My week was pretty uneventful too, everyone was getting ready for the independance day celebration, so we had nothing to do most of the week. I did find a really really really awesome family when I was tracting though! It was a really cool experience!

So I was on splits with Elder McIntire, my zone leader and we had nothing to do for 2 hours thanks to dropping people. I really had no idea where to tract since I've been in the area so long I have tracted pretty much the entire area, so I just started walking around not knowing where to go, and I don't really see anyone who is even going to let us in. One person told me that there weren't any people that could learn, and I asked her if she was a person, and they only laughed, no one wanted to learn... just because of the 26th and such. So we took a little break after our first hour of contacting and tracting and just talked about what was going on, how everything is and what not, then I said we were going to go because I didn't like the thought of wasting so much time sitting down and not doing anything. We took off and tried a different area we don't go to too often and well, there wasn't anyone even home! So we took off to the other side of my area, a 15 to 20 minute walk and we end up passing a store and elder McIntire gets some real american syrup that was on sale, but then we continue on. I didn't see any openings to go into places, so we walked another 5 minutes and I get a strange feeling to go into an alley way, and so we did, we jumped around a water pump on the side of the road and went down the little shady alley way, walk around a barrier and get to a huge complex of 5 houses. There were little kids trying to talk in french to us and I told them we speak malagasy and asked if their parents were home, to which they laughed and ran upstairs, got a different kid, and I repeated the same question, to which the kids just ran upstairs... So I followed them. We walk into a house and there is a couple families sitting around talking, and one man just laying under his covers. They invite us in and we just talked for a while. They were so excited just to talk to us and to know that there are white people that care and speak their language. I found out the guy laying under his covers fell off his balcony 6 years ago and couldn't walk anymore, but his wife was still with him and they were extremely happy. We taught them a bit of the first lesson, some scattered parts since they were so excited and asked so many questions. They were just so happy, and they guy wants to come to church, he just can't unless someone drives him. They were one of the most happy families, but they are in some of the worst conditions. It really inspired me to know that God prepares people like this, and the best part was at the end when i scheduled our next appointment for the following week, they were sad that we couldn't come sooner! They were that interested in our message! Madagascar is awesome!

I did get the pictures you emailed last week and all the music, thanks for that. I really don't have much else to tell you today, sorry!

Oh yeah, next emails are coming on tuesday, I am going to ampify for the 4th of july! sorry!

Hope you enjoy the story!

Elder Nash