Taking Down Trees, Malaysian Style!

Hey everyone how's it going! Oh, and GOOD MORNING! Yes, even if it is night or the afternoon it's still GOOD MORNING, in a loud, high pitched, Malaysian kid accent! Regardless of what time it is we hear that everywhere. It could literally be pitch black at 9 pm at night and we are heading home on our bikes and we just hear this little kid scream from his yard...GOOD MORNING! Followed by laughs and giggles. 

This week we got to hang out with our YSA and youth at the church and cook with them which was way fun. Got to learn how to make some more Malaysian food and the best part? We get to eat it all afterwards. 

We had an unusual amount of flat tires this week on Elder Haslam's and my end. With that being said, Haslam and I are tight so we can talk to each other because there was no one out, haha. 

we had some great opportunities to walk on foot. Sometimes for over 2 hours on the sides of highways while it's pitch black. It's a good thing.

I got to go on exchanges with E Johnson in my district this week! He is one of the newer members of the mission and he speaks Chinese so he couldn't say much that day. Speaking Iban doesn't help much either. Anyways, Elder (Tucker) Johnson is from Draper and we knew of each other before the mission and I especially knew his older brother so we had a great time talking about Draper and all that good stuff. Small world! Not really, but yeah you know what I mean.

 

To finish off the week we did some service for a widow in our branch. She wanted her palm oil tree cut down. She gave some two sweet machete sword things, and we went to work! This tree was massive and to add to the fun, it was invested by scorpions, giant red ants, black ants too, and some weird ear wig looking stuff. Yeah. Keep your mouth closed when you hack at it!

That's all from Sarawak, Malaysia for this week! Love you all!

Elder Thompson

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Draper, Utah Missionary Letters seen thru Jan 8-2017