Hi Hi Hi! :)What an awesome week! I've never gotten so many emails! Thanks Tiffany and Justin! I will make sure I right to you on your missions! :)
This week has been crazy because everyone keeps taking turns being sick. I've been on an exchange once with Sister Galang and once with Sister Allado while our companions were resting. I hope everyone gets better soon!
I think I was so blessed to go on exchanges with Sister Allado last night . . . I was the only one well enough to go with her to their dinner appointment! We went to the Holyoak Family's home for a dinner appointment, and on the way, I met a man named Sunny. He gave me his business card right away and I hope he will let the missionaries in the future share more of our message with him! So the Holyoak Family is in one of the international branches in HK, and what do you know? Brother Holyoak is the director of Learning and Education at Pricewaterhouse Coopers! He was so thrilled that I love instructional design, too, so he gave me his business card and said that after I go back to school, I can call him up to get an internship! Yaya!
We've been working super hard when we can . . . our goal last week as a companionship was to have at least one pullback a day from World Wide to our chapel in Wan Chai. We prayed and worked everyday with no success . . . till last Friday! By that morning, I was trying to figure out what we were doing wrong and everything, but then Sister Silos said that we should just continue to do our best. At that moment, we'd never had so much companionship unity! We really worked together as we contacted and presto! We met a man from the Phillippines who came back to Wan Chai with us! He has changed his life so much over the past several years. He used to be a notorious member of Triad, a gang in HK and used to do many bad things. But now he is reading the Book of Mormon and wanting to change his life!
I had a dream Friday night that I was released from my mission that very day. It was such a horrible dream! In my dream, I was so surprised and went to President Van Dam, asking why he didn't give me some sort of notice 6 months ahead of time and give me a date for going home, but he was like, oh well! You forgot! So he made me take off my name tag. Wah! Later I saw my MTC companion Sister Bostwick sitting on a queen-sized bed, and she said that she would be going home at noon. I got really sad because then I found out that I wouldn't be going home at all to America because the family had moved from NC to HK! I then saw Sister Harding, and she is two moves older than me. I asked her why she still got to serve and she said that she asked to extend and since I didn't ask, I had to go. Wah! And then I had dinner with some family in HK and I couldn't say a word to them because I still didn't know Cantonese. The end. Good thing I will have some time!
The Island 2 Branch (my branch!) members had a One Day Mission last Saturday. It was so cool because the branch mission leader Sister Luz along with other members came to go finding with us all day! They were amazing examples to me as they were bold and didn't mind that people were rude to them. We are used to it as missionaries, but they are not! We taught a record of nine, member-present lessons! We were super happy that day and are excited to follow up on these people!
On a mission and in life in general, smiling makes all the difference. When we're out in the streets, the only thing that you can really see that separates missionaries from the rest besides ethnicity is their name tags and smiles. It's especially important when working with Phillippinas! If you don't smile, you don't have any chance of teaching! Sometimes, your face gets so tired of smiling at the end of the day, but it is so worth it to make someone's day! Sister Allado says that there is a city in the Phillippines called the City of Smiles because the people their smile so much! I would love to go there! :)
I met a man named David today in World Wide. The elders were so shocked that he actually came and sat down with me to learn more about our message because he is caucasion and from England. Normally, they do not stop! He didn't believe in God and had many questions about why we believe the way we do. He has tried praying before but says he didn't receive an answer. I told him that he needed pray as if he really would receive an answer to actually get an answer from God. He seemed to have a little more of an understanding and says he will try prayer again. Halelujah!
I will be going back to Macau this Saturday, and then, I get to watch General Conference! I am so excited! Many of the branch presidents stayed up till midnight to watch it via Internet last week to see who the new apostle would be and then we got a text the next day. Heee!
I love you all and hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Sister Chu :)
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