This week was good.
Dad: Did you have another calamity happen this
week?
Elder Halpin: Yes
something bad did happen this week father. I woke up on Friday with a bad back
which continued until Sunday. Basically just way sore, not even sure what I did
to it.... The curse continues...
No but really this
week was good. Sister Lulong continues to progress. We taught the restoration
and gospel of Jesus Christ this week. She seems to understand and is working on
praying.
The Phillips family went
to Kampoung early Sunday morning because Sister Sarawa
s’ father went to the hospital. Anyway, he and his son Lawrence stayed and came to church. He’s so solid, more than a lot of members.
Brother Belayong is
a recent convert. He’s a way cool guy. He’s done just about everything and then
some - sword smith, farmer, general worker, fisherman at sea, keeper of the
sultan of Brunei's horses and then some. He also owns every animal under the
sun, chickens, a goat, pigs, sivets, a slow loris, cats, dogs, a hummingbird
and a lot of pigeons also a monkey. Anyway we’ve been helping him get into the
habit of reading and also helping him understand the various doctrines more. On
Thursday we went over and he had randomly bought a baby monkey from a guy who
also tried to sell him a sun bear, he didn’t want the bear though because it
wasn’t a cub and was already fierce he said.
Victoria is doing well,
came to church again this week.
Kevin and John not
so much. John doesn’t really want to listen to us and always belittles Kevin. So
not sure what to do. We will see.
My wrist continues
to stink. Next Wednesday, not 2 days from now but next week, the cast should be
good to come off. Doctor says it’s healing fast.
Went to a hill
looking over Sibu Saturday morning.
Went to Sister
Selehas’ "farm" this morning with her family and sister Kat. Basically
it is just the jungle. Anyway we gathered bamboo shoots, rubber tree leaves,
like last time, and also jackfruit. Also found a huge (6 inches across) sugarcane.
Also, we used bamboo to knock down fruit and I mentioned that I had heard that
you can drink the water in bamboo. I was laughed at by everyone and told it was
dirty. I asked what to do then if I was lost in the jungle with no water. They
explained that you just find a clean river... Anyway there was small creek which
they said was clean, no plantations or people living near it. They were like
"ya, just drink it." I was like "no you have to boil it",
once again laughed to pieces. Sister Seleha proceeded to cut a cup from bamboo
and got some water from this brown creek and proceeded to drink, then passed it
around to everyone else. All the Malaysians, including Elder Chan, drank with
complete confidence not worrying about anything, so, I did too... If I wake up
tomorrow with giardia I will never trust Iban’s about jungle survival again. Anyway
on the way there we drove/walked through some rice paddies that back in the day
(1962-1990, was when the war was) where the communist rebels camped/hid.
Anyway, good week, sounds
like yours was good too. Scout camp was always a blast and dad, how fast were
you going?
Love,
Elder Halpin
Pictures this week:
Climbing the hill. It was nice and grassy so I went barefoot.
At a Muslim guy's Hari Raya party.
The baby monkey.
It was sleepy, pretty much instantly fell asleep if you held it.
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