First
story goes to Kim Elder, the dinosaur! Last P-day we met this kid from
Korea and he was playing with a toy dinosaur! We stopped to talk to him
and he told us he would draw us a picture of a dinosaur, which I'm still
basically 3 years old, so that was like the greatest news ever! The
next day at lunch my companions ran into him and he ended up just giving
the little dinosaur to them! We were ecstatic! We ran into him again
and he told us the story behind the dinosaur... apparently he is a
convert, and when he was looking into the church he struggled with some
addictions such as smoking, so the missionaries teaching him gave him a
toy dinosaur and told him every time he felt tempted to give in to his
addictions that he should just play with the dinosaur instead! Anyways,
he now buys dinosaurs and occasionally gives them out to people, so we
thought that was super cool! The dinosaur is now our class pet and we
named him Kim Elder after the missionary!
Then
there are the Malays... The first day we got here one of the malays told
our teacher that we hated her so we have never been super big fans of
them! Then two weeks ago, we met two of the Malay elders cause they kept
stealing our study room,and after that literally everywhere we went,
these two elders were there, and they were always looking at us too. It
was somewhat creepy! But somehow we ended up becoming good friends with
them and they are super nice guys! Last Thursday we went into the
doctors office with one of my companions and lo and behold there were
these two Malay elders. So Elder Ngatikaura came and sat down by me and
taught me how to pray in Malay. The next morning when we walked into the
classroom there was a card on my desk that said "Praying For You" with a
picture of Jesus and inside the card was printed "Just as Jesus prayed
for you, so do we. May he walk with you at this time in your life" and
there was no writing and no signature! So of course we assumed it was
just the Malays, but they swear it wasn't them! It was just a little
creepy! The Malays flew out on Monday headed for Singapore though, so
now we have to make some new friends to hang out with!
Gym
time has been interesting this week! Friday when we were playing
volleyball me and this elder swung at the same time and he ended up
jamming his finger into my arm, so now everytime his companions see me
they just ask me if I have seen Elder Hassel's finger haha. Then on Tuesday when we were playing volleyball I decided that I wanted to jump
up and spike the ball and some guy on the other team just jumped right
into me, so we both got quite a few bruises, but it was super funny and
made for a fun game!
Hahaha gym time is probably the only
thing keeping me sane right now! Our typical day consists of 10 hours in
the classroom learning Hungarian, so gym time is literally like living
in the desert and drinking water for the first time in a year (or like 3
days, but you get the point)!
Sorry this weeks
email isn't super spiritual, but we had to get out some of the stories
first! Next week I will be better! Last thing for today is introductions
of the district members! I definitely got blessed to have these
goofballs!
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