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| Peace to the people. |
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| And there were cows just walking around.... This lady wasn't too happy about it…. |
We started off the week with a trip up to Big Buddha! (reminded me a lot of the one in Kamakura) It was super sweet! We went with some other Sisters and it was a good time! It's up at the top of this mountain on this remote island, so it was quite the adventure going out there. You start up with this hour long bus ride up this huge mountain to a monastery and there are all these sweet buildings and statues and then a HUGE Buddha.
After walking around and talking some pictures we rode the cable car down the mountain! It was almost like skiing... Except no snow... or skis... and we are in Hong Kong... So almost. :)
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| Then we rode the cable car down the mountain! (Almost like skiing…) |
And our week only got better from there!
Elder Ballard, Elder Rasband (president of the Seventy) and Bishop Stephenson (presiding Bishop) came to Hong Kong for and Area Review and they found time to squeeze in an all mission meeting! We are so blessed here to get to have so many general authorities and apostles come!
It was amazing to be taught by a prophet of the Lord. He truly has been called of God to be His witness. It was a very powerful meeting, and I could spend a whole email on it, but there are more things to say, so maybe in a later email. But one thing he did tell us was that we're being too shy. Then he said that the best way to be more bold is to strengthen your testimony of the Savior. So there you have it. If you're scared to do missionary work, or a little shy or worried about how to do it, come to know your Savior better. It's just that simple.
Transfers were also this week and the call came during email time last week from the mission president that I'm training! Ya... I'm pretty sure there's got to be something against training in the area you were trained in... I was absolutely shocked. But after a little freaking out about it I got really excited! Obviously great feelings of inadequacy, but I was really excited!
The meeting with Elder Ballard was on Wednesday, so the day before transfers, but all the new missionaries had arrived! So that was a little nerve racking to look at all the new missionaries and wonder who would be my new companion... We lined up together as a mission to take a picture but had to wait a while for Elder Ballard to come so President Hawks was just talking to all of us. After he said a few things he said, "Oh, and Sister Robinson, I need to talk to you."
Ya... Thanks. Totally got called out in front of the whole mission! Haha everyone was giving me a hard time.
So I walked down and he told me that my companion has passport problems and wouldn't be in Hong Kong until late Thursday night. SO. Thursday rolled around and Sister Cox headed off to Tai Wai and until my new companion came I got to be in a three-sum with the Tsing Yi Sisters!
And guess who the Tsing Yi Sisters are!
Sister Crook and Sister Killpack!!
So we got to do a real #throwbackthursday and bring back the old MTC tripanionship for a day! It was awesome! :)
Thursday night we had a meeting with all the members of the Church in HK with Elder Ballard at the Wan Chai chapel on HK Island. It was AMAZING! He essentially taught the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation. The spirit was real. He didn't really say anything that was mindbogglingly different than anything in Preach My Gospel (and maybe that's what I appreciated about it so much), but he gave it in such a simple, clear and powerful way. The spirit was there and it was undeniable that the things that he was saying are true.
Even later Thursday night my new companion came!
Her name is Sister Shee.
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| I've been a little under the weather... so I look awful. But this is the amazing Sister Shee in the flesh!! |
She is 27 years old and she is from Myanmar. If you're reading this and don't know where that is, you probably have the convenience of Google, so go look it up! But basically it's a country right next to Thailand. Myanmar is part of the Thailand mission and right now only has one chapel and one branch. The Book of Mormon has yet to be translated completely in Burmese, only some pamphlets and a few talks and church books. Sister Shee helped with that translation along with some missionaries and other members before her mission. She joined the church when she was 17 along with her parents and younger sister after going to an English class and then being taught by a senior couple serving as service missionaries. Two years after she was baptized she had to move to a Thailand refugee camp where the only connection she had with the church for 6 years was a monthly Liahona magazine that she got. She is graduated with a degree in law and speaks 5 languages. She has never read completely through the Book of Mormon, but has probably the strongest testimony of the Book of Mormon and of our Savior Jesus Christ than anyone I know.
So we don't compare. But if we did, I hands down have the coolest companion in the whole entire world and we get to do missionary work together all day every day and bring people unto Christ here in Hong Kong.
I don't think it gets much better.
So moral of the story: Life is so good. The church is SO true. And it's going to be a good transfer!
LOVE YOU ALL.
SisMoRob
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| This is a SUPER awesome mom and her two daughters we met at the pier this week! |
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