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