We had a pretty crazy week this week.I'll start with saturday
.We had a baptism! It was one of our recent convert's daughter. She just turned 8 and is the cutest little girl in Madagascar!
So that was fun! But the real story of the week goes like this:
t all started on Monday last week. We went to the Lemur park and when we got home I noticed that I was missing between 100,000 and 200,000 ariary (which is like 40 to 80 bucks and is a ton of money here) and the back door was unlocked. We go out the backdoor pretty frequently and have a fence so it was very possible that the back door had just been left unlocked by someone in a hurry. So I asked all of the Elders in my house if any of them had touched my money that was in my envelope with my pictures and they all said no. We had been looking at pictures the night before so I had left it on the kitchen table and just came to the conclusion that one of them had taken it. (sad, but that was the best possibility). They all just thought I had miss placed it and it would show up and didn't think much of it, but I was pretty sure it was stolen because I knew where I had put it.
Then the next couple days when we would come home the back door was unlocked and a couple times there was a light on in the bathroom. I started to get a little suspicious that someone had been coming into our house, but it was still possible that we were just leaving the back door unlocked and the light on. Then on saturday when we came home from work Elder Fisher went upstairs to get his money and came back down and said he was missing 200,000 ariary. Then Elder Covey and Elder Rigby both checked their money and found out that they were missing about 500,000 Ariary total. That was when we found out that WE HAD BEEN ROBBED!!!
We searched the entire house to make sure nobody was still in the house, and found that all that was missing was money, but they hadn't taken all of it.They had searched every corner of 2 of the rooms and even gone through a couple of suitcases but not taken anything but money and had left another 400,000 ariary. I had 300,000 that was pretty easily visible and Elder Rigby lost 200,000 out of his wallet but there was still another 100,000 in it.
We were very confused that they wouldn't have taken all of the money in sight, but decided the reason was because they were planning on coming back. They still hadn't searched any of my stuff or the other stuff in our room. When we searched the house we found that one of the doors was set up to break in easily and the back door was unlocked. So now we knew that they were breaking in the one door and leaving out the back. We had a few ideas of who it could be, but no real good leads so we decided that we were going to catch this person. So on sunday we did a split. Elder Fisher and I went to church and out teaching while Elder Covey and Elder Rigby stayed back at the house to catch the thief. They got all dressed in the morning and left the house with me and Elder Fisher so it looked like nobody was home, and then circled back around the back way and went inside and just sat in silence in one of the rooms all day waiting for someone to break in. Sadly, nobody ever came so we didn't catch them. Today we are going to buy all kinds of locks and stuff and totally secure every single door in the house.
So we don't think there is any chance of finding out who broke in now. But at least we will prevent any future break-ins. Overall the thief got about a million ariary from our house (That is enough for one person to live very comfortably for a few months) and made off with it totally clean. So that was our fun experience of the week. Also my camera broke which was awesome. So this week has been a very expensive week for Elder Glazier. I lost about 150,000 ariary and got my camera broken. Luckily a guy in our branch fixes cameras and said he can get it fixed for 15,000 which isn't bad.
As far as missionary work goes, we had a pretty good week though! Our lesson count was a little lower than what we would have liked, but we taught a few GREAT lessons and feel like our investigators are starting to understand the importance of finding out if our message is true and if the Book of Mormon is true. Elder Covey and I have come to the conclusion that if an investigator doesn't understand the importance of the Book of Mormon they will not progress and will not be converted. A persons entire progression relies on the first two lessons. The Joseph Smith story, and the Book of Mormon.
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