Mom transcribed the audio file Elder Mullins sent this week:
It was a good week.
We had Valentine’s day, and Chinese New Year. We had blazing days. We had rainy days. It was freezing one day. This week was kind of all over the place.
Tuesday night it was rainy so then we were all wet, then it
got windy so we were cold. We were going
ham all day trying to find people to teach..and nothin’, nada, zilch… We tried walking around the mall and found
nothing. Flashback*…3 weeks ago Elder
McCusker and I are on exchanges. We
talked to this ripped Chinese guy and he wasn’t interested. *Back to now…We decided to leave the mall to
go home and study our language when all of the sudden a ripped Chinese guy came
running up to us. Elder Mickelsen had
never seen him before. It took me a
minute and then I remembered this was the guy from China. He whipped out his phone and told us he
wanted our contact information, but he only spoke Chinese…no English. Luckily, Elder Mickelsen and I both speak
Chinese. Ha Ha! We gave him the Gongchis ( pass along cards?). We have this app on our phone so we were able
to communicate. We exchanged contact
information. He had some good questions,
but he wasn’t interested in the Gospel.
We got him with English class. He
ended up coming to English class, but I’ll talk more about that later.
Friday, we changed plans and went to the church to check on
the English class. The Chinese guy was
there. For some reason the people
teaching English were upstairs, and downstairs the lights weren’t even on. He was going to leave, because no one was
there. We told him, “let’s go upstairs”. We ended up having a great English
class. We went to leave the church and a
lady and her son showed up so we took them upstairs. Then we saw a guy sitting in a car so we got
him upstairs. The only people at English
class were only the people we brought.
They all had a pretty good time and they told us they would come back
next week. Those were some crazy miracles
on Friday.
Rewind again…at the beginning of the week the days were
freezing cold. I was getting so cold I
was shivering. The second half of the
week was blazing hot. We got burned
pretty bad. We don’t have much to talk
about Monday through Thursday, because all we did was contact, appointments
fell through, and there was a lot of rain.
We woke up Friday morning with no plans since it was Chinese
New Year, and it had rained all week. We
were sarcastically saying this is gonna be the best day…a day of miracles. Then we prayed to find elect people that day
and left the house. The first person we
talked to was elect…Boom! The second
one, not so much. We asked him what the
two most important things in the world were to him. He said “house and water”. We said, “That’s nice.” We found a ton of people on Friday and we got
way burned. We taught the restoration 4
times. It was so good! Not to mention we decided to go to this
random member’s house right when he was fixing his roof. We didn’t stay too long, but we helped him
out for a while.
Then we said a specific prayer that brought us specific
blessings. I asked God to bless us that
the bus would be full so that we wouldn’t have to wait an hour for the bus to
fill up so we could go. We got to the
bus and we were the last two people to get on.
That happened to us 3 or 4 times now.
The buses won’t leave until they are full so if you just miss the bus
you have to wait about 40 minutes before the next bus will take off. We even taught a restoration lesson on the
bus. Later we walking around this old
campung. We saw two kids who looked
alike. They were probably 10 years
old. They were twins and they ran up to
us all excited. We asked their names and
the one said “Abah” which means “older brother”. Then we asked the other one his name and he
said “Adik” which means “Little brother”. Then we taught these two sixteen-year-olds,
the twins’ neighbors, Mackin and Kelvin.
They were way interested. Kelvin asked golden questions. He was one of those prepared people. Then today we were walking to pick up another
investigator who lives over there, and we saw Kelvin walking to church by
himself with his Bible and a bag. We
asked him if he just walked by himself and if his family ever goes to church
with him. He said, “No, I go by myself. I’ve been doing that for years.” His money questions are like, “How can I
better understand the scriptures?” or “How can I receive an answer to know that
this is true? How can I know what God
wants me to do?” We taught him and
Makin again today. After two days of
having the Book of Mormon they read the first couple chapters.
Also, today the twins saw us walking to Makin and Kelvin’s
house. They asked, “Are you a part of
the white tribe?” We said, “Yeah we are
the white tribe.” One of them said, “I
knew it! You didn’t even have to say
it. I already knew you were white
people.” I saw a picture of you on my
dad’s Facebook page and there was a picture of you. I said, “I know those white guys. They are from the church.” I guess we are Facebook famous!
We found this Indonesian family. We were ready to give up on finding people
that day, because the sun was blazing hot.
We felt like we had already been in this place before. Elder Mickelsen said, “Let’s give it this one
last shot down this road.” A guy came
out and said, “Whoa, white people!” No
one in this campung had never seen white people before. We asked if we could teach him and he said, “Yes,
come on in.” We taught him, his wife,
and his son. He came to church
today! When we were teaching them the
son’s wife came out and was trying to conspicuously video us. She got a video of us testifying and the
Spirit was really strong. Elder
Mickelsen testified of Joseph Smith so she got the whole restoration lesson on
video. I don’t know what she’s going to
do with it, but it was good. Maybe she
will indoctrinate people and we will have a million people at church next week. We’re not sure how solid they are, but it was
way cool. We did get the dad to come
with us to church today.
Today after church we started walking around that area again
and a bunch of little kids were trailing us.
That is one thing that happened in Sarawak that doesn’t happen in
Sabah. I have really missed little kids
trailing us. In Sarawak we had thousands
of kids follow us and show us where all the Christians lived. In Sabah it’s less common.
Church today was way good!
President Ling gave a talk. It’s
Chinese New Year so we only had sacrament meeting. It was packed. His talk was high energy and really good. He’s the District President. He was talking about keeping the commandments
which bring us blessings. He was throwing in Malay, Chinese, and English. We had 7 or 8 investigators at sacrament
meeting. Sister Mimi is a legend and
didn’t sleep much last night, because she was cooking for everybody. We had this huge feast after church. Sister Mimi cooked it all with 2 of our
investigators.
Hope you all had a good Chinese New Year like we did. Oh!
Chinese people always give you these red envelopes with money in them
for the New Year if you are not married.
There’s a Canadian family who lived in China and they were here for the
Chinese New Year. They happened to have some
of these red envelopes. They gave us
some and we were expecting like 5 ringgit, which is $1. It was actually 20 times more than 5
ringgit. 100 ringgit for each of
us! That’s how much we spend on food in
a week! You can pretty much buy anything
except a car for 100 ringgit.
Hope you all have a good week! Love you all!
Elder Ben Mullins
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