Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Oct 31 - Great Week

This week was good.  French is hard and the work is slow but I am still trying. I love it here and I couldn't be happier. I have started finding some new people and we will see if any of them come to church this week or not. Me and Elder Mendoza are getting along great I am loving being with him, we are getting work done.

Sorry way short, but no time this week next week it will be a lot better.

Elder Wolfgramm

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Oct 24 - je ne parle pas le français (I do not speak French)

Well I got evacuated and now I am on La Reunion so "bon jour" no more "salama tompoko". I have started learning French and I can say it is way easier then Malagasy, I should be fluent tomorrow. just joking it is actually a very hard language, but I know I will get good at it if I get the same help from the Lord I got with Malagasy. Well this is the story of how it went down..... it was on Tuesday of last week we got a call from President that said we are on lock down we are not allowed to leave the house for 2 days, so we sat at the house for two days and then on Wednesday I got another call from President who said tell everyone to start packing up because we are all leaving Madagascar. And that was all he said, he said he was going to call back in two hours with more details. I was totally broken when I heard that, I will be honest. Then 2 hours later we got a call saying that we need to be at the airport in 3 hours because we are flying out of Toliara, then we got another call and said sorry but no flights are leaving Toliara until the 25 of October due to problems. So we had to wait down in Toliara until Saturday when finally the driver made the 2 day drive all the way to Toliara. Finally the driver came,  we then hopped in the car and made the long drive to Tana, we arrived on Sunday afternoon, by the time we got to Tana the whole island (of missionaries) had been evacuated except us 6 and then it was me, Shoemaker,Knudsen and Smith left with President.  Late Sunday night we left for la Reunion.  But when I first arrived in Tana I went to Presidents office and he told us about how we got our calls, I got my call to la Reunion, I am so happy to be here in la Reunion I still don't know whats going on.  I have started to learn French and to be honest it is a lot easier than Malagasy. I know that I can learn this language especially with the help of the Holy Ghost. I have total faith and trust, but deep down I am destroyed because we couldn't say anything to anyone about the evacuation. So all the investigators I had and members and friends I just left behind with out goodbyes or photos.  That's what happened<

I am happy and healthy, more info is coming.

Elder Wolfgramm

Monday, October 16, 2017

Oct 16th - Short

This week will be the shortest of them all. We have lost connection here in Madagascar, we are still doing great and having tons of fun! We are finding tons of cool people and balling out. We are still healthy and no one has the plague; so we are still winning. Love it here and having fun.

Elder Wolfgramm

Monday, October 9, 2017

Oct 9 - I am in Toliara, akory kahey

Well this week some very interesting things happened, I got emergency transferred to Toliara.   Here is the story: it started on P-day ok, so this is what happened on Monday; we were driving to this place called the Croc farm to go see some crocodiles and to show our kids the cool parts of Madagascar on P day. We had bought 2 chickens which we were going to feed to the crocodiles, perfect P-day! I was really excited to do it. It was me, Elder Snow and his kid, Elder Hunter and his kid and my kid too, as we are on a bus heading there and I got a call from the AP's and they said to hurry home because we are getting pulled out of the area. I asked them why and then they told me that 20 people have died from the plague the past 2 days in my area, so I am not working there any more, then we got out of the bus and grabbed a taxi but we didn't have any money so we had to argue(barter) for a reasonable price with the chickens we had, and then got the guy to take Elder Snow to his house and then us to ours. We went home and packed up.  

While we were at home I talked to the landlord and she said that 5 people died in the hospital by our house that morning. I then called this member who works for the government here and she told me it was true.  The AP's picked us up and then took us the office. We waited there until like 8 o'clock and then they told us that we were all leaving Tana.  Some were going to Antsirabe and some to Fianarantsoa and the lucky ones to Toliara. And then we got fed dinner that night and slept at the AP's house and in the morning left for Toliara. We drove through Antsirabe and dropped missionaries off, and spent the night in Fianarantsoa, where we dropped off more missionaries, and then the next day drove and at like 7 pm finally arrived in Toliara, then had dinner and went to bed. I am actually way sad I left my area.  We were supposed to have 6 baptisms the next 3 weeks and now I have missed all those baptisms, hopefully I can see them some other time before I go home.

 Toliara is great! though it is really hot, is the only problem. Also the dialect down here is Antandroy and Veso which are the hardest dialects in Madagascar. So Elder Oberhansley is having a hard time. Hopefully, we will get through it and all will turn out great. We have already found some great investigators down here. I am way excited to see how the work goes down here. That's the update on Madagascar. It is going great though;

Elder Wolfgramm

Monday, October 2, 2017

Oct.2 Ny zanako malalako

This week I got my kid, AKA I am training a trainee, his name is Elder Oberhansley.  He is so cool. I really got the best of all of the trainees! He is from Mapleton and went to Maple Mountain high school, he was a beast in high school and played football, he has a strong testimony and is willing to work hard for the Lord. We are working really hard right now to get these people closer to God and to get baptized please keep us in your prayers and especially white people here in Madagascar. All of our investigators are going great, Josephs family should be getting baptized in this next week. Also we are finding a bunch of really cool new people. The only thing that is hard right now is that we have given some of our dope investigators to the other elders that are working here with us in Ampefiloha until they go back to Tamatave. Please pray for the people here and all that they are doing.

Thanks for all the support and letters...

Elder Wolfgramm