Hello!
Thanks for the email. I'm glad you made it back up to Canada. How wonderful that you guys could have that time to spend with Grandma Joyce before she passed away and strengthen those relationships. It's interesting how knowledge of this gospel and Heavenly Father's plan can completely change the way we view this life. It deepens everything. I feel like it deepens our love for one another, it deepens our purpose and motivation, it deepens our happiness and joy. It adds an entire dimension to our lives, and I'm so grateful that we know what we know. I know families are forever. We have an incredible family, both immediate and extended. I love you guys! And I wish I could have been there for the Dynasty Chinese food with all of you! I could really show of my chopstick skills :) Well, I love Grandma Joyce. Summers won't be the same without seeing her anymore. What an incredible woman and example to all of us great grandkids. Give Grandma Susan a hug for me. I loved the pictures. Thank you for sending those. Seemed like a pretty sweet day.
Well, I love you. Thanks for all you do for me. I'm doing great. My apartment is small and hot, but nothing to complain about because thats how they all are. It's funny...you step out of the shower and its a race to dry off and put your clothes on without starting to get wet again from sweating haha. I hate getting dressed when I'm wet and sticky, so it's a fun game every morning. There was some leftover Aveeno or Aveda or something shampoo from last transfer...I think it's the stuff you use or at least used at some point in your life because I remember the smell. So I used what was left of it, because it reminded me of you and made me happy :) I'm smelling it right now haha. For the 4 of July, we had Zone conference in Won Chai, so we ate lunch over there. I was determined to eat something American. We found...PIZZA! that wasn't crazy expensive. So I ate a huge piece and loved every bite of it. They have Pizza Huts here, but they're really expensive and sit down sort of restaurants, and I'm not entirely sure how much pizza they actually really serve. Too posh for us missionaries haha. Who would have thought?
And I had the best night of my entire mission last P-day. Honestly nothing that special, but it's been my favorite experience so far. We were finding out in Yao Tung, and it was starting to get dark. They have these wet markets back there (I'll send you a picture) with all these live sea animal fish life stuff. I honestly dont know what half of them are. But it's so neat, because these markets are kind of like the back alley to all these really nice seafood restaurants, and they just go pick stuff up from the back and go cook it up. It's a really neat atmosphere, and reminds me a lot of dad for some reason. I'm not sure why, but if I could only take dad to one place in Hong Kong, I think I would take him here. It's just really local, and neat, and reminds me of him. So, so far it's my favorite place :) So we were walking through there and talked to several people. One guy followed us through the markets for about 20 minutes just trying to argue with us why God doesn't exist. It was going nowhere, so we finally just bore testimony (I might have been a little too blunt), but he got pretty quiet and finally left. We ended up at this harbor looking thing and walked up to a young man on a bench. It was dark by this point and we were about to head back to the MTR, but decided to talk to him before we left. He was reading a book about God. Which was awesome, right?! So we start talking to him and ask him questions, and he just stays silent the whole time and doesn't look up at us (which I'm pretty used to by now). But then we ask what he's reading and he finally looks up and answers us. He had a really bad stutter, so we understood more why he didn't acknkowldege us for too long. But once he realized we weren't going anywhere, and were actually interested in talking and getting to know him, he opened up a bit. Very thoughtful guy. We gave him a Plan of Salvation packet. He didn't really want to talk about it, but he wanted to read it with us there. So he would read a page silently to himself, and then close his eyes and pray about it. and then look up at us and nod, and flip the page. He did that for every page, and felt good about it. It was so quiet! and we could see Hong Kong Island from the shore all lit up. And the waves were beautiful to listen to. It was like the perfect moment. And to add to it...I looked up and saw 4 stars kind of in between the clouds. I haven't felt so peaceful or happy for a while. The stars started moving though, so I realized they were actually airplanes, but still! haha. it was incredible. The boy was really supersticious about devils and evil, and didn't like our church name (because Mormon has a similar sound to some sort of sound in chinese that means devils door or dark door or something weird. I'm not sure...I should figure that out.). So he wouldn't give us his number or anything. But we prayed together and gave him our number. Haven't heard from him, but I hope he's doing well.
Anyway, my time's up, so I should go. But I love you! Hope you have a good week. Tommy and Camilla and Dad, have fun at that seminar..PLEASE teach me everything you learn when I get home. Mom and Abbey, have fun at girls camp. Congrats on the license! and Danny and Jack....you two rock :) And I love your hair in those pictures I got. Good looking boys.
Alright, Love you!
Hannah
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