Mar 25 - TRANT (30)

What's up family and friends? This week honestly feels like a pretty long week. Last week we had the district conference and this week was just jam packed with lessons and times.

Some highlights of the week are Ange, Kilary, and Tsy kivy:

So to start off with Ange, we have been teaching Ange for like 3 weeks now and he is loving the lessons every time we come he is ready and prepared for us to teach him. He always tells us that we don't spend enough time with him and that we need to stay longer and give him more. He has told us that he is convinced that our church is true and that just logically the Book of Mormon is the word of God, he still needs some time to read it and come to know the spirit that tells him it is true. He is progressing really well.

Kilary, Kilary is not the smartest man in the world but he is definitely one of the most humble who is ready for the gospel. He has come to church the past 2 weeks and has been reading the pamphlet and asking great questions, his job right now is he purchases alcohol and the sells it to stores, that then sell it to people. He asked us this week if god was ok with it, and he justified it by saying that he is not selling it to anyone and he doesn't drink it, it just gives him money. We asked him what he thinks god thinks about it, he said he probably doesn't like it, I told him he is probably right. So we will see if he quits his job.

Finally Tsy kivy, we taught him for the first time last night, he was really interested about it and looking forward all of our teachings. We gave him a pamphlet and told him he needs to read it before our next time. He was really excited and told us he would read it that night, I didn't believe him because it was already like 8 at night and usually Malagasy's go to bed at 9, but at about 11:30 at night last night he sent a message that said "I have read the pamphlet and I love it and am looking forward to the next time I see you, have a great night." 

Life is going great here in Fort D, this Saturday we will have another baptism. I love my mission and my time to serve here.

Elder Wolfgramm

Mar 18 - lasa lehibe fort dauphin

This week was wonderful..... highlights of the week are that Fort Dauphin has become a district this past week, I got to watch the organization of a district this past week. Also Ivan and Zarasoa got married this past week it was wonderful.

Yesterday we got to witness a creation of a district here in Fort Dauphine with the calling of a district presidency. Danilson will be the first counselor in the district presidency, and we now have a new branch president who is going to be stretched and learn a lot it is going to be wonderful.

Also Ivan and Zarasoa got married. there are so many blessings from living the gospel one of them is, that now when ever Ivan and Zarasoa look at each other they can say we are a family. we are married and not just 2 people living together but an actual family. It is way cool. It is a big deal for them to get married they were trying to save up enough money so that they could get their copies from there home town so that they could get legally married. They had to save up 8000 ari ari to get out to there home town. It was a big sacrifice which caused them to work over and work on extra days to try to find enough money to get out there. 8000 ari ari is a lot of money for them it is like 2 days salary. Just to keep it in perspective that is $2.50. It really is a different world out here. Two and a half dollars were keeping them from their marriage/baptism for so long. We were going out that way on a p-day and so me and Elder Hunter ran into their city and got there copies for them and paid for them. They got married this past Thursday and now nothing is holding them back from getting baptized on the 31 of March.

I love it out here the people are great and the language is beautiful.
be safe where ever you are and trust that all will work out:/

Elder Wolfgramm

March 5 - fivoriana avao

Well this week we had a ton of fun. Involving weddings, new investigators and meetings with a member of the seventy. It started off on Thursday right before me and Elder Hunter flew off to Tana. We had two of our investigators get married and should be getting baptized this Saturday we will be doing the interview tonight, and hopefully they can pass it. Then we flew off to Tana. In Tana we had an MLC conference with Elder Palmer of the seventy, you may remember him, he gave the talk about Beholding and Loving those that Disappoint us. I learned so much from the MLC and have tons of great thoughts and ideas to apply into my teaching and leading. We then on Friday drove with the Palmers to the airport and boarded a plane with them to Fort Dauphin. It was really cool I got a lot of personal time with him. I again learned a lot. I have loved my time and the things I have learned. We then had a great zone conference with him on Sunday after church where we learned even more wonderful things.

That is the time I have today.

Elder Wolfgramm