Hello again!
I love international work in HK, and living with Phillippina sisters is teaching me how to have lots of patience and to be optimistic. There are now six of us in our tiny apartment because something very unfortunate happened to the other sisters' apartment last week. If you really want to know what happened, just email! :) Anyway, their place now smells really bad and they've had to evacuate to our place. It's a good thing that we finally got our bathroom light fixed yesterday! We've had to shower in the dark the whole time I've been here.
I am serving with some interesting sisters. On the 16, I got to switch companions for 24 hours and served with Sister Laresma. She is one of TWELVE children . . . and they didn't grow up with electricity! Good grief! They had to go to bed around 6 p.m. because after it was dark, there wasn't anything they could really do. The missionaries found her washing clothes in the backyard in the Phillippines so that's how they met the church. She was baptized with her family a couple months later. Sister Laresma is super fun and loves to laugh! She always tries to translate what all the other sisters are saying for me even though I can't really understand her English, but it's better than nothing.
Sister Allado is one of the other sisters in the apartment. Her dad is obsessed with chickens and raises them to fight in chicken derbies in Phillippines. That's right! Chicken derbies exist in this world! Growing up, Sister Allado had to help her dad feed these chickens after school. They eat bananas and raisins, and her dad wakes up every morning at 5 a.m. to stretch them and teach them how to fight using boxing gloves. I was like well how do they fight other chickens? She told me that the chickens fight by using their bodies to bump into each other and their wings to flap at each other LOL! So they have so many chickens at their place, and the funny thing is that her mom doesn't even like chickens hahaha!
So on to our investigators! We finally have some more after so much finding! I keep getting them all confused because we only see them once a week, and I've only been here for two weeks. Rio has been reading her scriptures every day and has been calling us on her own! It's a miracle because most of the time, we are always the ones to call people! We are going to buy her a study journal so she can write down what she's learned from reading.
I've met some interesting people while finding this week. Many of the missionaries are afraid to contact caucasians, I'm not sure why, but they are my favorite! I've met some from Canada and Holland. One man Eric was smoking away when I contacted him. He's from Canada and is the headmaster of a school in China. When I asked him about church, he said that he's met so many of us missionaries that it's not even funny. He's even had the discussions in his home in Canada, but he's a historian and is not willing to pray. I was like well maybe you keep meeting missionaries because God wants you to get to find the truth! Still, he left again, not persuaded even to pray to find out for himself. How sad.
The weather has been cold here all of a sudden (around 18 C) and we've had lots of rain! It's been bad for finding but the air is better now!
I love you all!
Sister Chu :)
P.S. If you haven't gotten a letter from me, it's probably because I don't have your mailing address! Just send your address to alohasister@myldsmail.net!
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