Hey Everyone!
This week FLEW by, but it was a little bit harder to meet
with people this week. I have no idea why. Every potential investigator we had
was told or found anti information, so that was a bummer. We didn't meet any new PI's, but we did end up
finding one person and teaching them on the spot, and now they're pumped to
learn. But Elder Johnson and I had a ton of fun and stayed positive! We're pumped for this next week!
I can't even remember what we did on Monday... For P day, we
did an escape room because we got a discount from doing one the week before,
and it was super cheap. We went, and it
was way fun up until the very end. The last room in the escape room wasn't
finished, so "the puzzle" was to just twist the door knob and it was
already unlocked. We were in the room
for like a minute, then the worker just opened the door for us and said that. It kind of got rid of the satisfaction of
doing the escape room super quickly.
Tuesday, we had a district meeting on teaching simply, and
it went really well. That's something our zone struggles with, so we're working
on teaching everyone how to teach simply. It's kind of hard, because we need to
make sure that we teach 100% simply so that they can see what we mean, but that
means a lot more planning. Haha! We did
a good job, and they're all excited to teach simply now! So that's good! After
that, we went to Beverly Hills, and knocked, and followed up with people. Ryan
and Anna didn't meet us this week. They cancelled 3 appointments, so that was
kind of annoying... They've kept good contact though, so I think we'll give
them one more week before we maybe drop them for a while.
Oh, also. We were walking to a member's house, and this pack
of dogs started following us and barking. We just walked away like we normally do, but
then this one dog got a little brave and started biting Elder Johnson's
shoe/heel. He was doing his best not to
freak out so that the other dogs wouldn't attack us, but then I told him to
kick the dog. He tried, and missed, then
all the dogs started snarling and stuff and bearing their teeth, then we went
on a trying to kick the dogs' faces frenzy, and then they were just backing up
a bit. Then Elder Johnson said,
"FIND A ROCK AND THROW IT AT THEM!" I bent down trying to find a rock, and all the
dogs thought I had picked up a rock, and they just booked it away. Haha! It
was super easy to get them off of us, but it was pretty epic. Then 30 seconds
after that, a little kid walked past us with his siblings, and he said,
"Woah, your face is exactly like that one guy on the English class video I
saw..." The kid totally recognized me from the English class video.
Wednesday... I can't remember. We met with Lodelin and
taught the restoration, then ate some super good food after. Filipino's are
super good cooks. So that's always awesome. After them. I can't really remember what
happened. I had to buy a new light for my bike since my other one finally broke
from the time I flipped my bike a while ago. When I landed in the puddle, I
must've hit a rock or something, because there was a crack in the light. I taped it, and it lasted up until last
Monday. SO. Now I have a new one! Thank goodness I'm in Malaysia! Everything is mega cheap. Oh, we also learned
that the bros all moved back to their village. They weren't planning on it when
they left there. Due to the Malaysian
culture, they stayed for a week, then another week, then decided they just
didn't want to come back! Hurray for
Malaysia! That's ok, because now we're
100% in Beverly Hills! Now we can really
focus our efforts! It only took about 2 weeks to relocate areas. That shows how
fast areas change! Oh, we also met this old dude who was way funny. Racist,
says that running will keep you forever young AS LONG AS you eat bread. If you
eat rice, no way. Running will do nothing. So that's pretty awesome. Haha!
Thursday, Elder Mickelson and I had MLC, and we got some
super cool news! Our mission is going have smartphones sometime in January!
Every missionary will have one. So that's cool! We're hoping we get some water
proof phones. We didn't have to go to Singapore for this MLC. We just skyped
in. It was hard to understand everything
that was being said, so that was kind of a bummer. Meetings are definitely better
in person than over skype. Next time
it'll be in person. That lasted all day, so it was a loooong meeting.
Friday, we met with Mark and his mom again! They're really
good. Mark takes full accountability, but his mom always offers excuses for
him. Haha! She takes full accountability
for everything about herself. Here’s an example: We tell them that the fact
that they didn't go to church last week was a sin, and that we want them to be
able to receive the blessings that come from being obedient to that commandment.
Mark says, "You're right. That was a sin, and we could have avoided it. I
need to try harder next week to make it.", his mom says, "Oh Mark
can't possibly make it to church! He works 15 hour shifts on weekends and is
exhausted. So even if he wasn't working, he still wouldn't be able to make it!
But you're right, I definitely sinned by not going to church. That was my
fault. I need to be a better Christian and go to church next week." SO. It’s kind of difficult, and pretty funny too.
We call his mom Mamak, so that's probably what I'll call her from now on. They're way cool. I took a picture with Mark.
Saturday, we had a ton of appointments with potential
investigators fall through, but we DID get to meet with Bonis. He's been studying up on the church on the
internet. He's read some crazy things about our church. He wasn't reading to prove us wrong, so he had
honest questions on what he read, and most of it was lies, so it was super easy
to convince him that pretty much everything he read about us wasn't true. He's happy to keep learning! He didn't come
to church, but we'll change that by next week!
Sunday... church was good! After church, we went and
followed up with Mamak, and her daughter that lives on the other side of Sabah
(the state we're in) was visiting! She was really shocked that two white people
came to their door and started speaking Malay with her mom. She was even more surprised when her mom was
super happy and excited to see us. We love going over to say hi to Mamak,
because she gets super excited when we come over, and gives us a bunch of
drinks and treats and stuff. She tries
to convince us we need to go inside and take a seat and rest for a while. Too
bad there isn't a male there unless Mark is home. Otherwise, we could've taught
her all the lessons in a week. Hahaha! We also were walking around and saw this
lady washing her car. We introduced
ourselves to her, and asked if we could help wash her car! She said there was
no way she'd let us help her wash her car. We told her we were from the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints. She asked
where the church was, and she totally knew where it was. But then she said,
"My friends always told me that was a Mormon church!" We explained that we're Mormons, but she was
super cool. (Forgot to mention her name was Irene.) We asked if she wanted to
learn more about the Book of Mormon after talking a while longer, and she said
sure. We asked if she had 30 minutes
right then, and she said she did. We
tried getting her to let us wash her car and teach her while she just sat down
and listened, but she didn't like that idea. We sat down and taught while she washed the
car and listened. Haha! She asked a ton of questions, and ate it up! We're really excited for her, but we'll
probably have to pass her to the sisters since she's a woman, and she speaks
English, and she's Chinese. So. There is literally no reason why we should be
teaching her. But hey, that's ok. We're all on the same team.
That was a quick, watered down run down of my week! Sorry I
didn't have tons of detail! I'm sending a picture of Mark and of Bonis.
Soooooooo yeah. I don't know how to
specify which is which. Mark is older than Bonis! The picture of Mark is in a
house. KK is super awesome, and we're
loving it here! There's been less rain this week, so that was good! It also means it's hotter, but rain is no good
either. Thanks for all the emails! I hope you have an awesome week!
Love,
Elder Ben Mullins
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