For one, on Tuesday we went finding at the Pier and I saw a guy in a "USU Huntsman School of Businsess" sweatshirt!! So that about made my life! He has a cousin who went to school there and gave him the sweatshirt. So that was about the coolest thing ever!
But wait.
It gets better.
On Saturday we met a girl. And this girl came to our games night. And this girl brought her sister. And her sister's name is AGGIE.
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| Aggie is on the far right! |
I died. She even spells it the same! It was so awesome! But I don't know the Chinese word for mascot and they don't really have college sports here so it was real hard to explain why I was so excited, but it was still great!
We also had a real cool experience while finding on Saturday. While we were talking to Anna (Aggie's sister) a Filipino lady came up to us with the biggest smile on her face! Which was awesome because usually people aren't always all that excited to see us (unless they're 5 year old girls that want to take a picture with us because they think Sister Cox looks like Elsa from Frozen.)
Turns out that she was baptized in the Philippines and came to Hong Kong and hasn't been able to find a church. She's been praying and praying that she would see missionaries so that she could go to church. Truly a tender mercy. We were able to talk to her, get her the information she needed and say a prayer with her. With tears in her eyes she hugged us and hugged us.
God answers prayers.
We really didn't do anything. But Heavenly Father knew this Filipino woman and heard her prayers. I was just grateful that as His servants, we were able to be in the right place at the right time to meet her. The thing that's interesting too is that we didn't have any big, strong feelings to go to that area at that time to be able to meet her. We just followed the plans that we prayerfully made in weekly planning and then in daily planning, and then followed small promptings as to which way to go.
Prayer is real. Follow the still small voice because there are no "small" promptings.
But probably the greatest thing that happened this week is that our investigator Iris accepted the invitation to be baptized!! I was even more excited about that than meeting a girl named Aggie, so as you can tell, I was just overwhelmed with pure joy!
We've been meeting Iris since November. Twice a week. Every week. We've invited her more than once to be baptized, but she has just always said that she needs more time and a bigger testimony and all that stuff. It's taken SO much patience (which has been something I've really had to work on lately...) but I've always known that she would get baptized, and that when she would that she would be AMAZING, but I knew that we'd have to be patient with her. So she's praying about a date right now and the goal is to set one this week!
But the best thing about that lesson was when after she accepted we asked her why she wants to get baptized and she said, "because I know that Joseph Smith's experience is true. It's all true."
This truly is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
Prayer is real stuff.
How grateful I am that a 14 year old boy had a question and decided to pray.
How even more grateful I am that a loving Heavenly Father heard and answered that prayer.
He hears and answers our prayers. Sometimes you just have to look a little harder or wait a little longer. But they always come.
I love you all! Have a hou yeh week and smile!
Love,
SisMoRob
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