Momma!
Was the Twilight movie very good?
Elder Sroufe has been dying to see the new Bond movie. He’s under a lot
of temptation--ha, ha--because the video stores here already have the new Batman
movie and the new Bond movie, but the copies are 100% illegal. All the DVDs are 7 RM, but they check hard-core
for any DVDs at customs so people can’t bring them into the US.
We are still working hard in Melaka; we even have an investigator that
is being baptized on December 23rd!
I forget to tell you another cool story that we had while we were finding
people to contact. Elder Sroufe and I biked
to another area that was really, really far away. By the
time we got there, we only had time to contact one set of houses and there were
actually two sets of houses--one to our left and one to our right. I sat
there for a minute and I just knew that we had to go left; so we did, and we
dominated! We got two more big families
to teach!
This week was Deepavali, an Indian holiday where all they do is eat and
party. (According to sources other than
my son, Deepavali—meaning the Festival of Lights--is a Hindu festival and is a
national holiday in Malaysia. Light is
significant to Hindus because it signifies goodness. During Deepavali, ‘deeps’,
or oil lamps, are burned throughout the day and into the night to ward off
darkness and evil. The people open their
houses and invite friends to come by and eat and greet a ‘Happy Deepavali’. Leave it to Elder Madsen to boil the entire
holiday down to “eat and party”. - Martha) So, we just went from house to house eating meal after meal.
I told Elder Sroufe that I wasn’t going to make it--I thought I was going to be
sick! At the last house, I sprawled out
on the floor and just let all that food digest.
The Indians were amazed with how much curry chicken rice I could throw
down.
We also got another referral this week, but all we had was her name
and the area she that she lived in. However,
we can’t be stopped, so we decided to go for it! We took a bus to an area that was an hour away
and just got off at a stop that we felt was the right one. We wandered
around asking people if they knew this lady that was nyona (half Chinese, half Malaysian). People here identify each
other by race. For example, no one calls
me Elder Madsen, they just call me orang
putih (white man) or they call me ‘John’ (they call every American, John).
Anyway, since she was nyona, we eventually
found her house. I think she thought we were FBI because when she saw us, she
looked at us really weird. We ask her if
she was Jane and she said that was not her name. She then asked us why we were there. We told her that we were volunteers for our
church. She starting laughing and told
us that her name was actually Jane. We
had a great time teaching her and we are going back next week!
The puppies that we are watching are getting pretty big now; Elder Sroufe
says that they got one week of breast feeding left (he wants to be a vet so he’s
pretty smart). They are so cute because
they are running around but are still really awkward. We are moving to a
rich part of Melaka in January because our branch is moving to a house that they
are going to make into a chapel. The
house is soooo nice! It is a two story house with a massage chair, air
conditioning, and nice couches. I can't wait!
It’s in a new part of Melaka that missionaries have never been to before,
so our move will really open up the area. We are looking forward to Thanksgiving. The sisters are making us a feast because it is also Elder Sroufe’s birthday!
Love you and miss you! Tell everyone hi for me!
Jumpa Lagi,
Elder Madsen
Elder Madsen
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