8-4-14 Elder Miller's Birthday!!

Crazy week. Last Monday we did some cool shopping and I got this Lamba of a Map of Madagascar. Its awesome. I started getting sick last week so we slept some. Then Tuesday and Wednesday I was sick in bed and it was terrible. I also literally slept 2 days straight. But I've been getting better from my sickness and Thursday was rough but then the days following haven't been quite as bad. On Friday we went to teach an investigator but he wasn't there. His cousin was though but she couldn't learn because it was her birthday. Then I learned the Malagasy way to celebrate birthdays apparently. You get flour and eggs. Then people throw flour at you and break the eggs open on you. And what timing. Guess what today is. My birthday. I'm probably going to get egged today. We go teaching with the branch missionaries a lot(which are just the youth in our ward). They are all way cool by the way. And they sounded pretty excited to be doing this.... I also tried my first mofo akondro. Which are fried bananas. They are actually pretty good and like 100 AR each so super cheap. When we were teaching on Friday night, one of the branch missionaries that goes with us a lot, Francois, fell asleep during the Restoration Film we were showing a 12 year old investigator. His family are all members but he isn't. Anyways we got our cameras out and took some pictures of him sleeping and Elder Lehr took a video of him just sitting there sleeping and it was pretty hilarious. The family knows him well too and they thought it was hilarious.

Saturday morning our water turned off right after everyone else showered but me. And my hair is fairly long right now,(for a missionary) and so I had it sticking all up. And we had no water so I couldn't shower or fix it at all. Haha. Then that night we found out that some kids playing around had turned it off. :( Wow! Saturday at the church we finally ran into the book guy too! So I'm getting a cover for my English Scrips and my Malagasy ones! Its great. But it takes a week so I'm a little crippled scripture wise for a week. We went to a couples house to teach them but they couldn't then because he was sick. But there kids are all members and love missionaries so we played around and took some pictures with them for awhile. Its amazing how time flies when you are with kids haha.

Then Sunday night I made something really amazing. At a little shop you can buy doughnuts that are just plain doughnuts. Good but plain. All the ippisearies also sell chocolate. So I melted the chocolate and dipped the doughnuts in them and put them in the fridge. Then this morning I microwaved them a little to warm it up and OH my they were so good. Probably the best thing I've had in Madagascar ha, I cut one and gave a third of a doughnut to each of the missionaries in the house and they all agreed.

But I did something stupid and tried microwaving the chocolate first so I burnt it. Gross. And yesterday as we were walking to someones house there was a band across the way and across a little river playing songs like the Saints Go Marching In and another song. They were pretty bad and the trumpet was really blatty but I was dancing to it with some of the branch missionaries which was fun. The branch missionaries are really fun and pretty amazing. And yeah its my birthday today so we have some sweet stuff planned.
Elder Miller