I'l go with conf first. Elder Nielson's about missionaries: way awesome
to be talked up by an authority. it's always kinda weird and cool in
general to hear a talk about missionary work and finally being able to
say, "thats' me!" but i really liked the story he shared and all the
ways missionaries can help you. I also liked the fact that it was really
only addressed to non-members, and members could kind of sit back and
hear about all the good stuff us missionries do. It really is amazing
all the things this church does, besides having the restored truth and
Gospel. Elder Ballard's about the honey bees was a classic analogy about
small acts of kindness. I really liked Elder Christopherson's talk
abuot being a man (given in the priesthood session) cuz it really is a
big deal in today's world. He made awesome points about how men are
being put on the back-burner and are largely sterotyped as dummies and
"un-needed." Unfortunately I didnt get to lsten to Elder Holland's talk
in english, but i could see by the looks on his face the emotion he
used. We'll watch the Sunday sessions in English once we get a chance.
Our conf attendance was quite small. Have i not told you we are
over a small group of Malay speaking people here? i swear i have.
Anyways me n E Tyler are the assistant group leaders (but the group
leader is less-active) meaning we ARE the group leaders. 20 people at
sacrament is good for us. So total attendance for conference was 22
including us two at each session. The member that normally drives
everyone to church saw conference as a break from church and went to
Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, so nobody that relies on her came. but we did
have a recent convert come and her investigating husband also came to
both the Sunday sessions. So that was really really good. Another thing
that was cool for me about conference was that after watching the
priesthood session, i found myself actually excited to watch more the
next day. I could honestly say i didnt want the priesthood sessions to
end. It was a really great feeling to fully appreciate what i was
watching: Counsel and teaching and uplifting from Prophets and apostles
of God. the best kind of teaching and counsel and uplifting there is.
So this week two great things happened. While we
were contacting, 3 teenage Indian girls called to us and asked for our
number right away. clearly they just thought it would be funny to ask
two white guys for their number, so I'm sure they were as surprised as
can be when we came over and shared a little from the Restoration
pamphlet and told them our number was on the back. We were surprisingly
able to get a return appt and the day we went back we didnt know what to
expect. turns out two of them within the last few years had converted
from Hindduism to Christianity, and the other expressed interest in
becoming a Christian! So we gave a short lesson about who God was and
who Jesus Christ was. they are approx 18-20yrs old and pretty typical
teens, but they were actually listening quite intently (between texts)
and seemed to understand everything we were sharing. One had read a
little from the pamphlet, and asked about the BOM. So we shared a little
abuot what the book was and gave her one. Yesterday we returned and
gave two Tamil copies of the BOM. as of now they seem really interested
and we are excited to meet them again this upcoming week. It's always
cooler to teach from contacts that WE found rather than refferals...even
though investigators from contacting is nearly always fruitless.
Also this week were finally able to find the place
of a guy who had the met the elders we replaced. After three seperate
nights of trying to find them, we got in contact with the previous
missionaries and found his place! Turns out he lives in the middle of
some vegetable fields with like 6 other people. they are Indonesian,
which is way better than most other kinds of people haha. Anyways they
will have problems with getting work off on sundays, as well as other
likely unforseeable problems, but it was awesome to finally find them!
So today we are going to Singapore for Zone
Conference. We will be there until Wednesday night. They are having zone
conferences in Singapore now to avoid having one missionary from a
companionship at a time go do a vise run. This way everyone in the zone
will get their visas stamped at the same time. It's a pretty good idea
and It's always cool to go the promised land of Singapore. where people
live in the future, not in the past (like Malaysians). haha so thats
that. This morning I quick emailed as we were printing off our flight
plans, but no worries cuz we got a chance to email before we go to the
airport in Ipoh.
Ummm i dont know who gladys knight is, so maybe you
can tell me more? also tell me more about this guy falling from space,
it sounds really cool! I think i saw a commercial for it while at a
members house, but i dont know anything about it of course
Um we do have a McD's, but its like a 20 min bike ride
so we dont frequent it as we did in Tawau. There is also a KFC, Pizza
Hut, and Dominos. Dominos was not in Tawau and it looks like a much
better option than Pizza Hut, so thats cool. I now live in a house,
which is much bigger than my condo in Tawau. three floors, 4 bathrooms,
but i'll take a pic this week. no oven. I cook a lot raman noodles (here
its wayyyyy better) also a lot of eggs n other foods.
Thats all for this week! Love you all very very much!
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