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Old Elders Go, New Elders Come
By Leighton | June 19, 2007
Well, another transfer, and I am still in Bintulu, hehe. Here is a part of my letter to my mom:
“I remember the feeling of being at the start of Summer Vacation, and how carefree and happy I felt, haha. It always seemed as though the Summer would never end. but it would end eventually, of course. Fortunately, when the time came for school to start again, we were usually ready for it. I guess that’s how things go. Sometimes we just want to move on and to change a little. It’s kind of like a mission, too. When you first start an area, it feels like you will be there forever, but then when the time comes for you to transfer, you are kind of ready for a change. You are sad of course, because you have to leave all the people you love. But you are also happy because you get to meet lots of new people, and make new friends. If you are a good missionary, you never have any regrets when getting transferred. Speaking of transfers, we just had 3 elders get transferred from my district on the same day, so I am the only one left from the house. I spent most of Monday cleaning it. Elder Rowley went home, and Elder Godfrey and Fry were transferred. Now there is Elder Tan, who is my companion, and Elder King and Elder Tai (I knew him from KL). Elder Tan is cool. He’s already been in this area before, but only for 1.5 months. Still, many of the members remember him. He is from Johor Bahru, West Malaysia, is Chinese, and about 28-30 years old, not sure exactly. He is fluent in Malay and Chinese, so he is a big help. Elder King just came in from Singapore, and Elder Tai just came from Colombo, Sri Lanka. So now the house is full again. I’m the District Leader again, so I have to keep on giving trainings and such things, reporting and being responsible. Boring… haha. We had two baptisms last week, Alex and Dony. They are both really good young men. Dony is 21, and Alex is 15. They are both really strong in the faith now, and ready to become future missionaries some day. Monday, Alex came to help us teach, and he is such a good teacher already, even though he had just been confirmed the day before.”
We are also having another baptism this weekend, so I am excited about that. I have about 10 weeks left on my mission now, so I am going to make the most of it and work my hardest these last weeks. I hope that I will be able to help lots of people with the remaining time I have. Anyways, I guess I’ll go now. Here’s some pics from the last week:
Write me letters if u love me^^ Hehe
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