Mom!
Yea, I am still recovering from poisoned Kentucky Fried Chicken. It’s been a week and I still don’t feel all
the way better!!
I actually do know Alan
Keh (my new FB friend - Martha). I met him in my first area in Melaka. We went with one of the young men to play basketball
with Alan's friends and they literally thought I was the most amazing basketball
player in the world, but it is pretty easy to be amazing when I am the tallest one there!!
Hahah! That was over a year ago, I am surprised that he still remembers me!
I
was in Sibu before and that branch is really growing. (Another one of my FB
friends is the Sibu Young Adult Branch).
One of my friends in my group was serving in Sibu Jaya, which is in
the middle of nowhere and has a lot of apartment flats. The place just blew up because there is no
other church in the area. The six weeks that I was there, there were close to
twenty baptisms. I was always going to Sibu Jaya to give baptismal interviews. One time when I was there, I went to the Branch’s
Gawai (the Iban holiday) party and they made me ngajat (an Iban dance) in front of the whole branch. My dancing was so bad that I am actually very
famous in that Branch.
Thanks for the money!
Don’t tell anyone, but one of the members in Sibu Jaya was going to get evicted
from her house. She makes bead ties so I
just gave her 300 RM and told her I would get the ties from her later. That is
why I am so broke this month!!
Things are still pretty
hard over here mom, but I am trying to do my best. We have been working with
Lezter. We took him and his girlfriend to get married today, but they are
both still registered in other places of Sarawak and therefore they wouldn’t
let them get married in Sibu. It is very humbling being with Lezter. He is very
"kampung Iban" which means that he has spent most of his life in his
village; so, he doesn’t have a lot of money and hasn’t been exposed to a lot of
the world. A couple days ago we had an activity at the church and afterwards we
took him to McDonalds to eat. He looked at me and said, "Twenty-three
years and I have never eaten at McDonalds." He is just a solid guy. He
wants so bad to be baptized. I hope he can make it. He does have some bad
habits. He started smoking when he was
seven and by the time he was eleven he was drinking!! He hasn’t had a
drink in a long time, but we are still working on helping him to stop smoking.
I love teaching him; he is a way humble guy.
Earlier this week we were
with the other two missionaries that are assigned to the Batu Kawah Branch. One of the other Elders and I were riding our
bikes really fast while the other two Elders were way behind us. All of the sudden, this car drives
by us and points back and yells, “YOUR FRIEND!!” So we turned around and flew back. When we got there, there was blood everywhere.
Then one of the Elders smiles and with a missing tooth says, "Is it bad?” He had fallen and cut his chin open and
knocked out his tooth! We took him to the hospital to get stitches and the next
day he flew to Singapore to go to a good dentist to fix his tooth!
Elder Petersen is awesome! He went home last
week!! He is a great guy and could be Megan’s future husband?? It was sad
seeing him go home this week; he is one of those Elders who absolutely fell in love
with the people here. He said his first night home he cried himself to sleep. I
am just giving you a heads up, the first couple of days I am home I probably
won’t be myself. Just thinking of losing these people makes me want to cry.
Luckily I still have eight months left!
How is school, mom? I miss you a lot and you know I love you more
than anything! I gotta go help this lady build her house!!! Thanks for
everything!!
Elder Madsen
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