good thing it wasn't the goldfish!

Hello everyone! Wow it has been an insane week! The Open House was so successful! They published an article on it in the newspaper the day after! You should look it up, it's in the Straits Times or something like that. Anyway, we had over a thousand non-members come during the day, over 300 people left their phone numbers, and about 40 left requests to learn more! That translates into Sister Howard and Sister Norton being assigned to the Ang Mo Kio Ward temporarily, on top of the Expat Ward! You wouldn't even believe how excited I am! We'll be so busy! It will be amazing! We met with our first appointment from all that yesterday, Gordon. He has such strong faith and he's excited to be meeting with us and learning about the gospel. It's amazing, if you open the avenue to talk about God and faith here in Singapore, some people jump right on that and just share so many tender things about their life with you. I feel so blessed to have had some of the conversations we've had with people here. Just like this wonderful lady we met on Monday night at Harbour Front. We were just going around talking to people as usual, and she opened up to us and told us about a lot of struggles in her life and we shared our beliefs and testimonies with her. We talked for almost a half hour and then had to leave, she wasn't interested in learning more about the gospel, but it was an amazing experience just to be able to talk to her. She shared her email address with me just so I could send her this amazing video: https://lds.org/pages/moments?lang=eng&cid=email-shared. (You should watch it too!) Hopefully we'll keep in touch.

Back to the Open House. It was exhausting. We were there from 8 am to 9 pm! I don't think I could have handled being a visitor center sister. Props to them, it's tough work! It is amazing to have people asking you about the gospel though. We had a lot of great lessons to people who were sincerely interested about our Church. And I'm not scared of singing in public anymore! It felt like I was singing ALL DAY. By the MRT to invite people, in the chapel as people came in, for a half hour before the VIP section...it was really neat.

Mmmm what else? Oh here's a step backwards...one of our investigators is not really learning anymore...her dad burned her copy of the Book of Mormon :( That was kind of rough. But the work goes on right? Hopefully she'll get the chance to learn more someday if she's still interested.

I still love being a missionary! I feel like I'm forgetting a thousand things to tell you all! But I love you and am so grateful for you and your support and examples to me! Jaga diri!

Sayang!

Sister Norton

HFI

Alison Wong and Sister Norton.

Alison is a WONDERFUL friend and recent convert who helped with the Open House.