November 10, 2013

JOUH SAHN mums and pops!

 

So today i am just emailing in the convention center in Wan Chai again. We live in sai wan. It is about 45 mins from my area which is aberdeen. So every morening and night we spend about an hour traveling to our area and then back home. And Sai Wan has no place to email unless you scheduel which is so hard without a computer haha so we get to travel to wan chai to email! kind of a maahfaahn but oh well. I just love Wan Chai. They are already putting up HUGE Christams decorations because they dont ecelebrate thanks giving haha so it is pretty great! I love Christmas.

I can play the christmas c.ds on our little portable dvd player so all is well! I dont know how to get them on the ipod. haha i just love getting your packages! Sister Johnsons mother also likes packages and decorations so we will have the most decorated place on the flat! woohoo! I think it is just so great that you follow the little promptings of the spirit when you are shopping haha. Im going to need that Burts Bees stuff! I am just super duper excited! hmmm recipies.....it is hard to say. I just want some recipies that dont need a lot og ingredients because we are poor and the food is expensive! oh speaking of, yes i got the new camera! it was about 150 but i took out a little extra because i dont know how to convert haha. My bad!

 

Sister Jonhson is from Utah. I have been learning a little bit of sign language already! we teach a recent convert family and a less active and we also have an investigator who need signing. We have translators who are also ward members that come and help us out. The recent convert family is the Lee family. They are so cute. Those lessons are so amazing. So spiritual. It is so silent and the Spirit is so strong. I just love to go to their house and see their faith. They are amazing.

 

Kasey... This week has been such a rough week. Her family is completly against her decision to be baptized. They have been just cruel all week. When she told her mom she was getting baptized, her life turned to chaos. Her twin sister wont talk to her. Her mother has just abused her in every way possible. They wont let her leave the house, and they took her clothes. She came to church yesterday with bandages on her face and knee. We dont exactly know what all happened because of the language barrier, but we know that it is not good. but the amazing thing is that she is still pushing onward. She met with us yesterdday and she was just a different person. She was stronger, and i could just see the faith radiating from her. She is such an amazing example to sister Johnson and I. We read the bom together and then asked her to offer a prayer. Her prayer was the most sencere prayer i have ever heard. We were all just in tears. She prayed for her family, she prayed for her situation to be better, she prayed that she would be baptized soon. But the thing that really hit me was when she just started to thank Heavenly Father. She thanked Him for the Gospel, her knowledge, the church and the members. She is just going through the hardest time oof her life right now and she just is full of gratitude. I just hate to see her suffer for doing whats right. for following Jesus Christ. We just continue to pray for her and help her in any way possible. I just know that she will be blessed because of her faith.

 

We also had a ward Halloween party this week. The missionaries were asked to decorate a Halloween plan of salvation room.... you can just imagine how that went haha. We have pictures but this computer wont let me send any! so maybe next week. But it was so funny. It was great! then they wanted us to put on  a little skit. Well we decided to act out the story of ammon....but we didnt plan it until 3 minuted until we were supposed to perform. So the Chinese elders just thought it would be easy because they would read a scripture and we would follow what they said. Well sister johnson and i had NO clue what he was saying *scriptural, spoken, and written cantonese is completly different). So they just started to read and then shooed us up on stage. It was hilarious. We kinda knew what was going on but not really and no in the right order so the ward was just laughing so hard and we were trying to cut arms off while he was teaching the king and the sheep were just all over the place. I dont even know how to describe how embarrassing it was haha.

 

Yes i emailed granny carol and so i hope she got it! I got her letter and then emailed her right away :) it was such a nice email! I love love my hymn book with my name on it. It is just so special :) i will definitely write a thank you letter :)

 

HUDSON GUHMAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tell that little rascal to come out already! I was so excited to see him! awhhhhh well send me some pictures!!! :) :) I really have so many pictures to send you all haha so i hope next week we will have time to send some pics your way! ill just have to print them and then send you some pictures!

 

WOOHOO ALL THE MISSION CALLS! congrats elder mosness and ELDER GOLDSMITH! when does he leave? thanks for giving me permission momma haha. Ps stop trying to plan out my wedding! i am a missionary and my heart is locked away in Eagar Arizona. :)

 

I cant believe cupcake broke the bench! actually i can. Im t hinking the sprinkles are his problem:)

 

well i love you all and hope that you have a fantastic week! Tell that sster of mine to hurrry up with the whole baby thing! I NEED TO SEE HIM!

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LOVE SISTER HAMBREEN! (oh and i saw sister lee this week. it was a great reunion and ashley and karen will be baptized this month!!!!!!)