Monday, November 9, 2015

Little Jeeeeerry!

Five months. Check.
Can I vote?
It's really crazy what happened with the handbook change! I heard about it from the Senior Couple on Sunday and almost didn't believe it. I realized then that there was probably a whole kina balu going on in the states about this. At first I wasn't sure what to think about it, but I know that if it's from the prophet it's from God. I can see how this might try a lot of people's faith.
I'm so glad you went to that meeting with Nana! Way to suport! Thanks for all the updates too! I reeeeeally appreciate it. I hear basically nothing, so keep it coming.
Today we went to some really neat caves! It was really fun. We literally walked through a jungle. And a mountain. Imagine Indian Jones running through the jungle, then replace Harrison Ford with me. There you have it. 
Our apartment is great. It kind of reminds me of Grandma Leah's old home. We have a great view of a jungle tree! I included a picture of my bed, aka the couch. Haha, When we changed apartments we left the beds because they all had bed bugs so we all slept on the floor for a while until we got new beds, but we only got four because they might kick a pair of sisters out of Miri next week. So for now Sister O'Boyle and I are camping out in the living room, which I actually really like.
We did a lot of contacting this week! I got a few nice burn lines from my shirts and a lot of bug bites, haha. Oh, if it comes up, could you tell Lauren Noorda that Katrina and Stimba still have her Iban wedding picture up on their wall? They love it. Anyway. Lots of contacting this week! We met a really neat couple while we were looking for a less active. They invited us in to share our message and told us about how a messenger had come and taught the man how to pay tithing and told him to shape up, start reading the bible, and to go to church. We're really excited to follow up with them and I really hope they'll let us meet again!
In other news our 6:30 curfew got lifted to 8:30! I'm really excited for that because it means that we have that prime time to meet with people again.
Also... I'm out of time again. We got back late from the caves and have an appointment in half an hour. I love you so much! Bye!

Missionaries "in the field" lol Get it?



Doing service?


cool panoramas of Miri



Ouch! That's quite the sunburn!

Making friends :)


View of the jungle tree from their apartment:
Couch Sweet Couch lol With her Bubba on top...and photos on the dresser

The apartment's front room. Alex's bed is on the right.

Anyone home?

Toilet instructions, lost in translation

On her way to the Indaina Jones jungle!

What a fun apartment of sister missionaries!

Adventuring on P-Day




Awesome bug!





Making PB&Js in the car

Monday, November 2, 2015

Lots of Photos!

Thank you so much for the packages! I'm so excited for all the music and Christmas presents and everything else! Everyone loved the Snickers, my tummy especially. Sister Pullicar says thank you so much for the presents. :) 

Could you send me the lyrics for Trying to be like Jesus? Both verses? I can't remember all the words and it's driving me crazy.
Agh. I really hate emails. I love getting them! But I hate writing them. It's so much easier to just talk, I can never get things out the way I want to in letters! So frustrating. Maybe I'll get there after another year of practice.

It sounds like the cabin was a blast! I love the pictures so much! I can't believe it's so cold there! It's still in the hundreds up here, haha, not much change. Rainy season is due any day now though! I'm really excited. 
Thanks for the update on the MacKay's! I'm so glad to hear Grandpa is healing!

Halloween party:
-Party was fun! We weren't sure if anyone was actually going to come because it turns out no one knew about it. We all scrambled and texted and called everyone to tell them, and we had a pretty good turn out! It was a little confusing though because there was also two baptisms from two different branches happening on that same night and no one new about them, including the other branches that were doing the baptism. It all worked out though, people got baptized, children got candy. haha

Ah shoot. I'm really sorry, I once again didn't plan my time out very well.
We don't have any investigators right now but now that we're both healthy and back from ZC we're really going to work on finding some!

Miracle for this week is that yesterday was an incredibly productive day even though it didn't go as planned. We were able to find out a LA is moving and when they took us to see their new house we found another less active that we have never met, then met her son who is amazing, and while he's learned from the missionaries before, has never been baptized but reads the BOM every day and knows it's the word of God! Later while we waited for another LA to come home so we could meet with her we were able to test out the zone conference commitment of talking to everyone. It was amazing! We talked to a lot of people and got a potential out of it. Then we found out that the LA who we were waiting for's husband knows the Joseph Smith story is true but hasn't been baptized because he's Buddhist, so we definitely have something to work with there.  Overall, yesterday was amazing, zone conference was a great experience, and I got really cool pants and shirts at China town and Little India in Singapore.

I am so sorry this email is so short! I feel really, really terrible. I promise I'll do this first next week.
I love you lots!
Singapore - in front of the Merlion


She met Elder Orr from Las Vegas at Zone Conference!







Companions in Singapore

















Fun seeing her trainer, Sister Pullicar




Sister MacKay & the Harrisons

Zone Conference photos: games!

Zone Conference: Only a mom downloads photos that has even a little part of their missionary in it!

Zone Conference photos: games!

Zone Conference photos: games!

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