May 3, 2010

hey dad,
i should have written this last week so you could confirm but i forgot. can you call me this time? I don't want to go through the whole mix up of not being able to get through to you guys like last time. I hope this is ok. my number is 011- 60- 3- 0169200472. the last part being my cell. I looked up the first numbers to input online, I hope they are correct... call at 4:30- 5pm sunday your time and i will talk to you at 8am monday my time.

wow, i had so many birthday wishes. you guys all remembered, and you remembered to send the emails early. you guys are all boss. every night I thank Heavenly Father for such a supportive family. I really love you guys. My birthday was wonderful. It was fast sunday, and fast sunday in the KL branch is always amazing. There is something really special about the testimonies here. I love them. That day some ex-pats invited us and the elders over for dinner and they didn't even know it was my birthday. so lucky am i. when she found out it was my birthday in relief society (from sister lim who announced to everyone that it was her companions birthday) she was ecstatic, she was so excited we were coming over. Sister lim gave me a present too, she gave me some pink earings that she got in singapore. She is the best. After dinner with the Mickinnley family that night the Elders showed up at our apartment with a cake and ice cream and sang happy birthday to me. They are awesome. I was so so full but they wanted to eat the cake right then, so we sat and had another little party. It was a great day. Except for the fact that the Elders kept telling me, "man sister you are so old, like really you are SO OLD, wow 23, that's old" what a bunch of fetus they are...

I have to express right now how much I love this branch in Kuala Lumpur. It truly is in the Kirtland stage. It's just trying to get on it's feet and it's trying so hard to grow. The members here work so hard and they have so much faith.

So the cafe berinternet we are at today doesn't have a printer, since i couldn't print them out I have spent most of my time reading all these great emails. This email is going to be short. But I'm talking to you all on sunday anyway so no worries. This way I will have lots to tell you on the phone, not that I won't already.

Guess what, Kiran got called to the Singapore mission too. He goes to the provo mtc in september. so by the time he gets here I will have six months left. I'm so excited for him. He really had high dreams of serving in AMERICA but at least he gets to go there for two months, even if it is just the MTC.

Last night sister lim and I got put in charge of the first official Single adult FHE at the branch building. It was a success! It was a lot of fun. Most of the people we baptize are single so we think this will really help everyone get to know each other and make friends. I don't know why they haven't been doing this all along. Somehow, someone put Brother Kong in charge of bringing treats. He totally out did himself. I was so impressed. He made fried rice, fried mee, fried mee hoon, and some wierd sugar drink for everyone! He cooked all day for family night haha. I hope everyone doesn't come expecting a meal every week. Brother Kong cracks me up, you have to meet him. He is just the funniest guy and has the funniest expressions, and the WORST ENGLISH. Lately he has been coming with us to a lot of our appointments to help us teach and he has really enjoyed it. He adds his little testimony to our lessons and his experiences. I love it. He has accompanied us to some great lessons and also to some not so great lessons, but he loves them all. Anyway, at FHE sister lim and I thought it would be fun to play pictionary with everyone. This was hysterical. We had english, malay, chinese, african, we had people from every where and it made for a really funny game. people were yelling stuff out in all sorts of languages. And NOBODY could draw worth anything. they were terrible. it was a lot of fun.
The best part though was seeing everybody interact, we had 3 investigators come and the elders had 2. I loved seeing the members chatting with the investigators and making them feel welcome. This is a missionary's dream come true.

I know this email isn't that informative but we'll talk sunday. love you all
Sister Jessica Viehweg - Mongolia, haha

speaking of mongolia, fun fact: mongolia has 120 missionaries serving there and they are all Mongolians. That's amazing, they already have a stake and everything! The church has been there as long as it has been here. Funny how some places grow so much faster.