We had another lesson with Shan Shan and she told us how she tried praying twice to see if God existed, but that he didn't answer either of her prayers. So we talked about how just like parents and children God knows what's good for us better than we know what's good for us. She seems willing to put effort into finding out about God. She and her family came to church on Sunday!! She called me Saturday night to say that she would come and I wanted to cry. They took a taxi to the church because I guess that's what you do when your a rich mainlander in Hong Kong solely for your five year olds education. Shan Shan seemed to enjoy it, even if it overwhelmed her. #could we have picked another day to discuss temple work and genealogy? I love her little boy A Fai. And she has a little baby who is two years old and she was happy playing in the nursery that only has one other kid in it. Church was never stressful before it was just going to church but now church is worrying so much about other people and are they being taken care of and do they like it and we need to schedule everyone. But it's still good. I love going to church. We met with a couple new potentials this week but there wasn't any potential aka one of them has no interest and the other just wanted to teach us about how we are worshipping the wrong Jesus (don't you know we are worshipping the gentile Jesus when we should be worshipping the Messianic Jesus?) I've been trying really hard to talk to everyone lately, especially because my cute companion hates it and I want to give her a good example. We've been getting at least one or two numbers a day and so we have a few potentials, just hoping to be able to schedule them. Things are going good. I love Fanling and Sister Stafford, and meeting so many people here.
I love the thought you shared about how God uses all these things around us and in us to teach us about how to be close to him. I never knew how kind He was and how beautiful the lives he gives us are, but it's so fun to find out. Thanks for always sharing with me and for emailing me. I love to hear from you.
I have been telling Sister Stafford all week all I want is a stinking snow cone. None in sight. Ugh. We ate watermelon and I was like wow this is so close to being a snow cone and she just laughed at me and said I've been in Hong Kong for too long. Lol.
Last Monday Elder Cook and Bishop Wadell spoke to our mission. It was a really cool experience. I loved hearing them and also loved being with all the missionaries in our mission together. They are some good people. Before Elder Cook came we were standing there posed for the picture. We were all tired and noisy and so President Lam said okay well let's have you sing. So he just tells us to start singing and had us keep singing all the way until Elder Cook showed up. IT was really cool. We had interviews with him this week, he's a great guy.
I wanted to ask you a question. So our cute Shan Shan has been sharing with us how being a mom is so hard and busy and boring sometimes and she just wants to get away sometimes. She's afraid that joining the church will take that away. Did you ever struggle when you had little kids with that? Being mom really is hard. I"m so thankful you are willing to do it. You're great.
Well, things really are going well here. I love to be a missionary and I love to be in FAnling with my companion.
