Analamihitsy Week 5

Well it has been another great week in the life of a Madagascar missionary! This week we didn't have a whole ton happen during the week, in fact absolutely nothing exciting at all. I will tell just one story from the week and then talk about sunday and today (P-DAY).

Elder Te'e and I were walking down this dirt path (all of the paths between houses are dirt) and we knocked on this door and this guy comes out and he's talking to us and knows all about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and I was way excited! i thought we had found somebody who had learned from the missionaries before and somehow his name had just gotten lost. Come to find out he had learned from the missionaries, but he refused to believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet. But that wasn't all. We tried to talk to him about it a little bit and all of a sudden he just went off all about how there are tons of different Christian churches and how they all need to unite together and form one church and one group. I was just kind of like, "ya, there should just be one true church." But then this is the totally mahagaga (mah-hah- gah-guh) surprising/unbelievable part. He says, once we have all united into one church we'll be strong enough to go to war against the muslim countries. He said we need to start another holy war and kill all of the muslims and refered to the Crusades and said that it needs to happen again. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I was shocked that somebody could be so ignorant and crazy. He litterally wanted another "Ady Masina (holy war)" we just bore testimony and left. I laughed so so so hard afterwards. I was just so amazed that somebody could think like that. So that was one exciting thing that happened this week. 

And then yesterday, Sunday, we had ward council and talked a lot about missionary work. We haven't been getting hardly any help from the ward so we decided it was time to ask. We brought up a few things we really want to have happen and asked for some help from the leaders of the auxillaries. One big thing we are trying to get started is home teaching. It is very very karotana (kuh-roo-tuh-nuh) unorganized and crazy. We set up a meeting with the Elders' Quorum president for this sunday and we are going to make a list of home teachers and really get it all milamana (mee-lah-muh-nuh) organized because Elder Te'e and I have been visiting lots of members both active and inactive and they all say the last visit they had was the missionaries like two years ago! That is not okay! We hope that if we get home teaching going it will help the ward get a lot stronger and build some good relationships! 

The last thing I have to talk about is today! Elder Te'e and I went to the zoo again today. This time it wasn't a holiday so there was almost nobody there! When we were looking at the lemurs one of the workers came over and asked us if we wanted to take pictures with the lemurs and we were like, "Heck Yes!!!" so we got to go back into the room behind the cages and the workers put honey all over our hands and faces and the lemurs love it! I had lemurs climing all over me and licking me! It was so cool! 

But that's all of the vaovao (voh-voh) news from Madagascar. Oh, just kidding. The last thing is we get to watch conference this week! I'm so excited to get to hear the words of the prophets! Having to wait really makes you appreciate conference! Anyway! Have a great week! Love you all! Thanks for all of the prayers and support!

Love, Elder Glazier