Good Week

This week we spent a lot of time contacting, and we talked to a lot of people. We were able to spend some time contacting in pretty good spot for finding Chinese people. It is a big field(park) located in downtown Sibu, in probably the nicest part of the city. We were able to able to capture people's interest through using things that were a bit more captivating. We handed out cards, and let people look at them while we explained them. It went pretty well. 

I am emailing on Tuesday again due to technical difficulties here in Sibu again. I was going to email yesterday, when I was told that the internet was down in Sibu. Therefore, we got permission, and are now able to email today. 

We met with one of our investigators a couple times this week. He is part of the Methodist church here, and he has had many questions about what our church believes. I have found that a great resource for identifying what we believe as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which differs from other churches, is found in the Articles of Faith. These inspired articles identify what the Prophet Joseph Smith revealed from God to help us identify how we can know the truth of the church, through the differences (if you can't identify the differences, it will be hard to distinguish the truth from the other options).

Well, the week was good, and like I said, we talked to many people about the restored gospel. Some were interested and wanted to meet again, and others were not. We were also able to visit a lot of our members. We have a pretty diverse branch here. I am not sure if I mentioned this last week, but we have a couple here in our branch that are from Ukraine, and the only language the speak that other people around here speak is English. There are some language barriers here in this branch, seeing as how we have few members who can speak both Chinese, and English. The other members that we visited this week include one of our members who drives a taxi, another who has been part of the branch for as long has there have been members here in Sibu really. These people are the pioneers of the church here in this part of Malaysia, and some have obviously been prepared to become the leaders of the church here.

Well, that is all that I really have time for... see you next week!

Elder Allen