Oh papa,
You know I wont want to just hang out with all my roomies when I get back. come on now. Sorry my date is later. but I am actually REALLY happy about it. There is to much of this work that needs to get done, and I love doing it. :) You are all busy doing other things anyway. I am not sure if that means I will be home on the 22nd or leaving on the 22nd, I am sure the mission will send you more stuff on it later. I am not sure when everyone else is getting back, and also not sure about the apartment stuff. It is still all a long ways off.
I think that I can sign up for my classes over here. It might just be easier than trying to explain how to set everything up. But that wont be for another couple of months so I am not to worried about it right now. When the time comes I will talk to Pres. Hawks about how to figure everything out or talk to you. It is only February. Thank goodness. I love you all very very much, but the thought of going home earlier stresses me out big time.
did you know that Kelsie leaves Hong Kong this Friday? Crazy right?! I cant believe it. I feel like it was just yesterday I was writing her a letter telling her that I was following her out to HK.
That video that Ming Wai sent you was from our New Years party last Saturday. For some reason the ward convinced the missionaries to play this game where we listen to a Chinese pop song and try to sing along with it and then they have to try and figure out what the song is. It is flippin hard!!!! That is why it was just laughing. I dont think that I sang any Chinese at all. Sorry. Ming Wai is great. She just got back from her mission to California last April, so she has been helping us out alot.
Answers to some of your questions:
We actually have quite a few investigators. We just havent seen them very often lately because of new years. I will be sure to give you a good update on all of them next week. I absolutely LOVE being companions with Sister Palmer. I couldnt ask for a better comp. We get along great and she is one of the hardest working people I have ever met. I would send you more pictures this week, but for some reason this computer wont read my camera card, and I dont want to waste time trying to figure it out. Next week for sure. i ate a duck foot and yam cha this last week. Then of course all the new years food. gotta love a good rice flour cake thing. :)
Ok... I will write you a quick email of how the week went:
So another SUPER fast week! Crazy. I cant believe the transfer is already over.
This last week we had Mission Leadership Council, zone training, and 24 hr zone exchanges. But we didnt get to see to many of our investigators this week, cause it has still been new years and they are either still in Mainland or out visiting family.
Zone Training went great and MLC is always the best. I love getting to hear about all the other zones and how everything is going. Sometimes I forget what a big work we are doing, since we do it on such a small scale. We mixed up Zone Training and tried some new things, which I think worked out for the best. :)
Then I got to go to Tin Shui Wai for the day and work in a 3-some. 3-somes are pretty much the weirdest thing ever. It is so hard, you have to do everything differently, it is just so easy to scare people with three of you. that evening I started calling through some of their potential investigators from a couple of years ago and saw that one was a referral from Butterfly wards, ward coordinator, so I gave her a call and ended up scheduling her for the next day to take us out to Yam
Cha. So the next day we show up to the Yam Cha place and there is this nice looking lady sitting at the table wearing cheeta print leggingpants. When she saw that we were 3 Americans coming to sit down at her table her face lit up. She was SUPER friendly. she is originally from Beijing, but has lived in Hong Kong for like 20 years or something. But she just liked to speak English with us. She tried REALLY hard to have us join her in the Multi Level Marketing Business, but alas (thank goodness), us missionaries cannot work. She was really something else. We taught her how to pray and hopefully the TinShuiWai sisters will be able to turn her over to the Mandarin missionaries tomorrow. It was just a really cool miracle that came out of now where.
We get a chance to see miracles everyday. Even just yesterday, it was fast sunday so i was hungry, I hadnt been sleeping well because I was a wee bit stressed so I was tired and then we had this 12 year old investigator that was driving me crazy, I was pretty much at the end of my rope, but after church I cooled off and we were able to go out and have enough energy to go finding for a couple of hours. Another HUGE miracle.
I know I say it like every week, but I love this work. I feel like I was born to be doing what I am doing. There is something exhilarating about going about, being bold and telling people what I know is true and will bring them true lasting happiness. It is the best, cause it is true, and although alot of people say they dont need it now, one day they will realize that they really do. Cause if there is a group of people that need a taste of what REAL happiness is, it is the Hong Kong people. and thats why I will keep working and keep loving it.
I love you all so very very much!
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