So, I don't remember what I've written about Kwun Tong, but I'll start this with saying we have a decent amount of people with some mental problems here. It's an older and poorer area, the buildings are super colorful, and so are the people haha. We have a set of twins who are less active. But they still meet with us once a month and come to Sacrament meeting every now and then. They are under the impression that they can see the Savior after they got baptized, so this last lesson they shared with us their experience this past week. He appeared to them in the form of a cat. And they meowed together. So that was interesting. They meowed for half the lesson ha....so ya. But remember Yihm Jimuih? She loves to read books. She's read the Bible and Book of Mormon many times and has been working on the Doctrine and Covenants. We've been trying to help her find her own testimony lately, and the sweetest thing happened on Sunday. Well, I thought it was sweet and fitting all at the same time. She was so excited to see us at church (well, her form of excitement...walked fast to us with really wide eyes..she's so great!), and told us she finally found it! She found her testimony. We pulled her aside and asked her to share it with us, and she whipped out the scriptures and flipped open to the Articles of Faith. And read them. We asked her why that was her testimony, and she said "Because it's true." It was darling, and made me smile. The relief society president is helping us teach her this week to get her opinion and advice. We're seeing progress though. What else...An old man tried to kiss me this week. And got uncomfortably close. Maybe it was last week actually. And maybe I already wrote you about it, but it got my heart racing haha. I went to shake his hand, and he wouldn't let go and it all happened so fast, but he came in for it haha. That kept things exciting. What else, I got something in my eye this week. Which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but I could not for the life of me get it out or hardly open my eye for like 2 days. No, the second day I could open it, but it was super uncomfortable and I could still feel something in there. But I woke up yesterday, and it felt better, so that was a relief :) I looked really good those two days, though..big puffy red eyes! I felt like that episode on friends when Joey had to do the eye commercial for you, know, those chemistry eye cleaner outer things haha. Except that I was in a Mc Donalds bathroom, and there were a lot of cockroaches :)
Oh, and we moved this week! I got a call from the APs saying they would pick us up the next morning at 8:30 so pack our bags. Which was great, except we were teaching until 9, so we didnt get home until just before 10, so it was some quick packing! now I live in Kowloon Bay. so that's fun. Now it only takes 30 minutes to get to our area, before it took like 45, so we're closer!
We've been teaching Leih Jimuih and her husband Taahm Hingdaih, the man with cancer. He's very sick, and usually not fully involved when we visit, but she is so sweet. She doesn't have any religious background, but she loves when we visit and when we pray because she feels so warm and good. We had to move slow with her just because of her circumstances, but we're ready to really start teaching her the lessons, and I'm excited to see her learn. Because she feels the spirit already. She hugs the Book of Mormon every time we meet with her, and I know she really can feel Heavenly Father's love for her. It's neat to see people feel that.
I don't know, things are great! I'm excited for transfers. I'll probably have my next companion for the rest of my stay in Kwun tong, so at least 4 months...so I'm excited to see who it is! Thanks for all your emails. I love you and hope you're all doing good. Have a good last few weeks of summer! I hope the yard is ok after that storm. Crazy. And I hope you feel better mom. If I were home I would make you some good Fa Cha (flower/herbal tea) :) Leih Jimuih told me I need to drink more to get rid of the poisons inside my body haha. Supposedly it will help keep my skin clear! So I'm going to down that stuff haha. Just kidding. Oh, I had chicken feet this week. Don't recommend it. And I had fish eyes a few weeks ago. Don't recommend that either. But the thaigwok women in our ward after church made us some food, and it was super good. I'm getting good at not asking what things are, and it's usually not too bad. But chicken feet are hard to disguise :) anyway. Love you guys. Have a good week!
Love
Hannah
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