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Elder Rowley’s Last Week
By Leighton | June 12, 2007
We went to the waterfall today, cause it is Elder Rowley’s last week of his mission. There is a big transfer coming up too. I hope that I will be able to stay here also. I wanna stay here til the end of my mission, cause I love Bintulu. We will be having some baptisms this Saturday, and we will be having a few more this month also, so we are excited about that. Elder Rowley is pretty trunky, haha. I have a couple other projects I’m working on, but they are still rahsia sahaja, jadi jangan rasa cemburu, hehe. Hmmm, mungkin saya boleh guna Bahasa Melayu sahaja supaya hanya orang dari malaysia boleh faham apa saya taip, hehe.
Well, I’ll let you know more next week, ok?
This is quoted from my email to my mom that I wrote, I was too tired to write it again:
“I know that my mission is awesome, I actually firmly believe it is the best mission in the world. I feel like I’ve gotten to meet so many awesome people, experience so many different cultures and lands, and learn different languages too. The work is going really well also. The ‘field is white, already to harvest’ (D&C 4) in this part of the Lord’s vineyard. We have lots of amazing investigators right now. One of them, Nguti, is the 21 y/o daughter of Maja, a less active member who lives in the block farthest from the church (but still only a 5-minute walk away). Every time I went to see him, his daughter answered the door, told us that he wasn’t there, but invited us in. We couldn’t go in without a man in the house too, so we would just set a return appointment and come back the next week, when the same thing would happen again. But every time I spoke to hear, I always got the impression that she was prepared by the Lord.
One day, we were going by her house, when I got the impression to stop by and say hi. Maja was gone, she told us. On a whim, I invited her to come to church the next day with us. She seemed a little shy, but I smiled and said not to worry, we would be with her to introduce her and explain things go her. To my surprise, she agreed, and smiled for the first time. We agreed to come get her in the morning.
The next morning, we went to get her. She was asleep. Great, another failed attempt, I thought. But to my surprise, she jumped up, said ’sekejap’ then ran to get ready. We waited til she was ready. She asked if she could bring her mother’s Kitab Mormon to church, to which I whole-heartedly agreed. She was so excited to be going to church!
At church, I was prompted to sit her with Lembong’s wife, Sister Pantai, instead of sitting with her as I had originally intended. (There are no 21 y/o women in the church to fellowship her). After Sacrament meeting, I found out that Lembong’s family were good friends with Maja’s family, and Sister Pantai was the perfect fellowshipper! Wow, that was cool. Nguti looooved church. She made lots of friends and learned a lot. I set up a time to meet her that Thursday.
When I went to see her, I was on exchanges with one of the young men in the Branch. I taught the first lesson about the Restoration. It was going really well, and the spirit was really strong. She is incredibly smart, and asked some good questions. She understood everything. At the end, I felt impressed to invite her to be baptized. I asked her if she believed what I had taught her. She said she felt it was true. I said a silent prayer and then extended the invitation, asking her if she wanted to follow Christ and be baptized in His church. To my surprise, she immediately said ‘Yes!’ and was so happy! We set a date, and she was way excited! Ever since then, she has been a golden investigator.
Here are some pics from this week:
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