Gotta love the Chickens

hi family!

i really can't say anything, i have the best family in the world. best support under the sun. things here in kuching are going pretty swimmingly. on Monday we had to drop half of the people we had on baptism date. they went to the Methodist church two weeks in a row, gah. but i explain more about that in my letter. we also found some pretty promising people, one family who is super excited to come to church. so even though we had to drop people, they were replaced by better people, so the work goes on, and life is good.

this weekend grandpa is getting baptized. he is the grandpa of a really awesome, active family. he is the one who is the old iban man who can't here very well. but he stopped smoking, and comes to church in style every week. to teach him, we speak in Malay, and his family yells iban into his ear. yesterday the district leader and the zone leader gave him his baptismal interview, because they are okay at iban. we could basically hear the whole thing because they had to yell the whole time. the best part was the zl asked if he ever killed anyone (i guess they didn't know 'commit a serious crime' in Iban), he said no. they he asked if he had killed any chickens, and he said, 'i can't lie, I've killed a lot of chickens in my time' haha. that is for real. one time we were in the house and he was doing this Iban tradition, he had a chicken and was sort of waving it around and saying stuff in Iban, and then they killed it. they did kill it in another room, but they had the blood in these Tupperware containers. awesome.

anywho, he is getting baptized on Friday. we were filling out his baptismal record, he doesn't remember his birthday or year, he doesn't remember when he was married, it took him awhile to remember his dad's full name. family history here would almost be impossible, just wait for the millennium. that will be a really cool baptism, I'm excited for it.

in other news, we are getting two brand new missionaries here, and one is becca's friend, willem kampenhout. i haven't met him yet, but he is going to be in my same district, so that will be awesome. what a small world. he is going to love kuching, it would be an awesome place to start your mission.

so I'm just working on teaching and talking and have this new goal to know every person in the branch, which will really help me a lot, i think I'll be here for a long time. but it's a long list, and there are a lot of less actives on it, so lets go.

family, i love you so much. i miss you tons, but i know you we still be there for me when i get back. i hope you are sucking all fun you can out of summer. love you!

sister Harrison