Last Letter Balm Of Gilead

I just cannot believe it's my last week in Hong Kong.

The last year and a half I have spent a lot more time in Buddhist temples than I ever thought I would. A lot more time on my knees than I ever thought I would. I also spent a lot more time laughing than I ever thought I would. I have loved Hong Kong more dearly than I ever thought I would. 

I also spent a lot of time trying to follow Jesus but He spent a lot of time telling me that He is the one following me. No matter what I've done or am doing or will do or any one of His children, His grace follows them. Always. 

I was reading in the Bible Dictionary about the Balm of Gilead. They found this balm that could cure people and it grew so abundantly in Gilead that it came to be called the Balm of Gilead. I have found God in so many places here and how He has healed me. Hong Kong is my Gilead.  <3

Endings and birthdays

I"m so happy about Andy too. He took us out to this fancy restaurant this week. He told us he wanted to take us and the Sheung Shui sisters out to eat and to meet him at mcdonalds so we assumed we'd be eating there but we show up and he and his wife walk us to this fancy jaulauh and we ate such amazing food. He's a good guy. Except. Ugh. Can I just say that I question on the daily why me a twenty year old averagely smart fake blonde is the person who deals with everyone's problems? He called me after church telling me how his son was telling him to leave our church because apparently Andy lended money to one of our members a few weeks ago and the member won't pay him back. Then Andy through his laughter tells me that he told this member that if they don't pay him back by next week he'd hit him. And so I'm panicking and asking andy so do you want to keep coming to church? And he's like uh yeah duh then I asked him well is it going to be uncomfortable and he says not for me but for that person yeah. Hahaha 

I tried to convince him to talk to Bishop about it but he refused. So yeah. That happened. But it seems that Andy is not the one you should be praying for but whoever took his money. Why why why why why.

Other than that this week was Bro Ho's birthday and we had the world's sweetest birthday party! One of our members Sister Chan bought him a cake and some snacks and went over to his house with us. He blew out a candle and everything. He told us that he has never had so many people celebrate his birthday before. My heart. He also bought me not one but two boxes of moon cakes to give to my "parentsey" (I don't know why all english words get an ey at the end but they do).

I had my exit interview with President Lam this week too. That was so weird. I told him how I remember sitting in his office the first time and being so nervous and afraid and I feel like it' been forever since then. It feels weird that next monday will be my last p day. Kinda of doesn't feel real. 

WE're going to see Jung Ji Muih from Kowloon City today. I'm so excited. 

Also I have been praying my freaking soul out for Infodatix. Even if it is slow at least we know God loves it. Well, He doesn't love that its slow but, you know what I mean. Thanks for working so hard even though it's so hard. I probably shouldn't ever complain about stuff in my life because at least I'm not on the phone with India whe things are going bad. I love you though I really am so grateful for all that you have done and do every day for me and our family. I will see you all so soon 

Andys baptism

Lol k Dad I'm sr comp but I'm not a dictator on the downlow my comps love p day because they don't have to be "on time". I have to let them be themselves. I'm kind of sad to hear the hot pot restaurant wasn't awesome but I don't really care we will still go together. Whenever I eat hot pot we have to have our own pot because we're not allowed to eat anything slightly raw bc Sister Lam thinks we're gonna die so I am excited to use the main pot. My goals in life. Yes! Andy was baptized yesterday!! HE is so precious I want to pass out every time I see him. Our ward was so supportive, I was so surprised when over half our ward stayed after to watch. He seemed so happy and sure of himself. He invited his family to come but they didn't :( but he just laughed and said that they are reverent enough for church. It was really cool to watch him be baptized. I could just see Jesus getting in that font with him and walking out with an arm around him. Before my mission I kind of thought that "getting baptisms" was like it, that's the big reward for everything you do. But I realized that it's not, it was a spritual and special experience but so is every time hearing him pray or hearing him tell us that even though he wants to smoke he stays away from 711 so that he won't get tempted to buy any cigarettes. IT's really cool to be a missionary and have such good cute little friends like Andy. I'm so excited for him. We talked to him about callings the other day and he was like "well I have nothing to do so yeah I thought I'd serve the church" lol. 

PS I am very proud of Luke's joke. Sounds pretty funny. I'm excited to read mom's talk, I'll do that in a minute. Congrats on fixing the ac, also proud of you. This week our toilet stopped flushing and plunging it didn't work so I had to call the landlord to help us. He came over and I kid you not pulls out this bot

tle of black liquid then tells me, "this is poison" then throws it in the toilet bowl and all this steam or something is rising up and the liquid got on the toilet paper and it straight BURNED hahahah what. It worked though. Toilet is back to normal. 

My new comp is so awesome. Her name is sister Lima Po, she's from Hawaii, she's so chill and the three of us get along so well. I'm sleeping on the floor and have a make shift stool desk because we're in a four person apt with five people but it's going pretty well. I'm happy to still been Fanling with Sister Stafford and Lima PO and the Sheung Shui sisters too. Sometimes they run into our office with panicked faces holding their phone on speaker and say we don't know what they're saying!! It makes me laugh because I remember being there. I really love them. 

I really love you too, good to hear from you. I made sure to reply to you first thing today so you can appreciate that. Today for  p day we are going to my favorite restaurant in Kwai Fong. IT's got the best spicy noodles you could ever imagine. I spent so much time calling every missionary serving in Kowloon to get directions and so so far I have a lot of vague directions to this place but I'm pretty sure we can find it. Flash back to you telling me how to find some place in Provo and me having a panic attack because I couldn't find it. Sorry about that. Ily.