Hey Everyone!
This week has gone by so fast! I just read my email from last week and wow, I use a lot of exclamation marks. I used to think it was really annoying to read emails with lots of exclamation marks so sorry hehehe! I'll try to use less hehehe.
There are a lot of changes happening in the China Hong Kong Mission! In our last district meeting last Friday, Elder McAllister announced that we no longer have mission conference--EVER! Weird, huh? We're all going to miss them and seeing all the other missionaries, but I guess President Chan knows what he's doing and we support him! So instead, each move (6 weeks) will have one zone conference instead of 2 and then a district meeting for every week except for the week we have zone conference.
Oh, just in case I haven't said this before . . . my district now has Elders McAllister and Leung, Elders Crowder and Fung, and Sister Lau and me. So great! Half of our district is from HK! This is such a great blessing to the work in Kwun Tong because of all the less active and lost sheep that we have to sort out. Since we have all of these native companions and they can read Chinese (horray!), we can finish everything so much faster! We go less active finding almost everyday, where we call or go to the homes of less active/lost sheep members and try to figure out who needs reactivation and home teachers. While we go to these people's homes, we contact people on the street. It's so much fun!
Sister Lau is doing so great as a missionary! She is very humble and just does what she is supposed to do. Everytime I lead, she follows and I admire her so much! It's different to be a missionary serving in your home. Sometimes, it is hard especially during finding time because Chinese people aren't used to smiling and talking to strangers! Good thing I just love finding! I told Sister Lau that I love finding because even though we get so many rejections, God always prepares at least one person for us who will listen! I told her that I just imagine my own mom and dad wandering around on the street, and then it's not hard at all to find joy in finding. We had a cool experience the on Sunday because we contacted a man who was Christian. He was so open to learning more, and it was the first time Sister Lau felt the Spirit as she taught! It makes such a difference!
Last night, we had a zone dinner (to make up for the loss of a zone conference LOL!), and our zone leaders announced this amazing plan that the mission is going to start doing! It's called the China Hong Kong Mission 100% Home Teaching Plan!!! This plan was used in England and so many miracles happened! What we'll do is have the bishop select 150 names of members in the ward and then also a member for each missionary to go on exchanges with every week. Then every week, each missionary will go on exchanges with the members to visit 4 families. We barely know the details, but we are so excited to do this! I could feel the Spirit tell me that this is the right plan when they announced it . . . it should be up and running on September 1.
Last Tuesday was interesting because one of our investigators came crying to the church with her 1 1/2 year old baby. She was going crazy because she had just taken drugs and was having hallucinations. Good thing my whole district was there to help! It was the first time we'd ever had to call the police on our investigators, but they couldn't really help because as soon as they came, she went sane. As soon as they left, she went crazy again. The elders tried to help her get home but she was just not in a normal state of mind with the after-effects of doing drugs. Some reporters came to see what was going on, but we made them go away . . . I hope they won't do anything to discredit the church! In the end, the church next door, the one that doesn't like Mormons, decided to help her and said they could help her get a social worker. We were all so relieved because there wasn't anything we could do to help! That was also the first time we ever gave another church one of our investigators. I'm not sure if they were any help because when we walked by an hour later, the same police were there trying to figure out what to do. We're praying that everything's ok!
My MTC companion Sister Bostwick got to choose her date to go home a couple days ago, and they gave her a choice between December 11 and another date in January. She is going home on December 11. So far, no one has set a date with me so I'm just guessing I'm going home on December 11! I really have no idea!
I love you all!
Love,
Sister Chu :)
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