My, how the weeks have gone by! In a little over 4 days, I’ll be on my way to
It is sad too though. Half of my district is going to Malaysia/Singapore, so they leave Tuesday, along with the entire other district that’s going to there too. They have 10 people, and 3 of them are the other girls in my room. It’s really sad to think that I might not talk to some of them again, but hopefully that’s not the case and we stay in touch. Hopefully.
Anyways…moving on. Last Thursday we had Zone Conference, where a few of our teachers taught us about a few different principles. It was so good. They seem so much older and more mature than me when it comes to the Gospel, but one of the other Indo teachers is 4 months YOUNGER than me that taught. I just don’t think about that part ;) But it was really good, and some of the elders were talking about one of the talks where the teacher talked about being aware of what you’re doing in these other cultures that we’re going to, and he talked about the missionaries getting kicked outta Thailand for a long time because some stupid missionaries thought it’d be cool to take a picture of themselves as the head of an ancient Buddha whose head was no longer on the body. Apparently the missionaries in my district didn’t understand the severity of that action, because they were saying they didn’t understand what the big deal was…so I tried to explain to them that if a statue of Christ didn’t have a head on it, how would we feel if people from other religions were making of it and taking pictures with their heads on Jesus’ body…I dunno that they really understood how disrespectful that was, but I think they got how disrespectful I thought it was, cuz they didn’t talk about it anymore. Haha.
This week we’ve had several opportunities to teach, and it’s amazing how the Indonesian is really coming along as we teach. I’m remembering words a lot more, and although it certainly doesn’t make complete sense, I know I’ve come a long ways in 8 weeks. Sis and I have also been able to teach a few lessons in English (just to see what we add into those lessons to make them better), and those have been really fun, but they also show how much work I need to put into my Indo lessons… cuz I’m hardly personal at all in Indo, whereas I share several stories about my personal life when I teach in English. So I’m working on that.
Also last Saturday, when we went to the Old People building to clean more rooms, the girl in charge informed us (“oh woops, I didn’t tell you last week?”) that all the sick people had been staying in that building the week before when we’d been cleaning, but that that day they were all gone…but we were gonna be cleaning all their rooms. Holy cow. They were seriously so gross. Apparently they “bomb” all the rooms after sick people leave, which somehow kills all the bacteria, but they didn’t take out any of the masses of bags and boxes of leftover food from I swear weeks before…so Sis and I got to pick all that crap up and take it all out to the trash. Seriously tho…food from WEEKS ago is completely nasty. Just FYI in case anyone was wondering.
Our devotional on Sunday was WEIRD. It started out really good with this family singing a few songs and the grandma talking about the importance of music…and then the grandpa gets up and starts talking about how you can “prove that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet with science today.” He showed like 3 video clips that were “proof.” Don’t get me wrong…it was an interesting topic, but I didn’t think it was appropriate at all for a MISSIONARY devotional. Aren’t we going out to teach people that they need to know the Gospel is true through a small thing called THE SPIRIT?!?!?! That’s just my view on it tho. Sis liked it.
We had a meeting for international missionaries Monday night. Haha, it was awesome. I’m seriously going to the coolest place. If I’m ever put in
Part of my new language study plan is to listen to talks in Indonesian and try to understand what’s going on. HOLY COW! I have such a long ways to go. I pick up words along the way, but as far as actually knowing what the talk’s about…not a clue. I’ve started to read along as I listen, and that makes it a lot easier, but I’m still slow reading. The translator goes so fast, and I’m still 2 sentences behind working out something that was said earlier. But even just in the last few days I’ve noticed how much better I’ve gotten doing that. So it’s coming :)
Yesterday I hosted again…and made sure the girl I hosted was in the right bedroom. I hope. Haha. Her name was Sister Stope I believe, and she’s from
Today Sis and I went and learned how to put makeup on in a small class the MTC has. They don’t announce it though, because they only have so many samples that they can give out. Ya, don’t worry…I have in my bag right now $200 worth of makeup! That’s more than I’ve probably owned in my entire life combined. Crazy stuff. I guess NuSkin donates it all the MTC, and then there are 2 sisters whose calling it is to help the sisters learn how to put it on and stuff. We’ll see if I can make myself look this good every again… if not, I can at least say that I have $200 worth of makeup that I could TRY with, haha.
Anyways, things are really good here on the homefront, but the next time you hear from me it will be FROM INDONESIA! Thanks again for all the prayers, love and support. I love and miss you all! Loves,
~Sister Sara
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