Salama fianakaviana sy ireo namako ireo!
Firstly,
thank you all so much for your support and prayers. They all mean so
much to me, and please believe me when I say that I have felt their
help. You all are the best friends anyone could ever ask for, hands
down.
Secondly, Madagascar now has a new missionary by the name of
Elder Snell! I arrived in Madagascar safely and soundly this last
Wednesday, and have now begun to work our new area (called
Andranamadio). This is in Tamatave, one of the provinces outside of
Antananarivo, and a port city on the middle-eastern coast of Madagascar.
Apparently this is the second hottest place that missionaries go in
Madagascar, so we will see how this works out. It is super awesome here
though. It is SUPER poor, as you will soon see in some of my pictures. I
have already been so humbled to see the abject impoverishment that
these humble people live in. The nicest house I have seen thus far is a
two story house made solely from cement, and with the furnishings that
we would associate with an extremely lower class person living in a
shack on the side of the road. And this person is considered filthy rich
out here. It is absolutely mind boggling, the kind of poverty that is
present everywhere you look out here.
Anyway,
things are going quite well out here though. The people are so humble
and receptive to the gospel. I mean, just the other day Elder
Christiansen (my trainer/companion) and I went tracting, knocking on
every door we came across. And to my surprise, all of the doors but two
let us in to share our message. I was blown away. I thought maybe like
one or two would let us in, but almost all of them??? Wow... What an
incredible blessing to the Lord to have these wonderful people here,
simply waiting to receive the gospel.
Anyway,
I had better wrap it up here. My mom told me that she already sent out
my testimony in a previous email, so I wont burden you all with a long
thing that you have already heard. :) Hopefully it will suffice to say
that I simply now know without a doubt that I am doing the Lords work. I
am where he wants me to be. And I know that he is there helping me
every step of the way.
