So turns out the weeks are FLYING BY and it's starting to panic me a little. I can't believe I've already been in HK for a month and a half! It's been kind of a crazy week (aka buckle up, everyone), here's some of the highlights!
1. Last p-day, we went to Mong Kok (a huge shopping area) and for lunch, we got AUTHENTIC NEW YORK PIZZA. Also it was the BIGGEST SLICE OF PIZZA I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE AND IT WAS SOOOO GOOD.
2. This week Mak JM and I had to go on splits for a WHOLE DAY since our trainers (who are STLs) had their mission leadership conference. It was completely terrifying and we were both SO NERVOUS (we had 3 appointments and were sure we were going to get lost and we didn't think we knew how to be functional missionaries on our own), but it actually ended up going really well and our appointments were good and it was a really good day!
3. OH! This week I got kicked out of a building for the first time! The security guard saw that our name tags said "Jesus Christ" and she wasn't having ANY of that, so she quickly escorted us out. (They're afraid that we'll go door-knocking, which is very much NOT ALLOWED here.) Thankfully, we were visiting a member who we had scheduled, so we just called her and she came downstairs to pick us up. Also, it's definintely a blessing that I was a security guard for that one summer, because sometimes it's tempting to get frustrated when the guards are mean to us, but since I was once a security guard and my job was pretty much the exact same as theirs is (let the residents through, make the visitors fill out a form), I have a lot more understanding towards them, and even if they're being a little meaner than they necessarily have to be, they're still just doing their job. Getting kicked out was still a fun experience though, I look forward to the next time. :)
4. It was kind of a brutal week as far as teaching goes. Sister Christensen and I were only able to schedule ONE of our investigators this week (although not for a lack of effort--we called the rest of them almost to the point of being stalkers), and even that lesson didn't go as well as we would have liked. To make up for that, we went to visit I think 7 or 8 less-actives instead, and not a single one of them was home (we were visiting ones who didn't have accurate phone numbers on our records so we couldn't schedule them, so no big deal). Yesterday, we FINALLY had a less-active that we scheduled, and we were SO looking forward to being able to meet with a real person, and then she wasn't home either! However, despite all this, we actually had some cool miracles. On the first day of less-active finding, our night was about over and we were about to head home, but we weren't sure if we should try to visit one more person, or if we should head home a little early so we could instead do calls and try to schedule people. Sister Christensen and I decided to pray about it, and I felt that we should visit one more person, and Sister Christensen felt that we should go home. So we prayed about it again. And then we prayed about it individually. We both still felt the same way, so we decided to walk in the general direction of the train station (which is also the direction that one of our less-actives lives in) and see how we felt when we REALLY had to make the decision. When we got there, I was just about to say that I now felt good about going home, when Sister Christensen turned to me and said that she felt good about visiting one more person. AHHH. Sister Christensen remarked that maybe the reason why we were getting different answers was so that the Spirit could stall us so that we could meet just the right person. We ended up taking the train home, and I talked to this guy who was nice but not very interested, and Sister Christensen talked to this lady with a sweet fold-up electric scooter, who was also nice but not very interested. Bummer. We headed home and did some calls and records and that was that. Yesterday, after our scheduled less-active wasn't home, we were taking the train home again, and LO AND BEHOLD, there was the same lady with the sweet fold-up electric scooter! We saw her TWICE and in a place like Hong Kong, that NEVER HAPPENS, so you'd better BELIEVE we went up and started talking to her. She remembered us! She's still not interested at all, but maybe if we keep running into her, eventually she'll change her mind. :) The other miracle was that we met this super sweet lady named Tencil, and she was SO interested and yesterday she actually texted us to see if SHE could schedule US! That NEVER happens, and I'm excited to be able to meet with her!
5. I got into a paper airplane competition with Jim, one of our recent converts (he's 8). I lost.
6. On Saturday, the church put on a HUGE music event for anyone in Hong Kong, and missionaries could go if we had an investigator going. I. LOVED. IT. There were piano solos, and violin ensembles (aka my whole life--they also played a few songs that I loved playing in high school and AHH, memories), and the coolest drum ensemble, and some sick Chinese instruments that I don't even know how to describe, and awesome singers, and Disney songs, and Phantom of the Opera songs, and Josh Groban songs, and (obviously) church songs, and SO MANY MISSIONARIES and SO MANY INVESTIGATORS (it was the most chaotic and happy reunion I've ever witnessed) and I just LOVED IT. It was amazing. :)
Aaaand here's some random fun facts!
1. I may have already talked about this, but honestly, I'm in awe. You know how in America elevators (PS, here, they're called "lifts" because of Britain, haha) have the door open and door close buttons that do absolutely NOTHING? Well here in Hong Kong, they actually WORK! It's amazing.
2. All the chapels here are so different from each other and so unique and they're all so pretty. :)
3. I got a real tasted of the legendary Chinese bluntness last week in church that I forgot to mention! Sister Christensen was in the bathroom, so I was just chilling in the hallway, and a sweet younger lady from the other ward (who I'd never met) came up to me and said "You seem to have insufficient sleep," and then she pointed to underneath her eyes (apparently I had some serious bags going on), hahaha. She told me about when she was a summer missionary (that's a cool program they do here. Young men and women if they'd like can be paired up with a missionary companionship and be full-time missonaries for two weeks in the summer so they can get a taste of missionary life) she didn't get much sleep either and that I should take a nap on p-day. She was super nice though and I definitely haven't stopped laughing about it.
4. Aaaand last but not least, I don't really have any good pictures from this week, so here's an artsy picture of some ramen I had the other day! It was so spicy that it gave me a stomachache. 8/10 would recommend. (My favorite ramen so far though is actually this Indonesian ramen that you dump FIVE different flavoring packets into, how sweet is that??)
Alright, I think that's all for the week! Love you all tons! Have a good week!
Gayauh!
Gwok Jimuih (Sister Wasden)
郭姊妹
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