Hello again! I hope you are all doing well!
Let's start with Monday. Last Monday, I emailed so late because we went to Tusan Beach in the morning. It was GORGEOUS. (I strongly suggest the google search) There is an arch on the beach and we wanted to get closer, but the tide was too high. So we tried to find a way around it.... We went on quite the adventure. Including off roading in a small rental car, hiking through a palm tree plantation, walking through a small kampung area (or Malaysian houses in the Jungle), we trekked through a watermelon farm, AND a chili farm. In the end, we gave up trying to get to the arch and went out to get pizza instead. Which was still good.
Tuesday was one of those days where you are just always wet. At this point you are probably thinking, "Oh, so it finally rained on you Sister Skinner?" And I would just look at you with all the pain of a girl who sweats off all her makeup during the day and ask, "What rain?". It was so humid I took one step out the door, made a U turn and went back inside to put on more deodorant. I really think I am getting used to it though.
On Wednesday Sister Thackeray was like, we have a member that we have never visited. Let's go visit her. And I was like, sounds awesome! Turns out this member lives in Tamen Tukuh. Which is basically our area, but is across town, and by the airport. It is so far from everything, that missionaries don't usually go there, because it would be hard to find kingdom builders that can come to church every Sunday. Sister Ray is very set on adventure though. The member we got to visit doesn't get visited a lot, and she is way awesome! It was a good visit, and we even encouraged her to share what she believes with other in her neighbor hood. We did some contacting, but didn't get any return appointments. It was good though!
On Thursday we had a MIRI-cle (like a miracle, but in Miri, Get it?) There is a women we are teaching. She has a strong testimony, but has no way to get to church. One of the members has been driving her every Sunday. We have been trying to sit her husband down so we can teach him, he can be converted, and he can take them both to church. But he has never been willing before. On Thursday, we were trying so hard to find a member to come teach with us, because she mostly speaks Eban and doesn't always understand our Malay. It seemed no one could come that day though! Everyone we asked fell through. At the end of the day, we debated not going to teach her, and going to visit her on another day when we could have a member present. In the end we both felt like we should go though.
We arrived and started to ask the baptismal questions. When we were very conveniently explaining the importance of Joseph Smith, this husband sat down and said something along the lines of "I know your church is true because of the changes I have seen in my wife. How do I enter your church?"
We were like, we can help you with that! We explained who Joseph Smith was, invited him to read the Book of Mormon with his wife, and to pray to ask God if what he was doing was right. Holy cow! The thing is, if we had had a member present, we are pretty sure he would not have sat down with us. The Lord is knows whats best even when we don't!
Friday, we had a person we teach from Indonesia (Who calls us like 15 times a day, and is always telling us that he misses us) tell us that he wanted to go on a mission. We told him that he should probably get baptized first. He said that after he went on a mission he will never see us again and was very sad. Sister Ray promised him that if he was baptized and served a mission, she would visit him after he got home. He asked me if I would come visit him too. I told him I would try. But my companion made a promise. So long story short. I might be taking a trip to Indonesia in three years...
Also on Friday, we invited one of the people we were teaching to seminary. When we were picking him up he was like, "We're almost ready." And we were like, "WE'RE??? As in more than one? He ended up not bring one friend with him, but TWO friends with him. Both of which we are meeting with later this week. Whoot whoot!
On Saturday we had a baptism! Edmund was so excited! It was such a good day! He was so ready, and watching him get the holy ghost the next day was so amazing. I am so proud of him!
Sunday, we were out visiting a member that hadn't been to church in a couple weeks. After, we came out and my front tire was completely flat. We had to cancel our last appointment of the day to start walking home, so we could reach home before curfew. What is about a 20 minute bike ride, took us about an hour to walk. We definitely talked to more people though! We also passed a Pasar Malam. Kind of like a Muslim night market. They were having a zumba thing going on, with some cool dances. So Sister Ray and I rationalized into stopping and contacting while dancing. We couldn't stay long. But hopefully one day someone will come up to us and ask us if we were the white people dancing in middle of a parking lot. We will be like, why yes, that was us. And they will ask, what are you doing in Miri? And we will be like, boy do we got a message for you.
Hey! I hope you all have a good week! Good luck to all of you starting school this week! You're in my prayers!
Sister SkInner
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