Week 31: I'm too popular here help 😭

 大家好！

To explain the title of this email: I currently serve on Hong Kong Island which has a ton of super touristy spots, the kind of places everyone goes when they go on vacation to Hong Kong. Which means there's a lot of people who travel from Mainland China to visit those spots. And they really like white people. And they all stare at me so much all day every day it makes me so uncomfortable sometimes 😂 It's kind of interesting because I'm so unused to having that many people staring at me all the time. Anways, I miss the boonies a little bit haha

Highlights:
- We had a ton of finding time this week. The first half of the week was some pretty rough finding, we would find for 3-4 hours in the day and have little to no success. On Wednesday we hit a low point where we found for 4 hours total that day and had maybe two people stop and talk to us. Elder Yip and I were pretty done after that, but we took a quick break on the trolley ride back to the chapel and got our spirits back up. I was kind of wondering that night why we were having such a hard time finding. Then the next couple days we had some amazing miracles with people we talked to and got contacts from, places that we found were really good for finding, and some amazing conversations. It was so cool to see the week completely switch like that. We were patient and kept working hard even when it felt difficult, and we were able to receive miracles
- For the first time on the mission I was told "I'm too busy" in English instead of Cantonese because I tried to stop this German guy we saw. Kinda threw me for a loop not gonna lie
- Some awesome Elders bought us Pho for lunch the other day, it was fire and super nice of them!
- I made a comeback in Skull King by pulling off a 0 round during round 10. IYKYK
- My comp's parents are from Hong Kong so he has a lot of relatives here and at church this week he had 3 of his aunts and their husbands pull up to church (none of them are members). They really liked me and called me 好靚仔 the whole time

Spiritual Thought:
My favorite Hymn is "How Great Thou Art," and I listened to it a lot this week when I had harder moments. I love the hymn's message of how powerful the Lord is and how amazing all of His creations are. I love the final verse of the song, which is about the Second Coming of the Savior. I have such a strong testimony of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I am reminded of their existence every time I step outside and see all of their creations all around me. And I know that when Jesus comes to the earth again we will finally have peace and all will be made right. Having this testimony has brought me so much hope and comfort and I'm so thankful for it!

Love you all!
Elder Blankenbiller 

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1. Cool bird
2. Cool boat
3. Pho
4. The McRib????? Maybe??
5. Batman building







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