Hello Friends and
Fam,
I am sorry for my absence of words, but my absence of work is no
where to be found. I am just tryin' to kill it and give the Lord everything
every week.. Things are great here. First things first, happy birthday to
Kristi and Jonathan! (last tuesday?) love y'all, and also to sweet little
Millie. I miss you cutie. gettin' so old (5). Oh secondly, I recently got two letters
here! that doesn't happen much! One was from the Katy Third Ward (or whatever
the name is now Grand Lakes or something) and the other from Emily Field. Just
a heads up. I got 'em. probably came a couple weeks ago, but i just went to the
office last Tuesday. responses to come...maybe. haha
Anyways, I am still in Ivandry. which is in Tana. Rich is still
in Tamatave. I had an interview with president the other day and he may have
mentioned we could be companions haha that would be sweet if rich could kill me
out here! (be my last companion) he's doing great. I talk to him twice a week of
so now a days. He's a great missionary, Elder Bassett.
More about the area real
quick. Another plus thirty hour teaching and finding week, with over 40 lessons
again. hard work. the desire to quit increased each day. but no. not this time
Satan. push through. smile. have a good time. serve. i love it. service with a
smile. if you are truly serving, that smile will never be forced.
Agency is great. I can teach so many lessons but i cant pray for
you. i can work so many hours but i cant drag you to church. The message is simple!
learn, pray, search! just do it. your life will be changed for ever.
So a couple cool stories. Elder Cooley and I tracted into a two
neighbors a while ago then he left. It turns out those two neighbors are
brother and sister. and it turns out that pretty much every other neighbor by
them is fam. we recently started teaching another sister and a nephew. the
nephew has since dogged us every time and lied to us about not being home and ya
ya ya. thanks chief. but the work is going well. i love it.
Another one...i forgot it. this message has been cut in about 4
piece. the current couldn't support the computer i was on so it died like three
times then i switched to another one and then that died twice. #ThirdWorldProbs
sorry peeps.
Oh last thing! i almost got in a fight this week! it was way
funny. So last night i was walking to our last time at about 7 at night. it was
already dark and I'm just walking up the busy path. a guy walking towards me
outta no where cuts into a chest bumps and says "Miseur" and I push
him off me like "ataovy serie letsy e!" (be serious dude) and he
studders like four feet backwards cause he's drunk haha and he starts coming
towards me again but luckily for him his friends stopped him haha another shove
and he woulda been on the ground haha i dropped my pen and one of his friends
helped me find it and was like "sorry man, have a good night" and me
and my comp just laughed about it. thats the closest I've been to danger here.
so dont worry.
I got some pics this week. But only from my comp. I lent my
camera to our first counselor in the Bishopric. He got married last week and
today hes going to South Africa to get sealed in the temple! good for Haja.
solid guy. served a mission in Congo a year or two ago. anyways I got pics of a
service thing we did for an investigator. and some other stuff.
i love you!
love,
Elder Grant
Schroedter
we played soccer a
few weeks back against ankorondrano. we got destroyed haha they got new jerseys
so we used their old ones.
one member in our
ward literally has an american house. they have a pool. this is her sons
wardrobe. hey batman.
the district.
probably the most diverse one youll ever get. only one ute. one texan. a
californian. a philipino. and a new zealander. oh and my malagasy.
building benches.
we cut long wooden sticks. into smaller sticks with a hachet or saw then used
the hachet to make em into points.
thanks boy scouts.
and thanks mission for giving me no endurance in my arms...
cutie
Elder Calimpong
choppin
our ballin
investigator - Heritiana. Solid guy. stallion.
look whose in tana.
the middle two i knew from mahajanga
sunset.
