August 15

August 15, 2016

It wasn't the easiest week of my mission, but it ended on a good note. We had a baptism on Saturday! Baptisms are wonderful experiences. I was originally going to baptize a young women named Rasiarisoa Faratina Christine and Elder Ncoyo was going to baptized a 20 year old guy named Randriajafitombo Donah Lidot, but we switched because Elder Ncoyo had trouble saying his name. I love Malagasy names! They are so long and are often intermixed with French and English names and so hard to say. Even Malagasies sometimes have a hard time saying each other's names. I've gotten pretty good at saying them though. The key is to sound it out one letter at a time.

Other than then the baptism not a whole lot happened this week. We are spending a lot of time right now trying to find new investigators. Many of the ones we had live in what is now the sister's area. Which is a little sad for me because I really loved teaching a lot of them.

On a fun note, we played soccer with our ward on Saturday and almost found a new investigator through it! However as the story goes he didn't actually show up to church on Sunday.

Word of the week is anarana which means name.

The last pic is where we get our haircut.