Parties, Weddings, Pig Dinner, and Christmas of Course!
Hello everyone and a very Merry Christmas! Enjoy the snow
for me....
To my family, this feels a little bit weird typing this
email because I literally talked to you all like 3 hours ago, haha.... But anyways,
here I will have to think of more stuff to share about that I didn't share
while we skyped!
This week was just full of Christmas fun-filled activities
and most of which were made, organized, and ran by the Elders. So it was pretty
stressful but we got it done! A lot of the festivities of the season took place
inside our house with Elder Haslam and I. It was a good one. Christmas itself
was just a good day all in all. We were expecting to have invitations and
things planned for us on that day but nope, everyone leaves to go to their
village and the Elders get left alone.... So we went to work! It's all we know
to do... We helped the sick and the afflicted, visited the widows, and
looked for ways to serve.
We were riding our bikes and it was raining. Yeah, did I
mention it rains here?! Anyways we saw this truck stuck on the side of the
road. The second I saw it and the 8 Malaysian dudes unsuccessfully trying to
get it out, I instantly thought of the Mormon Message 'Bearing Our Burdens with
Hope' about the truck in the snow. I was like, well, I've seen this in a Mormon
Message once! Well, I went over there and took over. I told them all to get in
the back and weigh it down, we gave it some space, and some gas, and 2 tries
later we were out of there. Folks, Mormon Messages have skill value to them too
not just spiritual value!!
We got to have the branch party this week as well. Guess who
got to be Santa Claus?
Iban weddings are fun. Especially when you throw them in the
bottom floor of your Iban wooden house in kampung that is no bigger then 15
feet squared and you invite the whole village! Yes, please make the white man
say the opening prayer too! Then lets throw on some really loud Iban music and
ask the big white man to dance over and over until he just has to leave...Haha
it was so much fun.
Our investigator Hendry passed his baptismal interview this
week and he will be getting baptized next week! Way excited. This is our 9 year
old investigator that acts like he is 24 already haha. So cool.
Well, Love you all! Merry Christmas!
Elder Thompson
Ps: Hope your Holiday Feasts were good this year!?!
Some Fruit with that?
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