Hello Team!
Lots of great things
happening in my potentially last week here in Baao! From being mistaken
as a Fil-Am tour guide for the other missionaries (Heyo! Best compliment)
to hundreds of baby geckos running around our house, I could go on
and on about exciting adventures. Here's one you'll enjoy:
Remember our bathroom
(see picture)? Remember how we use a ladle and barrel to shower?
Well the experience got 1000x more exotic a few nights ago... I was in
the shower, rinsing with the ladle, when all of a sudden I catch a glimpse of
something big in the drain ("Didn't notice that before...").
Looked to me like a dead cockroach - no big deal, nothing new. I
continued to rinse and try to better see if this really was a "dead
cockroach." I leaned in... "It looks a little different,"
I thought... All of a sudden, an a vibrant burst of energy, eight thick, hairy
legs sprang open and the biggest spider I've ever seen comes
slip-sliding towards me - fast! In my panic, with a ladle and trash can
full of water as my only defense, I just about lost it - "ELDER! ELDER!
DER! DER! HEEEEEELPP!!!!!" I dumped as much water as I could at it
to impede the rampant march towards my feet. In that process, I was able
to hold back the monster as I one-handedly searched for my towel, wrapped it
around my waist (some-what) and jumped out screaming (literally). Simmons
came to the rescue and after a long ending, we found the spider was significantly
bigger than our fly-swatter (BIG). Can you imagine that? ...Not
fun...
Had a cooler experience
on Saturday: We finally had some time set aside to go tracting so we got
all prepared for it in the morning. We decided to stop by the houses of
two less-active members first though. After the first family (close to
our apartment), we were walking casually and diligently trying to find people
to talk to as we went to the next members. I saw a guy sitting by
himself, playing guitar on the side of the street. A
pressure instantly appeared in my heart. To put it into words,
it said, "That's the one." I quickly dismissed the thought
arguing that we still had somewhere to go and lots of time to find later. Instantly
I felt the much stronger constraining burn again in my heart -
"THAT'S THE ONE!" "Okay," I said, "I give - this
is the guy we need to find." Talk to him. Taught him.
We're going back tomorrow. How cool is that? Makes you
realize how many opportunities we may have missed as we straight-face power
walk down the street of our everyday lives. As for me, I'll
always be keeping an eye out, looking to do what I can, in the best way I can
do it.
Seeing the work here
progress is a thrill. Imagine seeing the people you love (significantly
more than yourself) learning to truly find for themselves everlasting joy and
happiness. The joy swells in me to the point where I can't contain it.
I'm as happy as running up and down stairs shouting joyfully, unable to
express through a bright grin the emotion inside - and not even because of
country music! (Country music being the only other thing getting me on my
feet, dancing around with giddy glee). Does that make sense? Do you
get how much I love this? I'm happy. So so much more than I ever
though. Also, I'm eating lots of pineapple (25 cents for one!).
Yum!
Thanks for everything!
Love, Elder Shane Scully Brown
Pictures -
1. The bathroom where I
was sneak attacked by the spider.
2-9. Morning at
the lake. Beautiful.
10. Cleaning the
chapel (went to an area that actually has one)
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