I love those videos. Sorry dad. You want a happy daughter right? This is the best place, and I am really happy here. :) I love the people and am really grateful that I get to stay here extra time. You are really just jealous that you only got 18 months on your mission and I get 19. haha.
It sounds like the weather is getting a bit better there. It was cold here in the beginning of the week, but now it is fantastic. It feels like a great spring day, like everyday.
It sounds like the weather is getting a bit better there. It was cold here in the beginning of the week, but now it is fantastic. It feels like a great spring day, like everyday.
The language is still coming along. It is still really really hard. I am going to have to learn mandarin when I get back. I don't know if I will ever be able to speak spanish again, it is hard. It took me a long time to even remember como esta? But mh gaan yiu! not important. I will get it later.
But how is everything going?
We are doing great over here in Butterfly.
This week our ward started their 40 day fast for missionary work. Along with the fast the ward has written their testimonies in 80 BOM.
In just the last half of the week we were able to place 4 BOMs with our members testimonies in them. One was to our new investigator Rainie Siu. She is SOOOO good. We met her when we were going some LA finding. She rode up in the elevator with us and we just started talking to her. She said that she had actually been looking for a church to join. Then later when I called her, she was really nice but she had said that she had researched about our church and talked to some of her friends about our church and just started asking me a bunch of questions like if we practiced polygamy and why some people say we are evil. I just kept taking to her on the phone but she was not willing to meet, and said she doesn't want to enter any church right now because she is not ready to commit to anything big. I tried to explain that english class is just english class, but she still wouldn't even enter.
I called her at the beginning of this week and was able to schedule her just at her chyun garden so we could just answer any questions that she had. She came down and we just started talking for a little bit, and then we said that we wanted to share a message with her, but that we wanted to start with a prayer. So I said a simple quick opening prayer, and then cracked open my scriptures getting ready to share a scripture with her, when she started reaching and looking around for something in her bag. She was crying. So we just paused. The spirit was the strongest I have ever felt since I have been in Hong Kong. She just cried for a good 2 min, and when she could talk, she said that that was the first prayer she had ever done. She said she didnt know why she was crying but that she didn't want us to talk about this stuff here anymore, but that she wanted to go to our chapel. So we just talked about this feeling she was having and how much God loves us. She said she has talked with a lot of other missionaries from other churches but has never had this feeling before, and that we must have something true and good.
So we met with her the next day, and turns out she read AND understood the entire Restoration pamphlet. She said her and her husband talked about the message it shared and said that if this message is true, then the world needs more missionaries. It is just crazy to me how much she changed. Her entire countenance changed with just one touch from the spirit. She then came to English class and church with her daughter. She is amazingly prepared.
So we met with her the next day, and turns out she read AND understood the entire Restoration pamphlet. She said her and her husband talked about the message it shared and said that if this message is true, then the world needs more missionaries. It is just crazy to me how much she changed. Her entire countenance changed with just one touch from the spirit. She then came to English class and church with her daughter. She is amazingly prepared.
We were also able to teach a-chung. His wife is a member that is now almost active. We got to teach him the entire Restoration. He is just starting to open up to the idea of religion. He is SO nice and wants to have an eternal family. But he will need some time. We have just started planting a seed in his little brain.
Sister Palmer and I are still getting along like 2 peas in a pod. She is super great, I love being her companion. I have never met a harder worker or someone that loves missionary work more than she does.
I love you all so much!
Shea.
ps. guess who is going to shake Elder Hollands hand tomorrow.
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