This week went
pretty well.
Just got my flight
itinerary..... I come home on 4/22/2015.
Dad, I got you a
picture!!!
Transfers went
smoothly. Elders Ferguson and Coloma are a funny companionship. I’m really impressed
with Elder Ferguson. It’s strange because all of us in the house have served in
the Matang area.
So we went out to Kampung
Dambai to try and meet all of our potentials out there. Really, the only one
that is going anywhere is Justiff’s family. We talked to them at the door and
they wanted to meet again but they were just way busy. Hopefully this week we
can meet them again.
We went out to
Sepanggar again and met 2 really dope families. Hopefully we can meet them
again this week and get them going.
One of them is
Victorious and his family. They are from Indonesia, have two kids and are
nominally catholic but not really active at all. We talked about what brings
happiness in this life and what they want for their family. We talked a little
about eternal families and some of the other blessings that we can receive from
living the gospel, they were way interested and said we could come back later.
The other family was
Brother Sibin and his family, but we mostly just talked with him. He started
off by asking what we needed to do to be saved, so we talked about the gospel,
the five steps, faith, repentance, baptism, the Holh Ghost, enduring to the
end. We then tied it into the restoration, talking about how it’s important to
be baptized by one with the proper authority. He was intrigued and said we
could come back later also.
2 of our
investigators came back this week! Cherilyn and Tan, They are dope. They are Chinese,
from Johor Bahru in West Malaysia. They are students here at UMS, Cherilyn is
studying Forestry and Tan Physics, both are way smart. They started learning in
November and just came back from break (they’re so dope they learned from the
missionaries in Johor Bahru on break). They are just about ready to be
baptized, we feel like the missionaries before just didn't put enough emphasis
on how important it is. We are meeting them on Tuesday, maybe we can put them
on date.
Mothi is doing good.
We weren’t able to meet him this week, but we talked to him at church a little
bit and will meet him this week.
Yesterday was way
nice. Church was honestly one of the best I have been to on my mission. In
sacrament meeting Elder Ferguson gave a talk about charity. The talk was good
but what hit me was the word for charity. I don’t know why I never thought
about this until yesterday, I’ve been talking about charity for 2 years. So in
Malay one of the translations for the word charity is kasih amal. Kasih means
love. Amal means to apply. So basically charity is love applied. Charity is the
pure love of Christ put simply. What did Christ do? He loved everyone perfectly
and applied that in the atonement and in all of his actions. So how can we
develop charity? By acting on our love for others. If we can do that then we will
never fail, Moroni 7:46 says that charity never faileth. So yeah, pretty cool
spiritual experience for me.
We also went to
President Ling’s (the District President) house Sunday afternoon. He is pretty
dope. We are trying to introduce the new Elders to everyone here so we took
them, and the Kota Kinabalu 1 Elders took us there because even though they are
in our branch they live in Kota Kinabalu 1 branch boundaries. So we were a
convoy. Anyway there and back added up to about 40 kilometers (25ish miles)... Way
tired. We disused how to overcome some problems that President Ling can see in
the district in regards to missionary work.
Kota Kinabalu is way
beautiful. It has been burning though this week. The day we went to Dambai and
the day we went to Sepanggar there were fires in the hills around them, at
night riding around it looked like some of the hills were volcanoes.
So, yeah, Elder Yang
is trying with my hair.
Glad you guys had a
great week. Sounds like I won’t be the only menace on the road when I get back,
great job Adam!
Sincerely,
Elder Halpin
Brother Peredick and I.
Elder Yang and I.
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