Last p-day was a little crazy. We got permission from the mission to buy a microwave, because our current one experienced one too many bowls of instant noodles haha. When I looked in my wallet, I barely had enough. I left the grocery store with one ringgit, or 25 cents if I was in America. I went to an ATM to pull out some money from my personal card. I tried 3 different ATM machines. All of them rejected my card. The last one was a little more salty than the rest, and totally retained my card, so I was then left with 25 cents, no debit card, and the new debit card about 3 months away (because of the distance to ship things from America to Malaysia). I probably just forgot the pin code haha. Elder Judd is helping me until I can get out of my first debt crisis. Yikes!!
That night we had some cool miracles. We were riding past this park when a young couple waved at us. Here is a tip: When you wave at missionaries, WE DROP EVERYTHING AND COME SAY HI. So if you don't want missionaries talking to you, don't smile and wave haha. It turns out this young man named Elvin had met the missionaries in Sarawak (East Malaysia) like 3 years ago. He left his copy of the Book of Mormon in Sarawak, so he wanted to meet again and get another copy of the Book of Mormon!! Literally right after we said goodbye to Elvin, someone came up from behind us and said, "You are Mormons, right?" He is from Pakistan and has been to our church before. That was a surprise! There were miracles left and right on that sweet Monday night!
On Wednesday I had exchanges with Elder Gould. He is from Tennessee and Chinese speaking, so bilanguage exchanges are always the best! We were deciding where we should go that day, and both had blank minds. We both looked out the window, saw some big houses in the distance, and said, "Let's go there!!" So we did. We had to go through a jungle to get there, so that was fun. There were Christians in the housing complex, but their friendly security guard was a little perplexed when he saw two white guys telling him to let them in haha.
You need to find a reason to laugh everyday on your mission. Thursday was a day full of laughs. We were in a mall during dead hours. Dead hours usually are around 2-4pm where not many people are out and about. We were doing language study, and we hear this high pitched yell opposite us. This old Chinese uncle came over and said, "Hello foreigners! I need to learn English. Give me two years and I can learn any language!" He was hilarious. We talked with him for a solid 20 minutes. He lectured us about how the only thing we need is Kong Fu power. Every time he talked he leaned in real close to our faces and smiled his teeth less smile. Over and over again he said," no money no honey, all we need is Kong Fu power!!!" He made us actually hit his stomach. He said because he mastered Kong Fu he didn;t feel anything. It was very entertaining and very needed to give us a good laugh. Gotta love those old Chinese uncles!!
Go have a great week!!
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