Split week!!!

This week has been great! President was out of town for the first half of the week so Elder Wiscombe and I did splits and worked with some of the missionaries is tana which was great. They are all doing great! Then we had two days that we spent in the office working with president while he was in town which is always great to get to work with him and try to take as much wisdom from him as you can. It's weird though, we are starting to plan for next transfer and to talk all about things happening next transfer and none of it has any meaning to me because I will be home. But it's good. It's good to know that the mission keeps going and the Lord's work here doesn't stop just because I leave. 

Then on saturday we left really early in the morning and drove to Tamatave. This is going to be my last time in tamatave which is really sad, but I planned a little bit of time to say goodbye to people I really liked while I was here. And the missionaries here are working really really hard and the work is going incredible, so it's a good last visit here. We are staying until saturday and going on splits with all of the elders here. It's going to be great! Here is a picture of me with my favorite Malagasy ever! This is the only guy I baptized in Tamatave and he is by far one of my favorite people ever! Other than that everything is going great! Today for p-day we went to this really nice beach called foulepointe. I'll attach some pics. Hope everyone had a great 4th of July! Love you all!

Love, Elder Glazier

Anjanahary week betsaka

Well the last couple weeks have been good. Sorry it's been a while since I've written. It's been a combination of me being sick and lazy and being really busy. But everything here is going great. I've had a little bit of a cold the last week and a half which makes missionary work a little hard, especially when you lose your voice. But it's all good. I'm on the upside of the cold now. 

The past two weeks a lot has happened, but I'll try to keep it to the most interesting things. I already wrote about taking Nate's group to the airport which was super weird. Then the day after we dropped them off we left with president to go to Mahajanga. That is a beach city about 11 hours north west of the capital city. It's a really pretty town. While we were there we got to go on splits with all four of the missionaries there which was fun. We also got to attend their baptism in the ocean which is always a privledge! I got to go into the ocean and take pictures for sister Foote which was fun. It is still really really hot there! But when we came back to Tana it was freezing cold! All of the missionaries are wearing sweaters and warm socks to try and stay warm! It gets really cold especially at night. It's not too bad in the daytime if the sun is out, but as soon as you go into the shade it's really cold. Then this last week President Foote has been in Mauritus so Elder Wiscombe and I have taken advantage of it and avoided the office like the plague! We have gone on splits pretty much everyday. It's been so much fun! I love getting to go and work with so many different missionaries and meet their investigators and members. The church is so cool! No matter where you go it's exactly the same!

The missionary work here is going great! We have a family that we have been teaching lately named Christian and Haja. They are super cool and always do the reading we give them. They hadn't come to church yet, but they were progressing well. This week they said they were going to try to make it to church, but they didn't sound so sure so we didn't think much of it. But on sunday we walked out of sacrament, and guess who was sitting there in the hallway! Christian!!!! We were so excited!!! Sadly he missed sacrament meeting, but he stayed for the other two hours and loved it! He was answering all of the questions about the plan of salvation in the investigator class and making us proud! He is a great guy! His wife didn't make it, but we're going to try to get her to come next week. They have a baptismal date for July 30 and we are really hoping they will be able to catch it! I'll keep you posted.

 Anyway, I hope you all have a great week! Oh, I almost forgot...

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!! 

We aren't really doing anything fun for the 4th. We might make hamburgers or something, but other than that I haven't really even thought about it being the 4th. I know, I need some American pride. But in all honesty, I'm so grateful to be an American. I grateful that I was born in the land of the free where I have the freedom to choose to be whoever I want. I'm grateful to not have to worry that the police are going to stop me and ask for a bribe while they are holding an ak-47, I'm grateful for the ability to worship God how I want, and I'm grateful for all of the other amazing freedoms that we often take for granted. God bless America!!!! Hope you all have a great 4th of July!

Love, Elder Glazier

We traded soccer balls with all these little kids in the middle of nowhere. They were using a ball made out of old rags. 

This is a common form of transportation in the ambanivoatra (om-bon-ee-voo-hee-cha) countryside.  

Anjanahary week betsaka

Well the last couple weeks have been good. Sorry it's been a while since I've written. It's been a combination of me being sick and lazy and being really busy. But everything here is going great. I've had a little bit of a cold the last week and a half which makes missionary work a little hard, especially when you lose your voice. But it's all good. I'm on the upside of the cold now. 

The past two weeks a lot has happened, but I'll try to keep it to the most interesting things. I already wrote about taking Nate's group to the airport which was super weird. Then the day after we dropped them off we left with president to go to Mahajanga. That is a beach city about 11 hours north west of the capital city. It's a really pretty town. While we were there we got to go on splits with all four of the missionaries there which was fun. We also got to attend their baptism in the ocean which is always a priveledge! I got to go into the ocean and take pictures for sister Foote which was fun. It is still really really hot there! But when we came back to Tana it was freezing cold! All of the missionaries are wearing sweaters and warm socks to try and stay warm! It gets really cold especially at night. It's not too bad in the daytime if the sun is out, but as soon as you go into the shade it's really cold. Then this last week President Foote has been in Mauritus so Elder Wiscombe and I have taken advantage of it and avoided the office like the plague! We have gone on splits pretty much everyday. It's been so much fun! I love getting to go and work with so many different missionaries and meet their investigators and members. The church is so cool! No matter where you go it's exactly the same!

The missionary work here is going great! We have a family that we have been teaching lately named Christian and Haja. They are super cool and always do the reading we give them. They hadn't come to church yet, but they were progressing well. This week they said they were going to try to make it to church, but they didn't sound so sure so we didn't think much of it. But on sunday we walked out of sacrament, and guess who was sitting there in the hallway! Christian!!!! We were so excited!!! Sadly he missed sacrament meeting, but he stayed for the other two hours and loved it! He was answering all of the questions about the plan of salvation in the investigator class and making us proud! He is a great guy! His wife didn't make it, but we're going to try to get her to come next week. They have a baptismal date for July 30 and we are really hoping they will be able to catch it! I'll keep you posted.

 Anyway, I hope you all have a great week! Oh, I almost forgot...

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!! 

We aren't really doing anything fun for the 4th. We might make hamburgers or something, but other than that I haven't really even thought about it being the 4th. I know, I need some American pride. But in all honesty, I'm so grateful to be an American. I grateful that I was born in the land of the free where I have the freedom to choose to be whoever I want. I'm grateful to not have to worry that the police are going to stop me and ask for a bribe while they are holding an ak-47, I'm grateful for the ability to worship God how I want, and I'm grateful for all of the other amazing freedoms that we often take for granted. God bless America!!!! Hope you all have a great 4th of July!

Love, Elder Glazier

We traded soccer balls with all these little kids in the middle of nowhere. They were using a ball made out of old rags. 

This is a common form of transportation in the ambanivoatra (om-bon-ee-voo-hee-cha) countryside.  

Anjanahary week betsaka

Well the last couple weeks have been good. Sorry it's been a while since I've written. It's been a combination of me being sick and lazy and being really busy. But everything here is going great. I've had a little bit of a cold the last week and a half which makes missionary work a little hard, especially when you lose your voice. But it's all good. I'm on the upside of the cold now. 

The past two weeks a lot has happened, but I'll try to keep it to the most interesting things. I already wrote about taking Nate's group to the airport which was super weird. Then the day after we dropped them off we left with president to go to Mahajanga. That is a beach city about 11 hours north west of the capital city. It's a really pretty town. While we were there we got to go on splits with all four of the missionaries there which was fun. We also got to attend their baptism in the ocean which is always a priveledge! I got to go into the ocean and take pictures for sister Foote which was fun. It is still really really hot there! But when we came back to Tana it was freezing cold! All of the missionaries are wearing sweaters and warm socks to try and stay warm! It gets really cold especially at night. It's not too bad in the daytime if the sun is out, but as soon as you go into the shade it's really cold. Then this last week President Foote has been in Mauritus so Elder Wiscombe and I have taken advantage of it and avoided the office like the plague! We have gone on splits pretty much everyday. It's been so much fun! I love getting to go and work with so many different missionaries and meet their investigators and members. The church is so cool! No matter where you go it's exactly the same!

The missionary work here is going great! We have a family that we have been teaching lately named Christian and Haja. They are super cool and always do the reading we give them. They hadn't come to church yet, but they were progressing well. This week they said they were going to try to make it to church, but they didn't sound so sure so we didn't think much of it. But on sunday we walked out of sacrament, and guess who was sitting there in the hallway! Christian!!!! We were so excited!!! Sadly he missed sacrament meeting, but he stayed for the other two hours and loved it! He was answering all of the questions about the plan of salvation in the investigator class and making us proud! He is a great guy! His wife didn't make it, but we're going to try to get her to come next week. They have a baptismal date for July 30 and we are really hoping they will be able to catch it! I'll keep you posted.

 Anyway, I hope you all have a great week! Oh, I almost forgot...

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!! 

We aren't really doing anything fun for the 4th. We might make hamburgers or something, but other than that I haven't really even thought about it being the 4th. I know, I need some American pride. But in all honesty, I'm so grateful to be an American. I grateful that I was born in the land of the free where I have the freedom to choose to be whoever I want. I'm grateful to not have to worry that the police are going to stop me and ask for a bribe while they are holding an ak-47, I'm grateful for the ability to worship God how I want, and I'm grateful for all of the other amazing freedoms that we often take for granted. God bless America!!!! Hope you all have a great 4th of July!

Love, Elder Glazier

We traded soccer balls with all these little kids in the middle of nowhere. They were using a ball made out of old rags. 

This is a common form of transportation in the ambanivoatra (om-bon-ee-voo-hee-cha) countryside.  

Assistants

Goodbye Elder Rasmussen

Goodbye Elder Covey

Zone Conference in Antsirabe

Well this week has been pretty crazy. We had zone conference in Antsirabe which is about 3 hours south of Tana. We drove down with president and stayed there a couple days and made it back in time to solidify the transfers and make the calls. Then we got the group going home all ready to go all weekend and babysat them. 

And somewhere in all the craziness we took care of making sure everyone else gets where they need to for transfers. It has been a super crazy week and I have literally like 10 minutes to write this so it's going to be way short. But this last week has been good, but really weird. 

We just sent off the group going home today and it feels way weird. That was Elder Covey and Elder Rasmussen's group. That means that my group is officially the next group to go home. I can't believe that. I still feel like I should have forever on my mission. I hope that these six weeks go by really slow. I love the mission so much and I'm not ready to go home. I guess it has to happen some day though. But I'll try to write more next week if I can.

 Have a great week! Love you all! 

Love, Elder Glazier