Week 33: No loaves and two fishes

 大家好！


The title of this week's email is because yesterday during a ward activity one of our members who is s little mentally unstable sometimes pulled out two cooked fishes in foil, leans over to me and goes "real Bible story: take two fishes and feed everyone." So he goes around the room trying to pass it around to everyone and everyone is like "Bro how are we supposed to eat it" so he just ate them himself. So realistically it worked, he only had two fish but everyone who wanted to eat the fish got some

Highlights:
- We got transfer news! I'm staying in the same area, still with Elder Yip, but I'm district leader now! Should be fun haha
- Interviews with mission president were fire, got some good advice for my area which was awesome!
- We had another ward activity at this place called Van Gogh kitchen. We got invited to come and introduce ourselves and do a musical number since some members invited non-members friends. It was fire! I also ran into a member from the ward I used to serve in back in Sheung Shui, which was so fun!!
- We saw a lot of miracles this week! We decided that a lot of our friends weren't progressing and we would probably have to drop them. So we ended up dropping some of them, but one actually was willing to accept our expectations! And we also met with two new friends this week and have two others that have potential! Really awesome week

Spiritual Thought
Last night we were visiting a member and we talked about the fall of Adam and Eve, and what it means to have joy and how to have joy. Our invitation to them was to write their testimonies of joy in a Book of Mormon and think of a friend they could give it to. We promised them that as they share the joy that they've been blessed with they will be able to feel more joy themselves. I know that joy is magnified when we share it with others. Turning outwards and trying to help others have more joy has helped me to have the happiest times on my mission. I know that I'm happiest when I turn outwards and think of others and do my best to serve them

Love you all!
Elder Blankenbiller

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Pictures
1. Temple
2. Sister Wong (黃姊妹) from Sheung Shui
3. Most terrifying 0 round of my life (iykyk)
4. Dream motorcycle
5. Rapunzel translated into Chinese is literally just "long hair princess"







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