MOM!

     This week has been pretty 
tough. Those Iban kids are having a really tough time with the Word of
 Wisdom and because of that they felt too ashamed to come to church, so we had 0 
people at church.   That was pretty depressing!  We have been 
trying really hard to find a good family to teach, but with no success!
 We are getting destroyed again and I feel really bad for my 
companion because he is a very sensitive guy! We are always getting spit on, yelled at, and cussed at. We contacted for three solid hours yesterday and for some reason 
everyone was drunk--and they are really brave when they are drunk! For
 instance, there was a group of guys sitting in the street drinking. We
 walked by them and me, being my friendly self, waved at them.  They told me to shut
 up—so, of course, I did--but Elder Robbins didn’t understand what
 the guy had said.  So Elder Robbins yells, "Apa Khabar!" which means, “What’s up!”  I told Elder Robbins to run because he was going to get us killed.  That particular night was pretty bad.   It got to the point where 
I would just walk up to people knowing that they were going to spit in
 my face.  I would still try to talk to them just for 
the heck of it and sure enough they were usually pretty rude! We did find one twenty-one year old kid who is pretty interested though!! So we will see 
how that goes!

     Crazy story! Two weeks ago this lady told us—and she was really rude about it--that 
she didn’t want to meet with us anymore.  But then two days ago, she calls us all panicked and tells us that her daughter is in 
the hospital and not doing very well.  We got on our bikes, in pouring down rain, and rode an hour into town. On our way there, I got a flat tire so we picked up our bikes and ran the rest of the way 
in the rain! The doctors told the mom that her daughter would be in the hospital for 
at least a week and that’s only if everything went really well!  We gave her daughter a blessing 
and then decided to get the mom some food because she had
 been at the hospital all day. I’m sure that we looked like idiots because we didn’t
 have our bikes and by this time it was really dark outside.   So we attached our bike lights 
to ourselves and started sprinting down the street in the rain
.  We managed to bring the mom's food back and then we called the senior couple to come
 and take us home. The next day her daughter wakes up and, BOOM, she is fine!
  Unfortunately, the entire incident didn’t soften the mother’s heart, but maybe someday. 

     Today I went to this place to get a hair cut but all the sudden a pondan  
(transvestite) came out of nowhere and asked, "What can I get for ya?"
 I said, "Yea...never mind. I don’t need a hair cut anymore!"  and then I got up and ran out of the store, haha!

      I’m almost half way through my mission!  I can’t wait to come home and show off my Iban skills. Okay Mom, I love you so, so, so much and I can’t wait to 
Skype!!

 


Elder Madsen