Monday, December 14, 2015

Cirque Rouge

Dia ahaona isika jaby e?!

How is everyone doing? Ya'll getting prepared for Christmas? It's crazy to think that Christmas is almost upon us again. One year ago I spent my first Christmas on the mission in Tamatave and now I'll be having my final one here in Mahajanga. I'm so pumped! Christmas is such an amazing time of the year even if the people around you don't celebrate it the way it's supposed to be celebrated. It's a time that we can focus on Christ and his birth. In the grand scheme of things, if you really think about, everything we do is centered around Christ and his gospel. It's something truly amazing and the Christmas season helps us remember him in our individual lives.

We had a great work week this week! Elder Wootan and I are still trying to train all of the auxiliary leaders in the Branch and we almost caught them all this week. We've started to notice some small changes in the Branch but nothing big yet. But hey, by small and simple things are great things to come to pass. I'm sure in the future we'll start to see some big changes in this branch, especially from the leaders.

We did so much contacting this last week and found a whole bunch of new people to teach. Ever since the baptisms a couple of weeks ago we have been struggling to find some progressing investigators....As a result of that, a lot of people have been dropped from our program and we are starting to look for some new people teach. We found a lot this last week and we have times set up with all of them this week. I guess we'll find out this week if they're all ready for the gospel in their lives.

One cool thing that happened this week was Victor received a calling yesterday during sacrament meeting. He is now the second counselor in the Young Men's Presidency. I'm so happy for Victor and he's going to do great in his new calling. During our time with him this week he told us that he wants to start learning all his duties as an Aaronic Priesthood holder so he can better understand what he needs to do to help this branch. Victor just gets it, plain and simple, and we can't wait to see what other leadership positions he'll hold in the future.

Well, that's about all I got today. We did go to this place today called Cirque Rouge which looks exactly like Southern Utah with red rocks and everything, so I guess that's pretty cool and I'll send home a whole bunch of Pics. Anyways, I love you all so much and I can't wait to Skype next week!


Love, Elder Stringfellow

PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
The Neighbor "Hood"
The Hood
The Hood
The Hood
The Hood
Last Night's Dinner

Cirque Rouge
Cirque Rouge
This is Sandratra. He's our Branch Secretary and he came with us today to Cirque Rouge
Cirque Rouge
Ryan at Cirque Rouge
Cirque Rouge
Cirque Rouge
Cirque Rouge
Cirque Rouge
This is Sandratra. He's our Branch Secretary and he came with us today to Cirque Rouge

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