Saturday was pretty much the funnest day of my mission. AAAAH IT WAS SO AWESOME!!! Sometimes I really just can not believe that I am a missionary and that I am in China. Saturday was the day of our exchanges so it was Sister Aguilar and me. Sister Aguilar is super funny. She reminds me alot of my friends back in Utah so we got along rather swimmingly. But neither one of us really knew what we were doing. We had planned on visiting a LA, Kirsten and have dinner with a part member family. But our LA cancelled on us and we couldnt get a hold of Kirsten, so for the whole afternoon we went finding.
So.... both of us hardly speak Cantonese. But for some reason, this put more people at ease. Instead of when we normally go up to people and say "Hello, How are you today" and they just shake us off and say "I am in a hurry" or " I dont need" (that sounds better in Chinese.) but anyway... they would just smile at us and be so nice, because we couldnt speak very well! So then that would give us an opportunity to tell them why we are trying to speak Cantonese and share this awesome message. It was actually working wonders! So we contacted quite a few people on the street. We were originally walking over to this neighborhood we could knock some doors, because in Sister Aguilars area there isnt any places that she can so we thought it would be fun.
But when got to the neighborhood, no one was really home and we didnt feel like we should knock doors, but next to the houses there was this area of people sitting on benches while their kids ran around. So we said to each other, Let's go talk to them. We walked over slowly, cause we are still nervous new missionaries, and said Hello. Then the two ladies said "Come over here! Sit down! We need you to pray for our friend!!!" We just looked at each other like ..... wha...? So we went over and I sat in between the ladies while one proceeds to tell me in Cantonese that her friend got taken by the police but did nothing wrong, at the same time the lady on the other side of me is trying to translate everything into English. Anyway there was something about her friend who lost his job and was depressed, he took some bags for some reason, but not to steal them, but then the police took him and beat him and now he is waiting for trial somewhere in Kowloon. But he has no money for a lawyer. something like that. I dont really know. But they insisted that we pray for him. So we were trying to explain how our prayers and their prayers are the same cause we are all God's children and he hears all of us. They had loads of excuses to have us pray instead of them. Ranging from "My heart is too hard, I havent been to church in years" to "God speaks English so he will hear your prayers better." So we explained everything and countered all of their excuses and got them to pray for their friend. We said Amen at the end of their prayer, then they said now you do it! I looked at sister Aguilar and said "What the heck. Go for it!" So she said the prayer in English and made sure to include "Patrick" their friend. Afterwards one of the ladies was asking about our church and so I got to explain about the Book of Mormon and about how church works and she said that she really wanted to come to our church. Alas... her daughters were still sleeping yesterday so she didnt want to wake them up in order to come to church.
When Sister Aguilar and I walked away from the two ladies on the bench we really just couldnt believe what just happened. I think because we are both just so new to the whole missionary thing, everything we did that day was just awesome. After the lesson on the bench we then found another lady sitting by herself in the park. We taught her the entire plan of salvation. What?! That never happens in Hong Kong!!!!!!!! At least that is what my trainer tells me! We are told that it is extremely hard to teach lessons on the street. But I am not going to believe that. It's only true if you believe it is! OK well.... Well I will for sure talk to you and tell you more about our awesome mission. I am so excited to talk to you all!
Love you lots!
Shea
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