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You never want to hear someone screaming "snake" at the top of the lungs while barreling towards you. We were at a Buddhist temple today and were walking down a path when the snake came out and bit a guy. He didn't seem to worried about it...so I'm guessing it wasn't poisonous.

It's been what basically seems like a failure of a week except for one or two bright spots. Maybe three. We've had every single appointment we've scheduled with investigators drop through on us (fall through?) except for one. We've hit several flats that had not even one door want to listen to us. We had to spend almost the whole day yesterday figuring out a bike situation. Aiyo. It must be the end of the year. I feel the battle.

The bright spots were bright though. First, Sister Chrissy in our branch took us out to see some beautiful Buddhist and Toaist temples this morning and it was good to get to know her and her kids more. They're incredible. And, Penang is really cool! We'll come here when we go back to visit Singapore and Malaysia, dear parents :) I'll try to add some pictures. Uhhh no, I'll send next week.

Then the next...We've spent a lot of time knocking flats while faith finding lately and sometimes I think it's completely pointless when we don't get anything out of an entire building, but we had a cool experience on Sunday night that changed my thinking a little bit. We came across a door of a Hindu family and a girl in her 20's answered the door. She said she hadn't ever learned about Christ and maybe wasn't interested because she's Hindu. It had been a long night so we didn't push it and just left. About 20 minutes later, we were leaving the building and I reached down to turn our phone off silent to find that we had two missed calls and an sms from a number we didn't know. The sms said, "Hi, I want to learn about Jesus Christ, can? Can call me?" So we called of course! The best part is she wants to meet later this week because she talked to her mom about it and she wants to learn about God too and she'll be back from Singapore at that time. So, I'm now convinced that miracles happen when you put in the time faith finding. We're expecting a lot more this month. Just got to have the eyes to see.

J is still doing great. She's now into Jacob in the Book of Mormon.

G & D and their family are coming along slowly. Their response to us inviting them to be baptized on Sunday was they are pretty sure it's true, but it's so different from what they've known all their lives that it might take some time to accept it.

We met with another cool Nigerian last night too. He was very on guard, having already heard about us Mormons. But, he still had to see what it was all about for himself. He wanted to know what the deal is with the Book of Mormon. We explained it to him and he said he saw a video on lds.org about a bishop in Africa who said his life was changed by the Book of Mormon. We gave him a copy and I got chills when he said everything we told him sounds familiar, he just doesn't know where he's heard it before. So, he's reading and taking his time to figure out for himself. Perfect.

I love you all, hope you're having a good week!

Sister Norton

HFI