So after being in Singapore for one night I have been moved
to East Malaysia in a city called Kuching.
It's downright crazy here, but I already love it.
-no sidewalks here but we bike everywhere and don't forget it's
the left side of the road. That's got my mind all messed up.
-We are over an international ward. So people from
everywhere are there and a good amount of them are chinese.
-It's not really Chinese they speak here but a mix of
Malaysia English and Chinese among Tai and eban and huayu, haukian, fujiao,
tamel, and like a billion other languages. I can't even understand english here
a lot.
I feel illiterate here haha
-my companion is the bomb. he's been here a year. 6 months
in Singapore and 6 months in Muri in East Malaysia. His chinese is quite
good.
-I gave the lesson in priesthood this week. Not sure
if they understood a lot of it since my english is not the same as
theirs.
-they have sunday school in Chinese and I thought they were
talking about seeing God in heaven and how but I asked my companion after and
he told me they were talking about Moses and the manna falling from heaven.
Great.
- We live in a decent aprt. ill try and send pictures with
two other Malay speaking elders. In our ward we have two English sisters as
well.
- We email in pretty sketch internet cafe's where kids just
play Call of Duty or some sort of it all day. kinda sad. Jackson, don't. You
the man.
- We teach in shoplits they are called where most everyone
works. It's just a bunch of outside stands selling random stuff.
-I taught my first lesson on Saturday in Chinese. Think it
went well. But in the middle of it she started blabbing on about something and
later my companion told me it was that I had black hair and she thought that
was cool/different
-all the water is bad here so everything has to be filtered.
-it's humid as nuts here.
-We run in the mornings and its great because whenever you
start running slow all the stray dogs will start chasing after you and so then
you really start booking it. makes you get a good workout in. Not sure what
happens if you actually get caught by one of the dogs. Hopefully that doesnt
happen. My companion just says that you kick them but that sounds kind of
sketch. I'll try and just run fast enough.
-Yeah so that's another thing. They have innumerable stray
cats and dogs here. Everywhere.
-we don't have dryers so we just hang our clothes out. They
don't have a lot of things actuallly
-We have about 40 active people in our branch and about 70
members.
-we sit on the floor in people's houses, houses usually have
about 2 big rooms in a bedroom.
-My companion is from North Ogden by the way
- Everyone here is short like a foot shorter than me. And
they all love white people (hongmaren) and they all love the NBA.
-It rains like 24/7 here but you also dry 24/7 here because
it is so hot.
- I already can still I've started talking their english a
little. It's kind of like how Chinese people drop the articles in words so it
sounds very childish.
-oh so immigration hates missionaries. we dress down to
regular clothes and have to travel without companions otherwise its unsafe.
Even so I got taken and questioned quite thoroughly. They think we get paid and
are taking into their country's economy so they let me through but on of the
missionary's passport who has been back and forth like 5 times they really
questioned him hard and only gave him two weeks in Malaysia before he must
report to immigration again. That was in KL. Had no trouble in Kuching
immigration. My companion did though. Its ok though. They just don't associate
missionaries as volunteers but rather as workers.
-the food here is quite different. Lots of things that I
dont ask just eat but nothing too crazy yet. Apparently I will be eating worms
soon. Perrrfecct.
-Everything here is like dirt cheap. Like 10 rigit or 2 US
dollars for a $12 US meal.
-Chinese people just make you eat and eat. Their pride is to
make you fat. Companion's gained 40 lbs. But then again not sure if he's been
working out. I will just show him another way of life I guess.
-We are "whitewashing" the area which means that
neither companion knows the area. Very hard for him to train me without himself
knowing anything about the people or the area but I think President Mains has a
lot of trust in us.
-our land lord thinks we throw matches off the side of the
aprt building. He doesn't understand that we are new so hopefully nothing comes
of that.
-Oh and in the sunday school chinese class this one guy
member was teaching a bunch of false doctrine like: we can't come to church if
we drink Cola and stuff like that. We got some work to do.
-Right next to our church building is the "Blessed
Church" which has rock concerts every night and really gets the people
going persay. Everyone loves it there and so many people go there.
I'll end with a scripture that helped me this week: A lot of
people think that logic and facts is the only way to know things however 1
corinthians 2:5 says "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of
men, but in the power of God."
love you all,
-Elder Pierce
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