yeah! happy birthday to me!

I am finally the age that I have been waiting my entire life to turn so that I could finally do the thing that I am already doing. A mission! Weird. Hong Kong wanted to celebrate my birthday as well so it gave me Amber rain. There are 3 kinds of heavy rain here in HK. Amber (it just rains a crap load), Red (alot alot alot, be careful outside) and Black (we are'nt allowed to go outside cause it is like a rain blizzard). So the rain kinda ruined our plans to possibly go out and try and see some pink Chinese dolphins. So after email we are going to go to a couple of museums.

 

The work is still going good. Slowly but surely. This week we found a LA who has been less active for over 10 years, and she was willing to come back to church with us! She is originally from Thailand, but moved here over 30 years ago. But she doesnt remember anything about the church, so we are going to start teaching her to help her remember. No major no investigators this week.... the Elders turned over one of their investigators to us, but she has already been taught everything, we just need to get her to come to church. She just cant wake up on time. She lived in the states for a long time, so she speaks perfect English and Cantonese, which is super nice, cause Cantonese is still really hard.

 

My Chinese is coming along slowly but surely. Now that I have a native companion, people talk a mile per min. So I have a really hard time keeping up. When people ask me a question slowly or just simpley tell a story I can understand just fine, but when they are going off chit chatting, I cant understand anything. But no problem! One day I will understand. I hope. But I did give Sister Choi quite a fright the other night, when apparently I was praying out loud in Cantonese, with a perfect accent. I just wish I could do that when I am conscious.

 

Sister Choi my companion is awesome. Luckily she doesnt even really need training. She is from Kwun Tong, which is like the area next to ours. Her family actually came to English class the other night. Kinda weird, but oh well. She wishes she was further from home, but she is needed in Cheung Sha Wan. :)

 

Yeah! Kelsie and I are in the same Zone! So we get to see each other once a month! she is also training and is living in the most crowded place in HK. Mong Kok, which literally means "busy corner". Our areas actually border, we also have like 1/4 of Mong Kok in our area.

 

Sorry nothing to exciting/funny this week. John, the investigator we turned over to the Elders, came to church on Sunday. Apparently he liked it, but was a bit freaked out at the sacrament. So when they passed the bread over him, he took a piece of bread and stuck it in his pocket. ... he drank the water after looking around for a good 30sec for somewhere else to put it. :) He is so funny.

 

Here are some pictures!

                                          Sunday dinner, actually that is what every lunch looks like...

                                            on the way to email last week

                                     Meih Foo, to Mong Kok is our area! We love trains! Ride them everyday.

It sounds like everyone is still doing super good. I am glad! Every once in a while I wish I was there with you all, relaxing and having fun together, but that time will come soon enough. I cant believe how fast time is already flying by. I have already been on my mission for 5 months. Thats almost 1/3 of the way done. Gross. I feel like I just started and yet I have already been here forever. Mission time is weird. But I love it.

 

Thanks for the emails! I love you!

Shea