Elder Przybyla is too busy writing reports to down load pictures for you tonight, so that will have to wait.

Our language is coming along.  I told Elder Prybyla the other day, "Remember when we first got here and I said our goal today is tell 3 people thank you--terima kashi?" That was the beginning.

Now we are reading some scriptures and commenting on them.  We are working on our testimonies more. We have both done that in Church.  But we are getting better.

We can sing the songs because we can read the language, but now we are trying to understand what they are saying.

We can exit a meeting and say--It's was nice meeting you. Or see you later.

It's getting fun. We are pretty good on prayers. And have given those in meetings.

We were at church all day today.  First because Elder Priz is on the District High Counsel we have to go to all the Branch Conferences. Today was the last one of those.  And then we are assigned to two branches. So we went to one of those branches and stayed for all three meetings.  Three meetings and you don't know what they are talking about.
About 3 pm today we got a phone call from one of the other branch presidents Pres. Mobile, who we have been working with on employment, and he asked to see us tonight.
So after Branch meeting, Elder Priz went to District counsel meeting. While he was in the meeting, District President turned to Elder Priz and said he was concerned about Pres. Mobile's son who is addicted to video games and would Elder Priz talk to him.  The funny things is we are not assigned to that branch and district president had no idea we were going to see him tonight.  Why didn't he turn to the other Senior couple that is assigned to that branch that was right there and assign him to do it?

Strange things, anyway we had a great meeting with the family.  When we were done with the parents, we said and now can we talk to Cereal (spelling??).  Dad gave a fantastic lesson on why it's more important to study hard now and get good grades than to play video games. Pres Mobile said yes that's what he does a lot.  When dad was done, the parents thanked us a lot for talking to their son, and son said he would start studying hard. It was a great experience.


We have heard some news that the Area President here is putting 2 self-reliance centers in Malaysia, but not in Kuching. It shocked us and even the Mission President didn't know anything about this.

So, that left us not knowing  exactly what to do. After much prayer, we decided to go to the District President  and ask to have a District employment specialist called.  That person could be trained by us.  He needs to speak English and Malay, and help people here fill out the forms to get better training and understand the government programs..  He could read and understand the forms and programs better than we can and we would have our own little Self Reliance Center.  District Pres is for the idea.

We were in a Mall the other day and we ordered a pizza. When the pizza was ready, I went up to the counter to pick it up and the girl, Jean, read my badge.  She said I have to go to church. I said ok, and she said no you don't understand I have to go to church. I said ok.  And she repeated it, I haven't gone to church for a year since I moved here from the Philippines and I need to go to church. I asked her if she was Christian and she said yes.  She was  getting louder as we talked.  I invited Elder Priz to come over and get the Elders on the phone.  She talked to them and gave them her phone number.  This was on Wednesday.  Today is Sunday, she has had the first discussion and has gotten a baptism date.

We talked to another girl in another mall and we gave her a Kitab Mormon.  She also has a date for the first discussion with her family this week.

We have given the Elders two more referrals but haven't heard back from them yet. This is a really fun part of the mission.


We had a lot of influences in getting another young man baptized this Saturday.  This was one of the saddest situations we have run into.  The elders took us to meet with him about his job situation.  His room was 6ft by 4ft. room; enough to sleep on the floor. and that was it.  I guess the bathroom was down the hall somewhere. It was box built in the middle of the hallway upstairs in an old building.
He was working from 6pm to 6am. He is earning 400RM a month which is about $130 US.  He has read the Kitab Mormon about 3 times and wants to get baptized.  He said he was from an island off Singapore. He has worked in another city in Malaysia for 4 years. He says he is getting an IC card which means citizenship in Malaysia. etc. and his home town was working on a visa for him.

After we left we did some research and found out none of that was true.  Foreigners never get IC cards here.   They have to have a Malaysia company get the work visa for them, etc. If he is not legally in this country they cannot baptize him..  Elder Przybyla told the Elders we needed to see his passport.  When the Elders went to talk to his boss, it was good news.  The young man is not from Singapore, but Indonesia.  Indonesia and Malaysia don't get along very well, but the boss said he applied for a visa for Reily, and showed the Elders the receipt. When you get a visa for another person, essentially you own him, which means the boss is totally responsible for him and everything he does, etc.  He is kind of like slave labor. They don't have to pay Reily minimum wage, but the boss asked why the elders wanted to see this stuff and they told him because they wanted to Baptize him.  They owner said he was interested too.  Reily got baptized yesterday, but he still does slave labor under a three year contract.