Sounds like the trap shoot was a lot
of fun, and the steel challenge match went pretty well. Nice number of
shooters! Hopefully with Obama we can still enjoy that hobby. Doctrine and
Covenants 134 I believe. My opinion almost perfectly aligns with the churches
official declaration on the government. Protect the general welfare and god
given rights and then butt out.
I love you dad, thanks for helping
me out. I have been pretty kivy the last little while (depressed) so that
helped. I'm gonna do a little Christmas shopping today for the guys, so I will
pull out about 20 bucks. Should be enough to get everyone something. Wish I could buy gifts for $20. Also President Adams
is "sick of people being sick" so our allotment might go up from
365000 to 450000 which would be great because I am always fighting at the end
of the month to have money. Tht would give us 100000 per week for shopping and then
50000 for incidentals, shampoo, soap, haircuts and the like. Although I found
some clippers in analakely for pretty cheap so I got those and me and elder
McLaughlin gave eachother haircuts this morning. Pretty dope. They aren't
great, but they are about as good as the ones from the barber. And they are
free. In about 10 haircuts they will have paid for themselves. So yeah, pretty
sick. OK now why didn’t he send a picture of that?
So, we were waiting at a
bus stop the other day for our member help to show up, so we could go teach
this lady. While we were waiting, this old lady walks up. Picture in your mind a
lady, about four and a half feet tall, wearing about three coats, hair in a bun
on the front of her head (that is a malagasy old lady standard actually),
carrying a woven bag with something in it. She is missing more than a few teeth.
She walks by, stops, turns back towards us, and starts talking super loud. She
was saying "he is super handsome! I like him! Hey, handsome!" and
making kissy sounds. Tongue halfway out of the mouth kissy sounds. Yuck. Then I
realized she was looking directly at me. Yuck again. Then she goes "I like
that nose, I want to eat it!" and laughing hysterically. Oh man it was so
gross, but so funny. Oh man, I am laughing just thinking about it. We visited this new guy a few days ago, big guy, huge house, Apparently while we were there a famous malagasy singer was sitting on the couch but I didn't know who he was so he must not be that famous haha but anyway they were eating some leaves on a branch. They told us what it was called, and gave us some. You are just supposed to chew it until the flavor is gone and then stop and spit it out. So I had a leaf and it just tasted like a leaf so when we left I spit it out. Elder McLaughlin was a champ though, and ate like 12 or 15 leaves of the stuff. Then we went to teach him again the next week and we had a member with us. They offered us some more leaves but we politely declined because they were leaves haha but after we left our member goes, do you know what that stuff is? And we were like, well no, they said it makes your back and stomach strong. He says yeah maybe, but it's a drug. A drug. Elder McLaughlin goes, well it's a crappy drug then because I chewed like a whole branch and didn't feel anything. Apparently it's a smoking drug but still. Hmmm got to be careful when at investigators houses.
One more thing; make
sure Senora Leavitt reads this one. OK Angie I hope your reading. I was sitting in a time the other day, music playing super loud in
the next house. I didn't really understand what it was because it was some
distance away. I thought to myself, wow this old school malagasy music sounds a
lot like old school mexican music. Then it got to the chorus. It was a song we
learned in spanish class, called "Eres tu" pretty hilarious if you
ask me haha but yeah that was pretty much everything interesting.
Last Saturday we played
basketball with one of our investigators, well sort of. I went to the
basketball court with Michael and Elder Walker and we did some messing around
stuff, the hoop was a little shorter too so I was dunking on all the malagasy
guys too. Then they cleared the court and told us they already had 5 games set
up to play so we couldn't play. But whatever, it was good to hold a basketball
again.
We talked about the
conference talk about the T-shirt so I asked, What would your T-shirt say?
My t-shirt would say "mandeha
foana, reraka foana, roa toana" it means going always, tired always, two
years, but it rhymes in Malagasy haha. Yeah, either that or just the title of
liberty. Not very inventive, but whatever.
Grant said "my real t-shirt
would say, "My sons are the reason that I live"
Nice, your first one sounded like a
missionary shirt. We have a saying here, "mandeha foana, reraka
foana" it means going always, tired always. I get so exhausted here. I
have gone to sleep right after nightly planning the last few nights, about an
hour early. Still tired. But I'm surviving. He gets
really tired when he is growing. Could be interesting.
Nice food picture, looks
like meatless campers.
It is pretty much hash and eggs. There was corned beef in there. Not bad, but the potatoes here are funky sometimes. You have to find a good one to make anything with.
How is the living
arrangement thing going? All settled in with the 3rd set of Elders?
Yeah, we just don't really have a
living room and laundry is a pain because the power in our house is not the
best so we can only run the washer or the dryer, never both. One or the other
is always going. But yeah, not too bad.
When I served, we had to
write a weekly letter to the president that outlined how things were going in
our companionships and with our teaching. Do you have something like that?
Yeah, we email him and tell him
whatever we want to tell him.
Our ward only has a 40%
sacrament attendance rating and they want to improve it to 55%. I guess we need
to find some inactive people and try to get them active again.
Inactive work is where it's at!
People that believed at one time, and already had the lessons. It's way
different, but it's good! I like it, there are lots of inactives in Madagascar
too. You just have to find out why they left and what damage has been done
since they left. As soon as someone has weak moment Satan sneaks in.
We are gearing up for
Thanksgiving. Any ideas what you will do? Any turkeys in Mada? I found a turkey
Taylor drew for you so I will send it in the next package even though it will
be a little late.
I'm not sure what we will do,
probably buy a turkey and kill it and eat it. We might cook it but that is a
lot of work so I don't know. They do have turkey here, I'm not sure how much
they are. The picture will be great! I don't care when I get it haha.
Oh How would I send you
music? Do you have a cd player or do you need a mp3 player and speakers?
I wasn't sure, I am going to buy a flash
drive here though and just download it onto that from the internet or there are
places here that will do it for you. So yeah and then I can play that on the
portable dvd player we have. It's for training videos and like the Joseph Smith
story and stuff but we listen to mo-tab and stuff on it. Lots of mo-tab.
Well, the new Obama administration
sounds like it is going just peachy. I would say no judging but I am judging.
Righteous judgment is the way of the lord, and it is a commandment, see the JST
for the "judge not that ye be not judged" scripture. We are supposed
to judge. Otherwise we are the natural man. I wonder what is next, I know Obama
has had his eyes on that second amendment for a while. His tax plan sounds like
a great idea too, 45 percent on rich people. Robin Hood, maybe. Socialist?
Definitely. Holy cow, there are so many things wrong with this guy. Everyone
here is happy because he is black. They just are happy because they don't have
to live under him.
So, I got the packages
for Christmas! That got there so fast, 4
weeks this time. They are so great,
thank you so much! The big bag of jerky is a win for sure. I like the tree, I
am gonna decorate that the day after thanksgiving for sure. Makes me happy he remembered that is tree day.I like the santa hats, and I'm glad you did a
Christmas eve present too. My companion will be happy for it too haha I love
the cheez-its and nerds and sweet tarts too. I don't know who you are trying to
kid only sending two little boxes of nerds and two little bags of cheez-its
though haha but they were way good so no complaints. I definitely got everything
though, and I have not opened the presents yet. Getting them this early I hope he can hold out. In future packages could you throw in a little
more kool aid and a little less gravy? I have more gravy than I know what to do
with right now haha that gallon bag is full to the brim of seasoning now. Kool aid
would be much appreciated though. Everything is awesome though! The chicken
noodle and mac and cheese is great always, I am even rationing it so it will
last a while. I found ideal noodles and am altering the recipe little by little
to get the most noodle soakage out of it, I always have a little cheese sauce
left over that I don't know what to do with. I am finding ways though.
Love you!
Elder Galbreath
Oh, also yesterday in church I was
sitting reading my scriptures and adding up numbers from the week in sacrament
meeting and this nice lady behind me, a black momma if there has ever been one,
fixed my collar because my tie was poking out a little. Instantly made me miss
you. OK not going to lie, that made me happy. Just
thought I would let you know. Also someone played "I'll be home for Christmas"
in the house a few days ago and I almost freaking cried. So bad. Christmas is
gonna be rough, but I get to call you! So I will be good.
Love you mom!
Garrett
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