Feb 9, 2010

Hey guys, good to hear from y'all this week. It sounds like life at home is
going to good. You guys are busy busy bzzzzzzy. Same here. At least we
try to be.

I don't really know where to start. I don't feel like anything really out
of the ordinary has happened.
Wait, i take it back. I thought of some things.
Sunday this week was wonderful! I love fast and testimony meeting here in
the Kuala Lumpur Branch. The majority of the members are the first in the
their families and very recent. It is awesome to here them get up and share
simple testimonies of what they know to be true. They are always so
heart-felt, spiritual, and those that share always sound terrified haha. I
love it. Sunday was also awesome because Nanda was sustained as a Branch
Missionary. His first calling! He was happy. He has been asking about
this calling for a while. Naveen also got called as a Branch Missionary.
These two men are wonderful. I'm excited. They have already been helping
us missionaries so much, now it's all made official i guess.

Also on Sunday Aite, Muskan, and Som all got interviewed to receive the
Priesthood. Kiran and Nanda served as translators in their interview with
the Branch President since their English is not so great. I couldn't be
more happy. These boys are awesome.

This week Som brought one of his friends to teach. His name is Om. I don't
know if I have mentioned him yet but we have taught him once before. He is
a nice guy and seems genuinely curious about Christianity. We are really
working on getting him to come to church. That is the most important thing.
If they don't come to church, they can't really progress. Om also informed
us while we were teaching him that he had changed his name... to "oven"...??
No idea why. Oven? I mean really. Sister Lim laughed so hard when he said
that. She thought it was hysterical; after he said his new name she turned
to Nanda and asked,"and who are you? Rice -cooker?". I think she laughed
for a good 20 minutes. And she laughed during her closing prayer when she
tried to mention "oven's" name in the prayer. Nanda wasn't too happy about
that haha. Sister Lim thinks the oddest things are hysterical. I love it.


I can't remember if I have mentioned Paul Kan yet. Paul Kan is the Chinese
guy who left a note in the church mailbox saying "Hi, I am interested in
your church, my name is Paul Kan" with two phone numbers to call. We never
check the mail at church. The other week I decided to check it and found
the note. We have taught him a couple times already and he is amazing. He
joined Jehovah's Witness before but decided he didn't like anything about
that church. Everything we teach him he accepts. It is so easy. It's
weird almost. We invited him to be baptized yesterday and gave him a date
to work towards. About three weeks from now (we would probably do it sooner
but he has to attend church more). His response to that was, "so far away?"
We have only taught him three times now. He wanted to pay us for his "Bible
classes"; we told him no need. And again when we asked him to be baptized
he asked us if he should pay to have the font filled or pay for the
services. He always wants to pay haha. Hopefully this means teaching him
tithing in the future wont be too big of an issue. He also has his friends
come too. And he gets mad at them when they don't come, it's funny. Their
names are Wendy and Kenny. Kenny couldn't come the other day and Paul,
returning from talking with him on the phone, tells us Kenny can't come but
not to worry, he already yelled at him for us haha. Wendy has come every
time. She is Chinese also and doesn't speak that great of Englsih; so after
we teach something, Sister Lim teaches it once more in Chinese. Wendy is
great, she called us before we left to teach them the other day to remind
us to bring her a Book of Mormon in Chinese, we didn't have one with us at
our last lesson. So at least she is interested in reading it.

After teaching Paul and Wendy yesterday we went to teach Prem, Maya, and
Dambar - Nanda's friends. I love these people, they are adorable. We also
invited them to be baptized in our lesson last night and their response was,
"so soon?" haha. Totally different than Paul, and we have been teaching
them longer than we have Paul. It just shows that everyone is different and
progresses at their own pace. I think it is very rare to find someone as
prepared as Paul, someone who loves and accepts everything and knows it is
true the minute it leaves our mouths. I'm not worried that Prem, Maya and
Dambar declined baptism at all. At least it got them thinking about as
something they should be working towards.

Natalie: lately it has been so so so so hot. I am constantly sweaty. I
step out of the house and instantly I am wet from sweat. It's awesome :-).
It has not rained in a long time. Until yesterday that is... Yesterday the
rain was insane. The roads were like rivers. Sister Lim and I were walking
down the road and wave after wave from the cars drenched us. Sister Lim was
screaming. I thought it was pretty funny. We got to the church to teach
and there wasn't a dry spot on our clothing. Such is life in Malaysia. So
glad you wrote me.

Shannon: your teacher sounds awesome. loved the description. I love pink!
haha. Don't let your eyebrows get to bushy. What is Pace?

Danielle: get buff girl.

Macsen: loved the story about the Asians skiing. Hysterical. If you see
Connor again tell him "hi"

Man I love you guys. You all are so supportive. Did I tell you that sister
Mccurdy would always ask to read my letters because she hated the ones her
family sent her. They were always getting upset at her for something. She
especially like reading Shannons :-). Hope you don't mind shannon. So
thank you thank you for being so awesome.

sister v