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Harvesting Rice and...the Plague Family and Friends, First story of the week. Me and Elder Shai were on our way home from a lesson and it was quite late and foggy. We were riding our bikes on some back streets that are very hard to follow. He got a head of me and I slowly lost him. It was about 8:30 and there were just a couple of people walking around. I had no idea where to go and about 5 min went by and breaking the rule of being away from your companion and being lost, I was a little nervous, so I said a prayer and had the idea to go the opposite way which didn't seem right, but I did it anyway and I eventually found him yelling my name up a road I've never been on. I wish I had taken a picture of the roads, but they are very sketchy and everyone in Madagascar gets drunk around 7 and it's kind of scary. But I know I felt the holy ghost guiding me to Elder Shai.  Next the plague is getting worse and they sent 8 more elders to Antsiribe. I've been sleepin...
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3 Hour Bike Ride to Church each Week

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"Their faith is so strong and they love the church." On Thursday (Aug. 24) me and Elder Shai went with dad be (grandpa) to his house to teach him and his wife. They're members but they live so far away and they love having missionaries come and teach them. They've been asking us for awhile so we had to give up half a day to go all the way there but it was so amazing. They live in the mountains and it's a 3 hour bike ride from their house to the church. Not a nice road but a bumpy mountain biking rode. He and his wife are about 70. He drives the bike and she sits on the back. It's super awesome to see how amazing their faith is. We got to their house and they were so excited to see us! In their house they have tarp floors and carborad for roof and carboard to keep their clothes in. Most houses are like that here. They never miss church and they make the ride every week it is so amazing. Their faith is so strong and they love the church. I learned a lot f...
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Two awesome stories about this week! I learned a lot about having strong faith and memebers who give a lot to the church.  On friday elder Shai and I got invited to a Famadiana which is turning in malagasy. It happens around august and it's when malagasy take their deceases anscetors out of tombs and dance them around it's pretty crazy I will send pictures. It was really interesting to watch! There was a lot of people there and it was really cool. A drunk guy came up to us and told us we shouldn't be there because we weren't worshiping our ancestors. But everyone else there loved to have us come as long as we were respectful. It was pretty cool to watch and they invited me and my companion to go into the tomb it was pretty scary... And I hope I didn't get the plague from going in! Sorry mom.  All of our areas are branches but we are hoping to make a stake. One of our areas is the branch the Adams talked about were the church gave them bricks and the member...
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New Chapel in Ansirabea

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Elder Willey and Elder Shai in front of the new Ansirabea Chapel The driver of this car most likely fell asleep before crashing into the gates of the chapel. The new Ansirabea Chapel
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Ansirabea My first area, this is what I eat and this is the view from my window.
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Driving in Mada This van has about 25 people and children crammed inside! I think they could be the Guinness World  Record.
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