Sorry no pictures this week. Hopefully Wesley sent some.
It has been really cool seeing Wesley, especially when we get to go see people that he knew. I thought it would be weird, but it's not. It feels really normal. It is fun serving in one of the wards he did.
This week has been a pretty normal week. We have some investigators that are really progressing, and we are really exited for them. They should get baptized sometime in July. One of them is a family with 2 little kids. The dad has come for two weeks, but it had been too cold for the mom to come with her less than a month old baby. On Wednesday we explained the importance of church attendance before and after baptism, and she was able to come!!!!!!!!!!!! It was really exciting!!!!
So today all the missionaries here in Tana (Antananarivo) had a basketball tournament. I've easily played more basketball on my mission then I have in the last 10 years of my life. It has been fun, especially because there aren't too many elders that are taller than me, (there are a few that are really tall though) so I do OK. My team lost in the semifinals, but it's really fun to see all the African elders play. We have a lot of elders from all over the world, and we keep getting more and more from Africa, specifically South Africa. It's really neat. Most of them touched a basketball for the first time here in Mada (Madagascar). Apparently basketball isn't very big in Africa, but Malagasies seem to love it.
On Thursday I got to go on a split with Elder Tambula from Uganda. He is a really cool guy. He became a member only 3 years ago!!! He also lives in the middle of nowhere, 27 kilometers from the nearest church building. when he left his home town still didn't have electricity, and he only gets to talk to his mom when we call because his mom lives to far from a cyber. I was way impressed with him. One last fun fact is that Uganda has like 56 different spoken languages. Malagasy is his 6th language!!!!!!!!!!
So that's it for the week.
Word of the week is zazakely which means baby or little kid.
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