Dad: That’s it? You’re entire email for this
week? I assume, transfers and you are training a new Elder?
Matthew: Yep, that's it.. lol. no
Matthew: Yep, Transfers. Elder Berger is going to be a
Zone Leader in Singapore and I am training in Matang 2, the area I started
with. Everyone in my MTC group is training a new Elder in the areas they were
originally trained in.
Dad: So, does that mean you have a new
companion? Who is he? Have they split the Matang area into two
sections again?
Matthew: Yes. I
won’t know until I go to Singapore to pick him up later this week. That also
means that I will be picking up my package too. Yep, the Matang branch will be
split again. It's President Mains' strategy. Because we will be receiving 75
new Elders by the end of the year all of our existing areas will be full
leaving the President 2 options. Open new areas or split existing ones. Since
our overreaching goal is to strengthen the Branches until we can establish
Stakes and Wards he will be splitting the areas and doubling up the
missionaries in all three of the main church centers in the mission, Singapore,
Kuala Lumpur and Kuching. Then in a few years or so hopefully the church will
be strong enough in the centers to start reaching out into the kompungs and
outlying towns.
Dad:
So, are you going to be sending an email with your weekly updates or are
these individual emails going to be it for this week?
Matthew: I'm working on it as we speak
Below is Matthew's update for
this week:
This week was pretty good.
On Tuesday, after district meeting, we helped the new
Chinese Elders get oriented in Kuching.
On Wednesday we met a bunch of members and also helped with
some other stuff.
Thursday we stayed in, Elder Berger was somewhat sakit (sick). We also had a lot of paperwork and planning to do because we weren't sure if we would be here the next week and we kind of suck at paperwork.
Friday we did a bunch of work, normal day.
Saturday I realized that one of my rear spokes was broken. So
most of the day was spent getting it fixed.
Sunday we ate at one of our members house, really good.
First they give us burgers and milo and then after we were finished and full,
we find out that was just an appetizer. The main course was kompung rice, (non
processed all natural grown in the kompung white rice) with sayur (vegetables)
bobbi (pork) and fermented mangos (actually ok) and fermented durian and dates
(absolutely the worst thing I've eaten in my entire life).
Lot of fun. I'll send some pics as well.
Milos and Burgers.
The sayur and bobbi in the dish together.
Also the fermented mangoes
The dreaded dish of the night,
fried fermented durian and dates
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