tengok. tengok, kitab mormon!

So I've discovered that I love speaking Malay in a Southern accent. Book of Mormon is more like KEETAB MOORMOHN that way. It's so entertaining.

Has it seriously been another week since last pday? You'll only get three more emails (after this one) from me while I'm at the MTC. I should even get flight plans soon, baby! Tidak masuk akal. We had another no English day yesterday...and I didn't want to die by the end of the day. Progress! It's so amazing to me. I've tried learning other languages (Mandarin, Spanish..) and I can have short, limited conversations in them, but I never believed I could ever speak in another language without feeling restricted, for the most part. It seriously blows my mind. Saya berterima kasih atas kurnia lidah lidah :)

Our Malagasy elders left this week. The hall feels empty with just the four of us sisters and the two Mongolian elders in our zone. We're getting the new Malagasy's though. Your brother is included in that, Natalie! They came in yesterday and the other sisters met him, but I haven't yet. I'll give him a hearty handshake when I do. The Mongolians are here for 12 weeks, we're 9, and we leave at the same time...we're both getting sick of watching groups, who came after us, leave before us. Our day will come. And yes, we're still the only sisters in the branch.

So, there's a clothes give-away bin for the sisters here, and I saw a ridiculously sick long green skirt and a matching Tommy Bahama top, so you know I had to grab it and wear it on April 1st. Everyone took it way to seriously. Luckily I ran into someone I know from the outside world, Bryant, so the shame didn't go to waste.

Last night, we learned that there is an abundance of lizards and cockroaches in Malaysia...in our apartments. I was expecting the cockroaches, but lizards?! I was shrieking when I heard that one sister had a huge lizard fall on her when she was sleeping once. I don't know how I'm going to handle this. It was hilarious though. Sister Kubota and I are bound to be comps in an area with them because we're the ones that were freaking out. And I mean that neither of us could put our feet on the ground, and Sister Kubota was convinced that one was in her hair.

Wendy Morgan, you are wonderful! Thank you so much for the care package!! You're the best second mom ever!

OH, guess who graduated from rehab?? Yours truly! So I'm back to volleyball, but all I really can do is serve and play back row ds...it gives me the heebie jeebies to even watch people jumping at the net. I hope I get over that.....but you could send me my ankle braces Mommy :)

Now let me get to my favorite part. I hope everyone watched/listened to conference. Even if you're not LDS, go to lds.org and read the words of our prophet and apostles. They're not just for the Mormon church, they're called of God to lead ALL of God's children and I know that there is a message in them for ALL of God's children. By their fruits ye shall know them, check it out. I loved Uchtdorf's, Bednar's, and Robbin's talks. Ok everyone's really, but it was just comforting to hear the way Elder Bednar described revelation and the Holy Ghost. It went perfectly with Elder Uchtdorf's talk in my mind. I needed to hear that I'm not failing here at the MTC because I haven't seen a vision (don't worry, I wasn't expecting one...I mean I just haven't had any crazy powerful experiences), but it doesn't need to be that. I'm learning line by line. Jangan risau. I had a list of seven questions and every single one of them was answered. I promise you that you can find answers in their words as well. Now go, read!

Mmmk...I think that's all! I hope you all have a fantastic week and I love you!

Dengan kasih,

Sister Norton

HFI