This week was rather
difficult for me, but also way good!
Sigai came back and
we’ve met him a couple times! He came to church on Sunday and has been reading
and praying. His wife is still really not interested, but we will just give her
time. The next lesson we will be going over the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We will
also go over the word of wisdom with him. It will interesting to see what
happens, if he has any big word of wisdom issues then it could make meeting his
Sept 20th date difficult and we may have to push it back, but if he is good or
is easily able to overcome them I think he will be good.
Church, ah church. So,
basically we forgot stuff at the house and had to go back so we were 10 minutes
late. After sacrament meeting when everyone went upstairs for classes it became
apparent that somebody had locked the door to get into one half of the
building. Nobody has a key to this door, and it’s a nice knob, you can’t “butter
knife” it. Anyway it has happened a couple times before and basically an Elder
has to climb out the back window and walk along this ledge holding onto window
grates and climb in the window on the other side and unlock it from the inside.
The new senior couple wouldn’t have any of it so we were stuck in one half of
the building for classes...... Ugh. Anyway people kept asking what this smell
was, nobody could place it. Finally the primary kids were all like "it’s
smoke, it’s smoke" and then everyone realized that is what it was. So everyone
proceeded to leave class and look for the fire. We were worried that it was in
the locked half so we went out the window and unlocked the other half – NOPE,
it wasn’t. Turned out to be the electric
meter (not an Itron one) at the bottom of the stairs. It basically was melting
and smoking and had been charring the wood board it was mounted on. Anyway, end
of church for the day.
The sisters are
doing good, met last night and talked about priesthood and priesthood authority
to do baptisms and such. They came to a district activity Monday night, however
there was a problem and they nor Sister Seleha, (their ride) were able to come
to church, next week though.
Victoria came to
church, also met her this week while riding to an appointment. She agreed to
meet after church but then the whole church was filled with electrical smoke,
so that was scratched. I don’t think she’s working as much anymore so I’m
hoping we can start meeting her during the week.
Brother John is
still Brother John. He knows the church is true, he’s just telling himself he’s
not sure because he couldn’t kick smoking last time. Whenever I try and direct
the conversation towards something deep he just avoids it. Anyway, I feel like
the only way he can make any progress is if we can actually talk to him without
all the random rhetoric. Still trying to figure out how to do that.
Last Monday we
stayed the night at the Zone Leaders house and on Tuesday had Zone Council,
just a new name for Zone Meeting. It was way good. Afterwards went on splits
with the Zone Leaders. I stayed in Sibu Jaya and Elder Kavapalu stayed in Sibu.
Pretty good. On Thursday one of the APs went on splits with the other Sibu Jaya
Elders. That was pretty good, got to hear a bit about President Mains' vision
for the mission and such.
So ya,
Thanks a lot for the
birthday present!!! If you guys really
want to open the tube you can.... Just don’t let somebody break it. Also there are no darts in there and I had to remove the bayonet and sight before I shipped
it.
Can’t wait to see
the new cabinets & kitchen when I get back!
Love you guys!
Elder Halpin
Sigai, his wife Bibi and their daughter Pira.
Classic example of "Kampung face," this is a condition a lot of Ibans get where they don’t smile in pictures.
Elder Kavapalu and I at church,
he wore his Tongan dress "pants" yesterday.
Random Melayu guy we met down the street from our house,
moments before he had killed this king cobra.
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