As stated by the subject of this email, this past week was the busiest of the mission I think... and the sad part is we stayed in Singapore the whole week!
This week was zone conference, so every missionary in the mission made their way to one of the sessions in Singapore this past week. We had the Semenanjung(West Malaysia) and Sabah session on Tuesday, the Sarawak session on thursday, and the Singapore/Johor Bahru session on friday. We had Mission Leadership Council on Wednesday, and on every night we had pre zone activities (family history) and post zone conference activities. We were at the church for 14 hour days all last week. Missionaries love Zone Conference. One of the reasons is because there is tons of pizza... unfortunately, after a week of eating pizza, I never want to see/smell/taste it again. haha.
The Conferences ran really smoothly- I can't complain. There were a lot of highlights. Even though we heard the same things 3x, I still picked up new things each time. The best part was seeing all the missionaries again, and being able to spend time with them.
We helped the Family History senior couple with the Pre Zone Conference activity, which was all about family history and those little booklets the church is distributing. I found it very interesting. I have been looking at familysearch.org at our family, and notice that there isn't much, other than names and dates. You can go in and add stories and photographs. The only things I saw were "legacy disputes" from Dad haha.
By the time friday came around we were so tired... and then we got an offer from the costa rican ambassador member (who likes to treat the APs) to dinner at the American Club. It was very nice. and the funny thing was that we ran into several members there.
Saturday was mostly spent planning for this next transfers' Zone Leader trainings, and making graphs/charts of all the numbers. In the evening, we met sis. Sheila with a member Bro. Vince. There is a mall called lucky plaza, where filippinos go to send money back, and they have a fast food restaurant called Jolibees (which is supposed to be the biggest in Philippines). haha. It was packed with Filippinos, and the menu has fried chicken, spaghetti, rice, and hamburgers. The food was ok. The lesson was great, and we were able to find a quiet room in the back to share it. She then came to church the next day and had a great time.
We spent most of yesterday dealing with transfer news. We sent all the flight plans to our travel agent just a few minutes ago. My companion is being transferred to Melaka (they need his help there) and my new companion is Elder Plaizier, who was currently serving in Kuala Lumpur Branch, Zone Leader (he took my spot in KL when I left). He is probably the nicest guy in the whole mission, so many people saw it coming.
that's exciting that you purchased the flight plans already. We'll have to figure out how we're going to do the rest of the flying within malaysia...
don't have much time to email because we're meeting our zone at a trampoline house in a little bit.
bai
elder robinson
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