Oct. 26, 2014

This week was so good! :) 

but let me tell you my 2 favorite people went home. Sister Lee my trainer and Sister Johnson my mission changer! I love them so much and I just was so sad to see them go. But then sister lee came to my church and bought me a birthday cake and so I got to see her! She just want to be a missionary again. They are both so amazing. And i can't believe sister Wiltbank will be back this week! I don't like the thought of that! haha i just have a lot lot lot of mixed emotions right now! Well....hmmmm what happened this week? oh yeah before that! I would love to take mandarin classes. I have no clue how to write characters...but ill definitely need to learn them so yes. SIGN ME UP! :) the cantonese on the other hand....I don't know if ill be able to get credits because i don't know characters haha. We don't learn them here. We just do what we do and get along without characters. and yes just sign me up for a lot of credits and ill take care of it when the time comes! And thank you for the freedom of using money! :) we have this awesome mall that i am planning to go to next week so I'm ready!!! :) is there anything you all need from China? :)

Ok so this week! We were able to see sister Chan and she is amazing. She just told us that she want to change and she wants to keep the commandments and use the atonement. She doesn't even ask us questions anymore because she knows that she can and does find them in the book of mormon. She is a miracle. She loves church and can't wait to be baptized on the 14th of December. Please pray for her that she will stay strong and love the gospel forever!

Then we have Tsing Yi. She is also doing well. She has been a little moody lately haha. She just doesn't know what she wants. She wants to be baptized but thinks that we are her training wheels...she said that she doesn't need us anymore. She just wants to ride by herself...but she can't do that because she will just fall over! We have to meet wit her before and after she is baptized. We just need to have her heart softened. But she still is excited to be baptized!

and we have 2 other GREAT miracles this week. We met this girl named sky last week. Then she didn't answer her phone for a long time...but then yesterday she just showed up for church and stayed the whole time! Then she asked us when we could see her. She is the girl that was crying on the street. She is 17 and just amazing

Then our member friend Lisa asked if she could come to church and learn about the gospel. that just proves that members examples play a big role in others lives! So Lisa came to church and loved it as well. We had 4 investigators at church yesterday! that never happens. Our ward is going to explode :) I love the miracles that are happening right now! And i hope that it continues forever.

My birthday was also great! I woke up to balloons all over my desk and some stickers and sticky notes! then i opened the package you sent! THANK YOU SO MUCH! it is all amazing and i got sick off of reeses and all the missionaries love them! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! and i love the shirt and the hair oil and my hair is not falling out as much anymore because of the iron.  Thank you so much mom and dad! and dad...oh dad that card made me laugh so hard! thank you for helping me to remember what you looked like! i had almost forgotten :)

Then I got some cakes and some RM chinese people came and gave me cake and i saw the deaf investigators and my summer missionary came to me and gave me blueberry cheesecake! It was so good. But the best part was yesterday when our investigators came to church. The ward was so amazing at welcoming them and all. oh and another miracle. I was walking through the MTR when i saw a MRS FIELDS COOKIES! i don't know if america has those but wow did it smell good...i just said out loud to myself, " THAT SMELLS SO GOOD". then all of a sudden i hear this voice in english say, "SISTER MISSIONARIE". it was a member from Utah that just moved to Hong Kong. Well he was buying some cookies and saw us and maybe heard my cry for sugar and BOOM he bought us some yummmmy cookies! it was so good. so long no taste. 

I have also been loving all the emails from and about Janice! I just can't get over it. I love her so much and I love her testimony of the Savior. She has always been amazing but I can just tell a huge difference in her. I LOVE HER AND I LOVE YOU AND I LOVE LIFE AND I JUST LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING!

Oh, and PS. I am also the sister training leader so pray for me and my ability to lead! :) 

love you all!

here are some pictures.

-SISTER HAMBREEEn

Oct. 19, 2014

HELLO!!!!

I CANT BELIEVE JANICE IS SO AMAZING!!!! well we always knew but now i am just so happy. I knew it was going to happen. It is just so amazing to me. I have been feeling a special love for Germans lately to I think because I am in china with her, i have a special connection :) WOW! I am so happy. I am just crying with excitement. I can't believe it! She has to move to America and go to BYU with me :) HELP HER DO THAT! 

This week was amazing. Well....we lost our golden investigator Tsing Ti...BUT THEN SHE CAME BACK TO US! It was one on the saddest moments on my mission. She just said that the commandments were weighing her down and that she didn't know if this was all true...then she gave us a bunch of food (typical when someone drops you) and told us not to call anymore. :( she was supposed to get baptized yesterday. But then we tried to call her one more time about 6 days later and she said that she would MAYBE come to church. We waitied and waited for her and no show. Then 20 minutes before church ended, she popped in!!! She looked tired and a little confused. We talked to her after church and she had a total change! She said that she woke up 4 hours ago and was just wrestling with the spirit. She felt like she needed to go to church but Satan was telling her not to. She finally took the courage to travel 40 minutes to church. She said when she walked in. she had the most amazing feeling of comfort and happiness. We explained that that is the spirit and that this is what she should be doing! She completely changed and is excited about her new baptismal date! It was a huge miracle! 

We also had another miracle with our beautiful investigator sister Chan. We went to her home this past week. She has seen missionaries for 5 years on and off. I just had a prompting to ask her if she felt anything different from now and 5 years ago. She told me that she didn't feel stressed to be baptized, she just felt ready. She said that it was a miraculous change and that she loves us :) IT was so amazing to hear those words from her mouth. She is amazing. She is excited to be baptized on the 14th of December and she even changed her job to do so. What great faith exemplified from sister Chan. I love them. 

We were also walking yesterday and BOOM a lady popped out of no where and she invited us to come to her home this thursday to teach her about the gospel :) This area is just exploding! 

Then we were doing pull backs at the church in Wan Chai and I saw this girl that looked pretty sad. So i just went up to her to see how she was doing. she looked at me and just started to cry. She just did really bad on her english test that would determine if she would go to a university in england. She was so sad. We just talked and she said that she wanted to feel peace inside the church. We gave her a tour and she loved it. She told us that she had seen a lot of missionaries before and was just rude to them. She said that she just felt something different this time. Now we will see her again this week :)

I just love hearing from reachel as well. WOW 9 FAMILIES IN THEIR COMPANIONSHIP IN ONE WEEK!!!!! that is more than my whole zone in a whole month! Rachel is amazing. It is so good to hear about her :) 

So what happened this week?... hmmm oh we went to teach one of our thai members. We got to her house and I sAW That she had a parrot. So i decided to talk to him. He was mad and wouldn't talk to me. I tried so hard to get him to talk. But no success. Then we finally started the lesson. THE PARROT WOULD NOT STOP TALKING! I was about to throw him out the window in his cage haha. He just kept saying JOUH SAHN! That means good morning haha. He did it for 20 minutes. So this picture is me trying to talk to him. I don't like birds very much. 

Last night we also had a convert fireside. All the recent converts bear their testimonies and share it with investigators. HELEN from Aberdeen bore her testimony and it was amazing. I am so blessed to have taught her. She is another miracles. 

Anyway, sorry this email is random and everything probably doesn't make sense.....but I do know that this gospel has brought me so much happiness this week. And my whole life. I have a very strong testimony of it. I am so grateful for amazing family to teach me and you two amazing parents to help guide me. I know without a doubt that heavenlt father exists. I know it because i have felt His love. And I have seen Him work miracles in so many peoples lives. I am SO BLESSED to have this opportunity to serve the Lord. It is like the mission call says."more happiness than you have yet experienced awaits you as you serve the Lord and His people with love". I have never ever been happier. Ever. I just love everything about our life on earth. Yes, bad things happen, but those bad things are not eternal. It all depends on how we deal with the bad things actually. Just remember, we ALL chose the Heavenly Fathers plan in the pre-earth life. That is why we are here now. Now what we need to do is follow it! Please please please keep sharing the gospel! It doesn't matter if they except it right away or 4 years later like janice or 5 years later like sister Chan. But let us give the people we love an opportunity to feel the happiness we all have experienced!

I love you all so much. 

-sister Hamblin

#1 me and Helen

#2 a random panda i found on a wall in the ghetto :)

Oct. 12, 2014

JOUH SAHN DAAIHGA!

well, mom, the Autumn Fever is just like a cold....but I think it comes from the Hong Kong Behng. (that is the little crazy that all the Hong Kong people have because of stress and small places and pollution) :) haha. So once you have been here for a while it just sets in and you go a little crazy and get sick! But it is not all that bad :) being Chinese is fun. People ask me if my mom is chinese. I guess my eyes have changed and everything!

Anywho, this week we watched GENERAL CONFERENCE! I loved it. Especially the mission presiende from the ukraine. He was awesome. I loved how he talked about health and how we need to be the master of our own houses! So i am going to be more healthy :) the Chinese have taught me a lot about health, so now to put it into play. But Elder Wongs talk was also amazing! But i was actually able to hear his voice and understand the cantonese! I loved it. and I was able to see all my wards that i have served it! THE BEST FAMILY REUNION EVER! I can't explain how much i love them all. We also had 4 people at church!!! Isn't that a miracle? That has not happend since Kwun Tong. I love it here. Chai Wan is great. oh and i found out that my bishop, bishop Ngh, was actually a counselor to elder wong when he served here as a mission president! That is why he is so amazing!!!

I was also able to see my beloved Bishop Chan from the Aberdeen/Pok Fu Lam ward! He told me something very special too! I don't know why, but he always thinks he can receive revelation for me. On saturday he told me that he had something very special for me but couldn't tell me until i went home in december or it would distract me for 2 months. I finally got him to tell me! this is what he said.

 "when i went to America last month, I met a man. He was tall and handsome. and quess what!?! HE WAS FROM PHOENIX ARIZONA! So i talked to him because I know that YOU are also from Arizona. Then I told him that I had a girl for him that was in China at the moment. So he gave me his email to give to you. So I have it now but i cannot give it to you until you are ready to go home. You are going to go to the phoenix arizona temple together." 

Wow. Thanks again Bishop Chan. hahahah he is so funny! I feel like he is one of those awkward dads that do that kind of stuff. He met this man in the Seattle Airport and took his number and email to give to me. I am not going to talk to this crazy person from Phoenix arizona but thank you bishop chan! all the missionaries around me were just giggling. Anywho, mom, dad, don't worry. Locked my heart!

This week Au Yeuhng also had her baptismal interview. The night before i was praying and I just knew that she was not ready. But I didn't have revelation to change the interview so we kept it the same. Then she failed the interview. Then we talked to her afterward. It was a really nice talk about faith and the Atonement. We will be giving her a new date this week and hope to help her out. Keep her in your prayers.

Also i was able to see Kasey. She and Bishop Chan are working on a ........

M I S S I O N!!!!!!! Kasey really wants to serve a mission :) I am so excited for her! she left home again because of more violence from her parents for joining the church. Now she is moving around from one members house to another. I love the family and love within the wards of the church. She is going to be just fine.

We were also able to do 24's with the Zone and many miracles followed. 

Thank you so much for the package that is coming! I don't have it yet, but i am excited to get it! Life is good and I am so happy. Thank you mom and dad for everything you do! Also thanks for emailing me every week :) it seems like the longer you are out, the more people who forget about you.

LOVE YOU!

Oct. 6, 2014

HI MOM and DAD!!!

<3 <3

can i just tell you that this week was amazing? COmpletly amazing! AU YEUHNG TSING YI has changed so much in this shoer time. We haven't even known her for a month, but she is a miracle. She has so many trials and hardships but she is willing to give it all up for the One who gave everything for her! she just understands and has felt the spirit witness to her. We fasted with her yesterday to see if the 19th was what God wanted for her. She told us it was :) she just got so excited! She told us this week that her mom is actually a less active member of the church! that is why she is getting such negative feels from her family. Her mom doesn't want her to end up like her mom! Well it is amazing how God prepares people. Au Yeuhng Tsing Yi is amazing and i can't wait to help her to come closer to her Savior. What a rewarding work it is to work as a missionary for my King. 

We also had an opportunity to meet Sister Chan! She is our new investigator. She is a members mom. This members name is Dennis. He is 15 years old. He was baptized at 10!!! Then he went to church by himself for 5 years. His mom has never been baptized. Well we got to meet her this week and teach her and she wants to get baptized on the 14th of December. She she is a miracle as well. We will be teaching her with our bishop and his wife tonight about the gospel of Jesus Christ. I can't wait. Her and Au Yeuhng both came to church this week.

THEN our member Kiki wanted to introduce us to her friend. Well we met her friend and her friend brought her sister to meet us too! Their first interest was english class...but then we got to talking and laughing and we asked them if they had any interest in learning about the church. They were so willing so we will see them this saturday as well :) 

I don't know why all these miracles are happening to us. But thank Heavenly Father! We are still finding a lot a lot but these people make it all worth it :) I kinda like finding with the 3904758% humidity. It is nice and comfortable. I love love love Hong Kong.

hmmmm what else happened this week? Oh i have the Autumn fever. The chinese say that when the Autumn wind changes, all the Hong Kong people get sick...it didn't happen last year but it did this year!!! I AM A HONG KONG PERSON! :) I love it! Sometimes i don't even realize i am white...until people go crazy because we speak chinese. When i see white people it scares me. Are people really that tall? Do they really not understand chinese? THEN WHY ARE THEY HERE? i mean if you live in hong kong you aught to learn the language. They are just missing out on so much of the love they can have for the people and the city. 

MOM thank you for the shirts and i am excited for the package :) hehe(if there are anymore hair tricks that you could send that would be awesome! my hair is still falling out in the loads)

DAD thank you for the football updates. Although i am not happy to hear about BYU! maybe next time you could leave that out.

I also love the pictures of the neighbors!

oh and mom....you need to love dad more. You don't know the toll it is taking on him. Maybe it will be a good thing for Hudson to move to Atlanta ;) hehe

But i can't wait to meet him either! Just don't let jes and andy move until at least next hyear! they can't do that. 

About classes....I want to take CHINESE!! :) :) and uhhh maybe like more chinese. GE classes...i have no idea which ones there are. I need to take like a D&C class right? I'd rather have classes in the morning and maybe closer together because ill have to get a job and stuff.....Ai Ya!! I have no idea what i am doing....:( this is going to make my hair fall out more than anything!

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! next week ill let you know of my conference feelings and ill also let you know about Au Yeuhng! Pray that we will find more people that are ready to endure to the end! Kasey, Serina, Ashley, and Helen are doing great! Keep them in your prayers as well! 

love you all!

-Sister Hamblin

this is my chinese ferris wheel.

and the next is the view from out my window. isn't it beautiful!?!?!

Sept. 28, 2014

Good morning mom and dad. 

hmmm BIRTHDAY PACKAGE REQUESTS!.....

i don't need anything. just some iron pills for the hair! and maybe a reeces or two :) but i really don't need anything. Just send family love! oh and maybe some information about registering for classes. Because i don't know when or how or which classes. Please help me.

the ward fast is going good! we were having such great miracles and then.....in one day all of our people except for Au Yeuhng dropped us :( sad. but its ok. we will just start over again. I've done it many a times so it is not that difficult anymore. But at least we still have Au Yeuhng! We actually had such an amazing lesson with her last night. We all met at the church. Our bishops wife helped us teach. Before the lesson our member Sister Ng gave Au Yeuhng a brand new skirt and a math workbook and an abacus! Au Yeuhng was so excited :) you should have seen her face. It is so nice to know that the members care about our investigators. Well Au Yeuhng has been very worried about her faith. She didn't think she had any. So we took out a picture of Christ and Perter walking on the water. It was amazing. The Spirit led a discussion about this and then our investigator just felt the Spirit so strongly. We were able to help her to overcome a lot of doubts and weaknesses with our members and the Spirit! Oh how important it is to have people who care. At the end, we invited Au Yeuhng to pray. She was a little reluctant to do so but then she did. When she started, the spirit hit us all like a brick wall. Her prayer was so heartfelt, and it had such soul. She prayed for the gift of faith and strength to keep commandments. After she was done, we asked her how she felt about her baptism date. she said that she felt a feeling of expectation from Heavenly Father that October 19th was the day. I don't know how we are going to get her ready for the 19th but we will!!! pray for a miracle. Not just that she will be baptized but that she will endure to the celestial kingdom. It is like President Hinckley said something like...there is not point in doing missionary work if we do not hold onto the fruits of our labors! So pray that she will endure to the end! Along with Kasey, Serina, Ashley, and Helen! 

This week we were also able to see a huge miracle. We met a man named Peter on the MTR. He lives in Tseung Kwan O (my last area). So we scheduled him to turn him over to the TKO elders. Well then we got a referral from there that we were also going to turn over. We went a llll the way to TKO and then BOTH of them fonged ngohdeih ge feigei! (flew our airplane) we were so sad that they didn't show. (oh and at this time we were on exchanges. I was with sister Cheung again! :) :) :)) but anyway we were so sad that we had traveled all that way to have these 2 people not show up. Then we had an idea. We all ran outside and did a 10 minute miracle find! We wanted to get someone to come to the church so that we could give them a tour and invite them to church and give these elders a new person to bring unto Christ. So we found and found like maniacs haha we were running to talk to everyone. No one would stop. But we knew we were not leaving until we saw a miracle. So we found hard for about 30 minutes. Then the elders came to us to just say "hey its ok we've got it from here" and then BOOM! We turned around and there was a mom. We talked to her and she was willing to walk 20 minutes with us to show her the church in the middle of a jungle! She then told us she wanted to go to church. and she went to church yesterday :) MIRACLES HAPPEN!

We also had interviews with President Hawks this week. He is amazing. He taught me more about setting goals and patience and love. I LOVE president Hawks!!!!

hmmmm oh i also learned how to make Thai food this week. IT IS DELISH!