Week 13: ... So will you come to church?

Hellooooooo everyone!
This week my companion got sick, so on Tuesday and Wednesday we didn't get a whole ton done so he could recover, but then he pushed through and we had a great rest of the week! 

Highlights:
- Like 3 hours of extra personal study on Tuesday while Elder Chuy slept, so I started learning to play Amazing Grace on guitar!
- Exchanges with the Zone Leaders on Thursday: the night before we were all yapping a ton, it was super fun! All the elders there were awesome so it was a party. Then on Thursday I had a native Hong Konger help me with my language study so he helped me learn how to discuss philosophy in Cantonese. I still don't know how to do it, but I learned a lil haha. We also found this British dude who works at a Buddhist monetary which was sick
- All of our friends bailed on us for church, some was valid but some people didn't come just because there was a level 3 typhoon. Who let's a silly little typhoon get in the way of coming to church??
- We also taught a friend who has a really strong testimony of the Book of Mormon and has been being taught for a while, so we asked him if he believed the Book of Mormon was true and he said "Yeah absolutely" so we said "Great will you come to church?" And he said "No." Sooooo not sure how to help him with that, we'll be working on it though haha
- While Elder Chuy was sick I beat my Rubik's Cube record and solved it in 47 seconds 💪
- In typical Hong Kong fashion, yesterday we went street finding and got two numbers... From a dude from Ghana and a Filipino lady, because Hong Kong people don't like talking to missionaries 😂

Spiritual thought:
This week I read an old BYU devotional by Truman Madsen about our divine potential as God's children, and how every single person on earth has the potential to become like our Heavenly Father. It was a really powerful devotional and I would definitely recommend reading it!

Hope you're all doing well, love you all!
Elder Blankenbiller

Pictures:
1. Toys R Us isn't dead in China!!! Iykyk
2. Boutta head out into the level 3 typhoon to go to church
3. A super good Korean rice and chicken dish I had
4. Super pretty park
5. Elder Zhao and I after 20 minutes of picking weevils out of our rice






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