Family

Family!

We have a baptism scheduled for the 19th! We are so excited! I don't know if I told you about Sister Lam. Her husband is a semi less active with a heart sickness. We went and visited Brother Lam my second day here and we asked him about possibly teaching his wife. At that time he just said that it was complicated and that we would talk about it later. Then last Saturday we called to invite her to a Relief society activity and Brother Lam was like... can you come over and we can talk about my wife's baptism? She wants to get baptized now. So we ran over there are sure enough she now wants to accept the gospel. She has already heard the lessons 6 times, but had some big decisions to make. But we have reviewed almost everything with her and we can see how much faith she really has. I am excited for her. When we brought up why she wants to get baptized now, she just said that she needed to be sure. But she really wants to be sealed to her husband. She got all teary eyed when we brought up the temple. I am so very grateful that we have the knowledge to be sealed together in this life, so that we can be together for all eternity. sigh.... I love it so much.

The Lord is defiantly blessing Sheung Shui. There are so many people here who have just been waiting to hear about the gospel. It is just a matter of finding them. Finding is still really hard. It takes guts to go up to someone and try to get them to listen to your slaughtered Cantonese. Missionary work is weird. It is amazing it even works. Just think about it.... 2 giant white foreigners, trying to speak Cantonese, come up to you and tell you about Jesus Christ, then ask for more time when they can share with you and your family more about Christ. Then you let them into your home and speak with you. I don't understand how it works. It is kinda creepy. There is no way that we could be doing this work without the spirit. That is the only way that we can get into peoples lives. They feel something and want to learn more.

Oh yeah! We got to go to the temple on Thursday! So technically this isn't my Pday. We are just emailing then it is back to work! It was a nice boost in the week. The Hong Kong temple is beautiful. Small but awesome. We have been meeting with families in the ward pretty much every single night. Honestly we didn't have to buy like any food last week. We met with Sister Lam every morning, and they fed us breakfast and then we had dinner and other members houses. The food here is great! I haven't run into anything to bad yet. Allot of it is greasy but that's why we drink hot water with everything. Some of the members live in very humble circumstances. We met with one of the families who lives in literally a tin shack. But inside they have a TV and a computer and a nice kitchen. People are funny here. They would rather sleep on the floor and own an Iphone.

There was an activity with the Young womens and young men on Saturday. They were going to ride bikes, which is a rare activity to do in Hong Kong. So we invited Kirsten and Kirsten invited 3 friends. We were planning on going as well since there were so many potential investigators going, but according to the white handbook, we both have to be wearing helmets. NO ONE wears helmets in Hong Kong. Such things are only for the real road bikers. We searched and searched for helmets and asked every family we ate with that week if they had one or if they knew of someone who had one. We tracked down one helmet and had hopes that someone else would bring one more helmet to the activity. When we got there and were ready to get the bikes, we still only had one helmet. The rental place doesn't have any helmets either, so we just thought that there was no way that we would be able to go. We thought and thought of any way we could make things work. The YW and YM were like "just ride a tandem bike and the person in the front can wear the helmet!" or "Just use a bucket! Chinese style!" We even tried to get special permission from Pres. Hawks to go since we had so many investigators going. But alas. no permission nor did a helmet appeared. So we told them to go without us. We had work that needed to get done anyway, and walked off to the market to see if we could find a helmet to buy. We were really sad that we weren't able to go, but proud of ourselves for being perfectly obedient. Then we got a call from the YW leader saying someone just brought an extra helmet! So we raced back to the bike shop, grabbed our bikes and took off to catch the group, who were waiting for us on the other side of the train station! Miracles happen when you are obedient. :) Biking was really fun. My butt is bruised. but the scenery was super pretty! we road all along Tolo harbor down to Tai Wai. It was really good to bond with the YW and YM as well as spend time with Kirsten and her friends.

Well that was my week in a nut shell. Dads trip sounds awesome! I cant believe he didn't take anyone with him! I am glad that he gets the chance to use his mission language. I hope one day to be able to use Cantonese. And be semi good at it. A man in the street just before we got our bikes told me that it is impossible to learn Cantonese. He went on a rant to me. I told him we can do it with God. He wanted to know why our church was different, but had no time. I gave him a flyer. Hopefully he calls and learns why we are different.

Blast this computer. I was planning on sending a big load of pictures, but we went to a closer library and it wont let me attach an flyers. Or open anything but the Internet for that matter. I am really sorry! I wanted to send you pictures of everything. I will next week for certain.

For now I need to send an email to the pres.

I love you!

Shea