The title of this week come from the problems that we had with our bicycles this week. I am not going to mention all of them, but here are a few insights to let you get a feel into what we had to do: probably around 5 - 7 flat tires, biking an hour and a half out to a shipping company so that my previous companion can get his bike on the other half of Malaysia (and getting a flat tire while we were over there), riding to Penang (on the ferry) to bring a bike to the three Sister missionaries over there who only have two working bikes (also getting a flat tire in the process), walking for a while after a flat tire to a bike shop, only to find that it was closed.
We were riding back to our home on Friday, and a nice nail stuck into my tire. So I got a flat right next to our home. We were able to walk home ok, but it was so far from our appointment that night that we were not able to go. The next day, after attempting to patch the tube on my bicycle, we headed out. After filling my tire with air, it only took about three minutes for me to go flat (I guess we are not that skilled at using bike patches). It is at least an hour walk to the bike shop from our apartment, and so we decided it might be worth it to try to hitchhike and get in the back of a lorry that was going the direction we needed. After three failed attempts (they were all turning the other way, we met a nice Malay man who agreed to let us put our bikes in the back and climbed in. He drove a little bit, and then brought us up front. We rode with him down the street for about 10 minutes. It definitely saved us a lot of time.
Other things, we were contacting someone on the Ferry on Tuesday, and after we started talking to this young Chinese man, one of our members, sitting on the other side of the man, popped his head out and said "Hi Elders!" We then had a member-present contact, and he bore his testimony about the Book of Mormon - pretty cool.
Yesterday was church. We didn't have anyone come (as far as investigators) and that was pretty disappointing, especially since on Saturday night we had three confirmed for coming the next day. Church was good though, and I thought that Elder Florence and I had a good lesson second hour when we taught gospel principles. I gave a talk on "Light of the world, Glory to God" and talked about Elder Hales talk from the last conference on developing Christlike attributes. I thought the talk went pretty well, and I like how Elder Hales talks about our progression to developing charity as we work on other attributes. As we do this, we become the same person no matter where we are!
Have a great week!
Elder Allen
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