Hey there everybody!!
How's life back stateside? Things
are still going great here in Madagascar! We had a somewhat eventful week. On
Tuesday we were sitting in this little epicery we always go to drinking a coke.
Epiceries are this little roadside shacks that they sell food and stuff out of
so we come to these a lot. Anyways this is our favorite epicery and the lady
there loves us so she lets us come inside and sit down. So we were sitting in
this epicery and this dude comes rolling up on a bike with a big box. So being
curious we asked what was in the box. And he said there were a bunch of
drakaka. I looked at Koplin and was like “what the freak is a drakaka.” He
replied with “dude, how much money you got?” Long story short, the coolest
missionaries on the planet bought themselves a bunch of live crabs on the side
of the street planning on having them for dinner. We then realized that we have
no Idea how to cook crabs!!! So we went to our favorite old bebe (malagasy
grandma) and asked for cooking instructions. They still turned out awful so we
just took them back to bebe and she fixed them for us but that was an adventure
and a half!! Killing them was the hard part those suckers were mean. So that
was a fun little story. Thursday President Foote was passing through town and
stopped by the house to make us omelets and I'll tell you what, that dude makes
a mean omelet, it was amazing. Plus eggs are super cheap here we buy them for
the equivalent of 10 cents a piece on the side of the road. The chickens here
are all scrawny and nasty though I'll have to send a picture sometime. It makes
me miss my chickens back home. On Saturday one of the other missionaries in our
house had a baptism but we had to leave a little early. Turns out the other
mission house in our zone locked themselves out of their house and the only
other key was half an hour away in Manadona. So of course since Elder Koplin is
the only one here allowed to drive we got to go all the way out there and get
the key for them. It's a beautiful drive I took some pictures for ya. Now on to
some more spiritual matters. Lalaina has been coming to church because he's a
baller. I'm still not sure we're going to catch his Dec. 19 bap goal but we're
going to push for it! The APs weren't able to get that birth certificate so
Elder Koplin went down with the other Zone leader and a couple Malagasy
missionaries to see if they couldn't get ahold of it. Hopefully it works out!
I'll let you all know next week. Love you everybody!!
Elder Jensen
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