My companion and I have started to greet people with Apa Kabar, which means how are you, just so we can say something cool back when missionaries will say hello in the language they are learning. Which happens a lot.
So, apa kabar!
Since it's only been two days I decided to email my "imediate" family. (Savannah immediate has two M's)
I kind of want to start off saying how excited I am to learn Malay. It is a beautiful language, and I love putting my Malay name tag next to Savannah's Chinese one and just looking at them. Weird huh?
Here is what has happened so far. My companion is Sister Dayley, she is super awesome! I love her so much! We have very similar humor and we agree on a lot of things. Looking around my district, it looks live everyone got companions that compliment them very well, and you just have to be amazed at how well the prophets listen the the Lords promptings and mix and match to fit everyone so perfectly together. At least, to help people start.
In our district of Malay speakers Sister Dayley and I are the only sisters, and then there is a trio of Elders. I would give you names, but honestly, I don't know all of them yet. Two of the three elders are from Australia though, crazy huh?
In our zone there is a wide variety of different languages and destinations. There are people going to Indonesia, (Indonese is very similar to Malay), people going to Samoa, Marshal Islands, and Hawaii. I hear that next time a new shipment of missionaries come in there are going to be a lot of new languages and that we are going to double in size almost.
Because of the wide mix of island languages, we have a wide variety of people in our zone. The companions Sister Daley and I share a room with is from Tonga and Samoa. A lot of the people in our hall already speak different languages, and I am having a hard time knowing what is their first, second, or third language is. The sisters we share a room with are learning Marshallese though, and they seem to be handling it very well.
My classroom is in on the 6th floor of the new MTC building it looks over the temple and the mountains and is gorgeous. Where we meet for zone meetings and sacrament meeting it just down the hall, looking the other way over BYU, and I can see Springville. Needless to say, I am having a bit of a hard time concentrating in those meetings.
Honestly, not a lot has happened. I have had some amazing classes and I love the zone president. But, it's weird because, I feel like they are not giving me enough instructions. Which might just be because I keep getting this EFY feel. But basically, we are in charge of making sure we are doing everything correctly and making the most of our experience, and that surprises me. Welcome to adult life I guess? Still, I would like a study out line, I would like them to give me specific homework. Weird huh? We'll see how well I study on my own.
Speaking of, on Monday, sister Daley and I will be giving a lesson to a guy who went to a baptism and felt the spirit, and would love the stability of religion in his life. Sound like a slam dunk of an investigator right?
Haha here's the catch. We need to give the whole lesson in Malay. I nearly had a heart attack when she told us. I keep hearing horror stories of first lessons. So at least we know we aren't alone if it goes terribly wrong.
That's pretty much it. I love you guys lots! Have a good week! I will email you guys next Friday. By then we will know the fate of our "slam dunk" investigator.
Sister Skinner
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