14 July 2014
Dear Family,
So much has happened this week!
Actually, I'm glad that stuff happened. That's what I'm
excited about. Where to begin...?
Although I miss Elder Broadhead,
being with Elder Durrant is great! He's excited to get to work in Sibu and his
Chinese is 不错 . He sings well, so we've spent a lot of time singing
together recently. He's from Idaho, and he came out just before I did, so
I met him once or twice in the MTC.
We've been moving into our new house
all week. We finally moved the wardrobes in this Thursday, so now we're
living at our new location. The chairs, couches and beds are all new, as
well as most of the kitchen utensils but the thing I'm most excited about is my
desk. We have big, luxurious office desks that afford plenty of room for
studying. Yaay! I've moved a lot of dusty, gross-filled boxes this
week because the previous occupants left us years and years of old files and
receipts.
I don't know that there's actually a
lot more to tell, but I feel like so much is happening and changing, because we
haven't had much open time at all. Even if going to get a new microwave
or vacuuming a chair is all that I'm doing, I'm glad to have work to do!
I'm learning a lot more about the area, too. We now live a lot
closer to Bandar (downtown area) than before, so we go exploring to find new
side street cafes and knick-knack shops at lunchtime. I've already been
lost many more times in the past week than ever before, but it's been fun
finding our way home and realizing shortcuts in hidden places.
We've been filling our evening time
with meetings with Wendy, known in previous emails as "girl" or
"____." She really wants to know more about our Church, and especially
about her relationship with God and Jesus Christ. We've met several times in
the last week, but things are moving along slowly. Personally, I've found it
refreshing to plan a lesson around a single principle like "God is our
loving Heavenly Father," and then have Wendy ask questions about what that
means for her. I've never seen a stronger desire - a hungering and
thirsting for truth - in anyone else in Sibu. It's great to feel like I'm
fulfilling my purpose in part, and to know that someone else is finding answers
to her soul's questions! I love doing missionary work!
I don't know what else to include,
but here are a few moments that made this week great:
1. I dropped a can of tomatoes,
carried in a bag on my handlebars, into the middle of an intersection. I
turned around just in time to see a nice, shiny clean white car run it over,
splattering the juice everywhere.
2. Learning how to play touch-rugby
last P-Day. (I keep cheating because I'm in ultimate frisbee mode, where
you can run forward so they can pass to you. oops.)
3. Sleeping in a bed for the
first time in my mission, other than the time I got put up in Kuching's Four
Points.
4. Giving my favorite old sofa
away to Iban members of another branch.
I hope you've all been enjoying the
moments that make up your days and weeks. (Moments are the molecules that
make up eternity. - Elder Uchtdorf?) I know that what we do with the time
God has given us here on the earth is important, and will have eternal consequences
for better or worse, depending on how we use our agency. I'm so grateful
that I have this time of learning and this calling to be a missionary in
Malaysia!
I love you all so much!!
Love,
Brennan
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