Hello everyone!
This has been quite an eventful and exciting week. The most notable
being a visit from Umar Hadi, His Honorable Consul General (that's his
actual title) from Indonesia. He's pretty much in charge of visas for
Indonesia so impressing him meant he would be able to expedite that
process for our missionaries going there. We were told he was taking a
tour of the MTC and wanted to see how our missionaries were taught, so
my companion and I, and a sister headed to Indonesia, were selected to
demonstrate to him our ability at speaking Bahasa and answer any
questions he might have. So last Thursday, the Consul General, two
other ambassadors, our MTC President, Elder Don R. Clark from the
Quorum of the Seventy, some lady, and a bunch of security guards came
and visited our class. We spent roughly a half an hour demonstrating
learned grammar structures, telling him why we decided to serve
missions and asking him for advice before entering his country and
Malaysia. It was definitely a cool experience.
Another topic of interest that we've been talking about recently is
also about Indonesia. One Elder in our District headed to Thailand is
from Australia and has a little brother serving in Indonesia. We heard
from him that two Elders there have been having their pictures taken
by radical Muslims who have been posting them and warning everyone to
stay away from the "devil worshipers, cult members, etc..". Supposedly
there's been tons of threats towards them, so for the next week or so
those missionaries aren't allowed to leave their apartment. That's
pretty scary!
Well the language is slowing progressing. We're able to have actual
conversations with our teachers but my comprehension is still pretty
bad. Elder Benson left a few days ago which kind of sucks. He's a
homie and is going to kill it out in Sweden. My district is way cool.
We have an incredibly diverse group, featuring missionaries from
Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and Thailand. Since we spend a lot of
time with the missionaries going to Thailand I've been picking up a
bit of Thai! Well that's all I got this week.
Love,
Elder Van Gils
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