I Can See China From My House!

This week Abbey was the lucky recipient of Hannah's letter, because she is the one who wrote her. I sent a short note as I was on the road home from Alberta after visiting family. Kids are good, parents are good, everyone is far flung. The days of gathering all the chicks and settling in seem far away. I miss it. But we are so proud of everyone and all the good that they do in the world.


Here is Hannah's letter:


Thank you so much for the letter, Abbey! You have no idea how happy this made me :) you are so right, lay on the couch with your feet up. And the laptop works as practically a heat pad on your stomach haha. I feel ya. who knew there were so many other uses for computers? :) I love you. Hang in there. Well I'll write you a letter and you can share it with you want. It's been fun week. But also a sad week. I was transferred out of Sham Shui Po. Practically 9 months of being there! I was kind of thinking I would finish my mission there. A little bit of hoping. We were seeing a lot of good things happen, and lots of people were making good progress. But an incredible missionary was transferred over to replace me, so I bet it just booms above and beyond. Sister Kartchner and Sister Bosler were MTC companions, and who would have thought they would serve together out here?! President Hawks did I guess ha. They'll be so good. But now I am serving in Butterfly. "I can see [China] from my house!" But really, I can. so that's fun. Huge sky scrapers in that land. It's so mystical looking into China, knowing we can't go there. I loved Kowloon, but the New Territories are beautiful and out in the mountains, so that's really fun. No more city. actually, still some city, but lots more vegetation and ocean. I love it. But we have absolutely no one to work with. And the y just shut down the Elders here. So me and Sister Robinson (she's incredible...I'll send a picture next week) But we found somebody down when I was in Kowloon Tong who lived up here last week, so that was a miracle...one of those 9. God does love us! So we're excited to meet her again. She was the one that I just told to stop randomly. She's amazing.



More exciting news....We have summer missionaries for the next few weeks. I am so grateful. We're back to our 8 hour finding days I think, and now that we have summer missionaries, it's like doing splits for 2 weeks straight. So we'll do double the work. President Hawks is a smart man. And I'm really excited. So not much more to update you on. Noel gets married on the 24th. exciting! Cherry is going to Utah with her family, and will go look at the Salt Lake temple. exciting! lots of good things happening.



But I have to tell you about my new area. We have a few recent convert we're meeting with from the beginning of the year. And since we don't have Elders, we are teaching men now, which is fun. Uncle Fai is awesome. He's in his late 40's probably and wears these cool leather pants to church haha. I don't understand how - with this heat, but he's cool, so he finds a way. He's too good for preach my gospel right now...actually a really smart man with a lot of opinions and ideas...so we're trying to come up with some interesting ways to teach him. But the basics are where it's at, so we're trying to help him see the depth in those. He'll get there. And the Young Mens program here is awesome. There are 2 young men. But we called up a less active young man, and they all have a friend who has been investigating for years, but his mom hasn't given him permission yet. But we got the 4 of them and played a basketball restoration review thing. It was great. The work is fun. And we will build. And find new people to center our lives on haha. It is an adjustment from Sham Shui Po mainly because I feel like I lost so many people who meant so much to me. But they'll always be there. Their lives go on haha. And we'll find more. These people are good.


And so are you! You don't ever get to leave haha. we're family forever. so that's nice for me. I think you're amazing. Give everyone a hug for me. Have a great day today.


Love Hannah