Elder Zach Blankenbiller

  大家好！ We had been texting this guy who had been going to institute, and he was asking us to help him move some stuff (a non-member). So we went with the Elders who serve his area in Cantonese work to go help out. We met him at the MTR station, and he's like "Great, we're all here. But first we have to go to McDonalds." So he buys us some McDonalds and we eat, then we're like "Yo we don't have that much time, we should probably go." So we spend the next 30 minutes following him through active construction zones and random compounds to his house. By the time we get there we only have like 30 minutes til we need to leave. Then he plays "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley on his speaker, we put 10 umbrellas in a bag, and then he's like "okay that's enough for today." And then we went back to the chapel for a lesson.  Highlights - We planned our zone conference training with the STLs this week and it went super well! We g...

  大家好！ On Saturday I got to perform a baptism for one of the Filipina branch Sister's friends because she was worried that the brothers who are in that branch weren't big enough to Baptize her haha. So she picked me to do it which was awesome, I was super thankful for the chance to help out! Then later that day we went to a restaurant for lunch and I ordered fried noodles cause that sounded good. When it came out it was noodles with no sauce, just raw eggs. Literally. Goopy raw eggs. But I had already ordered it, so I was like "Well I guess I gotta eat it now, I got myself into this." I managed to put down about 2/3 of it and then couldn't force any more down. The rest of the day was downhill from there, I was just fighting through the stomach pain and disgust until the end of the day when I just crashed in my bed. Then I woke up at 2:30 am, puked in the bathroom, went back to sleep, and then all day yesterday I had to slowly add crackers and energy drink into my ...

  大家好！ This week was outrageous and time didn't exist, we were scrambling to get everything done. Also we rode a ferry out to one of the islands in our Mission because there is a family that lives out there and they wanted to feed us. So we took the 30min ferry ride over, they fed us some fire Mexican food, and then we headed back at nighttime through Victoria Harbor. It was SO COOL, we were so lucky to get to go. Also while there our friend Campbell was chatting with the family, named the Campbells. Turns out everyone in Scotland still hates everyone in the Campbell clan cause they killed a bunch of people while in their keep which is a big no no. So 800 years later and they still get bullied for being named Campbell. Crazy beef Highlights: - This week we met with a recent convert who just moved into our branch. He's from Nigeria originally and is in Hong Kong as a refugee. We gave him a priesthood blessing because he has been sick ever since he got detained for two weeks. Tal...