Hey Everyone!
This week was crazy! So much happened! Elder Johnson is gone
now, and I'm back with Elder Mickelson for the second time! We're pumped to
have an AWESOME transfer, and so far, it's really looking up to be an awesome
transfer! We have tons of faith and energy, so we're planning to just blow
everything out of the water with our faith! It'll be great! Monday, we played
volleyball. So that kind of stunk, but it was fun to talk to the members at
least! It was a pretty chill P Day for
me. After that, we went over to the
senior couple's house and had our Christmas party! It was pretty fun. We had a Thanksgiving dinner (including
turkey), and it was super good. I
haven't eaten turkey in a long time. It was great!
Tuesday, we shipped Elder Johnson's bike. It took forever,
because we had to take it apart, stick it in a box, and then take the Sister's
bike apart, stick it in a box, then we carried these two huge boxes for about
30 minutes to the place where we send them.
It took a while, but it was good. The guy that was helping us send them
was like, "I swear... people like you come here every month or so and send
a bike! Maybe they're your friends?"
I explained to him why we did it every 6 weeks. Haha! It was pretty
funny. Apparently, the missionaries sent a bike on his first day working, then
6 weeks later, sent another one, then we just sent 2. Haha! I think I showed
Elder Loutzenhiser and DJ around the KK 1 area that day... I'm pretty sure it
was Tuesday I did that.
Wednesday, Elder Mickelson and I planned a ton of stuff for
the zone, the districts in the zone, and for our area. We are SET for this next
transfer. I can't wait to see it all pan out. We also taught this super cool
guy named Tay. Tay is about 30, and his wife and child live in Miri. They mean the world to him. We really hit him up with the Plan of
Salvation, and he loved it. Later in the week, we met again, and taught the
restoration. He had a hard time understanding, but we taught until he
understood, and at the end of the lesson, he was like, "Wow. I've never
had someone be able to teach me so well about anything like this. You teach me
so I understand." That's what happens when the spirit teaches. AWESOME.
Then we met him again and read the Book of Mormon with him, and talked about
learning by faith. We met with him 3
times this week, and those were the first 3 times he's met with the
missionaries. He's wayyyyy solid. We're
pumped for him. We also went caroling at night with the branch, and it was a
ton of fun. There's this member here named Mixer that organized it all. I’m not gonna lie, I have NO idea why the
missionaries haven't been trying to work with him, but I just feel like he's
such a bro, and he's got a ton of stuff he could help us out with. Later in the week, we went and visited him.
More on that later.
Thursday... Weekly planning sucked up a bunch of time. We practiced our skit for our Christmas
party, and we taught an investigator they've been meeting with for a while
named Azmira. She's pretty cool. She and her boyfriend are going to get married
in a month, then she'll be able to be baptized! She's way cool. We also stopped
by a bunch of people's houses and invited them to the Christmas party.
Friday, we advertised for English Class, practiced our skit,
had a coordination meeting with KK2 people.
We went around and met a bunch of members... Oh, and we got stuck
teaching English class too... Haha, so it was a less than an awesome day, but
that's ok, because the rest of the week made up for it.
Saturday, we met with Tay.
We went around and invited a bunch of inactives to the Christmas party.
We literally invited everyone we passed that wasn't Muslim to the Christmas
party, and tried using our fancy app thing to find a bunch of less actives
(didn't work). In the morning, we were
walking around talking with tons of people, and we passed this one lady that
looked pretty Muslim, but she wasn't wearing any Muslim clothes, so I decided
I'd at least say hi. I said hi in Malay,
and then she got super excited and told us she was from KL and got to Sabah the
night before for vacation. It turned out she's Christian. We invited her to the party later that night.
And guess who came? SHE TOTALLY DID. She's way solid too. She ate up the
church. She loved how everyone was so talkative and happy and stuff, and she's
way down to go to church over in KL.
At the party, the event that's looked forward to most is the
missionary's part in the program. For
some reason, everyone loves what missionaries do. Everyyyyy year, you hear,
"OH there was this ONE GROUP of missionaries that did such and such and it
was SOOOO FUNNY. Best skit ever."
The goal for missionaries is for the skit to be one that everyone always
talks about. I thiiiink we might've made
it this year. I dunno. Everyone was dying.
I'm just gonna say, I would never do anything like that if I was back at
home. On the mission, you’ve got to
impress the members and make sure they really like you, because then missionary
work is a lot easier and more fun too. So that was pretty awesome. The members
loved it, and we had tons of referrals come to the party too. We're super excited for what happens next!
Sunday, we had a nice sacrament meeting, met with a bunch of
people, and had some good donuts after church. We finally got to meet with a
member who’s been dodging the missionaries for a long time too! So that was
awesome! He just really didn't like one of the missionaries here a few
transfers here ago, and hasn't met with the missionaries ever since. But we got
him again! And he ate up what he learned. So that was good.
This week flew by! I can't believe it's Christmas already!
Mostly because it's still hot outside and there aren't very many Christmas
decorations up, but it's been tons of fun! I'm super excited to see what the
rest of the transfer holds! I hope you all have a great Christmas, and a Happy New
Year too! I'll send pictures later!
I ALMOST FORGOT. I have officially been a Malay Elder longer
than I was an English Elder! Isn't that crazy? I can't believe I can speak
another language... Or that I've been learning Malay for that long. It's been
over 9 months I think...
Love,
Elder Ben Mullins
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