So, stories, I made sure I did not forget my planner so I could write a good amount today :) To start it off, had 3 new baps this past saturday, the water felt sooo freaking good that day, goodness, like 4 and just felt awesome!! We also had transfers this week, I got a new elder and his name is clark, he is pretty freaking legit, pretty laid back guy and prochnow got a new elder as well and his name is lunt!
lunt is from duncan AZ! But clark is mine and he is dope, we got big plans and I think we are going to enjoy the next month or two together, plus our house is sick! So yea :) haha before I forget, we have tennis balls in the house and prochnow was trying to get me, and you have to remmeber how hot it is here, and he threw it and got one of the best funs and straight busted it hahahaha, that was such a funny day, Also, when I was with reynolds, we went to petite plage, one of the best beaches to go to on the island, besides grand privoiore, which we are going to both of those probably today :DD, petite plage is a lot of people and the other beach is opposite, hardly any people but gorgeous, we also revamped the house because prochnow and I became the bosses ha, deba is malagasy for boss by the way :), we put all the beds in one room and all the study stuff in one room, cleaned the house which took us two houses to clean two rooms!!
freaking crazy!! we cleaned it the night Reynolds and oyoukou were leaving, so we decided to pull another all nighter, so from 3 to 5 we cleaned the house and they left then they others got there at 8 :) it was a pretty big party night, so with Reynodls leaving bought a good amount of things, went to BOLO!! a straight italian runned food place in madagascar, oh my goodness, the spagetti reminds me of dads ol spagetti, woowee, I was in heaven!! Also, nex tweek we are getting shark, all I have left to eat here is sea turtle, seagall, bat and yea, I might get the seagall this week hopefully!! we saw it at a resturant kind of thing, also on a side note, president is coming up again on saturday through monday! hahaha, guess also what I ate, freaking liver, probably one of the better foods I have eaten here too, woowee was it good, the vazaha(white non mada) guy made it :))) he is such a good cook I love it! Also, a fomba or like a custom I guess you would call it is when it is someones birthday you throw flour on them, cause then it turns them white :) lol just kidding!! but that is really what you do, and Reynolds and I got to do it to one of our favorite members, it was so awesome :) saw my first lightning storm from far off and goodness gracious, I am excited, that sucker was huge, and one things that happens here is there is no sound from the lightning, it does not make sense scientifically but it is freaking cool haha! so sort of longer story for you!! so, when clark came here I gave him the keys, he went to go play basketball with lunt while prochnow and I went and bought things, that night we went to the board, a big place to eat, and got a taxi home and we get home and go to bed, wake up and I ask clark if he has the keys and he could not find them!! so we freaked for awhile and said whatever, went out to work, came home and waited for the other two because we could not get in, then I realized I dead bolted it so noone could get in lol, so I had to jump on the balcony and break a door, no good but it had to be done!! then later that night we go to that restuarnt place and a guy walks up to us and in broken english says you left your keys at the basketball place!! and he had ALL the important keys, so yea we hurry and get over there and we do not see him so we go ask some people playing cards where he lives and one guy starts being really persistant and asking us all these question and after abuot 10 minutes clark is getting pissed haha, I tell him lets go ask somebody else and right then he yells at us and says he has the keys, it was awesome :) also!! I decided what I am doing with my uku!! I am going to bring it around with me, then get a rosewood at home!! hopefully it works out :) if I remember right that be it!! hope you enjoyed!! lots of jumping around!! Ive been dreaming in malagasy so yea..brain is starting to get mixed up, sorry, love you :)
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NGA (goodness gracious) 9-18-2011
Goodness gracious. I did enjoy this email very much! By the way, I love how you were thinking about Shirley :)) lol that part made me laugh too much :) (surely)
My week has been interesting for sure. We had a missionary leave this week, that was pretty weird cause he is the group ahead of me and he had to go back to america to get surgery, and I realized I am 2 weeks from 6 months!! almost a fourth!! gosh dang haha, I forgot my planner today so I can not remembner what I was going to write....BUT! Ill wing it :) This week I learned a little bit of french haha, been studying it here and there because a lot of malagasies speak french, that is like there dream stuff, if you are good at there you get a lot of good jobs and what not so yea!! figured why not, I speak malagasy all day and can learn french while I am here as well. But going back, I learned this phrase, J ai rougeurs sur mes.... the guy I said it to, he is fluent in french and still learning english, from congo, so funny, he freaked out once he understood what I said he said oooooo crap!! You are screwed in broken engish haha that night was awesome, aiyah!! I remember one!! This week we were working with a member and at night we thought we would get shiskabobs with him for helping us, then there is this ALWAYS drunk guy, he came up and starting dancing and slowly sitting next to us, but the owners did not like that, and started just beating the crap out of him, but he is always happy and he thought it was the funniest thing. Then the next day we were walking around our area and a bunch of kids saw us and started to run away, but one in particular, looked back to see if we were running and smacked right into a car lol, straight out of a movie, then jumped on a concrete thing and slipped, he was so sketched out by us lol so funny though, he was like 4 :) we had a time this week too, Elder Prochnow and I, we had a bunch of member presents and made everyone share their testimonies and some of them had CRAZY stories, and the investigator Zara, starting crying, she is WAY cool though! I figured out how to say goodness gracious this week too, it is Nga!! you raise your voice and the ending and that is goodness gracious lol That is pretty much all I got!!
Love you guys :)
Peace, stay good
Aza Maditra ianareo :)
My week has been interesting for sure. We had a missionary leave this week, that was pretty weird cause he is the group ahead of me and he had to go back to america to get surgery, and I realized I am 2 weeks from 6 months!! almost a fourth!! gosh dang haha, I forgot my planner today so I can not remembner what I was going to write....BUT! Ill wing it :) This week I learned a little bit of french haha, been studying it here and there because a lot of malagasies speak french, that is like there dream stuff, if you are good at there you get a lot of good jobs and what not so yea!! figured why not, I speak malagasy all day and can learn french while I am here as well. But going back, I learned this phrase, J ai rougeurs sur mes.... the guy I said it to, he is fluent in french and still learning english, from congo, so funny, he freaked out once he understood what I said he said oooooo crap!! You are screwed in broken engish haha that night was awesome, aiyah!! I remember one!! This week we were working with a member and at night we thought we would get shiskabobs with him for helping us, then there is this ALWAYS drunk guy, he came up and starting dancing and slowly sitting next to us, but the owners did not like that, and started just beating the crap out of him, but he is always happy and he thought it was the funniest thing. Then the next day we were walking around our area and a bunch of kids saw us and started to run away, but one in particular, looked back to see if we were running and smacked right into a car lol, straight out of a movie, then jumped on a concrete thing and slipped, he was so sketched out by us lol so funny though, he was like 4 :) we had a time this week too, Elder Prochnow and I, we had a bunch of member presents and made everyone share their testimonies and some of them had CRAZY stories, and the investigator Zara, starting crying, she is WAY cool though! I figured out how to say goodness gracious this week too, it is Nga!! you raise your voice and the ending and that is goodness gracious lol That is pretty much all I got!!
Love you guys :)
Peace, stay good
Aza Maditra ianareo :)
Shark (9/11/2011)
So, not much happened this week, Tonga dia vita. So,
there is four missionaries in our house.
On Wednesday, I went on splits which means splits, I went with the
other missionaires, so we just switched pretty much, and it was sooo fun,
usually the mornings are not that fun but the afternoon is just awesome, so
many little Congo culture things that are just hilarious, and broken English
just makes it ten times better, like he says bizarre a lot, It is just bizarre! love it :) we got shark this week too :))lol freak,
umm... YEA! TRACTING!!
doing missionary work all week!! Putting in
work haha, should be pushing 13 baptisms soon!! thats my week :)
A letter from Taytum (9/5/2011)
DEAR DYLAN
I MISS YOU HOW WAS YOUR DAY TODAY HOW IS ELDER REYNOLDS
WHAT ARE YOU AND YOUR COMPANION HOW IS BREAKFAST WHAT DID EAT AND
WHO DID YOU SIT BY IT IS NIGHT TIME IT IS AMOST TIME FOR ME TO GO TO
BED. HOW WAS YOUR DAY LIKE. WHAT IS ELDER REYNOLDS DOING RIGHT NOW.DO
YOU SWIM IN THE OCEAN LIKE.DO YOU HAVE ANY FRIENDS.DO YOU SLEEP ON THE
TOP OF THE BED.OR THE BOTTUM OF THE BED. IS THERE A PLAYGROND THERE
BECAUSE I LOVE PLAYGRONDS THERE FUN.HOW MANY PRIMARY KIDS ARE
THERE.WHAT IS MATAGASGAR LIKE.WHAT IS YOUR FAVROITE SONG IN CHURCH.ARE
THERE SHARKS IN THE OCEAN . WHAT IS THE WETHER LIKE IS IT COLD OR HOT.WHAT ARE YOU HAVING FOR DENNER TO NIGHT.
love taytum
DYLAN'S RESPONSE:
Dear Taytum!!
my day has been really awesome!! we got to go see BUNCHES of leemers and way cool animals haha, this morning and usually every morning I go to a certain store and get this piece of bread with noodles and spagetti, it is SUPER good!! and the lady at the store is usually way cool :) how has school been?? I heard you have been doing really good and started karate again!! do you like it?? haha I actually have my own bed! and there is playgrounds, I see them all over theplace cause I go walking around ALL day!! and have not seen much sharks but I will be eating shark and seaturtle and seagall and stingray VERY soon :) I should bee eating rice tonight, what about you?? I miss making food withyou!! hope you are doing good!!
love ya!
I MISS YOU HOW WAS YOUR DAY TODAY HOW IS ELDER REYNOLDS
WHAT ARE YOU AND YOUR COMPANION HOW IS BREAKFAST WHAT DID EAT AND
WHO DID YOU SIT BY IT IS NIGHT TIME IT IS AMOST TIME FOR ME TO GO TO
BED. HOW WAS YOUR DAY LIKE. WHAT IS ELDER REYNOLDS DOING RIGHT NOW.DO
YOU SWIM IN THE OCEAN LIKE.DO YOU HAVE ANY FRIENDS.DO YOU SLEEP ON THE
TOP OF THE BED.OR THE BOTTUM OF THE BED. IS THERE A PLAYGROND THERE
BECAUSE I LOVE PLAYGRONDS THERE FUN.HOW MANY PRIMARY KIDS ARE
THERE.WHAT IS MATAGASGAR LIKE.WHAT IS YOUR FAVROITE SONG IN CHURCH.ARE
THERE SHARKS IN THE OCEAN . WHAT IS THE WETHER LIKE IS IT COLD OR HOT.WHAT ARE YOU HAVING FOR DENNER TO NIGHT.
love taytum
DYLAN'S RESPONSE:
Dear Taytum!!
my day has been really awesome!! we got to go see BUNCHES of leemers and way cool animals haha, this morning and usually every morning I go to a certain store and get this piece of bread with noodles and spagetti, it is SUPER good!! and the lady at the store is usually way cool :) how has school been?? I heard you have been doing really good and started karate again!! do you like it?? haha I actually have my own bed! and there is playgrounds, I see them all over theplace cause I go walking around ALL day!! and have not seen much sharks but I will be eating shark and seaturtle and seagall and stingray VERY soon :) I should bee eating rice tonight, what about you?? I miss making food withyou!! hope you are doing good!!
love ya!
Food, Glorius Food (9/5/2011)
A'ight g!! here we go again!! I have been trying to write a lot lately so yea... It is most likely going to be a lot haha :) haha first off, when we were teaching a time, we got about half way through and I heard off in the distance can you feel the love tonight, and since we are in Muslim central it sounded like it was coming off one of those and tripped me out bad haha, but i laughed so it was all good, I also met a lady named Olga, totally fit her name too, hairy legs but most malagasys do not shave their legs, broad shoulders, deeper voice, just straight and perfect description!!! but she was not half bad though!!
I did teach the guys in my house about the hand sanitzer stuff lol that was interesting, it is when you put a bunch of hand sanitzer on your hand and lite it on fire and it just chills there, freaked me out cause I have not done it in so long but they loved it! There is this one place called DAllas, it is the best rice and loak (the stuff you put on the rice, I do not know what it is in english) place EVER!! I get this stuff called coco shrimp and oh my goodness gracious each bite is apart of heaven!! hopefully we are going there tonight :D by the way, you know how in third world countries you always hear about cock fights, and goodness gracious they are interesting, it is so simple but they just happen everywhere and I am going to try and get a picture soon! they are really quite interesting! On saturday I did baptize a kid in the ocean!! it was legit, he just glowed haha, but we had a time before that and we were waiting for somebody and I decided to sit down without looking and sat in poop, that was just a great start to my day haha, but it was legit, then he was late for church and my comp was really freaking out!! but Elder Prochnow and I just did our thing :) Reynolds and I did get an idea as well, after every example our scripture in our teaching we are going to try and switch off, so that is definitely going to be difficult at first but should be way cool!! OH! along with Dallas, there is also called this beans called tsaramaso, supposedly in the states it is called butterbeans, THEY ARE SO FREAKING GOOD!! but not better than the coco shrimp!! I should be getting some tsaramaso (which litterly means good eyes) on wednesday when I do splits and go with the other missionary! :) Still talking about food, in malagasy brownies are called cockaroach bread, or mofo kadradraka, so people really think we get bugs and crush them up and that is where the color comes from! we were telling our favorite family that and saying it is soooo good!! and they were freaking out lol, but we are going to make it soon and Ill tell you how they react :) We gave 3 solid baps out this past week too! so we have 1 this weekend and 3 next week! got to love it!! putting in work!! some people are way cool too!! we would have 5 but a freaking husband is being a butthead! Oh my bad, on saturday, we were walking around and it was pretty dark, I look at the ground, thought it was good, jumped and just a big ol puddle, just lovely haha. OH SHOOT!!
last monday, I was in score, it is the same as shopright, like a mini walmart, and I see some white people and it is kind of weird all the time now, but one of them comes up to and me and says hey whats up, and all I could say whoa brother, you speak english!! he had a crazy story, he was born into madagascar, went to kenya when he was 15 to study, then seattle then back on a baptist mission, really cool guy, but a lil weird. I believe that is it cause that is all I wrote on my planner so yea OH SHOOT!! I did a hug from ma girlfriend this week, she is about4 and her name is sabrina haha, she is the coolest lil girl, she told Elder Prochnow to shutup during church. Amin manaraka
:)
So! You could add totsie rolls, the red green and orange one ONLY!!
blue and white be nasty!! and the chocolate ones :))) fruit slices!!
smarites and skittles :) do not forget licorice too!! and some paydays if possible, which by the way, payday means gay in french if I remember right haha, if you can send an upload thing, a 3 point 0 thing that would be cool!! umm...oh freak!! if you can fit it put in vanilla frosting!! yea the rings are alright, can you put on the blog or if anyone asks to send a package, either say wrap that sucker up TIGHT!! or put it in a brown paper and write the address on the paper!
one of the two! I believe that is it! By the way, I realized the family picture you sent me, Ill always remember richard just looking mad haha, I might need a new one soon :P
I did teach the guys in my house about the hand sanitzer stuff lol that was interesting, it is when you put a bunch of hand sanitzer on your hand and lite it on fire and it just chills there, freaked me out cause I have not done it in so long but they loved it! There is this one place called DAllas, it is the best rice and loak (the stuff you put on the rice, I do not know what it is in english) place EVER!! I get this stuff called coco shrimp and oh my goodness gracious each bite is apart of heaven!! hopefully we are going there tonight :D by the way, you know how in third world countries you always hear about cock fights, and goodness gracious they are interesting, it is so simple but they just happen everywhere and I am going to try and get a picture soon! they are really quite interesting! On saturday I did baptize a kid in the ocean!! it was legit, he just glowed haha, but we had a time before that and we were waiting for somebody and I decided to sit down without looking and sat in poop, that was just a great start to my day haha, but it was legit, then he was late for church and my comp was really freaking out!! but Elder Prochnow and I just did our thing :) Reynolds and I did get an idea as well, after every example our scripture in our teaching we are going to try and switch off, so that is definitely going to be difficult at first but should be way cool!! OH! along with Dallas, there is also called this beans called tsaramaso, supposedly in the states it is called butterbeans, THEY ARE SO FREAKING GOOD!! but not better than the coco shrimp!! I should be getting some tsaramaso (which litterly means good eyes) on wednesday when I do splits and go with the other missionary! :) Still talking about food, in malagasy brownies are called cockaroach bread, or mofo kadradraka, so people really think we get bugs and crush them up and that is where the color comes from! we were telling our favorite family that and saying it is soooo good!! and they were freaking out lol, but we are going to make it soon and Ill tell you how they react :) We gave 3 solid baps out this past week too! so we have 1 this weekend and 3 next week! got to love it!! putting in work!! some people are way cool too!! we would have 5 but a freaking husband is being a butthead! Oh my bad, on saturday, we were walking around and it was pretty dark, I look at the ground, thought it was good, jumped and just a big ol puddle, just lovely haha. OH SHOOT!!
last monday, I was in score, it is the same as shopright, like a mini walmart, and I see some white people and it is kind of weird all the time now, but one of them comes up to and me and says hey whats up, and all I could say whoa brother, you speak english!! he had a crazy story, he was born into madagascar, went to kenya when he was 15 to study, then seattle then back on a baptist mission, really cool guy, but a lil weird. I believe that is it cause that is all I wrote on my planner so yea OH SHOOT!! I did a hug from ma girlfriend this week, she is about4 and her name is sabrina haha, she is the coolest lil girl, she told Elder Prochnow to shutup during church. Amin manaraka
:)
So! You could add totsie rolls, the red green and orange one ONLY!!
blue and white be nasty!! and the chocolate ones :))) fruit slices!!
smarites and skittles :) do not forget licorice too!! and some paydays if possible, which by the way, payday means gay in french if I remember right haha, if you can send an upload thing, a 3 point 0 thing that would be cool!! umm...oh freak!! if you can fit it put in vanilla frosting!! yea the rings are alright, can you put on the blog or if anyone asks to send a package, either say wrap that sucker up TIGHT!! or put it in a brown paper and write the address on the paper!
one of the two! I believe that is it! By the way, I realized the family picture you sent me, Ill always remember richard just looking mad haha, I might need a new one soon :P
I'm his little Thuglet!
MOM: So what are the rules on the water there? Are you guys allowed to go into the water on your p-days? Boy are you ever white!
DYLAN: Haha no water on monday, only Baptisms!
MOM: Had to get the "official" word. As every mission is different. Ya know g?
DYLAN: Haha I hear ya, that is kind of a sketchy rule, so will not be breaking that one, I hear ya lil thuglet :)
DYLAN: Haha no water on monday, only Baptisms!
MOM: Had to get the "official" word. As every mission is different. Ya know g?
DYLAN: Haha I hear ya, that is kind of a sketchy rule, so will not be breaking that one, I hear ya lil thuglet :)
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| A real Vazaha! |
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| The Big Thug! |
Question & Answer (8/22/2011)
Here are some more questions that I asked to Dylan a few weeks ago.
Q. how are you feeling lately?BR>
A. I’ve been good still, had a bad case of poop lately but still good!
Q. How is the church there? Is it just as noisy as home?
A. the church is noisy cause it is by the street, but that is what home was like so I enjoy it
Q. Are you loving your new area?
A. Love love the new area.
Q.Did you get Dayna’s letter yet?
A. Dayna’s letter should be back in Tana but I will not get it till September when president comes up. If you can get a package out before soon cause I’ll grab them all in October but after that I do not know when I’ll get them!!
Q. Is it colder there than in Anjanahany?
A. It is definitely hotter here in Mahajanga but I love it
Q. Who is your companion and how long has he been out?
A. Elder Reynolds from Colorado
Q. Are you gonna do any sigh seeing soon?
A. Sightseeing a little bit more each day!!
Q. How is your testimony coming?
A. Testimony is going good!!
Q. how are you feeling lately?BR>
A. I’ve been good still, had a bad case of poop lately but still good!
Q. How is the church there? Is it just as noisy as home?
A. the church is noisy cause it is by the street, but that is what home was like so I enjoy it
Q. Are you loving your new area?
A. Love love the new area.
Q.Did you get Dayna’s letter yet?
A. Dayna’s letter should be back in Tana but I will not get it till September when president comes up. If you can get a package out before soon cause I’ll grab them all in October but after that I do not know when I’ll get them!!
Q. Is it colder there than in Anjanahany?
A. It is definitely hotter here in Mahajanga but I love it
Q. Who is your companion and how long has he been out?
A. Elder Reynolds from Colorado
Q. Are you gonna do any sigh seeing soon?
A. Sightseeing a little bit more each day!!
Q. How is your testimony coming?
A. Testimony is going good!!
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