"Wait, you're Muslim?"

Some good stories for this week so let me share all those!

First, we met this sweet couple of these way prepared people outside a mall and they said we could meet and eat at their place. We set up the time and day and when the day came everything pulled through, which was a first. We started into eating this delicious food and getting to know them. They were awesome at English and they both owned their own businesses. They had money to travel and they had other family too. They were nice and super cool and Elder Haslam and I were looking at each other and smiling thinking, these people are 'golden,' we were 'high-fiving.'. So we finished the meal and we were honestly right about to get into teaching when I re-asked the question again to clarify what religion they were. They said, Islam......wait what?! I could have sworn they said Christian before. I just put my head in between my legs, pretty much, looked at Elder Haslam, and we just laughed. Of course the Muslim couple would be the most hope we have seen in months. These people are prepared...I wish we could teach them. Funny, haha.

We wanted to teach one of our investigators in a house that didn't have a male that was of age so we couldn't go in. We walked around the entire village and asked every member we knew if they could help us out but they couldn't. We were getting pretty desperate so I told our member who is a Sister, that we needed to pray. I said the prayer and asked for a male member to help us and be at the house we wanted to teach. Well, you all know God. We show up, knock on the door, and there was a 16 year old guy who stayed so we could teach! 

 

We were way far out in some more villages exploring when Elder Haslam got a flat tire. I mean, we were way far out. The rest of the night consisted of us two walking on foot in the pouring rain, absolutely soaked, backed to house. It got dark and I think I made it through about 5 or 6 hymns before we finally got home. I don't think I hit any of the lyrics right on but I think I sang like 12 versus of "Ye Elders of Israel". Most of it was just made up on the spot, haha. Good times!

The Young Men had an activity and it was pretty much let's get together and cook food! We met at the church and all the members taught us a little bit about the Malaysian way of cooking and flavors. It was way fun and way tasty.

Elder Thompson

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Draper, Utah Missionary Letters seen thru Oct 29-2016