Another great week! This week started out slow because
my comp has been sick. We got to go out some days and not on others.
Investigators are still freakin great. Herimael is just awesome. He
loves to learn and says this gospel really makes sense. Mazava be! We
did have a fun time running into a drunk guy. He invited us into his
house to teach him and we went in and very soon found out he wasn’t all
there... he was rambling on about something and then he turned to me and
accused me of stealing his keys! After checking his pockets three times
he found them in his pocket haha. Then he got on his knees and begged
for forgiveness hahaha. Good time, but he said we could come back and
teach his family! So we will try again, next time hopefully to get him
sober. He said he wants to learn to stop drinking so we think we can
help! That’s about it for lessons this week though. Numbers were a
little low due to my companion’s health.
We did have a birthday in
our house though... which means flour and eggs which is tradition here!
It was elder Tio's birthday and we surprised him in the morning with
some eggs on his head and flour in his face! Super awesome! Things are
going great although it would be nice to have some chicken noodle soup
or something like that.
I am still in the same house and there are
these freakin spiders! So we had this big one out our window and I
sprayed with bug spray to see what would happen. So it feel down and
one of the elders from our house went and picked it up and started
chasing everyone around with it! We learned that these are poisonous and
you get bit and you definitely will get sent home for treatment. That
would be awful!
So the lessons this week were mainly focused on the
gospel and the five principles of the gospel. I have learned some
people look at them as steps: Get faith, repent, get baptized, receive
the Holy Ghost, and then endure to the end. But the gospel isn’t a check
list. We teach them that we must continue to grow out faith. Faith
leads to action and we must act on it to grow our faith. Repentance is a
continual everyday thing. No one is perfect and everyone makes at least
one mistake a day. Then, there is repentance. People think it’s a
onetime thing but that covenant gets renewed every Sunday with the
sacrament. Receiving the Holy Ghost and keeping it with you! We must
continue to invite the spirit so that it can dwell within us, then
endure to the end. Doing all the things listed above can strengthen our
testimony and bring us happiness. The gospel is so simple and it was
made that way so that everyone can understand, even me! Well the people
here in Madagascar are amazing! Really do love them! And still healthy
so I’m counting my blessings!
Elder Bowen
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