Good Morning!
Sister Huhng here.
This week was ccrazzzyyyyyyy. I don't even know how to start. Summer missionaries are tough but great, just like a mission should be. But i learned a LOT. Like a Lot a lot. I learned patience, love, charity, and a lot of chinese :) So thats good! It is just so different being with someone who is not a missionary. One day she got so mad that she took her tag off and told me she was going home. Well that is not ok because i need a companion, so i had to convince her to stay. Then she would yell at me in chinese and get mad, but then the next day she loved me. I hope i was not like that growing up. If i was, i am so sorry! But I hear that Rachel has a mini comp that is also not a missionary. I understand. Out other summer missionary had schizophrenia. Nothing happened for about a week, then one day she was seeing people and it was really scary, so we had to take her back to the office so that her parents could pick her up. It was really scary. But she was such a nice and sweet missionary.
Anyway, we were able to see a lot of people and do a lot of finding this week. I have been trying to help the ward out more with doing missionary work. They are so great! I love the people of Tseung Kwan O (TKO). TKO is such a great place. It is getting a little warmer here, but we have AC (but we are not allowed to use it much becas=use it is REALLLLY expensive). We live on the 40th floor. And yes people still cram in the elevator, but it is normal now. You just talk to them for 40 floors. And i just met our neighbor yesterday! His name is mr. Lo and he is a great old man :) I think i want to make him some rice and take it over. Then maybe we can share the gospel!
So back to this week. One of the most grateful moments on my mission happened yesterday. let me rewind to last week. Last sunday my comp and i had a feeling we needed to visit one of our investigators. This investigator has had a ton of problems with every commandment. It is really hard to see her and we can't just go over to peoples houses in Hong Kong. So we called her and miraculously she told us we could come over. So we talked to her friend who is in the relief society presidency to come with us to visit her friend. We didn't know what we would teach her and we didn't know why we needed to go over. So we just planned to review the restoration with an emphasis on God's Love. So we went over and this investigator just listened. She was a little sad, but we just thought that she was tired. So we shared a short message and just bore a brief but sincere testimony. Well we rescheduled her and went home. Then yesterday during fast and testimony meeting, this relief society member (the investigators friend) got up to share her testimony, She said that last week she had a feeling that she also needed to visit this friend. She said that she could hear a distinct voice telling her to go with the missionaries. Then 2 days after we visited this investigator, this investigator called the member and told her a story. A few hours before we called her to see her, this lady had bought some chemicals to take to a hotel to burn and commit suicide. Then we called and she decided that she would listen to us one last time. The spirit touched her and gave her a very strong feeling of god's love for her. This investigator decided that she would not kill herself but give life another chance because "God loves her so much that he sends messengers to her". What a sad but amazing story this is. I am so grateful that we were able to be God's hands this week in helping His daughter. I know that life is so precious. It is so important. It makes me so incredibly sad to know that some people just can't feel the goodness of life. I know that the gospel is the way to happiness. God is the person that can help us. Through the atonement we can overcome anything. Keep this investigator in your prayers.
On a happier note, i saw an old man showering in the rain this past week. Right outside the church window during personal study! haha oh the people of China.
We also were looking for one of our less actives. We don't know what she looks like but we thought her name was Chan. So what we did was we went to the place where she worked. we thought we knew who she was and so we asked another lady at the restaurant if the lady was named chan. She told us yes! WOOHOO! So we went over there and wrote her a not that said we loved her and wanted her back at chuch. Well we were all confident and went up to her and she looked really confused. We gave it to her anyway (because less actives usually pretend then don't know who we are anyway). Then we went home to write on her record. Turns out this less actives name was really Wong, not chan. And so we gave this random lady a letter that said we loved her. ( and people don't use the word love her) so it was really weird. I feel bad for the lady named chan. But it seems like that happens a lot herE!
This week i was also reading the Liahona conference style and i read something great.
LIVE WORTHILY, PRAY FERVENTLY, FOLLOW COURAGEOUSLY
I think that is a motto that we should all live by.
this is me and my summer mish, haha chinese style picture taking
love o=you all
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