Nov. 20, 2014

so first things first....we tried calling mr rogers and HIS PHONE DOESNT WORK! can you send me the number again? and how do i call it? is it a chinese phone or american? We really want to contact him and i already got is cleared with the mission president :) #2 thank you for Joanna ge email! i have been thinking about her a lot.

and yes i know sister olsen. I lived with her for over 9 months haha. I love her!!!!!! and i hear she is getting married in jan or feb. Ai ya! 

HELLO FAMILY!

this week was good. We did a lot of stuff. one of my favorite parts was the thanksgiving party for our ward! they tried to celebrate thanksgiving haha. No one knew what it was. So they asked us to put on a little skit. It was terrible haha but so fun. Then our investigator Joey invited her parents! THEY CAME! and so we scheduled to see them this coming sunday. Pray for the family! 

We have also been continuing to visit our lovely sister chan. I love her so so so much. We see her almost every day. She loves the book of mormon and calls us when miracles happen to her! She will forget to eat breakfast, pray, and then someone will call her and say that they bought breakfast for her. Or she will lose something and pray and then find it right away. She loves the gospel and is so ready to be baptized on the 14th. She could be baptized tomorrow though she is so good. It is just the best when you don't have to force the gospel into someone. I love when they just want it. 

We have been trying to talk to tsing yi. she is still having a hard time. So i asked bishop if he would have an interview with her. well she totally changed and wants to eat dinner with us and a member this sunday! thank the spirit for telling me to talk to bishop. Our bishop is so great.

We have been doing a lot of finding lately but i love finding. i love getting to know people. We have been trying to do more singing finding and cats cradle finding! it is funny but people really like it. We are just doing a lot of new things to change things up.

This week my companion was having a realllllllllly hard time. So we went and talked to president hawks. He gave us a challenge. And let me just tell you that it has changed us completely. We have a better relationship and everything is running a lot smoother. I have a testimony that president hawks is called of God. he is here for us. And he knows exactly what to do and say. WOOHOO! the gospel is good,

Presidend Hawks also told us a story about himself. One time he was swimming for a race in a lake. That day in the lake there was a ton of green mossy stuff. He said that when he hit the middle of the lake, he couldn't move anymore. He said no matter how hard he paddled and kicked, the end still seemed the same distance away. Far. Well then he said all of a sudden he was at the finish line! and boom it was over. I feel like that is like a mission haha. It is so hard and you just work and work and kick and sometimes it feels like you are not making any success, but then boom. It is over. I still have almost a month and i am going to keep doing my best, but i am so grateful that i have tried my best the whole way through so i don't have to feel like i have to make up time right now. Thank you for teaching me to work hard! 

My exchange with sister Brown was amazing :) she is so good! such a hard worker! I have not seen a new missionary as amazing as her. I love her :) she is stellar. 

This week i also got sick for like the first time! I lost my voice for 3 days. It is the first time i have lost my voice in my whole life. It was so hard not to talk but it helped my companion to grow and it helped me to be more aware of my surroundings. It was a blessing to get sick!

Well, life is good. The gospel is true. Jesus loves me, and I have never been happier. I love you all and i love Hong Kong!!!!!!!

-Sister Hamblin

#1 sister brown and I

#2 our thanksgiving food for our ward and indian costume... :) haha it is so chinese!

November 9, 2014

JOU SAHN FUHMOUH

Answers first. There are 30 missionaries in our zone. and 150 missionaries in our mission. Our zone is the biggest. And yes the elders and sisters meet together. Oh and you know sister Brown from Saint Johns Arizona? Well she is in my zone now and she is in my first area KWUN TONG. and guess what, i get to go on exchanges to help her out tomorrow. What a small world. She is an amazing missionary.

on the sad note.....Tsing Yi did not get baptized. She told us the night before that she believes in GyunYam. It is part of Buddhism. You can look her up. Anyway....it was really sad. Our ward was so prepared and excited for her. So were we. It was a really hard week. Then she didn't come to church yesterday. I don't know what happened. Just will continue to pray for her and try to teach her and build her faith in the true God. 

On a happier note, we had zone conference this week with president Hawks. Our 40 minute presentation went well! We prepared a lot a lot for it. It turned out nice. And it was so fun to see the talent of the 2 zones. That is about 60 missionaries. It was so much fun. I don't know if I have ever said this before, but i love president and sister Hawks. They are amazing. They talked a lot about giving thanks and cleaning your house. I have become a lot cleaner on my mission :) then they talked about how out accomplishments and failures are all part of the process of becoming. Our whole lives are turning us into who we need to become. I know the things that have happened to me on this mission have really defined me and shaped me into someone new. And it has all been possible through the atonement. The Atonement is not just something we can read about and learn about in the scriptures. We need to do that but we have to experience it to understand it. We have to use the atonement to change us and help us grow. Just reading about the Savior and what He did is not going to cut it. We have GOT to learn how to use the atonement as the saving grace in our lives. 

on another happy note, our beloved sister chan is still rolling! she is great. Loves church and is so excited to be baptized on December the 14th. She is our miracle. 

Thank Kara again for signing me up for classes! She is amazing. I hope that i'll be able to study. 

YAY Kaeli came to our house! how is she? I can't believe it. 

oh and i have a question...I was thinking a lot about the man at the ritz carlton....i don't know if it is because the spirit tells me to introduce him to the church or because he works at the ritz carlton. either way, can i have his name again....and who he knows? and can someone contact him and tell him that we are coming to visit him? :) 

it is good to hear that the family is doing well. I just got a picture of hudson and he is so cute. He can call me sister Hamblin. that sounds comfortable to me. 

Sorry. not much to report on this week. Just finding and stuff! ga yauh.

Love ya

xoxoxo

-sister Hamblin

November 2, 2014

Hi hi HI hI!

This week was an awesome one! To start it off we planned for our zone training meeting. It is 2.5 hours of us teaching the zone. It was so much fun. We planned so long and so hard for it and just as you would expect...nothing went as planned. it was even better. We had RMs from Hong Kong and potential missionaries from our wards come and bear testimony and give the missionaries some tips. It really created that Hallow Ground. I love to start things off with the spirit. it sets the mood for everything else. Then we did zone training meeting a little different. We talked all about getting the gospel deep within the missionaries. so cool that that was stake conference as well. We did a lot of activities and plans and actions for this. It was a very spiritual meeting. I love when the Spirit takes over. 

Then we found out that we will be giving a 40 minute training for a few zones this coming wednesday. So we are trying to find new ways of finding....so we have tried singing, painting, and juggling on the streets to get people to stop. Not much success yet but with routine comes power!

We also got to meet with President Hawks for the leadership training meeting and it was amazing as well. I don't know how to explain it. 

So this week guess what.....AU YEUHNG TSING YI PASSED HER BAPTISMAL INTERVIEW!!!!!! she will be getting baptized this coming sunday. Our ward members are so good. They have all been praying for her. The choir has also been practicing a song for her baptism. I am so excited. 

Sister Chan is also doing well! She is excited for baptism in december. We also have a new investigator...she is mandarin. Now this is really when the gift of tongues comes in. I can totally understand what she says in lessons! and she understands cantonese :) it is so cool! but I know that it is all from Heavenly Father. We also have been seeing Lisa and Sky. Lisa is great but wants to learn more before accepting a bap date. Sky doesn't believe in God so we will be moving a different way with her. But they are all great! 

another miracle this week. We were finding and we tried really hard to do that consecrated finding. We don't think of anything else and we don't talk about anything else. Just finding those prepared people. Sometimes it is hard. Well we found for a few hours and nothing. We were able to talk to a lot of people but they didn't have interest in the gospel. Just us speaking chinese. Then when we were about to head home we were almost to the ding ding when i had a hip pull moment. Do you know what that is? Like sometimes you are prompted through thoughts and sometimes another way. But for me the strongest way is the hip pull. You are just walking and all of a sudden you are just pulled back around. It doesn't happen to me very often but when it does i know i need to do something. So back to the story. I was walking and BOOM the hip pull. I turned around and just talked to the first person i saw (you have to do that because there are always hundreds of people around you). and I saw this girl running. So I ran up to her to stop her from running. She thought i was weird haha but oh well. She told us she was busy but i asked for her number anyway. and she gave it to us! so cool. we called her last night and we will see her on Friday. YAY! miracles happen.

oh and remember that one night when i had a dream of tacos? well we got a text this week from the lam family. It said "come to our home at 7"

"we want to serve you some taco"

WHAT?!!!?!?!?!!??!!? there are no taco in China! well they went to america for a month and came back with taco stuff to feed us. I love the members here. And that is my taco miracle.

So that is the week all wrapped up in a kinda hard to read email! I hope you understand!

ps. I CANT BELIEVE KAELI IS BACK HOME! please tell her to email me. She hasn't yet. ai ya

pss. thank kara for signing up for me! SHE is an angel.

psss. i don't like the sugar that much now. But when hot tamales and recess come...i come running

pssss. I know that dad did amazing at stake conference! keep it up dad! :) and I want to invite you to keep on playing the piano! :) and also try out my guitar!

psssss. thats all.

LOVE YOU