Week 25: I didn't want to have WhatsApp anyways

 你哋好！


This week we got our WhatsApp banned 4 more times... We're fairly certain that we inherited some sort of curse, so we've been trying to figure out how to uncurse ourselves. No success so far unfortunately. But despite that totally crippling us, we've still been able to get a lot done this week! 

Highlights:
- Both Jack and Charles passed their baptismal interviews this week!! Which means they'll both be getting baptized next Sunday. I'm so excited for them, they've also both asked for me to baptize them, which will be such a special experience! Shout-out to Elder Chen for coming in clutch for us this week and helping us finish Jack's lessons.
- I went on exchanges three times this week, once in Tai Po with Elder Roberts, once in Sha Tin/Tai Wai with Elder Rooks, and a half day in Tai Po with Elder Chen. They were all super fun, and I was able to have a lot of really good conversations! 
- We had a crazy miracle happen this week: we did a district find on Friday where Elder Adcox and I started talking to this lady, found out she already believes in Jesus Christ, asked her why she believes, and then she said we should find a place to sit and talk. So we chatted for 15 minutes and exchanged contact info. Then the next day, she calls us while we're in an area near our chapel and says, "Hey, I'm near your chapel, are you free right now?" So we called up the Sisters and were like, "This is a long shot, but are you by the chapel right now?" and turns out they were, so we all met up, they called a member in via WhatsApp, and we had the most insane impromptu lesson of all time. She's actually so golden though, the Sisters were going crazy about her.
- We also had Thanksgiving this week! Our mission president gave us all an extra hour of dinner time and an extra $50 HKD each to have Thanksgiving dinner as an apartment, so we bought some roasted pork from a street vendor, I made mashed potatoes without a recipe (they actually turned out fire,) Elder Chen made some choi sum, and Elder Adcox made coconut cream pork on rice. It was so good and a super fun time too! 

Spiritual Thought:
This week there was a fire in Tai Po in some high-rise apartment buildings. According to the most recent reports, 128 people died, with 200 people still missing. Tai Po is the area right next to mine, and so this tragedy has been on everyone's minds recently. That means that when I've gone out finding, everyone brings it up to talk about. It's given me the opportunity to share about the plan of Salvation a lot: to share the peace and hope that comes from knowing that there is life after death, and that we can see all our loved ones again after this life. Having that knowledge is such a blessing, and I have such a strong testimony that that's true. 
On that note, as well, I want to ask you all to pray for the people who have been affected by this fire.

Love you all!

Google Photos:

Pictures:
1. University with a fire name
2. Super pretty pond we found. It has koi fish. Nice
3. Thanksgiving dinner
4. Average chip flavors at the functions here
5. Elder Chen after remembering all the stuff he had to do that day (President Hill gave him like 3 special assignments to do in the next 3 weeks before he goes home)









Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 2: Me and Elder Gong are Best Buds

Image
Hey everyone! It's been a WILD week starting at Provo MTC, honestly no idea where to start! Okay so I guess first of all this week was seminar week, which is where they train all the new mission presidents, and all the quorum of the twelve and first presidency were here at the MTC! There were also a bunch of area seventies and my district and I ran into Elder Shumway, who gave my favorite talk this last general conference, the talk that I based my farewell talk on. Which was pretty awesome. And then the next day we ended up at the right place at the right time and got to see pretty much all the quorum of the twelve walk out of a building and walk right past us! They all waved at all of us missionaries, and Elder Gong came up and talked to my district for a bit about Hong Kong and speaking Cantonese, it was so crazy!!!  Being at the Provo MTC has been AWESOME so far, I'm loving it! I've run into so many friends from BYU, it's actually nuts. I love getting to see them all...
Read more

Week 3: Jēun Sām!

Image
To explain the title of this week's email, Jēun sām is my district's new motto, in Cantonese means to focus, or lock in. Cause we be LOCKED IN right now. We started Cantonese immersion classes this week and it's actually going way better than I thought it would! I've been able to understand a ton of what my teachers are saying and I've been learning so much.  My companion and I had a really cool experience this week. We had a fake teaching appointment thing where we teach a lesson to someone pretending to be a non-member a 25 minute lesson. They send you a bio with what questions they have so you can prepare a lesson specific for them, so my companion and I spent a bunch of time prepping a lesson on the Plan of Salvation, and then we get into the appointment and he says he wants to know more about prayer. Hmm. So we started rapidly improving an entire new lesson guided completely by the Spirit and ended up teaching a 20 minute lesson!! It was insane, we talked about...
Read more

Week 1: Rubik's Cubes Save Lives

Image
Heyyy, what's up, everyone! Well I had my first week as a missionary! I'm pretty much done with Home MTC, I have like one more class tonight and then I get to go to Provo! I'm really excited cause Zoom is the absolute worst, the only reason I could sit down that long was cause I had a Rubik's Cube I could mess with. I mean Zoom and I have never been good friends, but the beef is real now. The classes were super interesting though and I've learned a ton! My Cantonese classes, however, have been absolutely kicking my butt. Turns out that taking two years of Spanish in high school shockingly does NOT carry over to learning Cantonese, so we've started from scratch. But with many prayers and lots of practicing tones, we're getting there! Prepare to be unable to understand me when I get home.  I also got around to some pretty fun stuff in between all the Zoom classes and devotionals and everything, including a quick ice cream trip to Handel's to try their new ...
Read more