You all look so great! Thank you for the pictures! I love pictures. Well, Butterfly is beautiful. and incredibly small. Like 1/10th the size of my last area. if that. and it's not like my last area was that big either haha. Tommy covers the entire tundra on his mission, and I cover a few blocks -haha. rough life. So we walk around and literally everyone here knows who we are and thinks they know what we have to say. If they give us a chance to speak. It's been fun to clear some things up. They get really surprised, and little by little they'll start questioning their sources. which is great. Because we all know God is the best source of truth. Right? right :) It's a fun area, and I love the ocean. Did I tell you that last time? Ocean and mountains. It's so beautiful.
Well, this week we had our lovely Syuke chyungaausihs. Our summer misisonaries. And mine is awesome. Chin Lam, actually from my old ward. She would go out finding with us all the time back in Sham Shui Po, so I felt for her a bit because it feels kind of like it's the routine Sunday afternoon chamjauing/finding session. But we've had fun. And it's been a blessing to our area. We taught a lot, and found several new people to reschedule us! Exciting times. Sister Robinson is a ball of energy. She has a lot of stuffed animals, that we had to convince her she can't bring finding - ha. And she doesn't stop talking. ever. which is actually really good, because our language is getting awesome. kind of haha. not really, but it's improving a ton. at least our understanding. blessings all around! They're good girls. I'm impressed they're willing to go through this for 2 weeks. It shows the gospel is true, because in all honesty, it can be pretty tough at times, and they know that, but they end up being glad that they did that and see it as a positive experience. It's interesting to see what testimonies can get us to do. More than we can ourselves, that's for sure.
So I remembered the thing I was going to write about Tommy living in New York a few weeks ago. It really doesn't have much correlation other than what my impressions of New York are from watching those New York tv shows. We went to Central to pick up some medication for my companion a few weeks ago. Central is on Hong Kong island, and is just surrounded by business buildings. Reminds me of what New York would be like. Lots of forgeiners, so that was fun. so many cool accents, and everyone is BEAUTIFUL. and loaded. We walk out of the MTR and in front of me is this white girl who is stick thin and wearing a tiny dress and super high heels with this clothes hanging rod thing over her shoulder walking up the stairs. we were pretty sure she was a model. it was awesome. and then you get on to the streets, and you literally just breathe in money. The air is perfume. I just wanted to walk around there all day and soak it into my skin. All these prada and gucci and other stores I should know what they are, but they're all in french or italian or other pretty languages. and their air conditioning and perfume were just leaking out onto the streets. It was the most worldy heaven I could imagine. It was just neat. and we bought mrs. fields cookies. way too expensive, but we were feeling upper class ha. And we rode the worlds longest escalator. It was a pday, dont worry. We didn't ride the entire thing...I hear it takes a couple hours. but we rode it for a while.
Ok, I want to tell you about a new investigator we met this week. Her name is Sister Jiu.
She is from mainland, and works as a nurse here in Hong Kong. She had an accident at her work in January, I'm not entirely sure what happened, but something to her right pinky. It ended up causing all sorts of problems to her neck and right shoulder. Dad, you'll understand it better than me. And I could have understood the accident part wrong, but the doctor started talking about her C4/5, C5/6, and C6/7. Her right side of her body goes numb and cold a lot, and she met with the doctor to see what to do, and they scheduled her for surgery next april. And in the meantime, she's taking care of her grandparents, and pretty out of work, and she's been feeling pretty done with her life. Just kind of sick of everything being so hard. I'm never really sure, in all honesty, how to teach people with physical problems about the Gospel. I know miracles happen and faith is a real principle and power, but I don't want that to be their source of faith, the hope that they'll be completely healed in a year. I feel like I've had to teach a lot of people hoping for these physical miracles in their bodies, and I still haven't figured it out. But we did share about the atonement and about eternal hope, and meaning to our lives. She came to church and said she felt so strong that she was meant to be there. She's accepted a baptismal date. Anyway, interesting situation that I'm thinking about right now.
I need to go, but I love you all. I'll send pictures next week when I can figure out these new computers. and I'll write Jack. Sorry, bud. :) Love you!
Hannah
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