This week was a very fun one, but also very productive as well.
I guess I will start out with my Zone Conference.
I went to Zone Conference,
which is in Singapura, on Wednesday. It's about an hour and a half
plane ride there from Kuching, and it takes an hour to get to Kuching.
(So I was on a total of four planes this week).
When we got there, we
dropped our stuff off at the church and went to a place called Sentosa. It
is basically like a fun American park, but better. We went to an
aquarium this time, and saw a ton of really cool stuff. Sadly my camera
didn't do it justice, but I got some pretty good ones. I'll try to send
them with this letter. After we ate at chilis! Yamai-lah! (Delicious!)
Our zone conference was
the next day on Thursday. Elder Wilson, a member of the quorum of the
seventy, came to talk to us. It was really cool! He shook every single
person's hand and talked to us for a few seconds. I found out that he
graduated from Highland High School in 1968! It was good to see a fellow
Idahoan (because there aren't very many of those here).
He taught really good
stuff about how to ask people to be baptised and how to use the Book of
Mormon. (The cool thing was is that on Saturday and Sunday we asked 3
people to be baptized, and all of them said they would. Only one of them
would commit to a specific date. I will talk about that in a minute.
After our Zone Conference,
we went to Marina Bay. That is the place that has all the really pretty
stuff that if you Google Singapore, you will find everything about
Marina Bay. We didn't go to the main areas. We heard there was a light
show, so we went to that part instead.
There was this huge bowl
there designed so that you could speak into it and everybody could hear
from you anywhere around the bowl. It was pretty neat. We played with
that until the light show started. But it wasn't what I was expecting.
They shot water out of the lake and they played a 12 minute video on the
water, and shot fire out at certain parts. It was really really cool!
Then we got home and we
met all of the people we contacted last week. We had a really really
long lesson with our chinese investigator, because he went on and and on
about the Bible. We tried to end it, but he kept talking. It was
successful though. I just hope we don't have a 2-1/2 hour lesson again
next time we go.
Then at Brother Wat's
house, there is a family living with them. Evelyn is not a member, so we
have been teaching her. We set her a baptismal date in February, so if I stay in
Bintulu, I hope I get to see that happen. :) :)
At Sister Sheera's house,
we had a great visit with her and her dad. Apparently we are the first
elders out of many to get him to read the Book of Mormon. That was
something cool I found out this week.
This morning, we went to
the beach to have our "end of transfer" barbecue. We forget a lighter
though. Good thing this is a Muslim country and everyone smokes, so we
were able to get somebody to help us out. It's kind of funny though to
think about though: "Thank you, Heavenly Father, for still having people
that smoke on this earth." Somebody said that jokingly.
That's my week! I hope all
of you are great. :) I am really hoping I stay in Bintulu, but I am
still waiting on transfers. The mission president had a hard time
getting home last night because his car battery died and so did his
phone, so he wasn't able to finish transfers, so I just have to wait for
now.
I love you guys! Have a indubidibly great week.
Elder Vincent
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