Happy Thanksgiving

Pictures from last week's Tsuen Wan Ward Thanksgiving feast. They were making grilled cheese. So that was awesome! (Zenle really is a happy person, I don't know what's with people in HK and not smiling in pictures.)

We played some game where they split us up into groups and you have paper and Popsicle sticks and tape and you have to build the biggest tour. Our won, of course! We had a boss foundation that didn't quite make the picture... (But I'm hoping my engineering father is proud.)

Gamyanjit Faailohk!! Happy Thanksgiving!!

It was quite the week with pies and moving and investigators and lessons and it was just a great week!

We spent all P-Day packing up all our stuff and everything and then Tuesday morning we moved into the Tsing Yi apartment. It's.. smaller. But it's great! We have a dresser kind of thing and no closet or place to hang our clothes. But we found some poles and things from an old portable clothes hanger. My engineering father would be proud to know that with a whole lot of electrical tape (they don't have duct tape here) and some chopsticks, we figured something out. :) It's great living with Sister Lubeck and Sister Crook though! They're great!

Chan Ji Muih and I would like to thank you for your thoughts and prayers because we received some crazy divine help and rocked the pies! They turned out great! It was quite the adventure trying to plan out all of our personal time that we have for meals and getting ready for bed the Tuesday and Wednesday before to make it work, but like I said, with a whole lot of divine help, we made it happen!

We had a great thanksgiving feast with the Zone in Kowloon Tong. Our Zone Leader, Elder Barker, cooked the turkey (with a whole lot of help from Sister Hawks) and everybody else pulled through with their assignments and we had some good stuff! The Tsuen Wan Elders pulled together two pumpkin pies and another apple pie, in addition to our two apple pies, peach pie, two chocolate coconut pies and our cherry cheesecake pie. It was pretty great when we showed up with nine pies. President Hawks commented on how he was a little confused on how the Tsuen Wan missionaries got stuck making 9 pies and the AP's mixed up some juice. But it was pretty good juice. :)

We threw in some new finding methods this week and did some "Thankful Finding." We threw up some banners and covered one of them in white paper and wrote "What are you thankful for?" on it. We then had paper leaves that we cut out that we had people write down things they were thankful for. Elsa from Frozen made it on the banner twice. She's a big deal here.

Editor's Note:  We zoomed in on the leaves and found "waffles" written on one.  Humm, wonder who wrote that?

It was a lot of fun and we got some people to stop that I don't think really would have otherwise. It was really cool to talk to people and ask them why they were thankful for the things that they wrote down. Always a great lead into the gospel. Really had some cool experiences!

The Elders were there as well and Elder Merrell tried to get this little boy to stop (he was probably about 8) and write something down. He was all by himself and just kind of messing around on his bike. He stopped and put up his hand the way all the adults do that don't want to talk to us and he said, "Ngoh hou mohng." (I'm really busy.) and peddled away.

We kind of laughed about it, because what 8 year old really is that busy! But it was a good lesson for me. SO many people we try to talk give us the "mh dakhahn" (no free time) or the "ngoh hou mohng" but I've realized that if we're too busy for the gospel then we're too busy.

Ellorie, Hailey and Adi came and helped us do Thankful Finding!

Everyone in HK does this in pictures and says "cho".
 I'm still trying to figure out why, but we embrace it!

Also had a cool experience this week. I'm not sure how it is in other missions, or other areas, but really here you just get a whole lot of everything. We met this lady on the bus named A-Mae. She's from Thailand and married a man from HK. We were able to go to her home and teach her this week and it was a very humbling experience. Like I said, in Hong Kong you get a little bit of everything. We'll be over teaching people in Tsam Seng in apartments with multiple swimming pools and tennis courts etc. one night and the next we're teaching this woman from Thailand, sitting around a table in her apartment that's half the size of my bedroom back home, teaching her and helping her crack some nuts that will be all she has to eat.

It just really made me think about all the things that I'm so grateful for. And it's pretty easy to identify material things you're grateful for. But really when it all comes down to it, the thing that I'm most grateful for is something that everyone can have, no matter how much money they have or what their economic circumstances are.

Everyone can have the gospel of Jesus Christ. Everyone can be blessed by the atonement. Everyone can have eternal happiness and peace. Everyone can have eternal families.

I'm so incredibly thankful for the opportunity that I have to serve Heavely Father. He has given me everything. I think I came on a mission thinking that I could pay some of that back somehow, but I've learned that I can't because he just gives you more. But I'm thankful for the opportunity that I have to show him my gratitude by sharing the blessings that I have with His children.

The church is true people! Love you all have have an awesome week!

Love always,
Sis MoRob