I have almost already walked out my first pair of crocs

Family!!!!

 

I am so glad that you have all had an awesomly fun last couple of weeks. The pictures look like lots of fun. I am glad that you are giving Luna and Lucy and good adrenaline rush. They need it. :) Turn those kids into adventure, adrenaline junkies!

 

I am also glad that you got the pictures and videos. I was planning on doing a bunch more videos but then Carol said she was leaving and I didnt have much time... so you didnt get as many as I was planning. But I hope you got a little taste of Hong Kong.

 

I am still loving this place! This week we have had a couple days of straight finding. 5 and a half hours of walking the streets trying to talk to people. I have almost already walked out my first pair of crocs. I am going to go see if I can find some more today. Finding in the streets is difficult but it is possible. Sometimes, actually alot of the times, I am surrounded by to many people to have a decent conversation with just one of them. It just makes alot of awkward contacts... but thats ok.... my middle name now is awkward. But if they are prepared enough by God they wont think that it is that awkward. I always try to talk to the moms. We are told to look for families so I always try to start up conversations with moms. We met quite a few moms this last week. Almost all of them are originally from China. Which is great! If they speak Cantonese. People from China are amazing. They have NO religious background and most havent even heard of Jesus Christ. So they are a clean slate. When they start hearing the gospel they love it and can see the change in their lives almost immediately. I dont remember if I have told you about how people come down from mainland just to get baptized... they hear all the lessons in one day, get baptized and then go back up to mainland. They are insane and have freakish amounts of faith.

 

Yesterday was a crazy Sunday. The ward that we share a chapel with had 3 baptisms so we stayed after church and watched them get baptized with our Less Actives then we ran over to Mong Kok where we were supposed to meet this lady from another ward who has been teaching a LA that lives in our ward boundaries. She took us along with our Relief Society Pres to the house. We were supposed to do like a little FHE. The man (Brother Hung) we were going to see is in the last stages of cancer. He has been LA for like 40 years or so and his wife is a nonmember. The whole situation was really sad. He looked really bad. His liver has already failed him so he is all yellow and his legs and hands have began to swell up. His other brother and sister came to visit with us as well. We gave a message about the Plan of Salvation. The sister was crying and so was Hung Hingdaaih. We talked about the savior and about how families can be together forever. It was a really good message and the spirit was very strong. We also watched one of the videos you sent me for my birthday. :) Thanks! We are going to continue meeting with them. They were so happy to have the missionaries over to see them.

 

It was crazy to see how much the Plan of Salvation can help them. I always knew that this plan helped us know the answers to life's questions... but it just hit them so hard. I am so very grateful that I know Gods wonderful and eternal plan. I am so very grateful that I have an opportunity to live with all of you again. Yeah I miss all of you right now... but this life is so short, this year and a half is like the blink of an eye. "Oh how great the plan of our God!" (2 Nephi 9: 6-10) I am so happy that I have the rest of eternity to spend with all of you. I know that this plan is true. If we all live worthily we will all return to God's kingdom.

 

I am happy to hear that you are all working so hard on doing family history work. The more the merrier! Seal them all! I want as many of our family waiting for us as we possibly can on the other side of the veil. Death will be a party! No longer something that is dreaded or scary.

 

Ok I love you all!

Here are some pictures!

1. LA finding. the address was really a roof.

2. Brother Cheung (Autistic, Sister Choi took his cigarettes)

3. Sister Lam! She is so funny. She makes us food pretty much anytime we go over to her house. Her Indonesian food is the best! I told her that dad needs to try her fish. He would love it. :) She says if you all come to Hong Kong that she will make you all food.