorry elder johnson) im also really enjoying (not) sharing all the american candy i just got. i always think i like madagascar food, but then i eat the real thng...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">oh and a big shoutout to my grandma who made some crazy missionary stockings for me and my companion! i gotta take some pictures of them when i hang them up for christmas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">nothing to odd; was little frustrating cause were really strugling to find time for cool people we meet in our program, but our program is *technically* full, which would normally be a good problem EXCEPT no one keeps their fricking appointments. so me and liao are contantly left high and dry in the middle of the day with nothing to do because we cant even tract because our programs full so we cant give them new times. frustrating and i find myself getting angrier at undilligent investigator more than i ever had, mostly because in tana its worthwhile to try and work with mediocre people but here they just waste our time we could be using to help someone else. focusing on the christlike attributes section of the PMG. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">other than that things are great, we working with about 40 kinda bummy people but in that there are some diamonds in the rough, theres this recent converts wife whos almost certainly gonna get married and complete the family, and i just went to the wedding of this other investigator who finally got legally married to his wife and he and his wife and theyre kid are getting baptized next saturday! its a huge deal because ive been working for a year now trying to baptize an FLF (father led family) and this is my first one. reveling in that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">other than that, i uploaded some pics and a vlog to the googledrive. remeber to send me a message if you that shared with you so you can see it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for all your emails! i love all you guys! Especially Mom§ cant wait to see yall in 10 days ish</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">hey yall, things are still going great down here in mada. this week with rough, with the aftereffects of the news years party still not wearing off. people are STILL drunk and asleep, at 12 in the morning on january 4th. whatever. other than that great week! transfer news is ill be staying with elder liao here for six more weeks, which im super happy about. ill almost certainly leave next transfer though. we saw a lot of success with our investigators recently, i have real confidence in all of them to make it. we have alot of people right now who really get it, but struggle with reading and coming to church consistently, but that light years ahead of everyone else ive ever taught on my mission, who dont get it and never come or read! theres really so much potential here. ive really watched my testimony grow these passsed couple weeks as ive fasted more intently and tried to focus oon bearing testimony in a powerful. there are concepts that i didnt think i understood or full knew that i do now. for a while i kinda felt like my prayers were ineffective but ive really seen them be answered a lot in the last little bit. we even had three investigators come to church this week whom ive never even met before, just decided to come by thereselves, and thats a miracle as far as im concerned.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">i love you guys so much. thank you for making this mission thing possible for me. Mom, i really hope everything goes smooth and is relatively easy with your treatment! ill pray for you guys.</span></div>
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We had a baptism, which was obviously the highlight of the week. The 3 female "ines" got baptized, Naurine, Perline, and Pascaline, all amazing investigators. The two little girls are member kids who got baptized by theyre older brother and father, also in this photo. Saulther, their older brother is also are DMP and an all around cool dude.<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To our surprise, the next week they came to church together! They were already keeping all of their commitments: praying about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith, reading the Book of Mormon, and coming to church. Their faith started to grow. Elder Ahlstrom was transferred to Ambohibao and Elder McCrary came in his stead. Raphael changed some things in his life and came back to full activity, receiving a calling to become the teacher of Elder’s Quorum. He gives wonderful lessons. Perline started to read the Book of Mormon, and it helped her to gain a comprehensive testimony. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She was interviewed for baptism—but she failed her baptismal interview. She and Raphael live in the same apartment complex, and are next door neighbors. They aren’t living together, but they are living very close together. The Law of Chastity, which we thought we had ironed out and solved for them weeks earlier, was still a problem. We taught it again, and they committed to live it. She was interviewed again, and she passed. She was baptized two days ago, and confirmed a full member yesterday. They were both so happy at the baptism and after she was confirmed. They are a great couple that one day we hope will one day get legally married, live in righteousness, and go to the temple to be sealed for time and all eternity. That is what missionary work is all about, helping these people to have faith, repent, be baptized, and endure to the end. Raphael and Perline are off to a great start. What a joy and a blessing it is to bring souls to our Father in Heaven.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our English calss in Toliara. Theyre great, but i miss the giant one i taught for a year straight in Tana<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We helped a lady mash up her flour #service<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So heres the deal:<br /></div>
Ambohipo is past and gone. They whitewashed it, so that means even Elder Te'e left to a different area and they got two new missionaries. What does that mean for me? I got shipped down to Toliara, a port city of 150,000 on the southwestern tip of madagascar on the dge of the desert that dominates this province. Even weirder than that, im hooking up with my prior companion, Elder Garcia, for round 2. As our mission president said, were gonna light the place on fire.<br /></div>
So Toliara is a place with a lot of personality, being so far from the capital. its an extremely un european place, unlike tana where you can often see the french influence. most people live in huts made of dried grasses and reeds, and theres i think two gas stations in town, which are pretty much the height of society here. I think the most startling thing is the almost complete abscence of cars, the entire city is populated by bikes and pos pos, a rick shaw pulled by a bike. the other options are real rick shaws, 18 wheelers and ATVs. So i am, finally, a real missionary. i bike places. its cool. and by cool, i mean its really frickng hot. hot like a costal desert city in southwestern madagascar.<br /></div>
Also, have you ever tried biking through sand in the middle of a windstorm? it sucks (actually, it blows). but otherwise, the bikes are sooooo much better than dealing with walking and public tansportation in tana.<br /></div>
Really, Toliara is just a beautiful and amazing places and the wether is generally so nice. Im really just in paradise. Plus, more importantly, the work goes really well here. We have so many amazing members and investigators. The branch is really young here, just 4 years old, and we had about 88 people at sacrament meeting last week. Its quite the experience, cause we have no resources and were kinda just on our own out here.But we have the entire city to ourselves to teach and help and its been so amazing. The people are so friendly and humble. "tracting" here just means choosing what house you want to go into. you knock, and they say come in without even looking to see who it is.<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">here ill copy and paste a story elder garcia wrote up:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br />
<pre style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Toliara rocks on.
We had a miracle this week. It was truly unbelievable. We had a time with
these two people, Andre and Evelyn, at five o' clock, but we showed up and
they weren't there. So then the classic question...what do we do now? My
failproof answer: tract. So we went over to the next door on the left where
a woman was selling cuts of goat meat in her yard. Her name was Augustine
and she told us her husband was going to be home in thirty minutes. So we
deicded to teach and contact her until her husband would get home. We had
member help with us, a guy named Rostin who helps us all the time, and so
we did. At about 5:50 her husband Velombita showed up and so we talked to
them for about ten minutes. They are Roman Orthodox and he works as a part
time guardian and plus driver. They have several young children and are a
lovely family. We taught them that they should pray and ask God about the
truthfulness of the message and that they should read the pamphlet and that
they should really come to church. And they promised to. But people always
promise to come to church and most of the time they don't. We had to get to
another time at 6 so we left it at that.
That Sunday, just two days later, I look over to my left and Velombita is
sitting there! He came to church having learned for ten minutes! His wife
couldn't make it that day, but she promised to come next week. He stayed
the entire time and in Elder's Quorum, near the end, he said, "You know, I
just love this church and I want you all to know that if it is God's will I
will be here every Sunday, and I want to walk with you all and come close
to Jesus." It was so beautiful. We had some spare time last night so we
went to teach them again and we taught them the 1st lesson in its entirety.
They understand so much already that wasn't clear and it looks like it is
only unward and upward from here. They are excited about coming to church
this Sunday, getting ready to get legally married and getting baptized. A
testimony to me that the elect are just waiting to hear the word before
they will accept it, and that there are those who are kept from the truth,
only because they know not where to find it.
Elders Garcia and McCrary
Toliara</span>
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<pre style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Totally true. Thankfully Garcia is better at writing about spiritual stuff than me.
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probably my favorite thing about toliara is that the population is almost entirely vezo, with some other southern tribes like Mahafaly or Antainosy mixed in, plus your occasional Betsilao. But there's almost no merinas, the big tribe in the capital whose dialect is "official" malagasy,(the fact that they won a big war a long time ago might have something to do with it). Anyways, vezos have a bit of a tempestuous relationships with merinas, or as they call them "amban'ny andro" (beneath the day). Vezos think all merinas are arrogant and they hate theyre dialect. Its funny, cause what vezos always say is that vezos dont hate merinas, but merinas really hate vezos and the vezos are just reacting. but during my year in tana i dont think i ever heard a merina so much as mention the vezo tribe. So because of that, vezos really like to speak in theyre dialect and dont appreciate people speaking in "teny amban'ny andro" so ive been having a blast learning teny vezo, its really fun.when i used to take notes on new words, it would just be "duck=kanakana" but now i have to make a whole chart like "duck=kanakana(amban'ny andro) or garaday (vezo)". i said "youre all still crazy" to a group of kids the other day and realized that none of the words were the same as how i would have said it two weeks ago (mbola adaladala ianareo rehetra vs mbo gegigegy rozy jiaby)<br /></div>
the hard part of living with all the vezos is that being so far from the capital people are way more into the traditions and fombas down here. mostly thats cool, especially when your tracting, because a fomba malala-ing vezo would never turn away a visitor, but it makes helping people get married really hard. Probably the single biggest obstacle to the work in madagascar is that you can baptize some one who isnt legally married, or vita soratra (finished writing). And in mada, its really hard to get vita soratra, you have to find or make a copy of your birth certificate, and most people dont even know what year they were born, and that always takes money, sometimes a long trip to your birth town, and often times a little bribery. then you have to pay a fat 20,000AR to the government, while most people dont have two pennies to rub together. i talked to a guy this week who was renting his (rather nice) grass hut for 25,000 AR a month, or about 8 US dollars. But to make all this even harder is the problem of vita fomba gasy (finished in the way of the malagasy)<br /></div>
Here in Toliara, since people are much more set in the old fombas, it is absolutely taboo to get vita soratra, or vita vazaha (finished white guy style) before you are finished vita gasy, which is even harded than getting vita soratra. To be vita fomba gasy, and specifically fomba vezo, you must complete three steps</div>
<br />1 Hitako Maso: the people must see you going together and living together. someone who is not your family must call you "mpivady" (spouses). this step is easily completed<br /></div>
2 Fividian'ny Omby: The big one. you must purchase a cow for the bride's parents. this is almost impossible as most cows run in the miullions of ariary. together the family gets together and eats the cow. the meat of the rump is given to the parents of the bride, as it is the right of the eldest man present at any occasion to eat the meat of the rear of the animal. sometimes weddings are called vodin'ny onjy (the goat butt)<br /></div>
3 Sorona Ankizy (child sacrifice....kidding! it means sacrifice for the the children) Next, the couple must go to the ombiasa (witch doctor) and get a sacrifice of a type of animal,according to when theyre children were born, to remove the curses from their heads. if they still have not had kids, they have to go to the ombiasa to remove the cuurses from their children coming in the future. this is also very expensive.<br /></div>
and so it is very hard to get married in toliara. most people just kind of live together and have a family with vague plans of buying a cow when money suddenly falls into their lap out of no where. And we have the pleasant task of either helping them save up a bunch of money on rick shaw puller salary or risk the condemnation of their families by just going for the soratra. thats life tho<br /></div>
We went ot the catholic book store today. it was great. I love nuns, theyre so nice, especially compared to your average 25 year old drunk cyclist trying to cut you off. Nuns make the world a better place, and even though one of our investigators left town the week of her scheduled baptism to attend a catholic nun jamboree in Fianarantsoa, im not even mad. one more nun will do my soul good.<br /></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11178462215332762061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3950755044891763883.post-39780117131633678842015-08-17T17:30:00.000-07:002015-08-17T17:30:04.565-07:00Apoplectically apologetic<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">its been really hard for me (as you might have noticed) to write blog posts for a while, which is as much due to my own laziness and inability to prioritize as well as the circumstances. so in oncve sense, i apologize, but in a nother sense, its a worthless apology because allthough i realize im a bad communicator and im treating you all unfairly by keeping the radio silence i dont really have great desire to change. Frankly i dont really enjoy writing about my life or expriences unless i can do it in a format i enjoy and can feel semi proud of, like the blog. but this also makes it harder and takes time. Si Ive resolved to write... a serious family email... (i hope you appreciate what a sacrifice this is to me but lets be real, i should stop whining)</span><br />
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The Comp: Elder Te'e is from Tonga and tells me he has a reputation as being one of the skinniest tongans ever. dudes about the same height as me but with about 10x as much muscle, so that tells you whats normal for tongans. hes about a year and a half into the mission and had to learn malagasy through english, which is very much his second language. very impressive. He is suuuuper quiet and passive though, but a really good missionary. you just have to get him going first. im not sure if this has been good or bad for me, as im sure you all know i dont exactly like making descisions or being disciplined or taking initiative.... but im essentially (trying to) doing all of that now. Interesting thing about him, hes super mahay-dalana, he can see a path one and have it memorized and mapped out immeadiately i think he knows the arra better than i do already. Also an enormous reserve of innate cleverness, he told me he just learned to play chess last transfer but he is insanely good at it. you can tell he doesnt really have an overall strategy but the mans logistics are perfect. he will not once make a mistake or not see something. you never get something for free from him. </div>
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The Area: Still Ambohipo, still strong. Our ward is absolutely fantastic and ive made a lot of good friends here. Ive also seen baptized or baptized 4 people here so far, all just amazingly strong members now. Our Bishop is probably the best bishop in all of madagascar, just saying. We also have 2 families ive been working with since i first got here, both have made amazing progress and overcome alot and i really want to get them baptized before i leave. with some luck they might make it. Ive already told you a little about both of them, the couples are Nalia and Alex and Haja and Sonja. both are waiting to get legally married before they can be baptized (no one here is legally married). The problem with nalia and alex is they had some marital issues and money problems but weve worked that out and haja and sonja had a whole bunch of stuff come up (2 deaths, a hospitalization, a fight with the power company down here...etc.) Now theyre ready but waiting on the signature of Hajas boss for the marriage. In madagascar, if your a soldier youre not allowed to get legally married until your boss signs of on it... which usually takes several years cause you not allowed to push him towards doing it and it has to be submitted by form and go through all this bureaucracy and most of the time the boss isnt even in town anyways. Hajas boss has been in Toliara for months now... maybe i can get garcia to contact him for us.</div>
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Me: six-foot-two in heels. I had to take a sixk day yesterday which im happy to report has only been my second on the mission. i mostly read CS Lewis and walked the trail of tears ie the dozen or so yards between my bed and the bathroom. Doing better now. Trying to be more disciplined and more proactive in learning the language. i learned a lot of proverbs (ohabolana) and riddles (ankamantatra) and slang (teny bandy) this week and its been super fun. i also gave one of the talks at the baptism this last saturday, which was pretty darn intimidating. i went up confident cause i love public speaking but what i learned was i love public speaking in english. in malagasy i get the flutters and the locked throat and the red face that people always talk about and frankly it wasnt enjoyable. ive always loved manipulating the english language and i felt like my little painters brush was replaced with this unweildy massive log. But aside from speech giving (kabary) i love malagasy and im getting really comfortable in it. I still have so much to learn and still talk awkwardly but i get along alright. Ive said before talking a second language is like trying to talk around a wet sock in your mouth, and its still like that. But i ve gotten much better at wet sock talking. I think its like swimming, when you first jump in its terrible but as you go one you become skillfull and talented and its even a joy. But its never as natural as running, especially with something as alien as malagasy. I love madagascarand i love the mission, and im very happy. Writing this has made me self rflective though, so sorry for the overall gray tone. </div>
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Some fast fax to get you all up to speed:<br /><br />Elder Garcia got called to this desert coastal city called Toliara. <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Fun fact: its namesake of the coton de tulear dog breed. Its also the metalworking capital of Mada. He tells me hes already bought a knife.</span></div>
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Speacial thanks to my awesome family for sending me an even awesomer package! they even remembered my quip about elder turleys star wars pillowcase and sent me one. Kids, tell your mothers you love them today.</div>
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First of all, for those of you who read the Liahona (im pretty sure this is no one but missionaries) check out the inside of the back cover this month! The Rasolofo family, genuine malagasies. we dont make it in church stuff very often over here in mada, so we're very excited.</div>
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So we were watching European Womens Handball at an investigators house (dont ask) and the french team was of course 80% african ladies and they showed this one woman and i was like "she looks super malagasy" and then they showed her name and it was Kanto, which is not only the name of a region in japan but also means "beautiful" in malagasy. I called it, i officially win madagascar.</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">speaking of Hegrem, his older brother Heliode, just got back from serving his mission in England and is just an all around amazing guy. Of he got immediately snapped up and was called as Second Counsellour in the bishopbric. A High Preist at age 25, he beat my dad by 25 years. He showed up to church the other day wearing a sharp brittish suit, a tie President Uchtdorf gave him while he visited the London mission and Heliode was AP, and a pair of dress socks with the Playboy logo on them. Im gonna miss madagascar.</span></div>
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Elder Huata threw a birthday party the othr day. You may not think thats a big deal, but it was a Big Deal. It wasnt really clear if birthdays are a super big deal to tahitians in general or just elder huata, but what was clear to everyone that it was going to be an important event. So our plan was to make an appearance and get out by 9:30, but it turns out the party was the event of the year. literally insane, we ended up travelling by bus for an hour and a half to the opposite end of the city to visit the most politically and fininacially influential member in mada's mansion (this guy also happens to be huata's former investigator and theyre like super good friends) and the ordeal was set up like a presidential reception, im talking dining hall, 4 course meal, giant speakers and music and people from like 5 different wards (2 bishops present). Absolutely insane, i thought it was gonna be a little get together at the church. I shouldve known though, you guys need to see huata play a room, the dude has power over people. he is always every member and investigator's best friend and he loves setting up these shennanigans and being at the center of it.<br /></div>
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me and the super rich, super powerful Norbert. The legend. We have multiple baptisms per week here but Norberts baptism was on mission prez's weekly issue list, he had to make sure it went perfect. If Norbert does a 180 and decides to attack the church he could seriously hurt it in madagascar. if he stay active, he can work with the govt and help us out a lot, esp with all the visa issues. High stakes. He wanted fireworks at his baptism<br /></div>
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The world famous Jao's Pub. It seats like 50-100 max but i swear its like the end goal of all malagasy singers. all the big stars peform there. We stopped in to pee and buy Fanta. overpriced. (the fanta not the pee)</div>
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Our financial couple, the Clowards, left today. I got to know them real well in the office, sad to see them go. Theyre both amazing and did a huge service to mada by coming here. Fun fact: any waterpark youve ever been to, elder cloward designed. plus some ones you havent been to because theyre the private parks of Arabian Shahs. he designed the place i worked at, Zoobezi Bay.<br />
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Ill talk more about them when i have picture, but we have this one investigator family thats just gold, Haja Sonja and their baby, Helios. Theyre the guys whose stair elder garcia broke. anyways, we visited them in the hospital because Haja is a Gendarme an had several health complications. In a fight with the Dahalo (mafioso cattle rustelers, remember?) Haja fell on his arm and took a bullet in the shoulder. The ball is still in him, and he had a few health complications from that, but the primary reason was for brain worms.</div>
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Have I explained this yet? so one species special to mada is a type of parasitic worm, like a tapeworm (which mada also has a lot of) that instead resides in your brain and starts eating it. completely treatable though, Hajas completely healthy now. But there are several reasons why missionaries, when they return home, take a lot of worm killing medication.</div>
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Big news! My parents went to Hawaii recently! for those of you unfamiliar with Hawaii, its like Madagascar with less garbage and more roads. Equivalent number of Rastamen. </div>
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Money, all the bills. the 10000 Ariary bill is a lie, there are no motorized construction crews in Mada. I like the cow on the on the 500 Ar though. Btw, last i checked the 10000 Ar was worth about 3.30 USD</div>
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so now yall know what i eat every day. first pic is from a soiree at a members house, the dish is tsaramaso (literally good eye), an eye shaped bean and sauce made from it put on top of rice. second is from a fancy restaurant (with fancy rice), the dish is Bol Renverse, a thing where they put a bunch of souce veggies and meat in a bowl on top of an egg, plus a bunch of rice and cook it. then they flip it ove and serv it to you, bowl upside down, get it?</div>
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the last pic is what my meals typically look like, were eating at a hotely (essentially a low class restaurant). this plmate of rice cost 2500 Ar, the bol renverse cost 8000Ar, and the taramaso probably cost about 1000, to give you a sense of the range. from the top of the picture, left to right: sakay(very hot mashed up peppers and seeds), rano-pango (rice water, good when its dark and hot), rony(the broth), (second row) vary(the almighty rice), and the loaka(the stuff you put on rice): henomby ritra (literally dried cow meat). its good, trust me</div>
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Sometimes though, i just play it up real french and munch a big gas croissant (a large croissant from the bakery near the gas station, what did you think i meant)</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">we live a super nice building, beacause the churchs policy is if it can provide you with electrcity and running water it will. only the nicest homes do that here. also, due to a high dropout rate here and a general reluctance for some reson i dont understand to send missionaries here (especially new ones from 1st world countries) we are waay understocked on missionaries, theres suppossed to be like 120 here but we have less than 80. so we live in a house meant for 2 or 3 companionships but right now its just me and Garcia. Our living conditions are obviously great, but the power still goes out all the time and the appliances are chinese knockoffs.</span><br /><div>
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the sick double baptism that happened last week! Their names are Suzy and Daniel, Elder Garcia baptized Daniel and i baptized Suzy.</div>
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Suzy is awesome, she just has so much faith. Shes the only member in her family but i swear shes at the church all day every day, i think she goes to every activity. Shes also like 1000% Vezo, this western tribe that ives near Toamasina, the city where Elder Ahlstrom orked for 6 months. So she speaks teny vezo, an abosutely crazy dialect im having her teach me. its way hard though, she can be pretty hard to understand sometimes. Shes very amban'ny voatra in her personality, essentially meaning she does not act lmike shes in the big city. Super unwesternized, shes always going around wearing lamboanis in full face paint and nose jewels and everything, the whole get up. I gotta get a picture for you. just google traditional Malagasy dress to see what Im talking about</div>
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Patrick and i-cant-spell-her-name are the kids of a wonderful investigator we have right now named Souer Nicki...except not really. theyre actually her neighbors kids? but theyre always at her house under her custody and come to chrch with her by themselves? but despite their undefinite legal guardians they are definitely amazing, they loooove learning with the missionaries and going to church for some unfathomable reason</div>
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is the cutest little girl ever, shes the daughter of my absolute favorite investigator family, Nalia and Alexander. yes, Naliette is named after Nalia, shes also named after Alexander (her last name is alexandria)</div>
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Alex has trumped even Andry in the fashion sense department, i met him wearing gold earring in the shape of th Air Jordan Logo. i wish i could politely ask fo his picture every time i see him wearing something new, like a white leather jacket with a flaming owl on the back.</div>
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Nalia, her mom taught her french, and shes also learning english. she practices by sending us texts, which never fail to be amazing (her most recent text is this blogs title). All three of them are super faithful and dilligent and friendly and just a blast to teach and hang out with; plus we can see the gospel changing their lives and improving Nalia and Alexs marriage. </div>
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my favorite thing about them is that they all have super distinct voices, and it interacts so well with each other. Naliettes is hyper, clipped, high, with deafaning crescendos. Alex has this super raspy emotional way of speaking thats hard to describe, its like every sentence starts with this sound, he doesnt say "wailay ity", he says "KWAAAAAAIlay it-TY". And Nalia is so deadpan, low, gruff and matter of fact all the time, constantly correcting alex when he reads a word wrong or says the wrong english word and disciplining Naliette. And then there's their cousin Bosco, a quarter indian guy from Diego, way up north in mada who only speaks deigo in the deepest flatest voice i ever heard. Theyre all hilarious, theyre all straight thugs. i love em. </div>
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another bus experience: i was almost run over the other day by a bus that had "Jehovah, Protect Me" painted on the top of the windsheild (in malagasy, obviously). i said a quick prayer that i was the subject of that sticker and not the bus</div>
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i dont know if you can tell but this poster for a concert of a bunch of malagasy singers is the single worst photoshop job ive ever seen. her arm, the compression of the pic of the one girl, the completely different lighting in each and every picture... it hurt</div>
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So i watched an old church film the other day, Together Forever. it left me with a lot of testimony shaking questions, mostly why isnt the church still using this logo</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11178462215332762061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3950755044891763883.post-41102432509239186202015-05-06T10:02:00.000-07:002015-05-06T10:11:46.591-07:00The "Shrek" franchise is translated into malagasy as JAZZ GISTA BOGOSY. Also there's five movies here<span style="color: white;">So I'm gonna try and do a very quick and sloppy blog post with a lot of pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">First of all, I'm got transferred! (you can take the Betongolo out of the boy...)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">I'm went to an area called Ambohipo, it's essentially the college town area in Antananarivo. It's right next door to betongolo and Elder Horspool worked there for around 7 months, so i already know it pretty well and I'm super excited to work here. My new companion is named Elder Garcia, I also already know him pretty well and we get along great. All in all I'm pretty excited.</span></div>
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Luckily, i just happened to take a picture of Garcia a few weeks ago, he's modeling these amazing ladders that all malagasy corporations, no matter how high tech, use. they are lashed together out of driftwood and broken electrical cords. In the foreground is Elder Armando, from Mozambique, who i will be replacing in Ambohipo (its a shame he's not facing the camera, hes an extremely handsome man)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: white;">actually Garcia just forwarded me these pics so you will get to see him and Armandos faces. i like how Garcia is exactly the same in both pics, his comp just suddenlybecomes a lot lighter and a lot less fluent at Portugese (and French and Malagasy for that matter)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">And because I'm leaving the 'tongolo, i took a whole bunch of pictures with some of my favorite investigators and members. to quote Samuel L. Jackson in Jurassic Park, "Hold on to yo' butts"</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">DISCLAIMER: all malagasy houses have terrible lighting (i.e. none) so these pictures are all going to be marred by flash and red eye. I'll just write everyones names today, if i have time ill come back and tell stories. (all names are left to right)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Also, because my new area is so close to Betongolo, i got to baptize them with Elder Ahlstrom just a few days ago! It was great, ive been teaching these guys since my first few weeks in country. theyve done so much work and shown so much faith.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">*in the second picture* Frere David, Sonja, Soeur Evette and her two daughters, Moi, Lalantiana, Soa</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Also very cool, while we were tracting we stumbled on some guys who cut up bananas on these big cheese grater things and then fry em up in a big cauldron, its essentially the malagasy version of a potato chip. got some pics of their operation, and some chips </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">One thing I adore about Mada is getting to walk around and see all the chinese/malagasy translated english. A lot of gasy clothing is just chinese goodwill, and the sinaos just slap a lot of random english on things cause they think its looks cool (similar to the way a lot of Americans treat Chinese characters). Enjoy some examples</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">last shirt to mention, the only words on it were: </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Other news of this last week, we FINALLY got to watch conference. Have the most boring pics of the bunch, some Genny C-Frence ACTION shots, the only good part of which is the reappearance of Heiden and Cyusa's faces</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Last thoughts about conference, i absolutely loved both of Henry B Eyerings talks, even though in the one about fasting he said Venuatu wrong every single time. Please donate a generous fast offering every month, ive seen church humanitarian efforts work miracles here. though the venuatu thing is unfortunate, cause we have three missionaries from there serving here, and it was cracking them up every time he said it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Funny story about one of them: His name is Elder Tavo and he was also trained by Elder Horspool, so that makes us brothers. Anyways, Tavo in the Teny Sakalava dialect means penis, so now he goes by his first name... which is Richard. I thought it was funny. Also hes the prince of his village, he has coral scars from when he went night fishing and had a run in with a shark, he speaks 5 Venuatuan dialects, and can kill a rat in the middle of the night from 4 meters aways with a rock. Go on a mission young uns, youll meet cool people.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Also, i saw a cool bug that had fantastic camoflague</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In other animal news, chameleon</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">and gecko</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">ill finish with a bunch of pictures of betongolo and selfies (take the good with the bad people) before we move to Ampohipo</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">So Ampohipo and Elder Garcia are way cool, im loving it here and finally not having to work in the office is freeing. let me tell you whats gone on</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">we tracted into this ladies house and she had all the pictures from the first lesson pamphlet pasted on her wall, i thought it was hilarious. they had only leared with missionaries once before and didnt remeber much of it, but they sure loved the free pictures of Jesus. It was nice cause were out of 1st pamphlets right now so we just taught off their wall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Funfact: the breast pocket of a Croft And Barrow boys white short sleeved dress shirt is just big enough for a pen, pencil, missionary nametag and planner, plus one malagasy sized banana #ThisIsMyGoToLook</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">We also met somone who had been inactive for 15 years, they had the most beat up yet unread Book of Mormon ever; i liked the look of it so we gave em a new one and i took the old.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">I also finallygot a malagasy campaign shirt, which i wear at all times #EdgardRasafindravahyNy FidioTsaraIndrindra</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Somebody wrote this on the inside of their apartment complex, translates to "Dont do anything dirty here, not even farting!!!" Dont do anything dirtyis written all over the city, but it doesnt work everyone still litters and pees everywhere; I have not seen a trash can in six months.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">and now for a whole bunch of Ampohipo pics, im telling you guys, this place is beautiful</span></div>
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So first thing i want to say is thank you so much to everyone who writes me letters or emails or sends me packages, y'all are really the best. I know i dont respond timely or sometimes at all, but trust me its always greatly appreciated. I'd like to make a special mention of the Karatassos family, whom i haven't seen for almost 6 years, that sent me a super nice package which i just received the other day. I cant believe you guys remembered me!</div>
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So the news this weekend is that its Easter, and i dont know if you remembered what i said about Christmas, but the Monday after Easter is that x2. Likely because everyone already gotten all that troublesome religious remembrance out of the way the week before and so theres nothing to stop people from throwing crazy parties all day long. Our ward's actually throwing a party in the room right next to where I'm typing and i can feel my chair vibrating with every pulsation of Stephanie's "Dontsiky". </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I hope y'all aren't expecting a good story, because you aren't getting one. truth is when i walk here i usually look straight down cause just walking here usually takes a very high level of concentration. So I'm just watching the path trying not to step in dog/people poop or fall into the rice paddy on the either side and ran into a particularly low and nasty tin overhang. I'm all healed up now, so unfortunately i wont have any head scars to give me character once I'm bald. It's a shame, I know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Speaking of injured people (but MUCH more so) I saw what I'm pretty sure is the saddest sight I've ever seen the other day. There was this guy whose legs both didn't work who had to cross a street in the middle of what equates to Malagasy Times Square, and so he just sat on the pavement and dragged himself across the intersection with his hands while cars barely served to miss hitting him, or not at all. He made it across okay but it was pretty horrifying. And then the day before that while we were walking on our way to the bus stop we saw this two story brick building collapse and then at the bus stop this other guy had some sort of stroke or heart attack. All these people gathered round to try and help him but they just fanned him or slapped his face. No one called an ambulance because they are for hire here, and if you take someone to the hospital here your responsible for paying for them. So it took over 30 minutes before someone was willing to hire a taxi to take him... somewhere. I really wanted to do SOMETHING but that's pretty explicitly a bad idea over here because if a white guy is anywhere near an accident like that the first Gendarme that sees you will arrest you on the spot. Not on the desire to keep pinkies in jail or anything, they just know they can get money out of you and that immediately becomes the top priority. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Wow I'm a little down now. Let's end with some more positive experiences. I had a very interesting time this week teaching all sorts of things, not just gospel. For example, in one lesson i was kinda sick and coughing and so i made an offhand comment about germs and our investigators just gave us weird look. So we ended up spending about half an hour trying to convince them a bunch of tiny animals live in their body, and some of them make them sick and others try to protect their body. I even got to draw a whole diagram of white blood cell psuedopodia absorbing and emulsifying bacteria. I'm pretty sure they never believed us. Also at one hotely the waitresses tried to charge us 22000 Ariary for a 9000 Ariary meal, not cause they wanted to rip us off but because they didn't understand how to do math. And so we sat there and taught them how to do arithmetic until they understood that we bought the same stuff as everyone else at the same non-ritzy price. We parted as friends and now when we eat there they happily show us the math they did to ring up our price. I'm proud? Last story: Elder Ahlstrom bought a Rakibolona (a dictionary for Malagasy words in Malagasy) and this lady pulled us aside and asked us what the book was. Soon the whole family gathered around, no one having seen or heard of a dictionary before. And even though we explained and explained and let him read the book, her husband was never able to understand why a book would explain Malagasy words in Malagasy and was convinced it was just way for us translate gasy stuff into french. (We also never convinced him we weren't french.)</span></div>
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Another 6 weeks have come and gone and its transfers again. And I dont think I've written anything of significance on this blog since last transfers, which i know is just devastating to my legions of rabid fans who are frothing at the mouth to catch ever honeyed word that drops from my lips. So here y'all go.<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11178462215332762061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3950755044891763883.post-25223758117424372262015-03-09T15:42:00.000-07:002015-03-09T15:42:12.063-07:00Kamera Kwest 2: The Klumps<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Only got time to say one thing this week, and its this: Ya boy finally bought a (chinese knock-off) camera (with pirated second rate french software) and now hes back in business</span><br />
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I also got a picture of my beloved Ratsimbazafy and my namako Ahlstrom being cute together, now you can finally see what they look like. Ratsimbazafy and the other visa waiters have officially departed to South Africa and now Ahlstrom and I are empty-nesters. Its very sad but at least we have each other.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11178462215332762061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3950755044891763883.post-90437766962636315082015-03-09T15:27:00.000-07:002015-03-09T15:27:02.639-07:00Hi, I'm Hug Nibbles, merman applegeist and scalder<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">no pictures again... this is totally starting to cramp my style. Imma keep it short and sweet this week</span><br />
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biggest thing this week, me and Elder Ahlstrom were caught in what i am deciding to classify as a tropical storm on friday. right in the middle of our prime proselyting time, it starts coming down like normal and we decide to just keep contacting cause if you cant handle a little rain, then get out of the 'gascar. Eventually it starts getting a little more aggressive, and me and Ahlstrom decided to take a hint and wait it out for a few minutes underneath the overhang of an epicerie. Usually the rain will dies down or out after a few minutes. but it just keeps on keepin on and Ahlstrom and i start sharing glances. we start to become fascinated with the rapidly forming whitewhater (brownwater) rapids river rushing down the street we were just contacting on and marveling as its carries a few metric tons of garbage down its wake, along with several pairs of flip flops, a wicker bag, (the kind you use for transporting a half dozen geese on the back of your bike... they have those in america, right?) a whole bunch water bottles and a small child. eventually we realize were gonna lose a ton of work time if we keep waiting it out so we decided to suck it up and get out to work. spoiler alert: everyone cancelled their lessons. For a people that live, in essence, a submarine lifestyle malagasies sure are scared of the rain. </div>
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yeah there's a lot of nonsense like that. In essence were walking around in this stuff for hours and not accomplishing anything cause no one wants to talk while its raining and the whole time its only picking up and flooding in a more dramatic fashion. By the time we decide to go home weve been as wet as if we had just gone swimming in full proselyting clothes for the last hour and its past the point of misery and has crossed back over to being fun. we'd just wade up and down streets, watching waves and riptides go by and marvel at the openings of the malagasy "sewer system", where the water was coming out so fast it was pressurized and jetting out of grates six feet in the air. </div>
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Also, remember those gaping sewer pits im terrified of falling into every night i mentioned before? Well the water was about two feet over the pit on our path home and we would have walked right into it if there wasnt an awesome malagasy right there warning everyone. there was a bunch of people standing around the approximate area who were to scared to progress so me and Ahlstrom had to lead a bunch of people around the pit, very slowly, very cautiously. The tension has never been so high. Ahlstrom even had to lead a couple kids and their mother home "because they didnt have an umbrella." what? All this nonsense left everything in my bag (except, miraculously, my malagasy scriptures) completely ruined. My bag is waterproof, but that only means so much. </div>
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a lot happened these weeks but i dont really want to talk about it without pictures to break up the blocks of texts... (remember when this was a multimedia experience?) It's getting me down enough I'm gonna suck it up and buy a knock off sinao camera soon (it helps the Ahlstrom also had his camera stolen and wants a new one too)</div>
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So Horspool is officially in a better place despite some visa issues and now its just me and TAhlstrom running Betongolo. It's actually been really cool showing Ahlstrom around, i didnt realize i knew the area as well as i did. It makes you feel real cool when you know little short cuts and exactly when to cross a rice paddy or how to scale a garbage wall. According to Ahlstrom Tana is nothing like Toamasina (where he's been serving) where everything is flat desert. I'm glad i get to serve here and not in Toamasina, its been overcast over Tana for almost a week straight and I even got to wear a sweater(!) the other day. Also i like the feeling of living in a smelly jungle gym i have to traverse to do little things like buy eggs. </div>
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The first family is Soeur Helen's, theyre all super cool. They have us over for soiree's every monday night so needless to say they are very precious to us. Also pictured is the Betongolo sister missionaries, Soeur Stewart and Amoussouga.This was also Soeur Stewart's farewell picture, she went home right after this was taken. Her hair was usually more... restrained. </div>
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Second family is Soeur Tinamora's. All the kids are members, and she is essentially member but hasnt been baptized yet. She goes to church and knows everything and is awesome in general but her husband is a complete bum. there's a rule that you cant get baptized unless youre legally married but her husband refuses to break his family's fomba, which fomba is "never get married and spend most/all of your paycheck on alcohol". But its okay though cause she and all her kids are awesome</div>
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Hey, just so you all know if you want to ask me questions or anything please do, I'd love to answer. the email address is on the sidebar for a reason</div>
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Also, in lieu of pictures ive attached a segment from our weekly mission newletter to this post because i want y'all to be able to see the images from a recent project our Humanitarian Leaders, Elder and Sister Asay headed. its pretty cool, they were able to to distribute a lot of rice and building materials to outlying villages hit by tropical storm Chedza and a general even spoke at the event which is a pretty big deal (His name... Charles...) Also, funny story, because they were transporting a lot of goods through the Dahalo-infested country side (Dahalo: the main enemy of the Malagasy government, organized cattle hustlers with machetes and AK-47s that run around the more outskirt-y portions of the 'gascar. my comp says in Toamasina sometimes the dahalo would send an alert to the city saying they were coming in a week and if they didnt gather their cattle together and hand them over theyd start killing people. but instead the citizens would gather their machetes and wait at the town hall and then they and the dahalo would go at it. The government sometimes hunts them in helicopters), the Humanitarian had to hire armed guards to get out there. Well, actually the government helped provide. But the Malagasy government is as such that for some reason Elder and Sister Asay had to get a form signed and then drive to the airport to pick up their guards guns? We're still scratching our heads on that one over here.</div>
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So I've been meaning to talk about these guys for a while but i didnt have a picture until now! So some mlagasies go on a mission to South Africa, but like I said they have a hard time getting Visas. so while they wait for theyre visa's they serve here. These three guys have been living with me and Horse the past few weeks and its essentially been the best thing ever. Left to right, Elder Nohaingoinaina, Raharijoherinirina, McCrary, Ratsimbazafy, Horspool. </div>
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Nohaingoinaina actually served in England but his visa expired and they kicked him out so hes just finishing up here for the last few months. He's a great teacher and super good at english. Fun Fact: he is Stepahnie's cousin (yes, THE Stephanie) and grew up in the same house with her.</div>
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Raharijoherinirina is the newest at english but he's still really good. Learning to be a car mechanic. We teach each other a lot and I love going out to teach with him because i always learn a lot. Absolutely hilarious, but i think you need to hear his accent for any of my stories to work...</div>
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Ratsimbazafy is pretty much my best friend in country. I'll definitely talk more about him later. (remind me)</div>
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It be transfer week my brothas. Horse is going to Fort Dauphin (rated the third most beautiful place on earth, the most successful zone in the mission, and the only place in the world that speaks Atandroy, a dialect so radical its essentially a different language. the church even has a different name down there.) Needless to say my (former) comp is estatic. I'm staying in Betongolo and my new comp will be Elder Ahlstrohm. I dont know much about him other than hes one of two Elder Ahlstrohm's in the mission and he is bigger than the other one so everyone calls him (T)Ahlstrohm. Thats seriously how he is entered into the official church records here. (the other is (Sm)Ahlstrohm). Needless to say this pleases me. </div>
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I'm really excited, I love this area and its growing great right now. When we got here we knew 5 investigators, now we have almost 30 and I love all of them. I'm honestly super happy I'll get to keep teaching them.</div>
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I love you guys all too, honestly so much I have trouble expressing it, so I'll let Bonnie Tyler say it for me</div>
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Oh sorry i was in a rush MISY BAPTISM</div>
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The guy is Frere Ernest, our ward mission leader and a total baller. Love him to death, also hes very good at english so that probably is part of why i like him so much. He helps us all the time and essentially runs this ward from behind the scenes cause hes just such a hard worker.</div>
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The girl in the center is the one who got baptized, and her name is Sitraka (See-Chuk-<span style="font-size: xx-small;">ah</span>) She's also an amazing member, super smart and dedicated. We always had a great time teaching her and her family. Kind of sad we wont get to see her as much anymore now that she's a full member.</div>
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Picture of some of the cyclone damage. Its pretty sad, cause i was having the time of my life during it, all the rain and wind made it so it was actually a bearable temperature and i was saying "I hope there's a cyclone every week!" but then afterwards i started noticing all the damage it did. Mortar, if people even use it (which they often dont) is very weak around here and gets eroded in the cyclone. stones walls were falling down all around the city, and i heard five people died, crushed under a brick wall their house was under. Use quality mortar when building your houses, my friends.</div>
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So theres this restaurant (named SNACK in all caps and its actually pretty high class, i love this country) me and Elder Horspool go to sometimes and it has a tv that plays music videos. we've seen some pretty amazing things on the tv, him and I, but by far my favorites are these two malagasy pop songs that play once in a blue moon between all the club music called "Vavaka" and "Missionera". Literally about how a guy likes praying and these ladies appreciate the work missionaries do, respectively. And theyre both filmed on a shoestring budget, i honestly think with a handcam. so malagasy. </div>
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But even more important than those two songs is that the other day in SNACK we saw our recent convert Frederick and his friend Medisse (who's currently serving a mission in South Africa) on the TV rapping away in their latest single. I didnt realize quite how big FIFTYderic and Hegrem (yes those are their names) were in madagascar.</div>
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OH I JUST FOUND THE VIDEO "My Last Chance" Hegrem FEAT Fiftyderic <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbUob7fiOMo" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 15.4559993743896px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbUob7fiOMo</a></div>
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Ugly story time, somebody left some towels on our apartment balcony during transfers unknown ages ago and theyve been festering ever since. the other day they sprouted some hefty toadstools and me and Horspool decided enough was enough and threw em out. But not before taking this pic,(i dont know if you can tell but thats like a six inch tall shroom that just appeared overnight. Fungi are amazing)</div>
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Interesting Gasy Fax: a ton of words in malagasy are just gasy-sized french but sometimes theyll invent or have prexisting words completely from malagasy for the same thing (teny gasy be) amd they can get kind of weird. for example pomegranate in teny gasy be is "Apongo Be Lanitra" literally "Big Drum of Heaven" (or maybe "Heavenly Drum of Bigness" depending on your translator)</div>
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Speaking of language, heres a quick pic of our English class super stars. We teach a free English class ever week at the church as part of our service. The guy in the Scorpions tank is named Urban and the girl is Seheno (seh-hay-noo). Both are tena mahay be and probably teach more english than i do, cause I'm still struggling a little bit with malagasy (not personally, im just still new) and so its a little hard to teach sometimes. I mostly just help people with pronunciation </div>
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Unfortunately also not pictured was this experience i had yesterday where a big ol' cow (hereafter referred to as an omby cause i cant stand saying cow anymore) got loose in the middle of the street. it held up a bunch of bus traffic and was creating quite spectacle, there was a whole crowd ringed around the wranglers trying to rope the thing again. and every time it would charge or try to gore one of the wranglers all the people (who were at least 3 yards away) would squeal and run away for like half a mile. i kinda think the onlookers were just using like a haunted house to get themselves worked up. but it was pretty crazy. I've always thought ombys are weirdly large for how little we think of them, just cause theyre (usually) so docile. But its a heck of a lot of animal, especially when youre standing right next to it. And it has 2 foot long devil horns. </div>
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Some members in the Betongolo ward! These ladies are all extremely nice and have us over for soirees all the time. Left to right, Soeur Soa, Evette, and Tinamora. Sr Evette's even fed us a couple times, some really good rice and loaka and some katsaka (which is literally just a lot of corn floating in sugar water and i did not like as much). I'm still laughing at how french for sister is pronounced "sir" btw.</div>
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ALSO you might notice that just recently google has finally come out with a malagasy function for google translate. its.. not very good but it just came out so i expect it will grow mightily. Point is i will probably start tossing out more malagasy words knowing you can go to uncle google to learn a little bit. Also because its becoming harder and harder for me to talk in just English. </div>
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This baby's been like six weeks in the making, took a lot of P-day time and planning. I had to argue with the lambahoany seller for like fifteen minutes to let me buy floral patterned cream satin for the back of the vest because he was convinced it was only for women. Metrosexual discrimination, that's whats holding back the malagasy economy. </div>
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and let's not forget Horse's suit (digging the third pocket)</div>
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I also had a silversmith member of one of our wards make me a ring. Silvers actually more expensive here than in america but the labor and brand costs are low and non-existant, respectively. The ring is a CTR ring which i admit is pretty basic mormon garbage, but hopefully that fact that its in malagasy (Fidio ny Tsara btw) and made by hand by a guy who also raises chickens makes up for that. </div>
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So thats it for now. Mada's really starting to feel like home, I'm not sure i can go back to a country without akoho sauce or grenadelle jus. Getting to the point where I can really enjoy speaking gasy too. But dont think I've forgotten any of you guys and your blurry, quickly evaporating faces. Love you guy(s?)</div>
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