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 

你哋好啊！

This week has been super fun! We started it off by going hiking with my recent convert from my last area and a few other people from my last area. It was super fun to see him and the others that i taught! 

Elder Siddoway and I have been working really hard too. Every day pretty much just in the streets of 粉嶺 looking for new people to teach. And on one of these days we happened to run into an person we knew in our ward that got baptized 3 years ago. We talked to him and he had some of the coolest experiences that I have heard on my entire mission. It was honestly just amazing and we really felt like the Lord had led us to meet him and help him out. It was honestly most amazing.

Later this week one investigator named Yao Ming invited us over to his house and we met his wife and he cooked us some way weird Chinese things and we ate and it was a good time we even got to share about families! It was super cool and he loves coming to our English class. He made us eat the fish eyeballs of the fish he cooked haha 

We met another person named Vincent and he is just a classic high school kid except for he is a bit older. And he has way long hair haha. He is super cool and he is just looking for a bit of direction in life so we are trying to help him out with that.

Also this week we had a family home evening after church on Sunday and that was super fun! Ate some really good food and then we shared a message and a played a small game which was really funny but fun! 

That is pretty much it. I have learned quite a lot on my mission. It has been interesting to see how I have changed. Elder Siddoway and I were talking about it this week but I feel like my personality is still the same but the way I think about things has changed. Just the way I view things and the way I see others. It has really been a change for the good so I am very thankful for my Heavenly Father to help me over come some pride and to change. 

That is pretty much all haha. 

Elder 古.

爭分奪秒！下次再傾下啦

你哋好

This week was a pretty good week. It was full of excitement. 

So this week was my last few days with Elder Wong. It was pretty cool and I learned so much from him. I learned a lot more about the atonement when I was with him and it was really rewarding. We didn't have many people to teach but I think what I learned about the atonement was necessary for me to learn before I can continue my missionary work. So in that sense it was super cool and really a blessing. 

I also got to go to 九龍塘 to pick up Elder Siddoway. And while I was there I got to see my MTC companion, Elder Nesbit, who came back to Hong Kong this week. It was so cool to see him and also another big testimony builder to see him come back and to really have a desire to serve the Lord. And then we got a picture of the original 4 squad that we had in the MTC (me, Nesbit, Clarke, and Siddoway) it was super cool. Then Elder Siddoway and I went back to  粉嶺.

It rained a lot out here but Elder Siddoway and I were out on the streets finding people. We met a few cool people that have interest. So hopefully it will turn out good!

That is pretty much it! I love you all! 

Elder 古

 

 

 Original 4 Squad from the MTC...below.

Transfers!

Hello!

So big news! We got our transfer calls and I don't know how this happened and I was starting to give up hope that it would happen but Elder Siddoway and I will be companions! I am staying in my area and Elder Siddoway will be coming in! It will be super cool and fun! It will honestly be super spiritual! this is honestly such a big blessing! 

other than that we didn't have much going on. We just tried a bunch of finding methods because we have a lot of time on our hands because our teaching pool is very small. Some of the ideas included: door knocking, soccer and basketball finding, setting up a booth, street finding, poster finding, inviting to activities, English class finding, and so on. It was really good and trying all these types of finding actually helps with not making the work so boring and tedious. 

That is pretty much it. I have a lot of pictures to explain these last two weeks. 

Elder Gubler