Dec. 29, 2009

Subject: hey hey

ya my comp is related to a dave mccurdy. but she also says there are a lot
of mccurdys so....who knows.

So good to talk to you all on Christmas! I feel like I did a lot of the
talking though, I'm sorry. And I got your package yesterday! The
Assistants came to do splits with the Zone leaders here in KL and brought it
from Singapore. Looks like it arrived Dec 22. Awesome timing. Thank you
thank you! Just the other day I was looking at my shirts thinking "man, I
am totally sick of all of these and don't want to wear any of them" and it
has only been 4 months. Not good. so thank you for the shirts. And the
umbrella!!!!! so thoughtful. Wow, I can count on you guys. this is the
best christmas ever.

We had the most wonderful sacrament meeting this past week. Nanda, Khem and
Lito all got the priesthood! It almost made me cry seeing them stand up and
get sustained by members in the ward. Men like these are needed so badly in
these parts. Our branch is a little interesting because we never really
have planned talks. The Branch President likes to hear from the members so
the past few sundays have been like Fast and testimony meeting. ANd if no
one gets up, they call on you randomly. I like it. I was looking at Nanda
across the room and motioning for him to get up and bare his testimony. He
kept laughing and shaking his head no way. But then sister mccurdy joined
in and he got up finally to speak. We were so happy! We have been trying
to get him to bare his testimony for quite a while now. I love hearing him
express his love for this gospel. After him Kiran also got up and shared.
It was awesome.

Khem was so excited to have the Priesthood. This is a text he sent us that
Sunday night:

"Hi, today Im very happy because I get Priest. Now I can baptise other
people. when they give a Priest to me I fell so good. that I can't forget
this movement. thanks a lot to u sisters that you teach me abt Christ and
now Im in good sutation. Now a days I fell proud my self. Now I become a
good Christ follower man. I can't explain in words how much happiness you
give it to me. U R really genious girls that u can give happiness to
others. Many mannnnnny thanks to u"

hahahah I love it.

On Saturday the Elders had a baptism but forgot to fill up the font until
the morning of. The font takes about 12 hours to fill. It was not near
full enough when the baptizm started but we decided to give it a try anyway.
Vincent, the boy getting baptized was pretty tall and they just couldn't get
him all the way under. Finally they had to just push his body under and his
legs under. It was kind of funny.... Hopefully they won't forget again. I
swear, the faucet to the font is a trickle.

Kiran told me he talked to shannon . He said her english was "SOOOOOO nice
and love to listen to it because she speak sooooooo nicely" He was happy.
I laugh every time he speaks.

It is good to know that even though plans you make don't necessarily turn
out. Good things still happen. Yesterday we planned to meet Aite, who is
getting baptized next week. But he was sick and cancelled. We decided to
go visit a lady sister mccurdy used to teach but stopped coming to church.
Nothing good really came of meeting with that woman but on our way there we
met the cutest Indian family in the world. She had six adorable small
children and said she goes to Christian churches sometimes and that it would
be totally fine if we came over visited her. awesome. Som earlier that day
had given us a bunch of crazy fruit called Mata kucing (cat eyes) - they
literally look like you are eating eyeballs - and while we talked I kept
giving the little kids fruit to eat. They were so adorable. They would
grab my hand and kiss the back of it. Man kids are cute here. We are going
to visit her on Friday. Hope it goes well. We have really been looking for
a family to teach. We are teaching all single young men right now and they
are fun, but we are ready for some women. Problem is, the women just don't
want to listen, the men do. What to do huh?

Som is also getting baptized next week and we are pretty stoked. He is so
happy and excited.

Sure love you guys!!
sis v