Dear Parents,

First, Sister Phillips and I want you to know that it is an honor and privilege to serve with your sons and daughters. There is not a finer group of missionaries anywhere and we truly love them all.

We wanted to send this message because of the recent change in communication policies that were described by the leaders of the Church. We are grateful and happy for the opportunity that you will have to more frequently communicate with your missionary children. We wanted to make you aware of the ways that you might communicate with missionaries. There are four tools, all free, that we have found will facilitate this communication:

· - Skype, a tool that is used for free online calls and messaging. It can be used on computers and mobile devices like our missionaries use. This will require an email address.

· - WhatsApp, a free app to get secure and simple messaging and calling for free. This will require a mobile telephone number.

· - Facebook Messenger, an app that allows calling and texting for free. This will require a Facebook account.

· - Google Hangouts, an application that allows messaging and video or voice calls. This will require a Gmail account.

Your missionaries have access to all these methods to communicate with you and will likely share with you their preferred method.

Please follow their lead and know that this communication method has two important rules: missionaries must initiate the communication and the communication should occur on preparation day with the exception of special occasions such as Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, parents' birthdays and other culturally significant holidays. Should you need to communicate with your missionary on a day other than preparation day, please contact us first.

Thank you for your support and prayers on behalf of the missionaries. We hope that this additional communication with your sons and daughters will add to the joy of missionary work for the entire family.

Warm regards,

President and Sister Phillips

China Hong Kong Mission

18 Dorset Crescent

Kowloon Tong

Hong Kong

Phone: 852 6030 7640
 

Happy New Years

Happy Chinese New Year!

It is now the Year of the Pig. And during these days a lot of people go back to mainland. It was a very good week, the people were very nice this week. It was very nice to be able talk to a lot of people. But sadly not too many people had a very big interest to meet with us. 

We met with a few people but most of the time we were on the streets. I have been focusing on trying to talk to families, so I tried stopping families and actually now we have like 2 or 3 families that gave us their phone numbers and were willing to meet. Hopefully we will be able to meet with them. The gospel has the power to help all families no matter in what situation. 

Angus got the Aaronic priesthood this week and will pass the sacrament next Sunday. And our bishop also realized that both me and my companion are sick so he gave us a blessing and he invited Angus to watch. It was super cool. Our bishop is super solid and it is cool to see how much he cares. 

That is pretty much all. 

Elder Gu  

 LION ROCK for PDAY