Oh my sweet mother! I truly love your efforts
in trying to use Malay words haha. I dont know about "sulung" I'm
guessing you found that to be "elder", but we actually haven't learned a
word for that and I'm pretty sure that we just stay with "elder" haha.
sulung probly refers to a physically older person haha. the word for
dictionary is kamus, but yes i did receive it I think last tuesday,
right after I emailed you and said I hadn't received it haha. So
hopefully you haven't been too worried about it this past week. It's the
Collins one and it comes highly recommended! so good pick! I love how
small it is and compared to other kamus we have it is much clearer. I
guess you could call me "anak", but that's technically the term for
children in general. Maybe go with putera (whcih means prince, or Holy
Son) hahaha no don't use that...that's what we use to refer to Jesus
Christ as His Son haha. I guess I would be your anak-lelaki (Child which
a boy) if you haven't figured it out yet, Ibu means mother, and Ayah
means dad (Bapa is more like father). So we pray to "Bapa kami di
Syurga" (Father our in Heaven) I think that's one of the coolest parts
of speaking, praying. I feel pretty confident that I'll basically be a
fluant prayer when I leave the MTC! and as always i'm constantly amazed
at my speaking abilities thus far. Truly there is no other place, no
other purpose, and no other way in which someone could learn a language
this fast. Our ratio of Gospel vocab to normal vocab is probly around 90
to 10 haha. In lessons, we are quite comfortable, but in normal everday
speaking, we seem to have to look up words every other sentence. Most
of that you can really only learn over there anyway our cikgu
(teachers) say. Also i don't know what "anak muda Pahlawan" is supposed
to mean haha.
We
ahve not yet received our travel plans, but maybe this week! I almost
don't want to get them yet because a missionary's focus inevidibly
(spell check that) goes down the toilet once travel plans are received
haha. Buty of course I can't wait to get out of the "Spiritual Prison"
(just came up with that one) We are pretty sure our total
flight/travel/layover will be in the realm of 24 HOURS! AYAH! Elder Reid
in my district's dad works in the missionary travel department and the
story seems to be that we will go to L.A. and then go straight to Hong
Kong, and then to Singapore, but nobody knows for sure! We're pretty
sure we will leave the 2nd, but nothing for sure until we get travel
plans.
haha
the time change hit us pretty hard actually. everyone could tell that
they lost an hour of precious precious sleep. I think I have gained
somewhere in the house of 10 lbs. but I'm not sure cause I didn'y
exactly know my weight coming in, and the scale in the gym seem pretty
unreliable to me. I am definitely tired of the food haha and certainly
ready for what sounds like amazing food in Malaysia.
Welp,
I'm outta time! I love you all so much and mom I LOVE the Dear Elders
each day. FYI: Saturday at midday is the last time we get mail each
weekend, so the weekend DearElders come Mondaty night. Keep em comin
haha, I know I'll miss em. Dad, always grateful to read about the
outside world haha and love reading your words of wisdom!
Banyak Kasih!
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