First of all, I apologize for not writing last week, its not that I just decided not to write... the power went out. When the power goes out, its kinda hard to send you all an email. I hear that school starts this week for all of you. GOOD LUCK! Enjoy your time at school, what a special time that is to learn and grow. Summer just seemed like it flew by! I know that it did for me.
This week was just crazy! On Monday night we went to our favorite investigators house and did a Family Home Evening with them. We had a wonderful lesson about Jesus Christ and the influence he has on our lives if we apply the atonement. The funniest parts of the night were the game that we played and the treats we brought. We played whats called ankamantatra. Which means riddles in Malagasy. We all shared riddles, and Elder Obioma shared this "riddle"/game that stumped our investigators. He put pieces of paper down and in no particular order said that because of the way the papers were, that meant 2. Then he switched them and said, 3. He switched them again to another pose and said, 2. We were all dumbfounded. He told the wife the secret, which gave it away for me as I watched her eyes. He would move the papers around, but his fingers on the table were the indicartion of the number that he was trying to get at. Michel, the husband, just could not figure it out to save his life and he studied the paper for about five minutes before Obioma told him what the secret was. We all laughed. Then we brought the cockroach bread (brownies) We explained to them how we put the cockroaches in the bread and mixed it up. Michel kind of did what all normal men would do and say, "are you serious?" And Tina replied with "I am not eating that..." Hahaha. We had michel try a bite and he liked it, so he said, "are you not going to eat with us?" Obioma quickly said, "we dont like cockroaches!" hahahaha. The wife gave some to her son and as he had it halfway in his mouth, she told him that there was cockroaches in it. His eyes got big as he stopped all motion. He then broke the piece of bread in half to search for the bug. I was laughing so hard at this time and had to tell them that there was nothing in the bread.
Work went real well this week. I got to go on a split with an elder who has been here in Mada for about 6 months. Stud at the language, thats for sure.
We had some really cool experiences tracting this week. We found people who either already knew about Joseph Smith and wanted to know more, or that had the question in thier head "how do I know what church is right?" Just some awesome experiences. Towards the end of the week, Elder Obioma started to come down with a real bad cold and cough. He, of course, wouldnt let that stop him from working, so it sounded like his nose was plugged, which it was, the entirety of Fridaty and Saturday. Sunday, we woke up to find that Elder Becker, the elder being trained in the house, was up all night with a 102 fever. I took that opportunity to tell obioma to stay home and I went to work with stringfellow! We had a great day until 6 when Becker texted us saying that it was getting worse and he needed a blessing. His fever shot to 105 and we were at the hospital before you knew it. He is doing better now. Not good by any means. Just helps me realize how fortunate I am to be in good health.
I love this mission and I love the people that I am coming in contact with. You are all in my prayers and just know that I love you so much.
All my Love
Elder Herrin
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| Baptism!! |
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| This is the game that Elder Obioma and I made for a member family. We played it at a lesson we had with them and had the FUNNEST time. |
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| The family and elder Obioma |
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