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By Leighton | February 20, 2007
Well… I am sorry, but I don’t have much time today to post… Dang, we only get one hour to do this every week, so it is hard to squeeze in all the things I need to do. So… what’s new this week? Well, we had Chinese New Year, on February 18th. It was a lot of craziness! All of our neighboors are chinese, so they started lighting off millions of fireworks at 12 midnight. It woke my companion up, but I was still awake. It was actually pretty hilarious because he was disoriented and thought that it was a war and he thought that it was coming from the bathroom. It seriously did sounds like a war. I thought they had to be in our yard, it was so loud. So we went outside and watched for a while as they lit off firework after firework. They asked us to light a few, which is against our rules…. but I did anyways, I couldn’t resist, plus I love to play with fire and explosives. Plus it only says ‘no lighting fireworks’, it doesn’t say anything about ‘main api atau bomba’. Haha. SO it’s ok. We went to church that morning and then after church (which was awesome, we had a lot of investigators come on their own will and we were really shocked because it was raining and a holiday, but we were happy that they came) we went back home and packed our bags and then left for the airport to fly to Kuching for the Mission Tour with Elder Garn, of the Second Quourum (sp?) of the seventy and the Asia Area President. So we flew in and stayed at the Kuching 2nd Branch Elders’ apartment and went on exchanges with them that night. Then on Monday morning, we had the Mission Tour meeting. Elder Garn, his wife, President and Sister Skelton, and the APs gave trainings, and we were really edified and learned a lot. I am really blessed to have been there. It was a lot of hassle, and we didn’t have any food due to poor planning, so we fasted, but it was really a good experience. Then we went out that night to go street contacting. I got a few cool pictures of Kuching and I also got my visa card detained by an ATM machine, so that stunk, but my mom patiently and kindly took care of it. Where would I be without her? Then in the morning on Tuesday, we flew back to Bintulu and went right back to work. We didn’t have many appointments, so we just followed the Spirit and were able to see a lot of good people and have some really awesome appointments. One of them was especially cool. We went to meet with an investigator, and asked him if he wanted to be baptized, and he said he had to ask his dad but his dad wouldn’t let him. Elder Mortensen had tried to teach him before but the parents were never really very interested. So the dad said that he had to ask his pastor. I was liek: “Oh no you don’t!” So I said a silent prayer and began to teach him the Restoration in Malay. It was hard cause I still am not very good at the language, but I was blest to be able to speak clearly and powerfully to him with the spirit and I taught him all of it he needed while Elder Mortensen was teaching the kid. I really was guided to the right words. After that, the father said: “Baik, membaptis dia esok, boleh?” Which means ok, bapyize hime tomorrow then, and I was like, well wait, we need to wait til Saturday because he still needs to be taught some things and he needs to be interviewed. So we set it all up and the father wants to be sure that it is at a time he can come and see. Wow, it was so cool!
Well, that’s about it for this week. I have decided to change the way that I post photos, so I am going to make weekly Albums with photos for that week, so that you can see the photos each week without getting confused. I’ll start doing it that way next week so for this week, I uploaded the photos to the Bintulu album here:
Love ya guys!
Topics: Bintulu | 1 Comment »
February 27th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Leighton, don’t touch those stray dogs on the street please? They are dirrrrrrrrrrrty.