The guys did come to church that we taught the day that we fasted. And we taught them last night about the Book of Mormon and invited them to be baptized on October 1st when they receive their answer to the prayer about if the things that we taught them are true or not(but I already know they're true so that'll be no problem haha). I've had 6 baptisms so far, but we have a lot more coming up soon. Right now we have 41 investigators with a baptism date either for September 24th or October 1st. It's pretty exciting! But there are some problems that we'll have to see if they can be resolved or not before their dates like vita soratra(getting married before baptism because they live together like husband and wife just not with it official), Word of Wisdom, and just seeing overall if they're commited enough to becoming members of the church. The work is great here though. We just have different problems than other missions with our investigators. They probably won't be building a building for our branch yet because we don't have enough men with the Melchezideck Priesthood yet, because the church just started in Fianarantsoa a 2-3 years ago, but that's why our new emphasis as a mission is on Father led Families so we can get the priesthood in the church. I am getting more used to the food though. It's getting better and a lot better ha! They have most of the same fruits, but in America we receive lots of fruits that aren't actually grown there, but here, we only have the fruits grown here but they're usually freshly picked the morning that you buy them so the really good and fresh! Their's one fruit here that we don't in america that I like a lot. I don't really know the name though. I've only called it a ju fruit since I've been here for some reason haha. And I haven't seen any lemurs or crocs yet, but in a couple weeks my companion and I and another companionship plan on going to a lemur reserve within our district, which is huge. I want to send pics each week, but I just haven't been having lots of time, sorry. My physical health is good, I think my leg muscles are gonna be twice as big by the time I get back though because of how big the hills are here and how far we have to ride our bikes.
Funny story from the week: We were supposed to move today to our new apartment, but we received a call from our financial/housing director for the mission yesterday, who's american and like a really really high up lawyer from New York City, but he's super frugal, telling us that we couldn't move in anymore because he received draft plans from us the day before and he said the house was way to big for missionary standards and that he thought we'd destroy it. And he said that we'd have to go tell the landlord that we weren't going to move in anymore tomorrow because it was way to big for church standards. And the thing was was that the landlord had already signed the contract, gave us all of his bank account information, rushed to finish his house so that he could move out before we had to move in there(because he was living where we were supposed to be moving into before), had set up for a truck and men to be ready to move all of our stuff the next day, and at the beginning of us even negotiating to move in there, the landlords thought mormons were crazy, and that we prayed naked, so we had to explain to them that we were actually normal haha. Sooo, my companion, who's malagasy, and doesn't understand computers, contracts, and what the reason for us not moving was, and I, who doesn't really know how to speak malagasy talk, that's not gospel language, very well, were going to have to explain to this guy who had gone through all the trouble of getting this whole move set up and ready for us, why we wouldn't be moving anymore. So last night we called the landlord and told him that we weren't going to be able to move today, but that we'd come and talk to him today some time, because we didn't want to just tell him over the phone. So today, we woke up and went and got some food and then went back to the house and did some intense cleaning on our house for 7 hours. And then after we were finished and I had taken a shower and my companion and I were talking about why we weren't moving and how we were going to explain it to the landlord, we figured out that the draft plans that the mission financial advisor had received were actually of the house that were in right now that we are moving out of because it's too big. And we had sent him those on Saturday because the landlord of the house that we're staying in right now made a list of all the stuff that was damaged in the house and sent it to us with the draft plans to forward to the financial advisor elder, and so we did that. And the financial advisor elder thought it was the draft plans for our next house. So now, we've called him and explained the situation to him, and so for now, the whole moving situations on hold and we get to stay in beautifully clean house for now because we spent 7 house cleaning it today haha!
That's my story and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
But I need to go. I love you lots dadio.
Love for eternity,
Elder Waters( Ranoralava)
God be with you till we meet again
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