First off Dad. After you have knocked everything you have a
couple options. First, all the while you’re knocking you should be asking for referrals
from the Less Actives and members you visit. A referral is 100 times better than
a missionary contact. Also knocking is not the only way to contact. You can
also contact in crowded places such as shopping centers and malls. So yeah, knocking
is very dependent on a lot of things such as if the people are home, what their
life is like at the time you knock and also the time of day when you knock. But
anyway yeah, we will probably start going over areas again slowly.
Louris' family: We went over and met his family and started
to get to know them and then started teaching but the father whose name is Julius
didn’t want to listen to us and pretty much shut us down by declaring "we
are already committed to roman Catholicism". So maybe they will be ready
in the future. We did get Julius to commit to reading a little of the Kitab Mormon
every evening with his family, so maybe they will be touched and want to
continue learning.
Wednesday we went with Bro Alexsius to Kampong Kudei to meet
members that we had never met before, it went well and now we have some new
people to work with. Alexsius is a great help, he is a returned missionary from
Kota Kinabalu, he served in Matang for 8 or 9 months and it was he along with
an Elder Jones that baptized a ton of people here. I think about 40 - 50 in a
period of like 5 months. Anyway, these people were strong in the church for a
while but what happened is that one of the weaker ones went less active or
something such and then it was like a domino effect. So anyway, yeah, really
sad.
Thursday we had appointments with a bunch of members
including Sister Gulang. One of her many dogs had died so we buried it for
her....
We also finally figured out Elder Ferguson's problem, he is
allergic to curry. It takes a while but if he eats it for dinner he will throw
it up sometime that night. Long story.
Friday we rallied the troops for General Conference. We rode
to Kampong Kudei and Siol Kandis and gave everyone flyers about General Conference.
Some came, it was good. We have it in English too, so we have been watching it
in our spare time such as lunch and in the evening.
But yeah, that was our week. I will get back to you again.
Sincerely, Elder Halpin
An abandoned mansion we found while biking
Eating lunch at the Church with everyone
in between General Conference sessions.
Me waiting for General Conference to start.
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