A Math Degree, a New Companion, and the World is Full of Amazing People

Investigator - Heidi

New Companion 

The pigs that like to come at me!

A note:  We got a letter congratulating us on Hannah's graduation from BYU - with a degree in Mathematics.  Impressive, yes!  And a little surprising, as she thought she had delayed it until she returned from her mission so she could take a couple of Computer Science classes.  But graduated she is - Camilla will attend the banquet that Hannah was invited to and pick up a program with her name on it, and Hannah will walk for graduation when she returns.  And pay postgraduate fees for additional classes!  And, on a more tender note - Hannah reached the one year mark of a course re-direction.  She mentions it briefly.  My thoughts have been with her and I'm so glad for her to have this opportunity to serve The Lord, and grow spiritually and emotionally and a million other ways.  She's amazing.  I always say I want to grow up to be like her.  I'm not kidding.

Wow! I graduated?!....Fun stuff haha. And Happy Birthday Jack!!!! I hope you had such a good week! You look awesome. I can't believe you're 13. I feel like you should actually be more like 15...so I'm a little backwards :) Love ya bud. And Danny! I saw that picture of you - so tall - and had to do a double take! People would love you here. People like to take picutures with me a lot and hang on my arms here, so I can't imagine it if you were here! Sorry, I have this cute little girl trying to talk and climb on me while I write this, so this could be a shorter letter haha. And Tyler emailed me....got a new girl friend, so I replied to him and that took some time. Sorry! It's been one year! Cool to see how the Lord knows us better than we do :)

But, it's been an amazing week. My trainer went home today, which feels weird. Transfers don't end for 3 more weeks, but she was going back for school. So my new companion is a summer missionary, and I'm feeling a little nervous! They have a summer missionary program where the young men and women can do a 2 week mini mission. So they live with us and teach with us and become our companions! Which is an awesome program, but I still feel new at this, so I'm feeling a little pressure. Sister Simpson served here for the last 8 months, so she knows the ward and knows the people and knows the language haha. I've done my best to learn everything i could, but I think there's always going to be some gaps. So now it's me and my 'syuke chyungausi' against Kwun Tong. And we're ready! Ready or not haha. She's cute though. We're going to rock it.

We had a great week though. I'll send some pictures. The girl with short hair is Heidi. I love this girl. She is adorable. She likes karoake, and goes dancing with her mom, and yoga and always wears funny socks. She got a new job, and she wants to change and become better. She doesn't work very  hard and feels lazy. And she lies sometimes. But she wants to become a better person and change. She believes in herself, and doesn't fully understand the need for God, but yesterday she prayed and sayed she knew He hears her prayers and knows He is real. Woohoo!!  So awesome. We showed her the Because of Him video and told her there are a lot of ways we can change and improve, but we know that the best way is through Jesus Christ. We committed her to every night for the next 2 weeks read scriptures and pray to Heavenly Father and go to church, we promised her she would see herself change. So I text her every night. And she's so cute. She asked if she could send us texts about scriptures she reads and likes and her thoughts on them...um, of course!! :) She's the greatest. She also wants freedom...so commandments are next :) Anyway, I love this girl so much and wanted to show you who she is.

We have another investigator named Yihm Jimuih. She, in all honesty, is kind of like a computer. And it's a little tough. She's read the Book of Mormon twice. She's received the first 3 lessons several times. She can repeat back the restoration and answer any question "correctly" It feels a little like previous missionaries have "programmed" her in a sense. She knows she's supposed to feel 'syu fuk' (comfort) at church and she knows she's supposed to feel peace and 'hou hoisom' (so happy) when she reads scriptures. But she doesn't really have her own feelings. Which is so weird to say. She is from mainland, and married a man a lot older than her so she could move to Hong Kong. He's a hoarder, and so she likes coming to church for air conditioning and there's space. She doesn't have a mental problem, but there is almost this wall. It's really weird, and I'm not sure exactly how to describe it. She's just kind of blank. I think she needs to feel love, to understand how God loves her. So we're just trying to love her. And we're teaching her the commandments so she has a way to show God her love for Him. We've seen a little improvement though! She related a scripture to herself last week, and it was so neat to see this light in her go off about how the gospel is personal. Anyway, I'll keep you updated! Sorry, not a super interesting letter, but I thought I would introduce you to the people in my life out here, because they're amazing :)

Love hannah