Sunday, August 17, 2008

Interesting Names

Since being here in South Africa we have met a lot of wonderful people. The interesting thing is their names. The Malagasy ( those people from Madagascar) have the longest last names. Many have at least 28 letters in their last name. This is why you call them by their first names. ( Elder Sam or Sister Joan) The Elders and Sisters from Madagascar have to have a smaller font used on their name tags and in most cases Elder or Sister is the first line and their last name takes up the second line!
Here in South Africa they have very interesting first names--Here is my top ten unusual name we have run into---
Precious
Beauty
Zebulon
Ajax
Petunia
Queen
Princess
Prince--I guess Michael Jackson has used this one!
Gift
Blessing--this is a returned missionary who is the Young Men's Pres. in our Branch and is learning to play piano.
The next time we meet an Elder or Sister from Madagascar I am going to take a picture of their name tags!

2 comments:

Pedaling said...

i like precious the best.
but ajax?

emily said...

Oh Denise this is too funny!!! I love it! How is your Hair???