I
got a new camera, it’s pretty nice. (It actually can zoom)!!!
That’s
interesting, about Christian not being able to speak English properly... My English
shouldn’t be too shabby, just that I can’t remember words anymore.
This
week went pretty good.
The
Indonesian family and the Nonois family were unable to meet this week, we will
be meeting on Tuesday though.
We
found a bunch more solid potentials. In Kampung Dambai (the kampung we found)
we shared a lesson with a lady named Edeline. She said that if, in the future,
she thinks it’s true she will be baptized, so pretty promising. She lives in a
house with several of her kids and their families, so hopefully next time we
can meet all of them!
We
met this other guy named Frankie who was patching up his fighting chicken. He
indicated that he’d be down to meet this week too. He has a wife and several
kids.
We
also met with a young couple (maybe like 16 and 18?) and a bunch of her
siblings. They listened and said we could come back, we will see.
On
Thursday, a former investigator named Martinus asked us to come help him build
his neighbor’s house. Anyway we rode out to where they lived (Telipok, an hour
and a half bike ride) and met him at the town square. We were wearing shorts
and t-shirts expecting to build stuff. Anyway, he had randomly met up with this
Jehovahs Witness from Australia named Dane. Anyway, we had a very civil bible
bash if such a thing exists, and then went our ways.
I’ve
now had twice as much bible bashing in Kota Kinabalu as the rest of my mission
combined. It’s pretty useless. No, really useless. Either someone ends up
humiliated (they’re not going to listen to you after that), or someone ends up
way angry and defensive and won’t listen to you, or both sides walk away
feeling like they "won". Just useless.
The
members are pretty awesome here. The thing about this branch is that it has got
no spirit now, so were really trying to infuse that into the branch.
Also
this week everyone in Kota Kinabalu was sick. On Saturday I slept almost the
whole day. Friday when we went out I’m pretty sure we were half delirious. Really
wacky day.
Love
you guys!
Sincerely,
Elder
Halpin
The famous floating Mosque of Kota Kinabalu
Me with some of the Harun Family children, Adrian his wife Alana, Laura and President Sebastian.
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