The Malaysian Chronicles: Home Sweet Home Away From Home!

Well, it’s been a week of pretty hard, physical labor! In between various meetings, explorations to different kinds of stores, and other activities, we spent 3 days repainting 3 rooms in our new apartment. Then Tom headed to work at Sunway, while Janet cleaned and organized the apartment for the next 3 days. So the way I calculate it (biblically speaking), it is good, and now it’s time to rest! Here’s our new address, if you care to send anything other than email:

Tom and Janet Nygren

L06-07, E-Tiara Apartments

Jalan Kemajuan

47500 Subang Jaya

Selangor, Malaysia

Lots of “firsts” this week—first time Janet drove in Malaysia (on the left of course); first time cooking a meal in our apartment; first time at an internet café; first time on lots of new Malaysian foods; not to mention Tom’s new job, meeting new people, etc. One thing we haven’t been able to set up yet is our own internet in our apartment, so we are currently dependent on visits to the internet café in the building next to ours. We’re thankful for that, but if our correspondence is a bit spotty over the next couple of weeks, that’s why.

We have been warmly welcomed in by the church and people here, and now that we’re more or less settled in, we can start exploring more fully what our church involvement will look like, and how Janet’s schedule will fall into place. We’ve had numerous conversations/meetings already toward that end, but we are letting the dust settle a little before we try to figure out our place here. We are SO thankful to the many people who have made this a smooth “landing” for us—Sandy & Mandi for hosting us the first two weeks, Phil & Barb for furnishing our apartment so completely, many church people here with advice about how to go about things, encouragement from so many of you on our email list, and of course your prayers as we sip from the hydrant of living water that is as plentiful here as on the other side of the world!

Blessings,

Janet & Tom