Jousahn!
This week has been good. Lots of ups and downs, but
we're still having faith. The typhoon that was supposed to come on
Sunday and maybe delay Jeng Jimuih's baptism stopped and turned around
between here and Taiwan, so it never got to us! We definitely consider
that a miracle, especially because she was so excited and so ready to be
baptized. She's undergoing another round of chemotherapy this week, so
we're keeping her in our prayers. She seems like she's been doing pretty
well.
Because Jeng Jimuih got baptized, we are now very short on
progressing investigators and new investigators, which means we've done a
lot of finding this week. Our mission has been putting a big focus on
families, so instead of doing street contacting, which is so
inefficient, we've been compiling lists of part-member and less-active
families to visit, since our goal is for more families to be able to be
sealed in the temple. I called everyone on our probably incomplete
less-active list the other night, and only had 3 people who didn't tell
me no or hang up on me or whatever; one of the others the lady was
asleep, so her son told me to call back later, and another was Japanese
and I'm guessing didn't understand me very well. Mhganyiu! (means
something along the lines of no matter/ it's not important/ it's fine,
etc.) We will continue. Haha.
Pauline, who we taught last week and whose daughter Wincy is a
recent convert, decided she wasn't interested, even though we KNOW she
felt the Spirit when we taught her. That was disappointing. We did get
to teach Tomoko's mom yesterday-- Tomoko is on of our recent converts.
She's from mainland and has absolutely no religious background, so it
was interesting to teach her. The only interest she really seemed to
have was as far as it concerned her daughter, but we got her to agree to
go to church with her on Sunday, so we hope she'll do that. I liked her
a lot.
We also had one of the young couples in the ward invite us over for
dinner on Sunday to teach one of their school friends, who was really
cool. But Heidi (the wife) made us American food because she knew we
must miss it-- it was so good! She made a lasagna, and it was in that
moment that I realized how much I miss ground beef. Haha.
On Monday the Cheung Sha Wan ward mission leader and bishop's
families took us out for dinner-- it was cool, and pretty tasty. I tried
jellyfish, which actually tasted pretty good, but the texture was
weird. I also ate from a chicken that still had its head, which was a
bit unsettling. Looking at the menu, I was afraid Poon Hingdaih (the
ward mission leader) would order for me fish-head soup for kicks, which
literally just looked like soup with a fish head sticking out of it.
Luckily, he was nice to me and didn't do that.
Last week after sending emails we went to Mong Kok, the huge street
market in Hong Kong. It was cool, and stuff there was super cheap, and
speaking Cantonese is definitely useful for haggling purposes. We had
these desserts called something like ga je beng (I'm 99% positive that's
totally spelled wrong), which basically was peanut butter, melted
butter, sugar, and sweetened condensed milk mixed together and put
inside of a folded waffle. So obviously it was amazing. All the things I
love rolled into one. Haha.
Then today our zone got to go to the temple! The Hong Kong Temple is
gorgeous inside. Since it's newer and kind of has that streamlined
Asian look, everything felt really clean and really white-- it was neat.
We went to an English session, though some of the workers were speaking
in Cantonese, so I had to infer what they were saying. I actually could
understand a lot of what they would say, until they got to more
detailed words, and then I had no idea what was going on. Mhganyiu!
Love you all! Give referrals to the missionaries! For realz though,
since they're easily the best investigators, and the members are
supposed to help way more with missionary work than I think most of them
realize.
Sister Heaton
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