Well, we just got transfer news, drumroll please:
I'm staying in Kota Sentosa, and I'm training one of the new Malay speakers coming into the mission on Wednesday! I get to fly back to Singapore and pick her up even though I was just there last week for zone conference haha. Um I can't believe President Mains and Heavenly Father are trusting me with another one, but I'll take the opportunity for growth again, haha.
I was just emailing President about how humbling training another missionary is. You realize how far you are from perfect but how God makes up for your shortcomings.
But let's start from the beginning of this week:
Last Monday, we missionaries hung out at the KDC (Kuching District Center, aka the chapel) and played frisbee. That night, we had some time between our appointment and the end of P-Day, so I thought, "What would Sister LeBaron do?" So I made us get ready, and we swung by Rejimah's (our investigator) house. We ran into her cousin Vanessa and invited her to help us teach. At first she was like, "Uhh...I'm busy..." but I pretended like I didn't understand Malay and grabbed her hand and we went into the house. Vanessa bore a powerful testimony of The Plan of Salvation in Iban, and afterwards, she said, "Wow, thank you for that. I felt the Holy Ghost so strongly." Love her, she's awesome. I'm a fan of having the youth help us in our missionary work. If we can get them excited about missions, and they go on missions, they'll be solid and help build up the church back here. It's perfect.
After that, we had a Malam Keluarga with Sister Ankie's family, where Elder Reynolds made a baby cry and we ate lots of food. Afterwards, the Elders had a HUGE wreck on their bikes because Elder Reynolds thought it would be a good idea to grab Elder Bester's backpack on a busy highway in the pitch dark...so they wrecked, almost got hit by a car, and rolled for like a mile. We did a face and elbows check, and they were completely okay. Despite Elder Bester hitting the pavement facefirst and his legs literally went over his head. Elder Reynolds said, "Sorry...I made it look more dramatic than it actually was..."
Zone conference was awesome. It was nice to see everyone at the airport. Everyone from Sibu, Mukah, Miri, and Bintulu had a layover in Kuching. The first thing Elder Parker said was "Wow you look older." After I kacaued him, he tried to memperbaiki his comment by saying he meant I look more mature...riiiight. I know, the mission's taken like 10 years off my life haha.
We ate at Chili's but it was awkward to have a whole herd of elders following me and Sister Bourgeois because they thought I knew where I was going because I served in Singapore...except I never ate at Chili's haha. Luckily, we ran into a guy on the MRT (just like old times) who was on his way to work there. So we went and ate bottomless salsa and Sister B and I got all nostalgic for baseball because the Dodgers were playing on TV. I got to say hi to Sister Hansen, my one and only, and I got to run into Elders Toney and Robinson and they were so happy to see me!
I had never laughed so hard in a zone conference. We talked about how to become Preach My Gospel missionaries, and at the end of testimony meeting, something way funny happened, so Sister Parcell, Bourgeois and I started giggling, and then we couldn't stop, but it was this big spiritual meeting. We put our heads down and tried to read from the scriptures to stop laughing but we couldn't. Sister Bourgeois was stifling her laughter so hard she was crying, which made me laugh even harder. We buried our faces in our hymbooks during "Called to Serve" and laughed so hard, then tried not to giggle during the closing prayer. The best part was we were sitting in the front, so everyone saw us struggling. Actually, the best part was the same thing happened to Elders LaFontaine, Gualtier, and Wayment, so basically the three of us are the sisters version of them. It was so embarrassing and we couldn't stop laughing for an hour after. I ran into the JB Elders and they were so confused as to why Sister Bourgeois and I were laughing so hard.
I loved the departing testimonies, especially Elder Snyder's and Elder Gualtier's. I'm grateful I got to serve with the both of them. I bore a quick testimony of how I'm understanding how this isn't our work, it's God's, and thank goodness for that. We can work and work and work and be effective and prayerful, but we're still going to come up short. But because this is God's work, He makes up the difference. We cannot fail. I also said quickly that He loves us so much. It baffles me.
Anyway, much more to write, but maybe next week.
I think it's hilarious I'm going to Singapore two weeks in a row. I love that city, I love my city right now, Kuching boleh!
-Sister Wynn
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