FAMILY!!!
So we just got done with a fantastic trip to the temple. I love the temple so much. I have decided that it is the one place that can lift the burden of the badge, for a short time. I love the calling and the pressure that come with being a missionary. But it is so nice to step into the celestial room and just take a big deep breathe and just relax for a few min. The other sister's usually have to drag me out of it by the time we have to go.
But this last week has been fantastic! SOOOO many miracles! Can I just tell you how much prayer works?! But really! It is crazy! Goodness gracious... it has been so long since I last told you anything I dont even know where to start.
We have been busy teaching lessons this week. By that I mean... we have been busy listening to people talk. Almost every single investigator we have right now is a talker. A MAJOR talker. Most of the time I wouldnt mind, except when they go off about I dont even know cause I have no idea what they are saying... then it just gets kinda frustrating. Not only the not understanding part, but the part that I want to teach them something to help them progress and not just listen to what they did yesterday. We have been trying to have members at ALL of our lessons, cause no one really wants to tell us their problems or concerns cause they know that we wont fully understand what they say. That is also kinda frustrating. But there really isnt a quick solve solution, so we just use our members. Fortunately our members are fantastic and pretty much teach the lessons for us. Usually it is cool cause we just tell them what we want to teach the investigator beforehand and then they just teach the lesson. I have come to the conclusion that you dont really need to speak fluent Chinese to be a missionary. You just need to have awesome members who are willing to help.
We are so blessed to serve in Cheung Sha Wan. Yeah, we might not get near as many referrals as other missions or areas, but everyone really does want to do missionary work. Even just last Monday, since it wasnt Pday we had the entire day without even one appointment. So we called up a-kei who is leaving on his mission in January to Texas, and Jacqueline who just recently quit her job to take a break and made them come out finding with us and do a display. They just ended up hanging out with us like the rest of the day. Our ward is filled with so many great missionaries. I am kinda jealous of how much interaction they get with missionaries. I can only remember seeing the missionaries like once all growing up. But all the kids and teenagers participate here in missionary work. It is awesome!
One miracle that happened this week:
That same day we went to do the display, we decided to stop at 3:30 to take a break and try to stalk King (Sister Yip's son) and his grandma. So we know the exact path that they have to walk from Kings school to go home... so sometimes when we want to see them we just hang around that path until we "miraculously" run into them. :) So as we were walking up and down the path, we stopped this lady who was a hard core christian and started teaching her about the Book of Mormon... when all of the sudden Sister Yip is running towards us!!!! What?!?! isnt she supposed to be in mainland?! She just said "Hi! Oh i want to talk, but I have to go pick King up from school." We were just totally shocked to see her. The lady that we were teaching was really really confused.... We are like 'No problem!" we will wait! So we continued teaching without much success, till Sister Yip and King came back. I went to talk with them while Sister Wilcox continued to talk to the other lady. Turns out she hasnt been to mainland yet cause they have to be put on a waiting list to burn her father in laws body. She said they still have to buy a coffin to burn with him and then they have to buy 32 jade urns to put his ashes in. So she wont be going up to mainland till the 14th. She said that her husband has been feeling super regretful and has been trying to sleep alot so that his dad will come to him in a dream and he can say sorry. I told her that her father in law is really busy right now learning the gospel so probably doesnt have time yet to come back to see everyone. It was a total miracle that we ran into her! We taught her again later in the week. She has been reading and praying, but she thinks that Kings school and homework are more important than church. Ugh. Everyone in Hong Kong just needs to take a chill pill and breath a bit.
OK. This is a long letter and I didnt even tell you half of what has happened. But dim shun a.
I love you all!
Missions are awesome.
Quit reminding me I am already past halfway. It's gross.
I was confused by all of your Halloween pictures. I thought that Halloween was in a couple weeks. weird.
I LOVE YOU!!!!
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