Malaysian kids have such attitude.
Not a full week since last Wednesday,
but a good week! We switched pday to today so we could go to the Sarawak
Cultural Village with a visiting senior couple from Hong Kong. It was way
cool. There were traditional houses for all the different tribes that you
could walk through, and then a show showcasing all their native dances and all
that. I felt pretty cool knowing which dance belonged to who because I’ve
got friends in the church here who can dance them. Towards the end of the
show, this guy comes out on the stage in traditional warrior clothes (basically
a loin cloth with a pelt on his back and a peacock feather on his head) and
does his dance and blows a dart gun and all that. He was looking around
the audience from the stage and I got a little nervous noticing that he kept
looking at me. Sure enough, he jumps off the stage and comes over to get
me to go up on the stage with him. So...I went up of course. Then
he had me try to use the dart gun also, missed the first time, dang. So
then he lead me across the stage by my hand....you can just imagine how loud
the 10 elders watching were at that point. So uncomfortable! I have
definitely been a missionary for a while. It was hilarious. I’ll
try to send a picture and get the video from one of the elders. Anyway, I
hit the target in the end! Hey, remember how I’m on a mission?
No hand-holding business yah.
We taught Eva’s parents for the first time
together this past week. She was just baptized with Acha's family, and
her mom was learning, but her dad hadn't really been open yet. Well he's
open now…and wants to get baptized with his wife on 1 September.
Jong and Shony are still doing
awesome. They came to a branch activity on Friday night (bowling) and
Jong was even teaching another one of our investigators in Sunday School
yesterday. And Shony? Went from 20 sticks to ZERO in two days.
HE DID IT!! So the baptism is still on for next week. He was
so proud of himself.
Chris quit smoking too! And all
of the second crew from Acha's family is still on for their baptism next week
also.
We started the recent convert lessons
with Acha and her family and Acha told us she wants to let every one know about
the church, she wants to serve a mission with her husband later too…and so does
Chris! Not too late, he's just barely 19. Best.
We had some cool experiences being
led by the spirit this week. We had an unexpected opening in our schedule
one day and our back up plans were to visit a few less-active members in the
neighbourhood where we were working that day. We wanted to go see Valerie
and then take her with us to go see Sylvia. So, we went to Valerie's
house and it turned out Sylvia was already there pretty much waiting for us.
Then, we were walking to a member's house for dinner last night but we
were early so we were taking our time and seeing if there were any people to
talk to along the way. We passed some shacks on the side of the road and
some guys who seemed a little less-than-sober started calling out to us.
Now don't worry, usually I am much smarter than this, but I turned to
Sister Parker and told her we should go talk to them and see who lived in this
group of shacks. Bad-a-bing! A family who's already members but
haven't been to church in over four years! They haven't been to the new
church building literally just down the street from them, so we invited them
and they said they'd come! No one knew they were there because they lived
in a different part of town when they were baptized and then moved without
transferring their records. So...now we can at least do all we can to
make them feel welcome in Stampin Branch. Plus one of the girls is
recently married and her husband isn't a member yet. Love the potential
there. Then one more: the spirit led someone straight to us. Mida
walked into church yesterday, thinking it was an Anglican church (herself being
anglican). We explained what it actually was and she decided to stay for
the service. Turns out she knows Acha who was just baptized, they used to
be best friends but haven't seen each other since she moved to KL almost 20
years ago! So, now she wants to know more about the church and we're
meeting her on Thursday. Crazy how the Lord keeps track of us.
I hope you all have a great week, I
love you!
Tiga minggu lagi,
Sister Norton
HFI
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