this is our temple group
the baby monkey is cute but still a little bit spooky
Guess what... we got summer missionaries! And uh... haha I'll tell you more about that later.
Last week we got to go to the temple on Friday. It was super nice. I was scared it was gonna be in chinese but don't worry President Lam has apparently heard all our chinese and so he knows better. It was probably the first time I went to the temple and really felt at peace. Sister Ng and Sister Adams and Villisen and I sat in the Celestial room for a long time and I felt a lot of love from God. After that we went to this Phillipino fast food restaurant because Sister Villisen is from the Philippines and wanted to go. It was pretty good and after that we walked around Central and then had English class. It was a nice day. And then on Saturday we got a call from the Assistants asking us if we would be willing to get summer missionaries. When they called to ask I said "summer missionaries? us?" and laughed and then Sister Ng took the phone from me haha. I didn't think they would give us some because I don't know what I'm doing. But they did. Summer missionary are kids 16-20ish who want to try out a two week mission. They take a companionship and give them each a SM and then you basically split from your real companion all the time and are only with your SM. That means that right now I'm kind of like the senior companion for my SM and I. The only time we are with Ng and hers are when we do planning or just at the house seeing them/ward stuff. Which I guess is kind of a lot. Her name is Got Jm and she's super cute. But it's pretty tough. She's only 16 and I think she came here expecting kind of an EFY type thing... but yeah this is definitely not EFY. She doesn't like finding, actually pretty much hates it. I cant judge her, this is tough stuff in the heat and everything. Shes also a little disapointed by our diet of eggs and ramen noodles (cheap and fast) She keeps telling me that I don't understand Hong Kong people and that I'm doing it wrong. So she is actually a huge gift to me because she is teaching me so much. As a missionary you really have to be persistent with people. I'm fully aware that I am annoying pretty much every person I talk to and yeah thats hard, but it's what you have to do if you want to find that one person who will be willing to talk to you. So whenever we're out I'll start talking to someone chatting and finding ways to introduce the gospel and she'll grab my arm and pull me away and then after tell me that because I'm white I don't understand Hong Kong people and I need to stop. I feel torn so much of the time on this. I dont want to annoy people but I also dont want to miss opportunities or waste my time. It's pretty hard. Im not sure what to do about it, but I told Sister Ng and since she is bolder/clearer chinese than me she has said a few things to try to explain what missionary life is like, but Got JM is still pretty defiant. She always says she's tired and asks stuff like "when are we going to eat at a members house?" and I feel so bad because I don't know how to explain to her that we can't really take time to rest and that our members don't feed us. Ive been praying like crazy a member will ask her to eat at their house but its looking bad. But on the bright side my language has already improved since I'm with her all the time and we speak cantonese all the time. Her English isn't very good so it's hard to communicate, but it forces me to have to figure out how to say things.
We haven't been able to meet with Slamet again but when I called her she said that if we call her an hour in advance this next week she'll meet us at the park again. Also glynis's mom is doing super good. She came to relief society on sunday and made all these comments like she's been going for years, super cute. I love you guys. Have a great week.
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