Day 142ish: How did you get to Vietnam?

Wanted to share this experience with y'all from the other day...

Prologue: There's this one older sister (she's probably like 65+) in my congregation that is super cute. By this, I mean she has just been baptized for about a year, is the only one in her family in the truth, super zealous, rides a bicycle to service meetings and regular meetings, has an eye problem so is always squinting (nobody can ever tell who she's looking at... she reminds me of Brock from Pokemon lol) and is always giving friends vegetables from her vegetable garden. She has taken to giving me and the other foreigner friends vegetables on a regular basis. A regular basis as in almost every time I see her, whether at meeting or at service meeting lol.

Anyways, so one day after meeting, she asks me a question. Please note this whole conversation took place in Vietnamese but I'll translate as best as I could.

Me: *About to hop on my bike a ride home*

Her: How did you know to come to Vietnam?

Me: I'm sorry, can you repeat that? (*so confused... what does that even mean? Did I even hear that right?)

Her: How did you know to come to Vietnam?

Me: Sorry, what do you mean?

Her: Did you look at a map? Did your parents... (forgot what she said here)

Me: I'm sorry?

Her: Did you look at a map? How did you know there were JW's in Vietnam?

Me: Oh. Last year there was an announcement in the KM that said they needed help with the ministry here. So I wrote the branch, and the branch gave me the address of the KH.

Her: Oh I see. How much was the plane ticket?

Me: (oh shoot the figure is going to be insanely high to someone from the country like her... hmm I'll just give her the one-way price) It was $700.

Her: WHAT?? THAT'S HOW MUCH I WOULD GET FOR SELLING MY HOUSE! (*is in utter disbelief)

Me: Yeah. Have a good night! *Walk to my bike, hop on and drive off...

LOL! Anyways sorry for the lack of updates. I'm always trying to remember experiences to post, but if I don't post them within a day or two, they get replaced by fresh experiences and then I forget the old one. So basically there's so many experiences that I don't know what to post or can't remember them lol! Sometimes I get up to 2-3 experiences a day, it's ridiculous.

I think the next post will be the about our first brother from a province close to Sapa. This province has over 625,000 inhabitants!

'Til next time!