November 6, 2013

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Good Morning mumsie and pops!

The new area....WOW! it is so different from KWUN TONG. We went from 15 investigators to 1. So we have been doing a looooot of finding. It is good though. I love walking around and teaching lessons on the street. It teaches me more chinese and more patience.

Sister Johnson is a rock star missionary. She is awesome! She is a hard worker and we just get along so well. We are just so new and dont know where we are going or what we are saying. I have really learned about relying on the Lord. We dont know Cantonese and we dont know exactly how to do missionary work, but we know that we are nothing without the Lord. I have seen so many little miracles this week. I have tasted a little bit of the gift of tongues. We were both so nervous for our lessons because we never could understand before. But now we have been able to understand everything we needed to! It is amazing. I could not learn this language without the Lord.

We have one investigator and her name is Kasey! She is 23 years old. She is a nurse and CINDERELLA in Hong Kong's Disney on Ice! So she is pretty much a real princess.....(other than being a daughter of God). She is a twin. Her twin sister is a jehovahs witness and does NOT like Kasey involved in our church. Kasey has been through a lot of trials. She is the perfect example of having hard trials and being deep in the pit of heartache. She has used the Atonement and has read the Book of Mormon and is just stellar! She read like 100 pages of the Book of Mormon within 4 days of us seeing her. She loves the D&C and the Bible. She is just amazing. the first day i got to my new area she told us she didnt know if the church was true and that she didnt have faith. We committed her to start reading the book of mormon (this happened before she read the 100 pages). Then she came back the next week to church and said that she got her answer, she knows this church is true, she loves the book of mormon, she said that her faith had grown so much and it is just a miracle! she is getting baptized in 2 weeks. What a miracle. I know that us as missionaries do not convert people. All they have to do is read the book of mormon and the rest just falls together. We had a meeting last night after her baptismal interview and she just asked us if she could stay in the church for a while and read scriptures. after we went into the room and she had the bom out, d&c, and the bible and she was just sriting away in her notebook. I think we all need to follow Kasey and be converted to the gospel and the book of mormon. We should all be dilligently studying the scriptures daily just as this investigator does. I think that the people we are teaching are such bettter examples than i am. I wish i would have really really studied the scriptures before my mission!

anyway HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOO!!! Nothing really happened in Hong Kong on Halloween haah sorry mom! oh p.s. my neck is doing that weird thing again. Hope that goes awa soon.

   So i just got another package today! THANKS MOM!!! :) :) the starbursts are already gone! haha i love candy from america. Nothing tastes the same here......so keep it coming! :) also if you know ....you were going to send another one soon....i would love some granola...it is suuuuper expensive here! (well for missionareis) i guess it would be easier to just buy it here......oh well. OOOOO mom! can you send me some easy christmas snack recipies and mexican recipies? Not on email but maybe in a letter? sister johnson and i want to make some! oh and maybe some hot tamales and reeses!!!

   So i never thought this would happen but i am peeling like a lizzard out here! it is 70% humidity and i am so dry haha i am using chapstick all day and lotion. I cant imagine what i will be like when i get to arizona in a year. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT HAS ALREADY BEEN 5 MONTHS?!!?!? it is so crazy! time flies.

  So something culturaly different.....people are not afraid to tell other people that they are fat. it is like normal. and no one gets offended. We were on the bus and i was talking to a couple of girls and one of them just talked about how fat the other one was. it was super awkward. then we went to dinner and one of our ward members new a missionaries mom and said oh i know your mom! She is the fat one! and the missionary was like "oh yeah! thats my mom." it was so weird. I dont think i will ever get used to that haha.

   O.k. my rice cheeks are out of control! How do i stop this>! dad do you know any cheek exercises? Help me know how to be healthy in hong kong! all their food is noodles, rice, dumplings, and a tiny bit of vegetables. WHAT DO I DO!?

   Well i just want to tell you all that i am living in paradise. I love Hong Kong. I am even getting sad when i think about how long i have been here because then it means i have to go sooner! I love the Lord, i LOVE your letters, emails, and packages, i love you all. keep loving me :)

Oh we went to the temple today and i just want to tell you that i love the temple and it is a place of ervelatioN!  :)

sorry no pictures. I took some but this computer has no usb place. HOPEFULLY NEXT WEEK! :) :)

LOVE YOU!

-sister hambreen

hmmmmmmm so i have like more time to write than i thought and i am kind of bored :) please dont forget to tell me all about Jess and Hudson this week! send lots of pictures! and stuff!! Thank you for the christmas cDS! I LOVE them! i havent opened the rest of the package yet but im excited :) oh and have you recieved the package i sent? it is just little and has something for mum and jess in it! ok better get going! and i just emailed granny carol! lcan you ask her if she got it so i can know if that is her address? :) thanks! and HOW IS KARA AND AUNT NANCY! tell them to let me know!