But anyway!!!! Having summer missionaries is awesome!!! My little companion is named Sister Tang and she just finished school so she decided to serve a summer mission before working to earn money to serve her own mission. Can I just tell you how awesome it is to have a native companion... and for the last week I have been surrounded by 3 at all times. They have to have SOOOOO much patients with me. My language is still the pits. I have learned a lot, but Cantonese has alot to learn. Alot of the time I just try saying a simple phrase to someone on the street and they just turn to my companion and say "What is she trying to say?" It is kinda frustrating. I just keep having to have patients with myself, and keep asking everyone else to have patients as well. Having a native is also super nice cause they can all read and write. Did you know that when people read Cantonese that it is different from when they speak Cantonese. Even just little words like "and" or "they". So it also makes understanding scriptures a pain in the butt. BUT. They are finally coming out with a Cantonese romanized pinyam Book of Mormon! I am so freakin excited! It is also super awesome to have a native companion cause they all also speak Mandarin. We run into alot of Mandarin speakers and I cant communicate with them at all. But whenever it happens I just turn and look at my companion and they explain everything. It is so nice. :)
Last Friday Sister Tang and I were out finding. We were trying to knock some doors but werent having much success. Thinking that no one was home I only knocked half hearted, and within 2 sec the door whipped open and the lady said, "what do you want?" So I said that we are missionaries from our church and we want to share a message with her, she then starts closing the door and says in mandarin , "I dont know". Then my little companion speaks up in Mandarin and explains. The lady then lets us in. To me.... it looks like she is getting mad at us... I have no idea what she is saying but she is going off in Chinese. We went in and sat down and she said something about her mom, sick, cancer, and pulled out some papers that said social welfare on them. She still looks like she is getting mad at us. They she asks where I am from and when she hears America she puts up her pinky (like it is the bird) and closes one eye and sticks out her tongue at me. ....... I dont know if this is supposed to be an insult..... but I could help but laugh. All I could think was, how the heck did I get in this situation? She then gave us some bananas and they talked a bit more then Sister Tang turns to me and says "We can go now."
She later explained that she just wanted to complain about the government to us and let us know all about her mom. The lady called us the next day and said that she has no interest in church but just wants to let people know about her mom.
So... that was an adventure...
Finding is always an adventure. An extremely physically, mentally and spiritually tiring adventure. On Saturday we were walking through some parks. I had seen this man walking in front of us and felt like we should talk to him, but I shrugged it off cause I thought there would be some moms that we could contacted just around the corner. But he ended up going into the same park as us and sitting on a bench. We walked past him and looked at the Koy pond, and then I was like.... Eh... wait a sec. We need to go back. So we went back and started talking to him. He looked really said to me. I didnt know why... but I thought that the Plan of Salvation would be good to share with him. We then taught him the entire lesson and prayed with him and answered his questions about the 3 Kingdoms. We scheduled him for the next day. He is awesome. To bad he lives not anywhere even close to our area. We had to take an hour train ride to Tai Po to do a turnover lesson to the Elders up there. I was just really glad that we were able to find him. I think that he will really like learning this gospel and I know that it will make him happier.
This week has been super fast and this next week will be even faster. This week the missionaries are doing EEFY (English Especially for Youth) so every day from 3-5 we do a bunch of activities together and everyone can only speak English. I think that it will be super fun I am excited!
As for my spiritual thought for the week....
I was reading in this months Liahona a talk by Elder Oaks called "In His own time, in His Own Way." It is a super good . It is all about how we can receive Revelation. One of my favorite parts was "We will get promptings of the Spirit when we have done everything we can, when we are out in the sun working rather than sitting back in the shade praying for direction on the first step to take. Revelation comes when the children of God are on the move." When I read that I was like... woah... that. is. my. life. I dont really receive clear cut answers from the Holy Ghost, it is more like I just go, and I know that he wont lead me astray. I think that more people need to realize this. We don't get to chose when he gives us an answer so we just need to keep going till he does. "He has his own timetable... one person however important - is in no position to put conditions upon or to impose personal timing upon a visit or communication from the Highest Authority in the universe." God knows what he is doing. We just got to keep trusting in him and striving our best.
I know that God loves us. He really wants us to be happy. Through THIS gospel, I know we can be the happiest we could ever be.
I love you all!
I will keep spreading happiness around HK!
Shea
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