I am Still Alive!

I am still alive. I am not sure about you all. Bishop Choi showed me a picture of mom dad and Landon with Samuel and Sister Choi so I am guessing that you are are still alive and hopefully well. Well here are a few of my own pictures. I don't know if I am allowed to send a video but I thought that I would try anyway. I hope it works so you can get a feel for what knocking doors is sometimes like. :) It has been raining alot alot lately. Which makes finding kinda of difficult. We didn't keep knocking doors for to much longer after it started raining that hard, cause even when we do knock, most of the time I don't think they can hear us because the rain is so loud on the roof. So usually we go find a tunnel or bridge to find people on. We found one sweet spot next to our house that is a tunnel. So we just stay under there for a couple of hours. Sometimes I feel like the troll under the bridge just waiting for my next victim. Except I am a happy troll with a good message, not an angry troll that wants to eat them. :)

This week as gone by really really fast. It was another week of planning and getting organized an entire day and then the next day being awesome. Sometimes our days are so packed that we have to eat on the run cause we forgot to schedule in meal times. I love those days. It only usually happens once a week. On those nights I sleep like a rock. Actually I always sleep like a rock.

I freakin love being a missionary! I love it when we find ways that we can serve people. We had like 4 or 5 investigators at church on Sunday along with 2 Less Active families. When I watched them come in and sit down I couldnt help but smile. Our chapel was the fullest I have ever seen it! I couldnt stop smiling for the entire Sacrament meeting. Then there were some really good testimonies born. I can understand alot of it when my mind is focused 100% on the speaker. So usually I can get the jist of what is going on. But by the time relief society comes, my brain is toast. But my Cantonese is getting better and better every day. It is kinda crazy how the first day at the MTC I couldnt even say Hello properly and yet now I can understand an entire conversation. I Gift of Tongues is definetly a real gift.

The reality of training sooner than I thought has started to hit me. Not that I have already been told that I am going to start training, but we have been warned that we will have to start training new sisters alot earlier than past sister missionaries had to. I did the math and realized that I have one of the most experienced trainers in the mission. That means that the President wants me to learn as much as I can from her so that I can pass it on to a newer missionary. My trainer , Sister Clements has also been called as the Zone Sister Trainer Leader, so she will be going on exchanges with the 3 other sets of sisters in our zone. But the thing is that she has to work with both the new trainers, and the trainees. Because 2 of the trainers have only been here 2 months, so she wants to work with them as well. That means that me and another baby(another sister who came at the same time as me) will have an entire regular day as companions. That means visiting LAs visitng members, finding, teacher, everything. With 2 missionaries who have been in Hong Kong 1 month. AGH! I am nervous, but kinda excited. We wil get to see how good/bad our Cantonese really is. Good thing the Lord wont let us destroy the area. :) Nothing too bad can happen. Pictures to follow!

 

 

Ok I love you all! talk to you in a week!

Shea