So first off the bad
news. My camera is done. It was supposed to be waterproof, specifically down to
3 meters... But a couple inches did it
in. So yeah, my camera is kaput. I looked around a bit and the cheapest cameras
I could find were 250 ringgit, so that’s like 70-80 dollars something such. If
the budget is there it would be way nice. If not, it’s good though, I have been
using my companion’s camera to take some pictures and can continue to do that.
Anyway, other than
that this week has been great!!!
My bike arrived on Tuesday.
We went contacting
in this Muslim water Kampung and found this one family. Brother Nonoi and his
wife Sister Ratma and their 7 kids. He is pretty cool, he made a living most of
his life as a guitarist and artist, travelling all over Borneo and even going
to the Philippines, Singapore and West Malaysia. Now he teaches music at a
school. Anyway, we came later and tried to teach a lesson but he mostly I think
wanted to bible bash and convert us.... You
could tell his wife and some of his older kids were actually interested in what
we were saying but he was not open. We will try one more time this week, but if
he will not listen to us then there is nothing we can do.
We have been
contacting that Kampung and it is going really well. We found a Dusun
longhouse. We decided to try a different approach than just going up and
knocking on the door. We found it because, as we riding by, a bunch of kids
were throwing soccer balls at me.... So we stopped and offered to teach them English.
We’ve been over three times now, and a lot of their parents that didn’t look to
happy to see us when we first came are now way chill with us, this week we want
to start asking if they want to learn.
In the same Kampung
we went and knocked on a bunch of doors, no luck. However, two kids were
following us and said they would take us to their friends and relatives houses
that were Christian. So we pumped them on our bikes and they helped us contact
a bunch of people. One family in particular is way promising. It’s a way big family
from Timor Flores in Indonesia. They are "Christian" but, except for
one of the daughters who goes to a church, don’t really know anything. We will
be going back again on Tuesday, hopefully it goes well.
We have several more
potentials from the same Kampung, and some others from the Muslim water Kampung.
This week should be
way good!
Sincerely,
Elder Halpin
Pictures i took
before my camera died...
The view from our apartment,
Muslim Kampung,
hills and just peaking over, Mount Kinabalu.
These kids thought i was Messi....
Water Kampung
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