Happy Thursday

Well it has been another insanely fast week. The Language is improving and I got to work with my teachers one on one so that helped a lot. The other day Elder Reich and I taught Salofo, that is our other teachers investigator name, about the importance of reading the scriptures. After we finish they give us feed back on what we can work on, but this time he told us that language wise we were the worst out of the groups that taught him. Still good but it was rough. Anyway he then told us that we were the only group where he felt the spirit. He also said that it was one of the most spiritual moments he has had as a teacher here, I learned that no matter how good we are at the language, if we have the spirit we can do miracles. That was by far the best lesson that we have taught so far.

Another one of our teachers told us that he truly believes that we can teach better in Malagasy than we can in English. I believe that to. We have to be as simple as we can possibly be and it helps the investigators understand a lot better than if we go off in English. So that was a really good confidence booster this week.

We still haven't had any major General Authorities come and speak to us yet. We had Brother Groberg talk to us, if you know who that is. He is the guy that the movie The Other Side of Heaven is based on. That was a really good talk. I don't think that I have ever taken so many notes in my life.

One of the Elders in my zone told me that in 9 days we will be 1/24 of the way finished with our missions. Time is going by so fast. I just can't wait to get to Madagascar. We hopefully find out our flight plans next week. I will let you know how that goes. My district also gets to host the new missionaries this upcoming Wednesday. 3 of my friends came in this Wednesday. One of them, Elder Cutler Johnson, is just down the hall from me in our residence building.

I don't know how much weight I have gained, last time I checked I was 207. Our teachers told us to expect to lose a lot of it out in Madagascar. They have told us some of their stories which are pretty awesome. They told us to expect rats in our houses, not little ones either. They each got to kill chickens and turkey for their food. One of them got to eat spiders. Don't worry they were fried. They said that the only lemurs they saw were in zoos, because they are endangered. Depending on where I am i could baptize people in the ocean or in other bodies of water. They also have portable fonts made out of pvc pipe. I can't think of any thing else they told us.

Before I go is bishop coming to the main campus? And don't worry about me getting homesick, I haven't missed home at all. I hope that doesn't sound bad. Anyway, Tiako anao (I love you). Veloma (good bye).

Elder Hammer