WEEK 1  HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hello everyone!

Happy New Year It's 2018 and my first time without my family for the New Year Eve. I still adapting myself and everything is fine! No worry!

My first day in Singapore was really great. Sister Edwards, Sister Richardson and I visited Sister Helen's family. She is a member of the church and she is a very nice person. Her husband cooked dinner for us too and it was delicious! They used chopsticks to eat and I just tried to use it since I don't know how to eat rice using chopsticks. Haha. I kept thinking that my chopsticks will drop and it did! 🤣 Shame on me! Hahahaha. Sister Helen took another chopstick for me.

 The next day we went for lunch and guess what? I had Chicken Rice for my lunch because I know it may be the last time for me to eat Malaysian's food. Haha. So, on that day, we met Chris at the Shangri-La Hotel. She is an investigator. I don't really know what happened to her but she looked very upset. Will pray for her.

In the afternoon, we met Zhouran and Tina. They are investigators too. They seemed very interested to learn the gospel. I never saw someone that really scared to pray but Tina did it for the first time! Sister Edwards and Sister Richardson taught them in the Chinese language and I don't know what they talked about. Haha. I just kept smiling.

 After that, we met Aunty Irene. She is 78 years old. My first time met her and she kissed me on my cheek. How sweet! She lives alone her English really good. At least I can understand what they were talking about. Haha. She also committed to having a baptism at the end of January!

Oh, I stepped on a guy's shoes in the MRT and he was so angry at me. Luckily we stopped at the station and I just said sorry and go. Hahahaha. I was scared until I dreamt about it. People at the church also talked to me in Tagalog and I don't know how to answer it. I wish that I can speak in many languages.

So, on Dec 28, Elder and Sister Walker accompanied me and Elder Ravindran to Changi Airport at 8 pm. We need to wait there until 1.20am for our flight to Dubai. It was a long trip but I love it! We almost lost in Dubai Airport. Haha. Arrived in Manchester need to wait about an hour for Immigration. It was a long queue. Then we searched for someone holding MTC's sign but we saw no one holding it. Tried to call the MTC but failed. Suddenly Sister Botts came and approached us asking if we are the missionaries or not.

At the MTC we took our package with nametags etc inside it. I was surprised because there was a mail for me. Thank you Van Gils' family! I can't believe that I will receive a mail on my first day in the MTC. 

So my teachers are Brother Mann and Sister Hughes. My MTC's president is President Bunker. They are the best! Me and Sister Hulldin had our two investigators name Zoë and Mateó Arriaga. Zoë's boyfriend is a member of the church and she wants to learn more about the church. She's from a Pentecostal church. Mateó is a father to four children. He loves his family very much. He's having a hard time right now and we try to help him. Our first lesson was not going really well. Haha. Everyone makes mistake. We tried to improve it in our second appointment and we did. Still, need to work on it.

Oh, Elder Ravindran and I will get our endowment in London Temple because the temple here is close. I'm excited about it!

I will do my best to fulfill my purpose as a missionary. It may not easy but I love this work so much! I am so grateful for this opportunity to serve the Lord. I know that Heavenly Father loves each one of us. He wants us to be happy. He wants us to feel His love. He gives us the gospel of Jesus Christ to make us feel the happiness, the joy. I really hope that all of us can feel His love throughout our life. He is the One.

Alma 34:32

For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.

Love, 

Sister Bajat