Baptism of Pascal!!

Hello,
The transfers have began. My companion Elder Monson was transferred on Friday.   I will be training a new missionary in the area that I am in now. I will not meet my "kid" until Thursday. Until then I will be living and working with the Zone Leaders.

The area is still going really good, we had 18 people at Church last Sunday and Pascal received his confirmation. I baptized him on Saturday at 2:00 pm.

Here are some other photos from the week.

Elder Allen

Twenty to Church

**We got  letter from the mission president that there is the Bubonic Plague in Tamatave, which is Sam's last area he was in. They have pulled all of the missionaries out of that area for now.  Luckily Sam is back in Tana doing great.  But I did get on his case to take his Doxycyline!!!  Always an adventure!!  Thanks for all of the love, prayers, and support!    Jenn

Hello,

There is nothing too new this week except that the work has been getting better. We had over 20 investigators at church this week and it was the first time for about five of them. Five regulars did not show up so the newbies made up for it. Next week if all goes well then we could possibly have 30 investigators at church. That would be the dream. We have been getting more and more investigators from the family of diligent investigators. They tell their families about the church and then they ask if they can learn from the missionaries as well. It has been pretty cool. We also have a Baptism this Saturday for Pascal.

These are some photos of Elder Monson's and my own suit that we just had made. It was about 110,000 Ar to make one. That is like 40 dollars.

Something new from this week is that last Monday while on a bus I was talking with the guy next to me who seemed to know a lot about the church. I got his address and then we went to talk with him that next day. When we got there he pulled out all the standard works and opened them up. He had every page full of marks and cross references. Every single line was highlighted in a different color. He went off about our church and how he knows it is true and started to rant on about all of his studies. He wants to go to America and share his studies of the Bible, The Book of Mormon, D&C, and the Pearl of Great Price with the Prophet. He is a pretty passionate guy and I felt bad telling him that I could not pay for his trip there.

That is the week.
Sincerely,
Elder Allen

A Pretty Good Turn Out

Hello,

The weeks have been going by quite quickly lately. We had about 20 investigators come to church yesterday. It was a pretty good turn out.

We have a baptism coming up for a young man named Pascal. He is a really smart kid that just understands it all. We do not have to do much explaining with him. He also comes to church every week. We have a couple of pretty cool families that we have been teaching lately as well. They all come to church and are all going to be baptized next transfer.

I have sent some photos of a plane that Elder Monson and I found while walking around in our area. It was pretty cool.

I finished reading the New Testament last week and I am almost finished with Doctrine and Covenants. I have read everything except the Old Testament, except I think I will just start reading the Book of Mormon again.

Last Monday I wanted to get a hair cut but I do not trust the Malagasies because they always give the missionaries "black man" cuts. That is all they are good at. I walked over to a hair cut place with my old comp, Elder Wilson and asked the guys if we could just use their clippers. It was really funny because the whole time the Malagasy guys were studying the way to cut a white man's hair.

That is all from the week.
Sincerely,
Elder Allen