Hi Family!
I'm doing great now! I'm still
adjusting, but my attitude is better, and I am loving this work! Since it
would be impossible to tell you all about what living here is like, I will just
summarize a few things, and then tell you more about my companion.
1) #1 weird, can't-get-used-to
fact: No napkins. Eating here is a lot messier than in Utah, and
only American fast food places have napkins. Whenever I eat out at a
burger place, I get a pocketful of napkins, and save them for a juicy meal.
2) It is always hot and muggy, and I
just sweat all day. Most buildings have some kind of super air
conditioning system called "Air-con," which works really fast, and
really well. Because I'm always soaked with my own sweat from outside,
sitting down to eat inside gets really cold. It's a strange feeling.
3) I might need some Mozart to
play while I sleep, because "[at least] half the time I don't know what
the heck anyone's talking about"
4) Everything's pretty
expensive here, so this week I ended up just buying a lot of bread and cheap
Nutella-knock-off in order to subsist. Actually, I'm not worried too much
about money, but I'm definitely not living the kind of lifestyle that most
Singaporeans live.
5)....What do you still want to know?
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| Elder Black talks to an investigator and Elder Wang ignores my picture |
About my work this week:
Miracles happen! At times that I least expected, Elder Black and I would
find an opportunity sitting right before us to place a Book of Mormon, to teach
an unplanned lesson, to help someone in need, and to add investigators to our
teaching pool. I don't mean to focus only on the numbers aspect of our
goals, but I was surprised to see the extent to which we met and surpassed our
goals, with the Lord's help. It was obviously miraculous, when compared
with the previous weeks' records. Just yesterday, for example, we knew in
the morning, that we weren't going to have our planned number of new
investigators. We prayed that we would be guided to someone, so that we
could obtain the goals that we had set by the spirit on the previous Sunday,
and so that we could help one more of God's children come closer to
Christ. Yesterday alone, met and taught 3 new investigators, and see the
beginning of reactivation of a member, and the progression of another long-time
investigator. The really cool thing is that we didn't even leave church
all day, except to eat at home. The Lord had prepared these several
people to receive the gospel, and he brought them to us! It's very likely
that the feeling I have doesn't come through well in this email, but I hope
that you can at least know that I'm doing very well, I know the Lord will bless
everyone with success if we are willing to rely on Him, and I know that
miracles happen, if we are humble enough to see them.
I love you all and pray for you
always!
Love,
Brennan
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Here are pictures of the MRT (kind
of like a subway) station near our house. We travel through this area
several times a day. it seems strange to me that this scene is right in
the middle of the city.
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| One MRT station looks just like our countertops . . . |
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The Singapore cityscape at night,
from a "remote" apartment building, 16th floor
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| Another view, from other missionaries' apartment, 9th floor |
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A gigantic mall. We're on the
5th level. I was so exhausted from taking the escalators that I had to
stop for a minute to take a picture before continuing upward. This
picture doesn't really do justice to how big the place is, really.
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A living world Map and some other
mirrored modern marvel
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