An interesting thing that happened was poop shower! so I was in my room
while Elder Ormsby was showering, and he shouts out something like
"gross!" he stops the shower and shows me what happened. Brown liquid
was coming out of the shower! He was rinsing his hair so his eyes were
closed, but when he opened his eyes, he thought it was blood. We checked
every pipe in the house and this brown liquid came out of every single
place. The hose, the sink, the toilet, everything had this brown liquid.
We took a cup of it and smelled it...Poop! He literally showered in
poop! Disgusting right? So we tell the members about it and they are
just like "ou thats no big deal that happens all the time" and I'm like
whaaaaaaat.....but anyway I'm glad that didn't happen to me. It destroyed
our shower.
Anyway, onto missionary work, right? :)
So
this week our investigator Evelyn "balik kampung" (went back to
hometown) to see her sick kid, so she won't be back until the 20th,
meaning her baptismal date will be rescheduled...But that will be okay.
She seems to be very very faithful and she is still reading the book of
mormon while she is with her kid.
But a good thing
happened this week with our branch. Elder Toney, the Assistant to the President, came to our area to follow us around to our appointments. He
is an old elder in my branch, so he knows all the people already. The
people here LOVE and ADORE old missionaries that come back, so he was
able to talk to 3 people that are always virtually impossible to meet,
and he set up appointments for us later in the week. (this was Wednesday that he came) We all met them and I think that was really good
for our branch. It opened some doors for us. :)
Elder Toney
brought 2 packages for me! :D which was sad for Ormsby and Shorts
because he didn't bring theirs (they didn't have enough room for
everybody's packages but Ormsby got his package today from the zone
leaders) really nice stuff in there, thank you Mom! I have already made 3
bracelets for members but I'll give them out when I am leaving this
area, probably.
We
made cookies for some of the members too. It was kind of a disaster in
the kitchen because we were forgetting something in the cookies but we
didn't know what. They just weren't cooking very well. They would bubble
really bad and just flatten out really easily, but eventually we got
them to cook okay... the members loved them though! They were dying for
the recipe. :P So I am going to have to translate the recipe and some
people even want us to come over to teach them how to make them. That
was a pretty fun experience.
So
I am sick again...Yay...Elder Stewart got sick and then shortly after I
got sick. This morning I woke up with the runs, and a few days ago I
puked a few times. Ormsby also has been puking a lot...I think there is
something up with the air, water, and food in Bintulu. Grr...so it's
been a little tough. but I will live!
I
found out that transfers are going to be next Tuesday, meaning that
if I am moving, I will leave on Tuesday. This means that I will still be
on next Monday like normal, but we might be going to the beach again
for our last get-together (honestly I am not really up to going to the
beach cuz it takes too much time).
There is a chance
that I will be training somebody, so that means I will leave on Monday,
and get back Tuesday night ,so I probably will email on Wednesday if I
train. I will try to let you know what is happening. :)
Okay
sorry for the long email, but yesterday we went to Niah Caves (or Gua
Niah). We spent the night at the Bandar Jaya house on Sunday so that we
wouldn't have a hard time getting there in the morning. They live right
by McDonalds so we had that for breakfast! :D :D
In the morning we
left around 9 to go to the caves, and it was about 2 and a half hours
there...sooo long! when we got there, the Miri zone was there at the
same time. So we got to hang out with some of them there. One of them
that I knew was Sister Tai, who was in Kuching with me. Really fun! so
the caves were fun. I got to squeeze myself through a very small hole
and look through a crevice down into this huge pillar that goes down
pretty far. Did I mention that I got covered in bat poop on the way?
And
last but not least, I was pretty happy about my language skills. I got
to speak in a mixed version of chinese and iban to this one lady during
the trip to the Niah Caves, and THEN I got to speak Czech to these two
ladies that were visiting. I had a full conversation with them and didn't
have a hard time understanding them, even though it's been like...8
months since I've heard a word of czech. :P
that was a goooood week. :)
love you guys! sending some pictures soon! :)
Elder Vincent
Elder Dailey in Cave with me
Czech Lady I was able to speak with in Czech
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