Man none of you have any mercy. I am excited to see you all as well! But. Just know that I am considering what is coming ahead as just another transfer, and then I will be right back to Hong Kong. PS I have possibly been telling people I will be coming back next summer... I hope that is ok. :)
But this last week as come and gone in the blink of an eye! SO fast. We had Mission Tour on Wednesday and Elder Funk and Elder Wong were able to come and train us missionaries. It was really really good. We learned all about how to teach according to our investigators needs, teaching the Restoration with the spirit and how to get our investigators into the BOM. So Sister Shoemaker and I have been trying to apply what we have learned. We decided that we were going to take some time to read with everyone we are teaching for 5 min EVERY time we see them.
So on Friday we got to go over to Anna's house for the first time and teach her another after baptism lessons. Do you remember she has 2 sons with autism? Well she does. Wing Yiu's isnt as bad but Wing Lok's is pretty bad. Wing Yiu was playing on the computer and making his own cartoon. He would type some English and then the computer would read it. Wing Yiu's english is SUPER funny. He watches alot of youtube videos so he really only knows alot of slang. So the whole time we were trying to have a lesson the computer kept saying "How dare you speak smack to Terrance Brown, you are grounded for 5,345,458 years." or "You are creepy." I couldnt help but laugh. This is all coming from an autistic, Chinese, 10 year old little boy. He really is amazing. Wing Lok would have some fit because the internet stopped working on the phone he was playing with so Anna would have to calm him down and help him out. Anna is such an amazing person. She must have SO much patients. But anyway, we had originally planned to review the Plan of Salvation and Temples, but because it took her a while to calm down her sons, we ended up just reading a bit with her. Which was PERFECT since she was on 2 Nephi 4. Anyone know it? It is a great chapter. It is Nephi going off about how he trusts in God. It ended up being a really good lesson.
This week we were also able to find 3 new investigators! A-yung and her 2 sons! A-yung is originally from Vietnam but has lived in Hong Kong for a really really long time. She speaks, understands, reads and writes Chinese. We met her in the park walking home from work. We were able to teach her about prayer in the park and then we met with her and her sons on Thursday at the chapel where we taught them the Restoration. Her sons, who are 8 and 10 had SO many questions. Sometimes I think that kids are better at coming up with questions than adults. They asked questions from, "What do prophets do?" to "When will Christ come again?" to "Why does God allow there to be diseases in the world?" So many questions. Way more than the average Chinese. I used to think that everyone in the world thought of life questions and wondered if there really was a God, but the Chinese don't. I used to think that it would be a great finding technique to ask people the purpose of life, but no one has ever even thought of those questions.
China really is an amazing place. I have been trying extra hard these days to learn everything I can about this place. I love it here. It is so different and yet it is my home away from home. So even if I leave I have to come back. :)
Right now is an amazing time to be a missionary and I am soaking in every second of it that I can.
I love you all!
Shea
Pictures:
Yuki, a past mandarin recent convert with our member Wong jimiuh.
Dinner with the Chan's and our investigator Sister Lok and her daughter Katie
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