May 10, 2011

okay so I already have like so little time on the internet. so many people were super sweet to email me and I was trying to read with lightening speed and write everyone back but it was difficult!! sorry sorry. letters would be easier because there isn't a time limit on reading and writing letters...my address in KK is this, if you want to get a letter directly to me. otherwise you can send to singapore, I've heard that's a guaranteed chance of getting there and this address maybe isn't quite so good...but KK isn't a ghetto city so I think it would be fine. okay here it is:
Unit B 7-12 Block B
Marina Court Condominium
88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Malaysia

so in a nut shell, this is my experience thus far:
the Spirit guides what we study and do and say. I know this. yesterday during personal study I was studying the scriptures for lesson one, and I got really hooked on scriptures about God loving us. I'm not sure why. I kept thinking to myself, "I shouldn't be spending so much time on this subject, I need to study more topics...." but for some reason I just kept studying that topic. well, later that day we had a lesson with an investigator and he was having a really rough time and he was questioning if God loved him. guess who used every single scripture I had studied earlier that day? oh yeah. one of them literally brought him to tears after he read it. it was an incredible experience for me. that wasn't me that did that, I would have never known I needed to study those verses if the Spirit wouldn't have guided me there. very incredible and humbling experience.

everyone here thinks I'm super tall and fat. and they aren't afraid to say it. hahahahaha. another humbling experience.

also, everyone will say things about me when I walk by, and I can usually understand them. just cat call-ish things. so then I turn around and say something back to them in malay and the looks on the mens faces are always so priceless. their jaws like drop. "orang putih cakap malayu!!!!!!!" hehe. the little pleasures in life.

I ate the most amazing thing the other day that will surely kill me in the future. it's called the Ramley burger. basically you buy it from a little grill thing on the side of the road. it's grilled bun, with chicken burger, wrapped in fried egg, with cheese (fake cheese, I am sure) with cabbage, lots of chili sauce, and some other hot asian sauces. basically it brought tears to my eyes it was so delicious. so disgustingly delicious.

also, I have gotten my fair share of door slams:) another very humbling thing. very difficult. but then every once in a while you get people that want to hear more. that is always an incredible thing as well. I think of dad often. his mission he had to knock doors a ton right? we thankfully have some people we are teaching right now so we only knock doors maybe an hour or two every day. but it is difficult! rejection is difficult, especially when you know the value of what they are rejecting. you just have to keep going. at least that's my experience.

I'm sorry, I am out of time!! I didn't even get to read everyone's emails:( really sorry about that. but please know I love you and I pray for you. please be safe.