Well first things first. We're moving, not areas, just chapels and appartments. So we've been packing all morning. We're headed to Tsing Yi tomorrow! Sure will miss living with Sister Kartchner and Sister Hadley, but we're moving to a super nice, new chapel that has an oven that actually works, so we're excited!
This week we did a lot of less active finding. We have this HUGE binder full of people who nobody has seen or heard from in who knows how long, most of which have dead phone numbers. All we have is an address. We're almost through it, and we have this one that was clear out in nowhere. It was getting pretty dark and it was in a pretty sketchy place. We decided we didn't want to get attacked by the stray dogs, so we decided to head back into the city to find a couple other less actives who lived by each other.
So there are two kinds of Syu Baa's (mini busses) in HK. There are the green ones that have set routes and you can pay for them with your Octapus Card, and then there are the red ones. The red ones are privately owned and you have to pay in coins. The red bus drivers are even crazier and really you just never really know where they're going. Or at least we don't.
So we're out in the middle of nowhere and the only mode of trasportation out of there is a red syu baa. So we get on with a little bit of faith and absolutely no clue where we're going.
Chan Ji Muih and I have a great companionship because she finds things on the maps and reads the Chinese and then I get us there with my sence of direction that is absoultely a gift from God because I definitely had no such gift before my mission. I still can't tell my left from my right, but somehow we get where we need to go without a gps. Obviously because we use the spirit, which is the best gps ever.
Anyways. So we've been on the syubaa for a while and we have absolutely NO clue where we are. So we came to this stop (which isn't really a stop, they just kind of stop in the middle of the road and they open the door and you get out) and we felt like we should get off. So we did. And we looked around for a minute and we were right infront of the apartment building that we needed to get to!
Moral of the story: If you're lost and don't have a gps, use the spirit!
This week we had a ward Thanksgiving feast. It was awesome. They had something that kind of looked like Turkey and then a whole lot of noodles and stuff like that! They had lasagna as well that had pickles in it, so that's kind of American, right? Not quite your typical Thanksgiving, but it was a good time!
All the missionaires in our zone are getting together and having a dinner on Thursday and Chan JM and I are making 6 pies... We figure she's good at cooking and I'm American so we can make it work! Prayers on our behalf would be appreciated...
Had a tough break this week. We were finally able to meet with Jane (Sam and Hin's mom.) She dropped us. Wasn't quite sure how to feel. You know, trying to stay positive, but really it's just hard. I mean you come to love these people SO much! You laugh with them, you have these spritual experiences with them, your cry with them.. And then they tell you that they don't believe the things that you're teaching them.
It was hard. But after some pondering I came to this conclusion. When we participate in missionary work we experience all kinds of situations. Some that bring the most joy you've ever felt in your life and some are just down right sad and hard. You come to truly love people and you see some of them change through the incredible power of the atonement and become truly happy and you see other reject the greatest gift that anyone could possible ever receive.
And through it all I think we recieve the blessing of truly being able to feel just a little bit of how our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ feels about us. And in feeling a little bit of how they feel, we come to find out a little bit more about what it takes to truly become like them. Because that's the goal, isn't it?
Elder Holland says it the best, "Missionary work isn't easy because salvation is not a cheap experience... It wasn't easy for the Savior, so how could we ever expect it to be easy for us."
So ga yauh everybody! Keep doing work and give everybody the opportunity to hear about the gospel because its the greatest gift in the whole world!
Love you all!
SisMoRob
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| Brother Ng turned 60 which is a big deal here, so they had a party for him after church. This is most of the Tsuen Wan ward! Sure loves these people. |
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