So, this week was
interesting....
Gawai... You see, Gawai
started on Saturday at midnight, so I thought we would be good until then. No
dice. Everyone had either gone or was too busy to meet. We literally had 3 appointments
this week.... A new record low... The other Samarahan Elders had 0.
Until Sunday…
Church was only
sacrament meeting, we actually had 19 people, more than we were expecting.
After church we
proceeded to go to 7 houses, Brother Sup, Brother Senen, Brother Niga, Brother
Clement, a member from Batu Kawa branch who invited us, Brother Beliang and
finally Bro Kelvin. At each one we were fed. There was lots of curry, normal
rice, kampung rice, glutinous rice in leaves, chicken rendang, pork, jungle
pork, bamboo chicken, normal chicken, many varieties of vegetables, various
fruits, various noodles, various snack type foods, like crackers, rice prawn
crackers, pastries, chocolates, other candy, various nuts, various random
traditional things, and lots of soda. By my count I must have drank 2 liters of
soda, coke soda, orange soda, grape soda, ice cream soda, fizzy apple soda,
apple juice, water, strawberry soda, sarsi soda, and some milo to top it off...
For a list of
strange foods I ate wild boar with the fur, sucked snail out of the shell, pork
intestines, shrimp heads, and various other stuff.
Basically I have
never been so full in my life. If it hadn’t been for Brother Jeff taking us in
his car I would have thrown up a couple times while riding my bike I am sure. I
am still full now 12 hours later.....
On Saturday Brother
Kelvin invited us to his Kampung for opening Gawai, we went for the first few
hours, got to play the gongs and such, pretty cool.
Other than that this
week was a lot of empty time. Gawai sucks for missionary work.
It may or may not be
the same this week, we don’t know yet....
That’s about all,
Love, Elder Halpin
Eating.
Brother's Kelvin and Jeff,
the vests we are wearing are our Gawai clothes,
Brother Kelvin is the Bidayuh style, ours are the Iban style.
Playing the gongs
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