Moving to TST

Hello,

Hey, I don't have too much time to write this email but here I go. So this week we got our transfer calls and I will be moving to TST which is in the middle part of Hong Kong. I am pretty excited but also really sad because I have to leave Elder Siddoway. I really learned a lot from him and we worked really hard. I originally thought I would be trunky with him but we ended up working really hard. 

In my new area I will be white washing two areas and be put with a companion from Hong Kong. So hopefully my Chinese will improve more. I am very excited. 

I am also very sad to be leaving some of the people we have taught here. We have med a lot of good people which have been really fun to try to help them understand the gospel. The ward has been really great too!

This week we also had a meeting with President Ballard and it was super cool. He talked a lot about putting in our all and being worthy to have the Lord be able to trust us. It was super good. I learned a lot. 

That is pretty much it for the week. 

Elder Gubler 

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

First off I want to say happy mother's day! My mom has played a huge role in my life. So thank you.

But this week was really interesting we did a lot of work and trying to find more people but I think this week I got rejected more times than I have on any other time in my mission. People were just sour towards us and we even did a mother's day find with posters that said "why do you love you mother?" and people were supposed to fill it in but people just didn't even want to talk to us doing that either. So I think both Elder Siddoway and I were pretty discouraged from all that.

But on the other hand we had met with a few cool people and investigators. For example we met with Ian who is from Cantonese speaking portion of mainland and he said that he has thought about being baptized but sadly he said that he might not have another opportunity to come back to Hong Kong for a couple of months. But him and his friend that were back in mainland both really liked what we were teaching. So we taught him the gospel of Christ and then gave him the address of the Kowloon Tong chapel and the phone number of the office and told him if he wants to be baptized he can go down to Kowloon tong. We also told him that we might not be here the next time he comes down but there would be missionaries here as well. He really sincerely thanked us. It was honestly so spiritual. I never seen someone like him before. It was very good for me and it was sad for me because I know he has to go back to mainland but i felt like everything would be ok.

For my spiritual experience I read an interesting talk and it had a quote from Les Miserables that said, "Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man." And this quote really stood out to me. It is when Jean Val Jean stole the two candlesticks from the Bishop and that is what the Bishop told him. I thought it really had a lot of meaning to me. The Lord has saved us. But, we need to do all we can to become and "honest man." I really like the thought of becoming an honest man. It has so many different meanings to me. So that was cool.

See you all later

Elder Gubler

Zone Conference!

Hello!

This week was a pretty cool week! to start it off last Pday we played some volleyball on a sand court. Then this Tuesday we were able to go to Sai Kung and go on a boat to some of the islands that are out over there for zone conference. So our president shared the the spiritual stuff on the boat and on the island that we went to. It was all super fun and super spiritual. It wasn't like any other zone conference because normally we go to Kowloon tong chapel to have a meeting there. but this one was a lot more interactive. 

Then other thins that happened this week is that we met with the a super good investigator named Ian who is from mainland china but speaks perfect Cantonese so we have taught him but he comes down only for a few days a week because he tests down in Hong Kong but when we found him he was super golden. and he is honestly the perfect investigator. So we are hopping we can keep meeting him in the future because he does live in mainland which might make it a little hard to keep meeting. 

We also went to a lunch with our other investigator named Edward who is a 50 year old retired man and he is super cool. He came to stake conference with us this Sunday too. He is honestly super cool! 

another cool miracle of the week is that our mission is allowed to use Facebook now and within an hour of creating a Facebook I got a message from a random guy and he said that he wants to join our church and so we told him how but sadly he lives in the Philippines. but we were able to refer the missionaries that live near him to teach him which was super cool. I don't know how he found us or me but it was a pretty cool experience. 

that is pretty much it. 

Elder Gubler