Happy New Year!

Hey Everyone!

This week was tons of fun! I don't really know why this week was so fun, but Elder Forsyth and I just had a blast! Everyone in Malaysia has told us "Happy New Year" for the past 4 days, so it's been fun coming up with responses to that. From asking people how much wood would a woodchuck chuck to putting Nepalese guards on date in 5 seconds, we're having a lot of fun here.

Monday, after emailing, we walked home. On the way home, there was a massive group of pigeons. I stuck my hand out, and one of them landed on my hand!!! So I stuck my other hand out, and another one landed on my hand!  We just sat there holding pigeons for a while. I didn't get a picture because both of my hands were occupied at the time. But Elder Forsyth might be able to send me one in a bit. Other than that, not much happened.

Tuesday, we contacted all day, but it was a lot of fun. At night, we visited an inactive member, Alvin Tan. He's the most insane person I've ever met. He has 2 kids, and they had a friend over. I'm just gonna say, that was the loudest house I've ever been in. He would yell, then they would, then he would. He tries to calm them down by making them super wild until they crash, and I bet it works. Super high energy... Wow. Anyway, that was fun!

Wednesday was fun. Ariz gave us a present wrapped up in Nemo wrapping paper, so we carried that around all day!  Nobody even asked about it. He got us all water bottles!  Now I have a new water bottle! Sister Saffron has been getting mad at Elder Forsyth for never carrying water with him for the past couple months. He has a bottle.  He just always forgets it. She bought him one so he'd have to carry it, one of the Chinese Elder's investigators bought one for him, Ariz got him one, and a guy that works for the US embassy gave him one.  He got 5 water bottles in 2ish weeks. Pretty awesome. Now he carries water. We think it's a sign from God.

Other than water bottles, we got Kok Cin to set a goal for baptism finally! It's been 7 lessons, and we had an AWESOME lesson about the last part of the plan of salvation.  He's finally confident enough that he set a goal for baptism! February 18th!  Hopefully he progresses! He's awesome. He'll be a great member. After we taught Kok Cin, we set out to find an English copy of the Qur'an. We went inside a mosque just off the side of the road (they're everywhere), and it was actually pretty cool. TONS of Muslims came up to us and asked where we were from (they aren't used to seeing a couple of white people in their mosques). When we told them that we were from the US, they said, "Oh really? I thought Americans thought that Muslims were terrorists!" It was pretty funny. Really, Muslims are very nice people--most of the time. Some of them aren't too happy to see us, but 95% of them are super nice. It was fun to go in the mosque!

Thursday... Oh! We saw a train that had Rogue 1 advertisements all over it. That was cool.  That night, we advertised our English class at a night market. Night markets are awesome. There’s tons of really cool, random stuff for super cheap. It's like the DI equivalent, except EVERYONE goes to it. It was a ton of fun.

Friday was exchange day for Elder McCusker and me! We hung out, got told by a lot of people we looked like Harry Potter and Ron Weasly.  That was fun! Whenever we were surrounded by a ton of Malays (people we aren't allowed to teach), Elder McCusker would just yell really loud, then pretend nothing happened.  Everyone stared at us. It was awesome.

Saturday, not much happened. We had dinner with a former investigator named Clarence who's obsessed with Utah, and Mormons, and temple square. He's hilarious. He's just too scared to ask his parents if he can be baptized.  He's actually old enough that he doesn't need to ask them. Some reason, Chinese culture makes it so you can't make your own decisions until you're like 25-30 years old. Sooooooo that stinks, but he's a funny guy.

Sunday, not much happened. We went to church, visited a referral (which by the way, has potential to be baptized in like 2 weeks) named Yuen.  We visited Ariz, then went to dinner at Sister Saffron's. It was fun, but not very eventful.

This week was a ton of fun, and I can't wait to see what happens next week! We get to meet with Yuen and see where he's really at, we get to teach Kok Cin, find more investigators, and have fun for the last two weeks of the transfer! I hope you all have an awesome week and a happy new year!

Love,

Elder Ben Mullins

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The shop lot

Straight Thuggin'

The Trains

Pigeons