July 14, 2014

Good Morning family!

YAY SISTER WARNER IS BAPTIZED! thank for for telling me about the baptism :) I just know she will be great! Was she just so happy? Tell her to write me a letter! I want to know everything!

Yeah i don't think i can change the date so it is the 19th for now. I am going to need a serious 2 week massage after this haha. Thank you for the package! It should be here this week :) I am excited for it! Packages are christmas here haha. 

WHAT SARAH IS GETTING MARRIED? :( darn. Why? I've got to be there. Will it be in the temple? Who is the boy? Awe :(

Anyway, the family we saw did not come to church this past week but we will meet with them again this coming week! I am so excited to teach them about the Plan of Salvation. I don't know if the father will get better. I don't think he will. I can't understand Chinese all that well and he doesn't want to tell us what sickness he has. He looks awful though. I just know that this is what they are looking for in life! 

Tyler Goldsmith is doing well haha. He is loving his mission! I love hearing from missionaries. It makes me so happy to know that we are all in the SAME work together. And it is the greatest work in the world. His grandma is reading the Book of Mormon and he sent me his conversion story. It was so cool because i was able to tell his conversion story to a member family. Then they opened up and accepted our invitation for them to do missionary work!!! Thank you Elder Goldsmith. 

This week we were able to go to the 65 PEAK CELEBRATION! Well Hong Kong on July 14 1949 was dedicated for the preaching of the gospel! All the members in Hong Kong went to Wan Chai to celebrate!!! It was amazing. They told us the history of the Church in Hong Kong and then they had people from all ages give short talks about how the gospel has blessed their lives. It was really one of my most favorite days. All the embers and missionaries together celebrating the gospel! It was a very reverent and beautiful ceremony. I am so blessed to be in China preaching the gospel! They talked about the forbidden city and the carved stone and all the cool things about the gospel in China. I will tell you all more about it later. All i know is that the gospel and hong kong people are amazing. 

Something sad happened this week. Our investigator, sister Yeuhng, she stopped talking to us and she won't answer her phone :( she was supposed to get baptized in a couple weeks. We don't know what to do!

Oh, I just got an email from Sarah. Wow i can't believe it. It is the first time this has happened on the mission haha so i am a little surprised. Woo ok I'm ok. ai ya!

Hmmm what else happened....well it is getting pretty hot and wet...like really really hot! But thats ok :) I LOVE the weather!

This week i was able to go on exchanges in KwunTong! Wow it was so great because that was my first area. Well I ran into a girl that i ran into a year ago on the street! It was ngonpaai. It was really nice to see the change in me from exactly a year ago in my first area to visiting it now! I know Chinese now! Yay! I didn't think this day would ever come. (and when i say i know chinese i mean i can get around).

This week i wanted to know more about how i can consecrate myself more to the Savior I have really come to realize how perfectly Jesus Christ consecrated Himself to God when He was on the earth. I feel that consecration comes from dedication and pure desire. I have noticed the more pure my desire has become to serve the Lord and His children. When our desire becomes pure, we are able to do whatever the Lord wants us to do. Our faith then becomes pure and so do our actions. I love learning about the Savior and how I can become more like Him each and every day.

Well i really love you all so much. Thank you for all you do for me. Thank you for your amazing examples and your dedication!

p.s. dad you deserved the girls camp's attack. But i can't wait to see how you will get them back!

p.s.s. Tell elder Davis that he is lucky.

Loves!

-Sister Hamblin

xoxo

July 7, 2014

HELLO!OOOOOO!!!!!!!!! :)

YAY SISTER WARNER!!!!! I HAVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER! and so cool that Tyler Goldsmiths grandma wants to learn more :) it was really cool last week actually. I had just had a feeling i needed to email Tyler so i went to email and i had already gotten an email from him! So cool huh? Well i asked him about his conversion story and i just know that it is going to be something that will help our investigators over here! and i am glad that little Chantz is ok too! He was saved because he still has the strength of a missionary!

And i got an email saying my leave date has been moved up to December 19th. :( so ill be home a couple days earlier. I would rather not so ill see if i can move it back to the  23rd. 

Oh also if you have any mormon tabernacle choir c.d.s and wanted to send them to me... :) that would be great!!!

and my hair is falling out. I think i am going to be bald in a couple months..do you have any hair remedy?

And i had the best fourth of July ever!!! yep :) well first off

July 1st.

This is a very sad day in china. It is a holiday that no one wants to celebrate because it was the day in 1997 when China took back Hong Kong from England. it was such a down day for the citizens of Hong Kong. They are losing their freedom in a few short years. I am so blessed to be serving while we still can!

July 4th

Independence Day! 

It may have been my favorite 4th of July. We had zone meeting and we talked a lot about freedom. Yes in America we are so blessed. I love my country and i am proud (in the most humble and grateful sense)  to be an american. But we all have freedom! This is our greatest gift from heavenly Father! We have the freedom to choose. and we ALL chose right! we chose to come to earth and take part in Father's plan. I am so grateful for our freedom. and no one can take that freedom away.

I love to think of John Handcock and his signature on the declaration of independence! We all signed our names to God's plan and now Satan wants to destroy it. But we will prevail. 

We had a lot of miracles at church this past week too! We had 9 people at church! including less actives and investigators! The miracles have really started pouring out on my companion and I. I know that God is mindful of me. 

So i found a spider this week. It was bigger than a softball. It really scared me and so i decided to take a picture and give it to you mom! :) sorry you can't see it that well. i didn't want to get too close. 

We also had a great preparation day today!!!!! We went to yam cha dim sum with a less active! well yam cha dim sum is a 10 course meal and a crazy chinese restaurant! It was so much fun :) we just ate a ton of crazy chinese food. and today i ate the nastiest thing i have eaten in my life. It is durrian. I can't even explain it. It is this big sharp poky yellow fruit thing. Well it smells like death and tastes worse. They put in on everything! i have avoided it for over a year and then today i couldn't get past it. This less active bought it just for me and i said i didn't need it but she made me. I am still sick haha. So if you ever run a crossed durrian...DONT EAT IT!!!!!

Sorry all my emails are so random and you probably don't even understand them!

But the greatest miracles happened this week! WE SAW 2 FAMILIES and we will meet with one tonight!!!! :) :) :) YAY!!!!!!!

One is the cutest ever. The dad also has a serious sickness and really wants to know about eternal life . Their names are the Tung family! PRAY FOR THEM!!!!! we want to help them so badly! this is the first full non member investigator family i have ever taught so we are way excited!!!!! So i love you all so much! 

this is the spider and us eating today and the good food :)