Sufficiently Grateful
Nama Berita Semua!?
This week was a good one, well it didn't really start off too
well, but it finished alright!
To start of the week I was sick all day for a couple of
days. I caught a true Malaysian viral fever here and it just about put me out
of business. There is enough to be said about being sick, but catching a
Malaysian sickness that you've never before encountered....it's something else.
There were a couple days where I would try to diagnose what I had by taking
into mind all of my symptoms. After counting all the symptoms I would just give
up...I had no clue what was happening to my body. BUT, everything is all
good now and I am back up on the job! That brings me to my main point, Sufficiently Grateful.
There are a lot of days where you just look around here, and
the smell hits your nose again. We are biking in a ridiculous heat and
sweating all over and no one will listen to you. You are having a bad day and
all you want to do is just go home and call it a day. Normally I pity myself
and feel pretty bad about it. This week was different. I was down so much just
doing NOTHING because I was sick. You can't just slide in movies here or have
your mom to help you with whatever you need while your sick. You get pretty
down on yourself. Then comes the day you get better. I got outside, the sun on
my back, the wind while biking. I was so happy to be out again. It's stuff like
this that when in the midst of trails and challenges, you forget about them. So
I thanked God a little more for the ridiculously hot weather and the sweat off
my face this week.
Last thing for the week. This one was a highlight. We all
got invited to a Chinese Wedding happening within our Chinese Branch here. It
was way fun and way cool. If you know anything about Chinese over here, they
love to party, and more than that, they love to eat. Oh yes. So we watched the original wedding which was pretty calm,
then we headed down to a nice hotel in the "Bandar" (City) for the
reception. They call receptions here "Chinese Banquets". It was
crazy. They decorated the whole place and had a stage and everything. You would
of thought it was a Fortune 500 company seminar or something. Anyways they sat
us down at our designated table and they did what all Chinese do here for
banquet dinners: Set the food in the middle of table on a spinning wheel and
then let the people at the table attack it with their chopsticks....So we
followed suit, and I wasn't complaining haha. Then at the end we do a toast.
Everyone stands up and we toast to the married couples health by yelling
"YAM SENG". I mean YELLING. It sounds like a college football game
before kick-off. It was way funny and fun to join in on. But I guess you could
say that blew my mind this week.
That's all I can think of highlight-wise. We'll hope next
week we can get back into the work a little more. Other than that, time keeps
rolling and memories keep coming! We'll talk next week!
Elder Thompson
PThompson@MyLDSMail.net
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