Okay family and friends - the countdown has started! Hannah will be home in less than three weeks. Her speaking date is October 23at our 9 am Sacrament meeting - if you're interested. I'll try to record it for those who live too far to travel. And Hannah doesn't want you to get your hopes up - she'll be jet-lagged, worn out, & her English will be lacking.
But, she can't trick me - I know she'll be amazing. She always is! Can't wait.
(Sidenote - Hannah references Tommy's work on Google stuff. While Tommy was working on the Google ads project, it is not technically hisproject at work. Does that make it any less amazing? I think not, but I wanted to clarify.)
Hello! Congratulations Abbey, you're done work! and Danny and Jack, you're tennis champs! and camilla can destroy me in rock climbing! and Tommy is doing advertisement for Google?! I love reading these letters. It's so fun to hear what's going on. Thank you for the topic. I'll think about it.
How was conference?! I'm so excited to watch it. I need to think a little more specifically how to prepare for it.
It's been a busy week. We had zone training this week, and it went great. It felt really personal, and I think missionaries walked away with something for themselves. It was very much centered on families, and on time. We've been focusing on trying to schedule people in their homes here, which is not really in line with the culture, but we're seeing some progress, and people let us up! It makes a world of difference in teaching. And this week we went on exchanges, and got to know one of the sisters in our zone a little better. Sister Chi from Taiwan. She told us about her conversion story: as her family of 7 were out one night for dinner, missionaries approached them and their father agreed to let them visit them at their house later that week. 2 months later, the entire family was baptized. That story should be in preach my gospel or something, because it's practically perfect. But I'm glad it's not, and I'm glad it didn't happen in south america - it makes it seem a little more possible here. Is it actually possible to find/teach/baptize a family on the street in Hong Kong? I've never heard of it happening on my mission. But of course it is. So we're searching out more families. We were at Mission leadership council this week and stopped by the mission office, and as we were thinking about what we could do to implement the goal a little better, we went and grabbed every family proclamation we could find.So hundreds of those are making their way around the New Territories these next weeks. We cant let a single family pass by without inviting them to learn the message of the restoration. Which seems like an obvious thing to do, but there are lots of people in Hong Kong and it's difficult. And I'll be honest...it's weird. and awkward because usually only the kids will talk to you. but we'll get better at it! I still would choose the single 50 year old man over the 30 year old mom with a kid any day. Those mom's are intimidating! But now we'll go for the families. It's fun. I'm excited.
Speaking of moms, I have such a respect for moms. I learned it a little better this week watching a woman in our ward come to church. It's downpouring rain, and she has a baby strapped to her front, an unbrella in one hand pushing a stroller with the other hand, and the stroller has one son standing on the back end and one son in the cart part, all covered with that one umbrella. and she runs that stroller straightn up the narrow ramp to the church doors in one try like it was nothing. I was just in awe. So thank you mom, for doing that for us. I am amazed at what moms do.
What else. Paul! Paul is awesome. he's incredible. He's progressing! Great great kid. We taught him the word of wisdom last week, right before mid autumn festival. He went up to mainland with his family for the holiday and kept the word of wisdom all week! I was so impressed. He said that he would jsut drink hot water instead of tea, and his family didn'tthink too much of it. And then he also went out this week and bought himself a white shirt and tie and sport coat to wear to church. This 15 year old boy going out and doing that by himself. He walked up to church and looked sharp. you coudl tell it was probably his first time wearing clothes like that before and brother sam helped him straighten things out a bit before we started, but it was sweet to watch him really do his best to look his best. I need to get a picture of him for you. He reminds me a lot of jack's personality, but a little quieter. And as sat behind him in church his head reminded me of danny's haha. It's quite large. Probably expalins why he is so smart. very smart kid. sorry, you should take that part out.
And Winson!
so the picture of this family has the super mom, sister Yuen. and her sister and parents and husband and kids and us. And the man next to me is our recent convert Winson. He looks a little scary, but he has the kindest heart. Very rough background and he is always surrounded in quite a hard environment with work, and I am amazed at how sensitive he has stayed throughout his life. every time he meets with us, he'll bring us some sort of packaged chinese dessert, which is very kind. I am glad mid autumn festival is over and we dont have to eat any more moono cakes. Don't worry, I'll bring some home for you to try. But brother au is our ward bought Winson a new white shirt to wear to church to pass the sacrament in. And since it was raining so hard (it practically rains horizontal because it's so hard with the wind) he was soaking by the time he got to church. But I appreciated him all the more because you could see through his soaked white shirt tattoos spread all over underneath. you couldn't tell before, and I had no idea. But I really respect him. Very quiet. Very timid, but very willing to try. His willingness to learn and be obedient to the Lord has impressed me greatly. He quit smoking on his own over the course of being taught, and he just had an ability to do. he just does things. Doesn't say much about it or ask much. I've met so many great people. I'm just going to tell a 15 minute collage of all of them and sit down.
Oh, and today we went fishing. I loved it. Here are some pictures.
Love you!
hannah
hannah
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