So....more about my week.
Let's see...
This
was actually a slower week than normal. Our dead time Wednesday through
Friday is between 1 and 6, because everyone works, so really that's the
slowest time of the day. I try to find things to fill up my time during
that time.
I
am just going to jump around my week a bit. On Friday, we went out to
dinner with Jeffery (the member that has driven us around a lot lately)
and his family. The kids just graduated from school so its a big deal to
them now.
At the dinner, I picked up a
soup, and I was about to eat it, and Sister Caroline asked me "Do you
know what that is?" and of course I don't know what it is, so she tells
me that it is fish lips. And so I'm like.... "Ou, so I am kissing a
fish!" It was funny to them, but I just imagine a ton of fish kissing me
and it grossed me out a little. So I think that's the most interesting
thing I've eaten here so far. :) but hey, soon we will be eating Biawak,
which is like a komoto dragon. You'll have to look it up. :)
Also on Friday, we went to a
couple lessons. One of them was to a family with a bunch of small kids.
And during our lesson, we were trying to talk about prophets, but then
the mom lifts up her shirt to a kid that's like 4 years old, and then I
totally lost focus about what I was teaching, because they show
everything here. Culture shock for me!
As I said, I went to a market on Saturday. I bought a few things there
like a shirt, a G-shock watch, which seems to be a pretty expensive
watch in the States but I've never heard of them before, and I also
bought something called a Tikai. A Tikai is usually a bamboo mat that
people lay on (You can see it in the Mormon movie called The Other side
of heaven, it's a great movie) but I bought a softer mat. I tried it
Saturday night, and its really hard. I woke up extremely sore because
the floor is just too hard. maybe it would be better on carpet, but that
is almost non-existent in Malaysia. After that we took a short visit to
some caves. I'll send a couple pictures of it :)
Sunday,
I woke up and one of the elders, Elder Poppleton, got extremely sick.
He is a disaster right now. We think he got sick from some of the food
we ate the night before, which was a birthday party for Jackson, a
member in our church branch. He has only been out for 3 weeks though so
he still isn't used to the food. I am so glad that didn't happen to me.
His companion and I gave him a Priesthood blessing that night. It was a
really cool experience for me because I've never given a blessing with
oil before.
But that night, Elder Hirschi
and I went over to a Budayuh family's house. They were baptized into the
church a few months ago, and they are really cool. I was having a rough
time understanding his Malay, but he was making me laugh nonstop. It
was great. :D :D
Anyway, I can't think of anything else for this week. Those are the highlights. :D :D
Love
you guys! Can you guys send me more pictures of what it looks like
outside? Then I"ll send you more pictures of what it looks like here. :D
:D
-Elder Vincent
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