April 13, 2014

GOOD MORNING!

YEAH SISTER WARNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow that is the miracle i needed today :) I think that we should just let her know that if she knows one thing in this goespel is true, it is all true. If Joseph Smith was a prophet then he HAD to have had the priesthood. Wow i am so happy :) I will pray for her! We need her help in building the kingdom. 

Have you been inviting people to hear the gospel?

We were able to teach Mr. Wong this week and it was AMAZING. He is so good. He doesn't have religious background so we are still teaching very simply which is what we should always do. We haven't met his family yet. They were not able to make it to conference :( but we will schedule him tonight to see him this week. We will be inviting him to be baptized. Charmaine....well that lesson was...it was a rough one. We taught one with Kasey and it was great! She didn't want to be baptized though so we planned the next lesson all about baptism and scriptures and general conference. Well we worked with a new fellowshipper to help her know more people in the ward. Well our fellowshipper did not help our cause very much and charmaine told us she didn't really want to learn more. But we will work with her this next week. i really learned the importance of having a GOOD member to help teach. I hope we will never play down the importance of the basics of the Gospel. We must ALWAYS pray, read our scriptures and go to church. They are such important parts in our path to eternal life. 

I LOVED CONFERENCE! One of my favorites was elder Holland of course but i LOVED the one about the olympics. We are all on our 4 minute run. Every second counts. We only have a short time to fix our mistakes and really do what is right. Do what heavenly Father wants us to do.  Then we will have eternity to look back on what we did in those 4 minutes. I don't want to regret anything! So i think i need to look at my life and see what i need to change so that i can have that "perfect run". I also liked the quote that Jess gave me about the gospel. The Gospel gives us wings.

I was able to see a lot of the Kwun Tong members at conference and i love them so much :) one of the members brought me some chicken wings and a bagel haha. That is how Chinese people show their love. With food. I guess that is the same all around the world. 

I caught a few themes from conference too that i thought were pretty cool.

-LOVE

-LIFT

-HANDS

tis is all about us. WE have to love. WE have to lift. Life is full of lifting. and we need to use OUR hands to help those in need.

I've had to use my sign language a lot lately aha. We went to a fireside last night and the person who was supposed to translate didn't show up and so i was the only one who knew a little bit. Well let me tell you that it was ROUGH! I definitely need to work on the gift of hands. 

It is getting hot in Hong Kong again but i don't think it is as hot as Kwun Tong...maybe because it is not summer yet :) but ill take it for now! I hope you are having a fantastic week and inviting people to learn about the gospel!

I love you all so much and thank you for always supporting me in everything i do. I love reading your letters and feeling your prayers. 

-sister HAmblin

March 30, 2014

Hello! 

Our week was full of FINDING! yep and it was good. We were able to find 4 new investigators! Ok some are pretty young but all have potential. I love being a missionary. 

It is good to hear about old elder Davis. Ill keep him in my prayers. I think a mission is the best time to have a family member pass away because your testimony of the gospel is the strongest. 

Natalie emailed me this week :) she said she was so nervous haha. I would never ever redo the first few months of a mission. It was the hardest thing i have ever done but now it is the BEST! still hard but so so worth it. I just didn't know it would be the first few months. I am so excited to hear that Riann is putting her papers in! What about Dustin and Hailey?

Well this week was a really good one! We FINISHED LANGUAGE PASS OFFS!!!!! so now we can learn a little sign language is language study and in the furute i can start learning chinese characters. We are told to focus on the speaking skills before the characters. So ill probably wait a few months to start that part. 

We were able to teach our deaf investigator again this week :) she is so cute. I still can't understand everything in sign language but i can teach simple lessons in sign language. I feel like i have a deaf person radar now. We were on a boat to ap leih jau and i saw this deaf family in front of us. I couldn't let them go without trying to share the gospel! so we ran to talk to them when the boat stopped and the dad was not too interested until he could see that we were trying to speak sign language. then we got their number and now our recent convert who is also deaf is texting her and setting up a time to meet with them. What a miracle! 

My area has about 5 islands. But we only go to 3 because the others are too small and no one really lives there. and they are far away. it only takes 5 minutes to get to ap leaih jau and about 30 to get to lama island. And then we live on Hong Kong Island. It is so pretty here. I love it so much.

And now i know what they mean when they say spring rains. Last night we had what they call a black rain storm. We had just gotten into our apartment when the who sky went dark. Then sheets of rain were pouring down. We turned off all the lights and the lightning was so big that it lit up the house. The thunder what so loud and it was just amazing looking out the window of the 23rd floor of our apartment. And it hasn't stopped raining yet. It is not black rain anymore but I'm pretty sure the swimming pool next to our apartment is full :) 

So this week we went finding a lot a lot a lot a lot. We decided to walk from our house to our area (instead of taking the mini bus) well we didn't know it would take 2 hours. Finally we found a place called pok fu lam. THERE WERE HOUSES! Yep little tin houses but we could knock on the doors and it was legal. I felt like a real missionary knocking on doors haha. but then we were just knocking and walking when i heard an angelic angels voice. Yes mom. it was ELVIS! It was blasting from someones garden. so mom just for you we went to go see who it was! well his name was mr chan and he was about 60 years old. He invited us into his house (a fence with a tin roof and a garden) and decided to show us around. Well he talked to us about all his plants and that just reminded me of dad haha. anyway we tried to share the gospel and he interrupts us and tells us that the green plants in the very back are drugs. so we decided to get out of there! but we wrote down his number and said we would send the elders to teach him about the word of wisdom. he was so funny though! But that was a day of finding for over 7 hours. I think your prayers are working mom. We are finding. maybe you should pray for us to TEACH :) 

Oh and we do get to watch conference a week after you all. We will look for you in the front row! :) oh and also how are the kennibecks? (spl) I've been thinking about them. 

Kasey is doing great. She has been coming to church and has a calling as a ward missionary. she actually showed me her mission papers yesterday :) she is amazing. I just hope she will find a way to go on a mission! she wants to go so bad.  but i love you all so much :) thanks for the prayers. I can really feel them. I just love to think about my eternal family! Maybe not everybody will listen to me but i know that if all is said and done and no one listens to me i still have the gospel in my life and i have been converted in the process. 

LOVE YA'LL!    -Sister Hambreen

March 26, 2014

HELLO EVERYBODY!

It is sad to hear about grandpa sherwood. But you know what is cool? I knew it happened. I remember looking at my watch at that time, having a feeling that he had passed away, and then i prayed for elder Davis. What a cool experience it was because i just know he is happy and he is well. 

MIRACLES! well Kasey is back :) back back back. She has met with us a couple times this week and it is just so good and she is happy. She has been coming to chuch and all. Just pray for her!

So we went on 24's this past week. I went to causeway bay again. We were outside of the beautiful chapel trying to give people tours when ELDER GONG pops up out of know where. Well he is in the first quorum of the 70. He came to me, shook my hand, and pretended to be some random person on the street. He looked me in the eyes and said "sister, what is your message about"? and i said "Jesus Christ". Then he said do you think it is true? and i said "without a doubt" then he looked at me and said "good work sister, see you later". I WAS so scared! haha it was quite a shock because i have only seen him in pictures and i was just shaking in my sandals. But it was so cool to bear my testimony to him :)

We have a few more deaf investigators! Sister Chan is on a roll. We have been teaching a loot of her friends. Some accept but most don't really understand the message because they have never seen someone sign it before. So it is very hard to teach simply in sign language. but we are trying to work harder to learn it! I love sign language but i like speaking cantonese better....because i am better at speaking haha but signing is so fun! but we had one super potential deaf lady but let me tell you that it was the WORST lesson i have ever been in haha. So we have our recent convert sister chan. she is deaf. she has two sons one 6 one 7. well they are very crazy because their mom can't hear them and so they can do whatever they want. well they came to this lesson. And we were trying to teach this lovely deaf sister yuk when her sons just start screaming and throwing thing at us. Well then were reading scriptures so they didn't see anything. so we started yelling at the boys in chinese to get them so stop and so they ran out with with a gallon of water and came back with an empty jug. now where did the water go? we don't know because we were still trying to teach so then one of them runs up to me and starts poking me in the face. and we are supposed to be missionaries here so i couldn't just tell him to stop like i wanted to. so  we just try to push him away when the other one runs in with water guns and starts squirting us all in the face. Well their mom felt this one and got a little mad and kicked them out of the room. then we try to get back on topic when sister cheung and i look out the little window of the door and we see her sons squirting water all over the huge bicture of Jesus being baptized. so we booker it out of the room, tackled these little kids to the ground, took the guns and ran back in the room to finish the lesson. well the investigator caught on that something was wrong haha. and she was a little frustrated with the kids. so she left :( not a good ending but i wish i could replay that lesson for you all haha. it was the WORST lesson ever. 

Well dad, THE ASIAN SPRING IS BEAUTIFUL! especially on the island :) the trees are so bright and beautiful! and it smells good disregarding all the pollution :) it is beautiful! we were walking to general conference when just the greatest feeling of happiness filled me up :) i just couldn't stop from smiling and i looked at the chapel and the sun was shooting its rays right on the steeple of the chapel! it was gorgeous! ill try to send a pictue of it!

Well we have been finding a lot lately. we found on Lamma Island. and ap lei jau island and on our little island. We have been really trying to find new investigators because our zone has a goal this month for 101 new investigators....we usually get 30 but we are already at 78!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT A MIRACLE! the work is going forward :) but anyway we have been changing and sacrificing to find more time to find. so we decided that every time we get on our mini bus to go to aberdeen from our home in west point, we will sit by someone else. Well this has been amazing! We have 30 minutes to get to know someone and tell them how the gospel will help them! well some people do not want anything to do with us but they are stuck with sitting with us :) it is so amazing to get to know them and their families and why they are there and then introducing the gospel! Last night we were on the bus coming home and a person got on the bus. well he was a man and he wasn't chinese so i just prayed in my heart that he wouldn't sit by me...well he did. So i kind of chickened out and just sat there. Then i just couldn't stop but look at him because he wasn't chinese haha (not in a weird way, he was old) but then he took his headphones out and just said "hi" IN ENGLSIH! so i just stuttered and said "umm.....hi" haha well then i asked him why he was here and it turns out he is from peru and he works making video games! we talked for a while and then i talked to him about the church. he was just in awe that a 20 year old would give money to go tell people about a church and then have to learn cantonese haha. then he asked me if we had a card and if he could come to church!!!!! WOOHOOO! it was so good :) we talked to him for about 45 minutes and it was just ngonpaai. 

Well i have never been happier in my life. This gospel is happiness. I know that we will have happiness now and in eternity as long as we have this knowledge. I really challenge you all to invite friends to meet the missionaries. Don't be scared. just do it. The only way they will have this happiness and live with God again is through this gospel. not another gospel or another way but THIS way, And we all know this. SO SHARE THE GOSPEL! I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week sharing the gospel. and ill be asking how it went next week! so don't forget to invite someone to come to church or something this week :) ok love you all!!!!

March 17, 2014

HI!

darn! That is sad that you didn't get to meet the chan family! but i am glad you took a spontaneous trip and hit the valley! :) i bet it was fun even though you didn't meet them. But they are wonderful. Really. I love them so much. I think they would feel verrrrrrrry bad if i told them you went just for them so that was a good call mom :)  

I don't think ill be wanting to skip a block of BYU but i would love to hit BYU a few days after i get home haha. I am a little nervous about it all but thats ok. I don't have to worry about it for a few more months. 

It is good to hear about uncle merril and natalie and ray!! :) but not so good to hear about grandpa sherwood. :( ill be praying for the davis family! and chantz. It really is such a blessing that we have the knowledge of God;s plan. 

well this week we got to see our England momma in stanley! we decided that we would turn her over to the international elders next time. We wanted a smooth turnover so we decided to get a fellowshipped first! so we called around and found the closest member to her. We called and got it all scheduled and then we went to her house and what do you know? Sasha knew the member! it was soooooooooo good! so we will be turning her over this next week. But this is a picture of her and her two kids. the fellowshipped sister Pachini and her daughter! wow what a miracle. 

but the biggest miracle of all is 

KASEY CALLED US AND WE GOT TO SEE HER AND SHE CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yep :) she called us and told us that she wanted to see us. So she met us at the church and we didn't know what to say. so we just sat and let her talk. Well it turns out that once she got baptized, her sister stole her credit card and took all her money and now she is in debt and she has school and now part time jobs to try to keep her in school and in her parents house. It is so sad because she had been saving up for a mission and her ice skating competitions. she didn't want to go to church because she didn't want anyone to find out and want to give her money. sad. But i was soooo happy to hear that she is the same old kasey. She has gone through everything. It makes me so sad but so grateful. Anyway she came to church and it was just the happiest day! everyone was so excited and happy! and kasey stayed after church and then we talked and she is just amazing. PRAY FOR KASEY!

Then the recent convert sister chan (the deaf one) has been teaching us sign language. She wants to see us once a week so we can learn :) well it has been great and this sunday she gave us a referral! her name is sister yeuhng. So we will be learning a lot more sign language! i need the gift of signs now. But the cantonese is getting better :) anyway that was also a miracle!

 We have seen great miracles but this week has been a little tough. We got dropped by our investigators and our potentials also fell through. We have been finding and finding and finding but not really "finding" if you know what i mean. We have not been able to find many people who want to listen. It seems to just be a little dip that our district is in because it si happening with the elders too. Then right when we were feeling down we got a text from president hawks that said that he knows we are working so hard and he said he is praying specifically for our success but more than that he is praying that we will feel the Lord's acceptance of our work. So that was another little miracle. I love president Hawks. 

I have come to realize that faith is just the most basic principle but also the hardest for me. I have faith in the big things like my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I have faith in the gospel etc. but sometimes i really lack in little points like if i will find someone on the street that day. or if i will really develop christlike attributes and these things. I guess i just need more faith in myself and how the atonement can change me. I mean it already has so much! anyway enough talking about this. 

Today we will be going to stanley and we will eat some Belgium waffles and some shopping...maybe Hong Kong has made me a shopping lover. sorry dad! but it is so great over here :) well i love Hong Kong and i love you all so much! 

March 10, 2014

HELLO! :)

hehe i love your emails haha. 

The dr just checked my back so it wasn't that bad. And i didn't bring the bra with me haha that is a weird word. But i have the little clippy things that are fake undershirts that i lOVE i am wearing one as i type. 

MIRACLE! Kasey answered the phone this week! We got to talk. She sounds perfectly fine but i know that something happened. We will continue to work with her and pray for her. Our ward is just a mess thinking about her and trying to help. 

Well today i got my "leave date" :( I haven't been more sad on my mission than today when i opened the letter. It says that i will be home tuesday december 23rd. It is way too soon. But i am super blessed to have almost an extra month in Hong Kong. I am just heart broken right now. I don't want to leave. I love it so much here. So just letting you know. I don't know what we will have to do with school stuff or anything. It will be a little crazy because school starts the beginning of January. So just let me know what i need to do. Because i really don't have any idea.

So this week started out well! I woke up crying because i had a dream michael phelps retired. I don't know if it is true or not but i don't really care haha. I don't know why i was so attached to him in my dream. But i woke up crying. 

Then we went to do some exercises in the park and we saw the regular grannies just doing their morning exercises. So we decided to ask them if we could join. It was so fun. I love the old people in Hong Kong!

We were also able to meet angela this week. She was our investigator about 2 months ago and then she got a new job and disappeared. Well we were able to schedule her this week and we saw her and it was amazing. She has such a strong desire to know if this is true. And she does know it. We gave her a baptismal date for april 5th! So we are so excited for her :) I think that transfers are in the middle of April. I do not want to leave Aberdeen. This is my home :) i love it and the ward so much. When people reject us and just tear us apart, our ward is
ALWAYS there to build us up and make us stronger. The members in Hong Kong are so strong and amazing. 

I don't know if i have told you about the "shoe guy" yet but i think that every area has a strange man. Kwun Tong had the "dancing man". He would find the missionaries and just try to dance with them and yell at them and follow them around. Well we have the shoe man in aberdeen. If you are wearing shoes that don't strap he is there! He walks to you and hold his hand out for you to shake it and if you shake his hand he steals your shoe! So i have learne(from past experience) not to shake his hand. Well he popped out of no where and didn't even try to shake my hand and went right for the shoe! Well we were on a but so everyone was watching and i just had to handle it like a servant of the Lord. I was blessed and he didn't take my shoe but boy he scares me! So look out for the shoe guy :) haha

OH! sweet news! My ward correlator brother Chan told me that he was going to phoenix this tuesday! and he wants to call you two when he gets to the states just to talk. He has been my ward correlator for 5.5 months and he is amazing. He is one of the best members in the world! well i gave him the house number and your number mom so he will call you this week! and so if you are in phoenix this week he would LOVE to meet you :) and wouldn't it be cool to meet someone from my ward? well he and his wife will be in arizona. If you have time then you should definitely see him! But i know you are both really busy so if it doesn't work out then it is ok. But he will call you so be ready! :) his name is Jimmy Chan. and his wife is Jo Chan. :) :) they are amazing and have 2 sons on missions right now. 

So mom to answer your question about have we FOUND anyone this week. Well we find a lot of people every day! the problem is if they want to find the truth or not. We were walking past a dragon parade when i saw this man sitting on a boat on the sidewalk. (that sounds weird but they are all over the place) and so i decided that the spirit told us to talk to him. So i walked up, said Leih Houh, and he turned around. Well he had these harry potter glasses and one of those chinese mustaches. but it was a little thin and very frizzy. but that didn't stop us! so we started talking and it turns out he lived in arizona for 6 years and went to ASU! (that tells you what kind of a man he is right off the bat) haha just kidding...but really. Well his name was Ben. And the first thing he brought up was Joseph Smith. We explained that we don't worship him. Then he asked "do you know what will happen to me after i die?" well that is a perfect question and one that all missionaries want to hear!!! so we got all excited and said YES and started to introduce the Kingdoms of Glory to him. Then he stops us mid sentence and says NO there is NO middle kingdom! you go to HEAVEN or you go to HELL! that took us a little off guard. So we just looked at him for a second and he asked where it talked about that in the Bible. so look! a great opportunity to talk about the book of momrmon and other revelation. Well he didn't like that either. And he wanted me to talk to him in english so it was just weird all together. Anyway we kept taking my arm and saying "you need to stop preaching false doctrine" and "you need to get back to the bible" "the book of mormon is not revelation. it is not the word of god". well one thing i have come to realize on my mission is that i KNOW that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and it is revelation! So he could tell that i couldn't deny it. But he was just so sincerely trying to "help" us come to the truth. Well it was a good lesson but he just wouldn't listen. So we just stopped and i started to bear my testimony to him. I felt such power flood into my words. it was amazing. Then i looked at him expecting him to feel something and he looks into my eyes and says "you are a masterpiece from God". I decided that was our que to get outta there. haha. but we invited him to pray and read the Book of Mormon. He wouldn't do it. I just felt so sad. I can't understand why people don't believe the truth. THIS GOSPEL MAKES SENSE! there is nothing confusing about the gospel. There is nothing that doesn't make sense. If people would just listen and let the spirit talk to them they would know! But i just remembered what Elder Holland told us "if they can't accept that we have revelation then leave them because revelation has always been what classifies the true church". I just feel so bad for the people that won't take it in. But we will continue to pray for them. 

We were also able to talk to Gigi more this week and she didn't like us. Well we are pretty sure she has 2 personalities. She will text us and be mean and then call us and love us. So she told us to come to her house for orange chicken so we went and then she didn't answer rthe door and gave us a text after. Ill send you a picture of the text. I think that explains her. But we will pray for her too.

 

But all in all this week was great! I love this mission and my companion! she is so fun :) and she has such power when she teaches. I love you all so much and hope that all is going well. Tell grannies and uncle merrill i love them! I love you! :) :) 

<3 sister Huhng

oh ps hong kong has some of the best food ever! this is us at a Japanese place. in honor of you dad!

march 3 ,2014

this is my comp and i in the MTR and at a cool lithe brick restaurant.

HELLOOOOOOO! 

well yes i went to the old doctor leung....well he is not old but he is pretty good i guess. it was ....interesting. let me just say that the stereo type of chinese doctors is right! haha no it was good. he said that it looked great and that we just needed to see him again in 4 months to make sure nothing is changing. but it was pretty expensive! it was 2,600 hong kong dollars! that is about 300. i put it on my card if that is ok. Sorry family! and i have the receipts if you want me to send it all to you i will! just let me know! Sister Hawks went with me and then she took us to lunch afterwards. I love her so much. 

 

so this week was super great! Elder Holland was AMAZING! we had a missionary meeting for a little over 2 hours. just right before we took pictures with him! and i was lucky enough to be RIGHT BETWEEN HIM AND PRESIDENT HAWKS! yep i was front row because i am even short in asia haha. But it was amazing. these two are my most favorite people in all of China right now so i was just so happy. then Elder Holland, his wife, brother and sister stevenson, and hailstorm. I decided to do the 40 day fast that dad told me about. so i fasted that day and really focused on what the spirit told me i had to change for these 40 days and really for the rest of my life. Well Elder Holland started talking about how this mission is not just right now. This mission is my life. I need to make every change permanent. Then i feel like every talk was about prayer. Elder Holland said that when we pray, we should refuse to let heaven go. We should feel so connected with heaven when we pray. I realized that sometimes when i pray i am just praying because we pray when we go out we pray when we come in we pray all day every day and i realized that sometimes my prayers are not sincere and i didn't really feel like i was really contacting Heaven. So for these 40 days i am changing the way i pray.. Sister Holland told us about 3rd nephi when Jesus visits the nephites. She talked about how Christ prays and prays and then commands them to pray and the whole chapter is about prayer. Then Elder Holland talked with a lot of pulpit pounding :) He has such a passion and love for his mission. It was amazing to feel the power when he spoke to us. I just have so many notes haha so i will have to share them later. Buti felt so empowered. I just know that he is an apostle. another thing from that conference was "don't just go through your mission, let your mission go through you". We need to let everything go through us! we can't just go through the motions. I should be forever changed because of this. So i just love the 40 day fast idea. THANKS for telling me about it :)

But one of my favorite parts of this week happened when Elder Holland left. We all stood up when he left. Then all the missionaries waved him off as he exited the chapel. Then we all turned around to see president and sister hawks just looking at us all. I feel like time just stopped as we looked at them. They had such amazing love. I can't even explain how happy it was. It was so emotional to see them looking at us as our parents. I don't know how to explain how much they love each one of us. It is incredible to just look at their lives and know how much they have sacrificed to take care of their 150 other children. I love them so much. 

So we had such an amazing miracle this week! My new companion realllllly wanted to check out our finding area this week. so we decided to try new places. well the first few days were rough. We couldn't find many people and if we did they wouldn't stop. Well we decided to go to stanley. Yep, the huge tourist place. and then we realized why missionaries don't go there. Well my companion came from one of the few places in hong kong where you can pohk muhn. that means we can knock on doors. so she had an idea to just roam until we found somewhere we could knock on the doors! so we followed the spirit to a cute little alley way and guess what we saw. A TRAMPOLINE! it was a yard with a trampoline and a patio and all! So we decided to try to knock on the door. So we go up to the door and before we could knock a lady opens the door and says "come in!". Ok this was my first time knocking doors and this lady just opens and asks us to come on in! Well she is from london and her name is Sasha. She has 2 of the cutest little kids i have ever seen. Their names are claudia and hector. Well she told us that she had just been reading a book and it talked about missionaries and then she just opened the door and there we were! What a miracle. Well she only spoke english so it was solo weird to try to speak in english. Well she talked to us about her husband. He was in switzerland at a press conference for some sport thing. I don't exactly know what but they were suppppper rich. The house was HUGE! they had a couch and everything. So we got to talk to her and she rescheduled us to come back. it was SUCH A MIRACLE!!! We will have to turn her over to the englsih elders (who are both chinese) haha so it was just so good. miracles happen every single day!

This sunday we also got a new investigator! Her name is susan lee. She is deaf and has 5 children. She is the cutest and so are her kids! WE have a member who comes with us to help us translate but it is so amazing to be a part of a mute lesson. We are excited to see what comes from this. It is so amazing that we can teach in sign language. I am a little scared because we will be expected to know it soon haha so ill be working on that! We have the deaf sister who just go baptized and she is going to teach us more this week. so pray for us to learn more sign language:)

we were also able to go to a space museum today and we......ummm hmmm well we find and find and find! So we will keep finding and teaching! I love you so much, Thanks for the prayers. I can feel them so strongly. I love you love you love you! HAVE A GREAT WEEK! expect miracles and serve others!

Love sister Hamblin

February 24, 2014

Hello fam! 

This week was AMAZING! It is the 65th anniversary of Hong Kongs dedication for missionary work. We have such amazing member pioneers here. The first ones are still alive and we get to hear from them. I have them in my wards and it is just amazing to see how strong the members are here in china. I mean they had to get over a lot of tradition and hate to join the church. I look up to them so much. Pioneers in all places are role models. Elder Holland talked to Hong Kong last night and is still here. We haven't had our conference with him yet. that is tomorrow :) We are just so excited! His talk last night was amazing. it was about how we are all pioneers in this amazing and greatest dispensation. He talked about our churches history of fleeing. We fled from babylon, from jerusalem, from danger, fled to salt lake and many more stories of fleeing. Then he said something that just stood out. He said that we are done with fleeing. We are the first dispensation that will stand here and fight. We will stand tall even in the hardest of times because we have to prepare the church of the lamb for the Lamb. He is so amazing. He is such a powerful speaker. Probably because he is an apostle of the Lord. You could just feel the power in the room when he walked in. What i thought was interesting is that i already felt the power before. just as a missionary it is amazing the spirit that you have with you ALL THE TIME. but when he walked into the room there was just like a surge of that power that overcame me. I know that he is an apostle of God. I know that this church is true and is the only church with the full restored truth. 

So hong kong is getting warmer now haha and it was 97% humidity this week. I can't even get that through my head. There was just water dripping down our walls. it was the closest thing to raining. It was like we were swimming in our room. 97%! i can now say that Arizona has DRY heat. 

GIGI! This week we were able to see gig every day or at least talk to her. She has her other church and is really hung up on it. they keep telling her we are evil and she is silly for even meeting with us. They also told her that she couldn't meet with us anymore. So she called us and told us she didn't want to see us but thank you for everything. We were so sad. I am pretty sure my heart exploded when she texted us. We were just so sad and couldnt stop praying and thinking about it. Then she called us and just talked to us about how she doesn't think we are evil. She just talked about how we are good and what we say makes sense and how she just feels so good about what we say. Then she told us again that she wouldn't see us anymore. We were just so sad. I think missions are the most emotional things ever. So yesterday we were just doing numbers and GIGI walked into the church!!! We talked to her. she was just so frustrated with all that is going on. We bore our testimonies and just talked to her about Jesus Christ. It was so powerful. Then She told us she would see us tuesday night. So we are going to continue to teach her and hope she will listen to the spirit! what a roller coaster. It made me think of the skrewtape letters. When they are talking and the devil tells his angels that it doesn't matter what the people do as long as they are just a little off the path. How they can have their religion as long as it is not the full truth. How Satan will tempt us to do good things for better things. We have a less active that likes to do service instead of coming to church. Service is AMAZING but it is not what God wants her to do instead of taking the sacrament. I have come to see that a lot in my mission. People think they are just on the right track and they are doing great. Well they are just a little off and that is how satan can win. So please try to help everyone to get fully on the path.

haha so something funny that happened this week. So you know that companions are supposed to stay together AT ALL TIMES. the bathroom and an interview is the only exception. Well we were on an elevator. and elevators here are cra=zy. they fit like 20 people in a 5 person elevator. so anyway we were crammed in with a lot of mandarin people and it was our stop so i got off and then i turned around and a mandarin lady popped out instead of my companion! they i just heard some cantonese some mandarin and then the doors closed and the elevator ate my companion! i was a mess. I didn't know what to do and i couldn't talk to this mandarin lady and we were just so confused. well finally my companion came back running down the stairs for me but i don't know what will ever happen if i don't have someone with me all the time haha.

so question time!

well sister johnson will go to SUU in utah and i will see sister lee and johnson tomorrow and kasey is still not answering her phone or coming to church. my buy thing....uhhh i don't know....hambli23  name    and emilyb#23 password

maybe that is it. i am not too sure. sorry! i hope that is it. And i got the card of a huge picture of hudson and i am in love and i am so excited jess and andy are moving back to PROVO!!!!! :) :) :) see them in 294 years. I'm not coming home! haha

WELL I LOVE YOU AND HAPPY FEBRUARY! :) love you all love you love you and preach the gospel! invite people to activities and help them come to church!!!! <3 sister hambreennnnnnn