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Zone Conference in Miri and Visa Run to Singapore! BUSY
By Leighton | July 17, 2007
Well, this week was pretty hectic. I had to go on a Visa Run to Singapore with Elder Tan. It was really fun though. We got up at 6 am. We left early Monday morning (which meant I had to finish my reporting by Sunday night, what a pain!) and we went to the Airport. We flew into Kuching, then switched planes and went to Singapore. It felt like I was going home, haha. No one was there at the airport to pick us up, but we both knew Singapore (I was here for 7 months and Elder Tan used to study here) so we just took the MRT into town. Luckily, I still had my Touch Card. We went to the office to pick up some supplies and say hi to people, then we went out to Sim Lim so I could copy some CDs, print some pictures, and eat lunch. The craziest thing happened: Elder Tan met his brother, randomly. He just came up to him and they started talking and shook hands, I just assumed it was someone he knew from school or something, but then he asked me to take a picture and said “This is my brother”! Crazy! If I met my brother randomly on the street, I’d do a lot more than just shake his hand! Anyways, we ate then went to see some of the people I knew. We went to see Stephen Lai and his family. They are soo awesome! I love them! When I knocked on the door, I didn’t recognize the person who answered the door, and timidly asked “Is this the Lai’s?” Haha, it was their oldest daughter who was in BYU when I was in Singapore. They invited us in and we chatted for awhile, and I took pictures of their family. Their oldest daughter is going on a mission on the 5th to Taiwan, the same day I am going home, weird, huh? And Abish is going to BYU this August. She is so cool too. I hope she does well there. Bro. Lai is really a cool guy, he works for the CES department and he is really busy. He gave us $20 to go eat dinner! He’s so nice! We spent it at Subway the next day. Mmmm.
We then went to see Nancy and Alan Thong’s family, but neither were home, so we stopped by Derrick Chua’s place to say hi. He invited us in and we chatted and swapped deep doctrine ideas, then took some pictures and then headed home for the night. I stayed at the Seasons Park, the same place I stayed the entire time I was in Singapore, so it brought back a lot of memories. We left the next morning after studies and went straight to the Airport via MRT. We flew to Kuching, then changed planes again to go to Bintulu. It occured to me that it might be my last time I fly into Bintulu.
We got home about 5:15 pm and put our stuff at home, then went out to see some people. We were both really tired by the end of the day, and so we went right to sleep after we got back.
The next morning, we had to get up at 5:30 am and get ready for the Zone Conference. We took a bus here to Miri. It is the first time I’ve been to Miri. I plan to go see someone special. We are going to stay at the elders’ house here, which is a really nice apartment. They even have maids clean twice a week! Crazy! Anyways, I gotta go. The picture upload isn’t working here at this Cyber Cafe, so I’ll have to put them up next week.
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