More Lessons, but Great Quality

First off, I would like to apologize for not taking any pictures this week. Needless to say, we biked around the wonderful city of Klang, and met many people from different areas of the world. I know that every mission says that they are a big "melting pot," and it is probably true to a certain extent. My area of Malaysia is definitely less of a melting pot than Kuala Lumpur (the capitol) but it probably gets more people from other areas in South East Asia. It is rare that I see another white person during the week, but sometimes we do see some in the malls. One minority that we do have here though is people from Myanmar. These people are super humble, super nice, and most of them are Christian and open to learning more. The only problem is that most of them are refugees, and do not have the legal documents to be baptized. We ran into this problem this week, where we found a super solid boy who was reading the Book of Mormon, and who was eager to learn, but we found out that he is from Myanmar and does not have the documents to be here. It is sad, and I pray that one day he will have the opportunity to learn the gospel.

This week we taught twelve lessons, a slight decline from our last week's count of 16. We are still really excited, because we are teaching mores lessons than we were a few months ago, and, from what it sounds like, more lessons than our area has normally had in the past. That being said, we are struggling in getting members to be present to our lessons. This problem has multiple factors, some of which include less than perfect planning on our part, the sheer lack of available members (we normally have about 20 people (including children) attend church), and the fluidity of our appointments (a lot of our lessons are set up the day before). We are working on improving two of those three problems this week, with better planning, and getting our investigators' appointments on a schedule so that we can call members more in advance.

We had a good lesson this week with one of our investigators named Wai Feng. His cousins recently joined the church and they are active in our branch. Wai Feng has been investigating the church for past little while, and has been really consistent in coming to church. He is 11 years old, and he has a good understanding of a lot of the gospel, being helped largely by his cousin's family who bring him to church. This week, we taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and his parents sat in on our lesson while we taught him. Normally, we teach in English, but since his parents can only speak Chinese, we taught this lesson mostly in Chinese, and it was a great chance for me to practice speaking! More importantly though, it was a great opportunity to teach and testify about the blessings that come as we live the Gospel, and follow Christ. I feel like we taught very simply (it helps when you do it in another language) and that he understands the how we can use the Gospel to get better. To top this all off, we finished our lesson by getting lunch with his family. I had Malay food (for the first time) and when I initially looked at the options, I thought that they all looked gross. But, it was really good, and I would highly recommend it. The down side of this experience though, is that while we were teaching Wai Feng, my bike light was stolen. I normally take it off every time I leave my bike, but I forgot this time... and I paid for it. 

I would like to bear my testimony on the importance of diligence. Diligence is something that will bring many blessings, and it easily relates (at least in my mind) to our Heavenly Father's eternal plan for us. This is a plan that includes us becoming better, and I know that when we do our best, even when we make mistakes, so long as we keep trying, that we will be blessed, and that we will become better. There is no better feeling than feeling the spirit after you have been trying to do what is right, even when you fail. Heavenly Father will always be there to help us and to make us strong.