We all know that Spring can go from sunny to a downpour in just a matter of minutes. And so does Life. Well our Sunshine Monday went to cloudy with Rain last night...
Landon was playing Church Basketball last night and went up to block a shot and came down and rolled his ankle. :(
It swelled up like a balloon. We iced and elevated it, but he still couldn't put any weight on it this morning. The X-Ray showed a High Ankle Sprain and they don't think his growth plate is fracture but it is hard to tell because it is still open. The doctor was in surgery today and so we saw his P.A., his doctor will look at the X-Rays tonight and double check everything. So unfortunately Landon is in "The Boot" for 3-6 weeks.
Let just say the timing couldn't be any worse. Baseball starts on Tuesday. He is totally Bummed! He isn't saying a whole lot...it is just so hard to watch them hurt. We are trying to be positive and pray everything will work out for him.
I forgot to say Happy Birthday in my last email home to Dad so here it is! Selamat Hari Jadi (Malay)... Masaya Kaarawan (Tagalog) and Happy Birthday (English). So you may be asking yourself how I know it in Tagalog and that is because we just went to an investigators daughters 19th birthday ha-ha and it was pretty cool we had some Filipino food which tasted strangely like Mexican food ha-ha or maybe I just crave Mexican food so much my mind thought it was ha-ha. But the investigator is Violi and her daughter Anu (what in Tagalog) ha-ha. Violi has been in Malaysia for 20 years and married a Tamil man so Anu is 1/2 Tamil 1/2 Filipino which their seems to be a lot of those and 1/2 Chinese 1/2 Filipino here. So for her birthday we took a picture of Elder Kiwi and I, with some sweet shades on and framed it for her ha-ha, since we didn’t know what to get her.
This week we meet with a recent convert named Jeffrey from Myanmar he’s way cool, he’s so funny. He used to work at TGI Fridays and so I asked him what his favorite food was there and he goes Mac and Cheese with Broccoli and I go… “really?” and, he goes… “of course man!”, ha-ha... he’s way funny.
This week we also got a new neighbor in our condo who is Malay she’s 26? She just moved in and we've talked to here a couple times then on Sunday she was down stairs with some stuff to carry up to the 17th floor (where we stay) and we only have 1 elevator working right now which is ridiculous so there is always a huge line up.... so I was talking to her and offered to carry up these bags for her. (three big garbage bags 2 with lots of pillows and 1 with assorted heavy stuff) so Kiwi gets a pillow one and I get the other two, we tell her we will take the stairs and she can take the elevator and we will meet her up there. So we get up and I am sweating and Kiwi is sweating we wait for like 8 minutes, then she comes out of the elevator and she like, kasihan (saying I feel bad) and we say no problem and then she’s like ok I want to pay you and were like no no no no no... she’s like ok then you have to let me make you some Malay food some time so we agree. But she’s hilarious she comes up and tries to wipe the sweat off my arm then she says thank you, pats our stomachs and then pinches our cheeks ha-ha …so funny. Oh yeah her name is Emy (Amy), I almost forgot. She’s way cool.
This Sunday Sister Kristina from Indonesia gets baptized so it’s pretty sweet. But two of our Indo members are moving back to Indonesia cause their bosses are really mean and jerks, etc. so we lose two members in May. We also are teaching a lady named Kalyany who is way awesome and today she said she wants to make us some spicy Tamil food ha-ha, so it should be fun. We had 8 investigators to church on Sunday so it was pretty sweet.
There are a lot of cool people here.The people of Malaysia are amazing and I love them so much and I am so grateful for the opportunity to learn their language and to teach the people here, even if they don’t always understand what I say in Malay ha-ha.
Well stay classy people of the world.
Elder Jalan
(This is what the Malay and Indo speaking Sisters call me at church… ha-ha, they always laugh cause it means to “walk” or “road”); (Wen Chang Lao is my name in Mandarin, “Wen”, means “warm” and “Chang Lao”, is “Elder”)
It's a good day today...the SUN is shining and it said 57° on the car temp when I was driving home. Our pansies are blooming and I can see the crocus and tulips poking through the earth...Spring is just around the corner and the best part of all is that Elder Watkins hit "EIGHT" months today :)...I know he probably doesn't care...but I do!!!
Well so far I have learned a little Tagalog just because we teach quite a bit of Filipinos here and their pretty cool. Umm I guess I will answer those questions before I forget. We have two apartments right now since we are covering 3 areas. Elder Kiwi has been out for 14 months and has served 4 months in KL and in Singapore and Tawau. He is Samoan and was born in New Zealand and both his parents are Samoan.We serve in three branches and we are the only missionaries for them as of right now. Our ZL’s are in KL or Ampang which is by KLCC (Kuala Lumpur Community College) and there are also sister missionaries over there too. So as of right now there will only be us for those two area's till new missionaries come in March. And even then we will still be really low on missionaries, since most missionaries cover multiple areas. The food here is ok and there is a lot of American food, so it's expensive. We went to Carl’s jr. the other day, but they don’t have six dollar burgers ha-ha. Oh yeah yesterday I had a Ramly burger and the meat was Ostrich :) yummm.
So I guess this week’s highlights is Elder Russell M. Nelson came :) it was way cool. He talked about a lot of cool things, but the cool stuff was that he said the greatest message that we have to share is Jesus Christ lives. I guess when he was in Miri in East Malaysia he said at the member fireside that they should write down how many members they currently have in Miri, because in the future they will have multiple Stakes in Miri and so many members. He said you'll look back and think the Branch was established at this time and the number of members were so few, then you can laugh about it because it will be so big. And he said you can take this as Prophecy. It was crazy and the spirit was so strong the whole meeting with the members and missionaries in KL. Sister Nelson said she had never felt the spirit it such a way like in our Missionary Meeting and that she loves it how many languages are spoken in Malaysia and so far in every meeting there has been some kind of translation being done. We had a member from Indonesia at the missionary meeting, she’s a maid and she got lucky that she could get work off in the morning to see Elder Nelson, since the only off time she gets is to go to church. But I got to translate for her and it was a great experience because she has such a great soul and she was so excited. She got to meet him and shake his hand and she was so happy and that point I could really feel the spirit as she talked with him and Kiwi and I translated for her. Over all it was crazy awesome.
The other day we went to this museum thing called Petrosian which was way cool had a lot of interactive things and was way fun.
We had our sweet investigator Kalyany and her daughter at church on Sunday and she really liked it a lot. I also had to give a surprise talk on Sunday since Elder Jeffries was supposed to speak and since he was no longer here I had to speak.... and then no teachers showed up for Gospel Principles so they asked for my help in that too... so overall it was crazy. But we have some American members here in KL and some from England and it is cool but weird to see other white people. Well, that’s all for this week.
Oh, except when I was on exchanges with Elder Mattox from Florida we were teaching and he went to say the prayer and he totally ripped his pants in the crotch area ha-ha… so funny. He said he was so embarrassed. Ok now that’s all.
Let just say the timing couldn't be any worse. Baseball starts on Tuesday. He is totally Bummed! He isn't saying a whole lot...it is just so hard to watch them hurt. We are trying to be positive and pray everything will work out for him.
