This week I said goodbye to an old missionary and said WELCOME to a new missionary.
Tuesday and Wednesday last week were just a blur. We saw so many people and had to take care of so many things to prepare Sister Palmer to leave. but on Thursday I met my new companion Sister Shoemaker!!! Sorry I would send you a picture, but I think my card reader is broken. She is fresh from America. Cantonese is a bit of a struggle, but I dont know who it is not a struggle for for the first half of a mission. She is already growing like a weed.
Because we saw pretty much all of our investigators on Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday through Saturday we had some good time to go out and practice some finding.
Finding always brings great adventures. Such as:
Being sticker attacked by little Indian girls
Backing away from dogs
Being called wife, by a crazy man
Meeting people that you cant tell if they are a man or a women
Can you just imagine how weird it really is... 2 white girls, walking around HK and teaching people how to pray, or who Jesus Christ is.
It is weird stuff... but I love it so much!
On Thursday, after doing all of our studies, we headed out. We had met some good people, but no one really seemed to interested in what we had to say. They right as we were going to have dinner, we stopped to talk to think lady who was actually from the Philippians. Usually I dont talk to them, because they are all SO good, and willing to listen, but there is no place for them to go to church in the New Territories. But for some reason we felt like she should talk to her. Turns out she has been looking for a church to go to. Philippians's have it rough in HK. They leave their families to work for a family in HK. They are pretty much like slaves. Karen, this Philippine, had two kids in the Philippines, her husband was working in Saudi Arabia. She was feeling extra lonely as she sat looking out to the ocean at the Ferry Pier. She actually grew up next to on of our churches in the Philippines, and has a cousin who is a member. So we taught her and has we said the closing prayer, she just started crying. She said, I am coming to church on Sunday. I dont care if it is in Chinese. So we had the Philippine sisters call her the next day.
After we taught her I turned to sister shoemaker and said, I never teach Philippines. But that was right. She needed that.
The spirit leads us and guides us. I never know what I am doing beforehand, and sometimes I even wonder afterwards. But the spirit is guiding this work, there is no doubt about that. I love you all!
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