Tuesday, October 4

busy days

Okay hello! 
So this week was so so busy! I say that a lot I think. Sister Wong and I are tearing it up. It has been a lot of fun to have her, a new person with new ideas and a new energy makes for a nice new start. You know? It has been great. We have talked a lot about our "vision" for KK, and that helps with the day to day goals. We have been trying a lot on finding people lately, even though we've also been getting a lot of referrals, and have just gotten SOOOO busy!
I also feel like the day Sister Wong came my language jumped about fifty steps higher. I hardly ever don't understand what people are saying. Even when Kesan, the Indian speak to me in malay (he speaks sooooooooo fast you don't even want to blink because you're afraid you'll miss a word!) I still understand, when a few weeks ago I swear I didn't understand a thing! It has been amazing. I have been praying a lot for strength lately too, as well as reading in the Doctrine and Covenants. I feel like a lot of D&C is talking to missionaries, or could be applied to missionaries, and its always about being obedient and faithful and the Lord will help us be strong. Like that. I think about that a lot. I've focused a lot on trying to be obedient with exactness. Not that before I was ever intentionally disobedient, but sometimes the little tiny rules you forget or get a little lax on. So I read the white handbook again and am starting over trying to make sure I follow even the tiny ones. That makes a big difference as well. So trying to be more obedient, trying to be more faithful that the Lord will be with me. I feel the difference. I feel the angels round about me bearing me up whenever I try to speak to people. I'm not scared anymore. And really, why should I be? 
I am bummed I missed conference! We still have one or two weeks more until we get to here it, and I'm not sure if I'll get to listen in english. Probably malay. Also can:)
My favorite story from this week was actually last night. Sister Wong and I had a very busy busy day. More appointments than I thought was possible because we have to take so much bus time out of our schedule. So we were busy. We go to our first appointment which was really fun with Veronica, she participated a lot more than usual and that was great. Our next was with a referral named Tata. He was clear back in KK, very far. That appoinment didn't take too long, but our next was cleeeaaarrrrrrr in Penampang at a members house. Sister Jemimi who I adore. She called the day before and said "sister! you must come to my house and teach my sister!!!!!!" So we were so excited to teach her, but we were short on time so we were running like crazy people. We finally get to her house when she calls and says "oh I'm so sorry! come to my kedai!" So then we run all the way to her kedai. When we get there, she goes, "oh I'm so sorry! my sister is in Renau!" basically two hours away. We were bummed! But Jemimi didn't want us to leave empty handed, so after she stuffed us full of food, she calls about five of her friends to come over and "sambayang" haha. So we contacted all of them, a few of them even being interested. The sweetest one is named Angelie. She walks in and goes, "my grandparents are pure mormon:)" hahaha. So we were kinda like, huh? So we start talking to her and she is really really sweet. Basically she says that her parents abandoned her but she was raised by her grandparents and they were Mormon and they prayed a lot and were very nice so she wants to learn. She even brought up baptism herself! So we have an appointment tomorrow and we're gonna go see what we could do:) We still had one appointment after Jemimi's that we didn't think we were gonna make, but she ran out of her kedai, borrowed the Pakistani mans car from next door, and drove us to our appointment. Haha. It was a fairly typical day, maybe as you just read that it doesn't even sound that exciting. But as a missionary, it was one of the greatest days ever. We planned really hard, studied really hard, prayed really hard, we weren't sure we were gonna get to everything and we got to everything and more, there were people who were interested, investigators that were progressing, and recent converts who were excited about the gospel. It was bliss:)
Today we went to the Sabah museum which was really cool. If I have time I'll include some photos.
Sorry this week I forgot to keep notes of funny little stories that happen. I'll do that this week so next time you get a story that'll be interesting and make you laugh:)
OH! but on a lighter note, we saw a spider the size of a plate walking on the road the other day. It looked like a crab. I was terrified I just stood there and squealed. Very productive, huh? 
I love you all so much!

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