Right now I am
liking Ecclesiastes 7:8. Really applies to my situation right now. Sort of
learning to be patient more.
Something that I
have learned on my mission is what pride actually is. It’s not only the whole
chin stuck up thing. It’s also about how you listen to and follow your leaders.
About how you regard disobedience. Before I went on my mission I thought I was
not very prideful at all. I have, over
the course of my mission, realized that I am very prideful, and that I have a
long way to go before I will truly be humble.
This week was good.
Katherine: How were
you this week? I miss you. I started learning piano. I learned the first twinkle and the first
part of Honeybee. I am enjoying it. What did you eat today? I hope you have a good week Matthew. Bye!
Elder Halpin: That’s
way cool Katherine! This morning I had an orange and 2 roti canais.
David: Dear Matthew,
Jessica was great. Maybe next year they
will come again. We are having a good
time. We killed some chickens and Bright
and Gladys made Peanut Chicken and Curry Chicken. I ate a chicken foot. It was tasty.
The kitchen is going not so well.
Elder Halpin: That’s
cool David. One time I bought a chicken that was pre wrapped in a newspaper and
then hung it on my handlebars and took it to a member’s house. Way funny. I’m
riding my bike and there is this chicken sitting there swinging under my
handlebars.
WE HAVE AN
INVESTIGATOR! woot woot!
So I don’t remember
exactly what I said last week so I’ll recap. To get to our apartment we can
either take the bus right to the front door from Yishun station or we can go to
Admiralty station and walk 10-15 minutes. Last Sunday night we planned to go
the Yishun route but we got distracted and missed the stop. So we walked and as
we were walking we were waiting for a light and we started talking to this lady
standing next to us.
Her name was Sylvia.
She is Chinese, 22, from Malaysia and working as a lab tech. She told us that
she doesn’t normally walk that way but she felt like she should that night. The
next day we were able to meet. Not only did we think it was a miracle but she
did to, way sick! Anyway she is "Buddhist" but not really. She was
pretty interested in hearing what we had to say. She had lot of questions about
things, including about Christianity in general. Way good lesson, we were able
to share the restoration, she said she would pray and read.
We are meeting her
again tomorrow, we’ll see how it goes.
The Chinese Brother
has not been able to meet.
We went to the Selvan
family again on Saturday. They are great. We will be meeting with their oldest
son this week, CJ. He is way cool, going to school. He also knows sign language
and translates for a deaf lady in our ward. We will be talking about a mission
with him. In Singapore it’s way hard to go because of national service. All men
have to serve a 2 year term in either the army, security force (police) or the
Bomba, which is like ambulance, fire etc. Anyway, they have to do that before
they can go on a mission, so it basically all adds up to waiting 4 years away
from studies. Even still most of the active YSA in the ward have or are going
to go on missions, pretty cool.
We will be meeting
with the Cortez family this week, hopefully also with Sylvia. They are a way
cool young Filipino couple. They both served missions in the Philippines.
Also, we met a Muslim
lady from Indonesia on Saturday last and were able to meet her this Saturday. Her
name was Euly. She wasn’t super interested, mostly just curious. She turned out
to not speak English as well as we thought so I ended up teaching the lesson in
Bahasa. It went alright, she accepted and said would she try reading a Kitab Mormon.
We will see if it goes anywhere. It was one of the strangest lessons so far on
my mission. So I could say Allah, instead of Tuhan, I was teaching a Muslim,
she understood all of the deep vocabulary, the only word I had to explain was
priesthood. Just way different.
So yeah it’s going
good, we are just cranking through heaps of potential investigators.
Miss you guys a lot.
Sincerely
Elder Halpin
I decided to count my change. I have a lot.
Looking out the living room window, the MRT, flats and a bus stop.
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