Leih hou!

This week has been really good! It started last monday when we got to go play some soccer on the courts with all the other missionaries. We have started to do this every single monday and it is super fun! I love playing with all the British missionaries they are pretty good! Later that day we got together with a few other missionaries and played some board games and then went back to Yuen Long to go look around.

Later this week we met with Donald who is the kid that had the Bible and came up to us and asked to meet. I explained a little about him last email. He is 12 years old and we taught him the restroation and he really liked it! This lesson was super powerful. I have been starting to understand a lot more and speak a lot better which has helped me a ton and I was just super happy I could understand almost everything he said. After we taught him to pray and my companion offered to pray and right as he was about to start, Donald started praying and his prayer was so sincere and real! It was super cool!

Later we met another investigator named Steven. He wants nothing to do with the church but he likes missionaries so he took us out to dinner at an American Pizza place (american pizza is sooo much better than chinese pizza.) At this dinner we were filling up our drinks and a random old dude named Thomas Lam came up to us and said he had a real interest in learning about Jesus. Then he started speaking english and said, "I want to rekindle my knowledge about christ." it was super cool another answer to our prayers. we will meet with him this week!

Now for some chinese culture. It isn't rude to spit your food out onto the table. So when you eat meat (almost all meat has bones) you can just eat it and spit the bones on to the table. Also here it is rude to ask people to "please pass the food." it is rude becasue they have to put down their chop sticks and give you the food so you just have to reach over them and get the food you want. I still am not very good with chop sticks so eating with members is always funny because they make fun of me for how bad I am with teh chopsticks haha!

We also had thanksgiving this week where we met with our whole zone and cooked some cobblers and then a turkey! it was super fun! I really love my zone so much! We also had a member that owns a cha su faan resturaunt cook us some food as well and the food he cooked us was amazing! it was this pork with this amzing sauce and some rice! super good! We were then challenged to think of things we were thankful for and and fill up 2 pages in our journals with them. It was super cool 

Other than that nothing much happened! I would love to hear form all of you and how your weeks went!

Gu Jeunglouh

 Christmas time in the mall that is under our apartment

 another ward thanksgiving party that we cooked a turkey for! this was a first for all of us. none of us had ever cooked a turkey before!

 there are a lot of parks everywhere, but you dont usually see young kids playing in them. you always see the elderly people playing on equipment like this

GIVING THANKS
 

Leih hou!

This week has been a very fun and busy week! To start it off, last monday we went to another BBQ place for Elder Siddoway's birthday! It was super fun and there was a ton of weird foods, some of which I didn't even bother to try! Elder Siddoway is the best! Make sure to wish him a happy birthday even though it was last week! Then after we went to the Hong Kong history and science museum! It was super cool to learn about the history of hong kong! I also got to lay on a bed of nails while it raised me about 2 feet and it didn't even hurt!

In Hong Kong they don't celebrate Thanksgiving but the Yuen Long ward really likes the idea of giving thanks and being grateful and humble so they decided to do a thanksgiving party and we were able to make brownies and a turkey!! During this event the ward members invited firends, less actives, non members, or anyone else to this event. They then put on a play about being thankful and humble! Most of which I didn't understand but it was really cool to see! I could just feeel the spirit of how thankful all these people were for what they have! It is honestly super cool to see!

We taught a few lessons. We continued teaching Yeung Hingdaih (the master from karate kid). He comes to all of our engligh classes and he loves the gospel! He always tells us that when he is with us or the members of the church he always feels super good! He is doing really great and is really thankful for all that we do for him!

orther than that we studied a lot and went finding which is always a good time! This last night while we were finding a 12 year old kid came up to me and I thought he was looking at the english class fliers that i was handing out but he was reading my name tag and he stopped and told us that he believes in christ and then he pulled out a chinese bible and he told us he is really interested in Christ! it was super cool because he said he was the only one in his family that is chirstian! Super cool kid! and the cool part was that we had been praying for a miracle to happen because no one stops when we try to talk to them. So this past week has been really frustrating in that aspect but we prayed to find people who had interest and right before we were about to go home for the night this kid came up and started talking to us about his beliefs! The power of prayer and faith is real!!

Well that is about it for this week! Please let me know how you guys are doing I woulsd love to hear from you all!!

Gu Jeunglouh

 

The BBQ for Elder Siddoway's birthday!!

 These mirrors were at the science museum! We all thought they were hilarious!

 Our wonderful ward at the thanksgiving party!!

 The Jeung family! They are the nicest people. They always give us food and love missionary work! The orange rose picture is actually a traditional chinese cake with mangoes on it! Super good!​

 

GOOD WEEK

 

Leihdeih hou!

This week has been really good! Last Pday we went to a Korean BBQ place to eat! There were a ton of random foods there which I will send pictures of later!

We had a bunch of lessons set up this week but about 60% of them didn't show up. that is normal here. We did teach a few lessons and we taught the importance of the book of mormon! It weent really well! We also met with a few memebers. One of the families we met with (Wong Gatihng) fed us american pizza and chicken wings. American pizza is 1000000 times better than the chinese pizza because the chinese pizza has like squid and sea weed and other gross things on it. So that was the highlight of my week! They also have a little son who is the funniest kid he always comes up to the missionaries and punches us hahah!

This week we taught english class and normally we have a good amount of people show up but this week we had 4 people show up. One was a little girl who already had perfect english and spoke cantonese, the others were people who spoke Mandarin. This was super hard because I know a little cantonese and then very little mandarin. My companion also doesn't know too much mandarin either so we had to try our best to communicate with them with a mix of cantonese and mandarin. This was super hard and kind of frustrating but it was really fun! I learned some more mandarin as well as cantonese which was really cool!

We taught Yeung Hingdaih (the karate kid master) and he really wants to come to church but his wife doesnt because she doesn't want to wear dresses so this week we taught them that we just need to wear respectful clothing to church. He really loves our gospel and will continue to progress!

Other than that nothing much happend! Please let me know how you guys are all doing!

I love you all!

Gu Jeunglouh

 Here are some octopi that we ate at the Korean BBQ

 We taught a really poor farmer and this was his yard

The squatter toilet

NEXT PDAY

Leih hou!!

This week has been really good!! Just a few questions my mom wanted me to answer: For breakfast we usually eat cereal or oatmeal. We go out to eat about 3 times a week but then members usually invited us over for dinner 1 to 2 times a week and I really appreciate those! The weirdest things I have eaten so far are pig ears, and pig kidneys. They were surprisingly not too bad. For exercise we usually walk to a basketbal/soccerl court and play basketball or soccer or we do push ups or sit ups. The language is coming along super slowly!! But I did pass off my language evaluation on prayer!

This week was really cool because we did a lot of things! We served at cross roads putting packages together and sending them to Cameroon! IT was super cool becuase one of teh peopl we worked with was from Cameroon and he was super passionate about putting as much as he could in the huge shipping crate! I was really impressed by this!

This week we aslo got a new investigator named Yeung HingDaih. He is the classic chinese old man. He has a full on beard and he was a stunt man and he really loves Kung Fu! He looks like the old trainer guy from the old Karate Kid movie. But we met him at our english class and he came up to us and told us he had never felt anything like this before. He said his heart was burning. This was really cool! We met with him one more time and the nwe took him to church and we are going to continue meeting with him!

I still don't understand very much of the language especially when they speak really fast but I have been learning about 20-30 vocab words a day and I will keep moving the number up and up. But I have been slowly improving on my understanding of what people are saying. So that has made me really happy!

Other than that I played soccer with Elder Siddoway and a few missionaries form ENgland Which made me super happy! We are going to do that every monday morning!~

Please let me know how you guys are doing! I would love to hear from every one of ;you!!

Ngoh Ngoi leihdeih!

Gu Jeunglouh

 We learned how to make balloon animals.

 Soccer court at night! Every night there is a game going on!

Soccer with all the Elders! We can buy full soccer kits here for about 5 american dollars so that is really cool!

 ​some nice chicken legs!