Trying

I am sorry I haven't sent pictures recently. We've been emailing at the apple store lately just because the last few pdays have been a little cramped. and we're here again today, so I can't upload pictures. But I will next week! because I have lots of pictures to send! But congrats to Abbey! How cool...Camilla and Abbey have both showed me up and got their motorcycle license. What a neat thing. What's next...? And I love that Danny's in the marching band. I still can't get over how tall he looks. It's amazing! And I'm glad Jack and Dad are keeping the yard up to speed. Love it Jack. You'll miss it, I promise you.

But hey! I found out the rest of my Chinese name. Dung Wihng Yihn. So you can just call me that now haha. I am also picking up on some Tai chi in the mornings. We have an entire colony of popo's who line up and do their routine, and every once in a while they'll invite us to join. So I'm loving that! The last couple of weeks we've had washer and dryer problems, so we've just been hand washing things and hang drying them . So the light fixtures are in very good use lately :) And it's not that big of a deal, other than I'm learning I'm not good at hand washing things haha. I feel like I just put them in a dirty sink and get them wet and soapy...and more dirty haha. And it's so dang humid here, nothing fully dries. So that's probably the most day to day report to give. I love that I'm from Nevada and can have dry skin when I go home. Even if it made my legs look like fish scales sometimes :)

This week was kind of a disappointing week. We had 13 lessons cancelled on us. And 8 of them we had members scheduled to help us. hou cham. big fail. just one after the other haha. 10 of them were on from friday through sunday. And I can't help but wonder if Heavenly Father just knew we weren't ready or worthy to teach these people the way we needed to. Because actually on Thursday night, Lam Jimuih and I had a bit of a tiff. Everything's fine now, but yikes. We have different backgrounds and speak different languages, and it made things hard. We had different opinions about the word of wisdom and talked about it after the lesson. and it got to the point where she was throwing her bags at the MTR station and wanting to call President Hawks about an emergency transfer ha. But we went home and talked it out and worked things out and things are ok. Sometimes it's hard. She just is very up and down with her emotions, and almost every other night she breaks into tears and gets upset. This one was just the worst one. But we worked it out. Everythings ok. We're really getting better and better every week. little by little. But after that night, I think we just needed these last few days to reset before Heavenly Father really trusted us with teaching these people again. And that feeling wasn't great. I don't know...I could also be reading too far into it. But either way, gives us something to do better next week!

But we did still have some incredible experiences this week anyway. We're are teaching a woman named wendy lam. She is very special to me. She is very poor, but doesn't want to get a job because she wants a good job. A career. she has plenty of opportunity to work to get by, but refuses to take it. She has been meeting with missionaries for years now, but mostly just for english class. She has a strong temper and very "woe is me" mindset. But she wants to change. She realizes she needs to change. We've been meeting with her almost every night the past few weeks, and we've seen such huge change. she has become so humble and willing and honestly, if I've ever seen what it means to "thirst" for truth, she's it. We met with her quickly after English class on wednesday night and read scriptures. Afterwards, we invited her to say the prayer. Right as she was about to start, she quickly looked up and asked if we could kneel. (the lesson previously we taught that when we have personal prayers, sometimes saying audible prayers and kneeling can help us feel the spirit better). I felt silly for not already suggesting we kneel in the first place, but we quickly agreed that would be a good idea and knelt down together. That was really sweet for me to see. She wants to feel the spirit, and she's trying. She then offered a prayer in English. Of course we encourage them to pray in their own language, but I think that since it was right after English class, she went for English. And for this time, I actually really appreciated it, because I could understand everything she said, and for me it was such an amazing and powerful and heartfelt prayer. Seriously so simple I feel silly writing about it, but as she offered it, it brought me to tears. It was powerful. She's trying. And I'm trying. Yeah, there are a lot of things she could do better and try a little harder at. But I had this overwhelming feeling of love for her. I wish she could have felt it. And it made me realize that Heavenly Father thinks the same thing for us. yeah, I could try a little harder sometims, or do a little better. But I'm trying. We all are. And being able to see how sincere Wendy was, and how humble and willing she was really impacted me. I know Heavenly Father loves us, and we're asked to try our best. Anyway. this I'm sure is one of those mission experiences that matters a lot to me, but doesn't come across fully for other people. but I thought I would try.
Alright. I got to go. But I love you very much! Take care of each other :)

Love Hannah