Thanksgiving

Those videos were SOOOOOO great!!!! For Christmas you have to send me just a bunch of videos of everyone opening their presents and eating Christmas eve dinner. Seeing everyone in almost real life is totally different from just reading a letter. I would send you all a video if I could, but I dont really know if there is anyway possible besides through the mail.

I am glad that Landon got the letter and the present. I am not sure exactly what it is either. (some sort of dried fish jerky) One day during Relief Society they were just passing them out like candy, and of course as missionaries we left with like 3 in each hand, so I thought I might as well try and send it home.:)

Well Thanksgiving has come and gone. It sounds like everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving and ate lots of pie. Our Thanksgiving day went like this:

7 wake up and run

7:30 prep and leave

9 go to yam chah with Winnie. yam chah (drink tea) is really just like a restaurant, but they just order alot of small dishes and drink tea or like us hot water. It is very very popular here. Someone told me that there is a yam chah place is Salt Lake City somewhere... but I have no idea. They are all over the place here. The dishes range from dumplings to veggies to mochi to fish heads. Winnie ordered as the best and last what was apparently a rare dish that consists of a fried rotten orange peel, a fungus of some sort and chicken feet. Luckily by that time we really had to go to make it to the lesson we had at the church. (There is just a little bit about the food for you dad.)

11:00 we had a lesson with Sister Chan. She and our member were running a bit late so we thought we might as well start watching the new Mormon messages dvd our chapel just got. We started the first one, "Mountains to Climb" which just made us start balling like little babies. We just turned to each other and said "Why are we watching this?" and started laughing really hard. That video is SUPER good. watch it. it will make you cry. But we just barely managed to put ourselves back together by the time they showed up for the lesson. We watched Finding Faith in Christ together because Sister Chan has no background of Christ at all, so that movie really helps people to have a little bit more of an idea of who Christ is. Afterwards she said it would be so good to live in the times of Jesus Christ because he could heal us and help us. So I thought we should just pop in Mountains to Climb because it is all about how the Savior can heal us in our troubles and trials now. Afterwards we learned that Sister Chan has cancer. She is in the second stages of breast cancer. Her husband is in Mainland working so she takes care of her 2 daughters and going through therapy. She is in the middle of chemo therapy. At this point I had a rough idea of what was going on, but i didnt really know. Luckily we have really great members. Our member told her about priesthood blessings. In fact our members mother also has cancer and before she became a member she got a blessing and it really helped her to have less pain. Our member, Erica, told her that the Relief Society can help her watch her kids when she has to go to the doctor and so many other things.

After the lesson I was just kinda in shock. I had no idea. I thought something might be off with her, but I didnt think it was THIS big of a trial. She is just so humble. She has said so many times. "I dont know why you two were in that garden that day or why you talked to me" Everything was just so planned by God. His plan is amazing. We are just such a small part in it. ... Yesterday Sister Chan got a blessing. :)

anyway....

thanksgiving. After the lesson with Sister Chan we did our studies and then had a zone Thanksgiving dinner!!!! It was SO good! We had all the usual turkey, stuffing, gravy, a bathtub of mashed potatoes, corn, even some jelly. It was fantastic. While we were waiting for some of the food to cook we all played knock out in the gym. It was like a real Thanksgiving. :) just basketball instead of football and a bunch of missionaries instead of real family. :)

Well... Hong Kong is great. Everyone is slowly progressing. Sister Yip as still not answered her phone and has been picking up King from school so we are pretty sure she is still in Mainland.

Cheung Sha Wan is great!

I love you all and miss you!