New Transfer on the Way

Leihdeih hou!
Okay, it's been a really good, crazy, good, crazy, week. Since Sister Gaillard is going home this week, the members and all the people we're teaching are SCRAMBLING to see us before she goes, and we're having a hard time finding places to slide them into in our planners! Busy is good though so we are definitely not upset!
Two of these meals were HOT POT. Hot pot is this really delicious thing they do here where there is basically a huge pot of boiling water/soup in the middle of the table and you use it to cook raw meats and veggies and all sorts of other goodness. It was outlawed in the mission for a while because a missionary a while back got really sick from it (understandable if you're not being careful haha), but now it's okay again. Kind of in love with it.
This week I got to go on exchanges with my pal Sister Chan! Sister Chan is my favorite person to talk about the universe and everything in it with, so we definitely had a lot of fun and got to teach some cool lessons.
We also had a Halloween party for games night this week! Everyone had a lot of fun and there were a lot of people there. I love Halloween and I love parties so this was a good time for me. :)
This week we also got our transfer calls! Sister Gaillard will be leaving for France (and I will definitely miss her more than I can say), and my new companion will be... new! I will be training! I'm definitely just as nervous for it this time as I was the first time around, but I'm looking forward to the adventure.
Only one transfer left, and I'm going to make it the best one yet! Pray for me :)
Love you all! Thank you for all the love and support!
Gayauh!
Sister Wasden
郭姊妹

Pics:
1. Halloween party fun :)
2. Chyuhn fukyam (preach the gospel). You can't tell, but I'm blocking a really cute couple with my Book of Mormon. #page33folks
3. Harry Potter ma?
4. Birthday party cheng out! Love these members :)
5. Farewell cheng out for Sister Gaillard. I ALSO love these members (including Tim, who is taking the picture, hahaha)
6. We've been together for months and of all those pictures I have yet to find a picture that describes our companionship better than this one.

"How Can I Be a Missionary Without My High Tones?" --Me

Leihdeih hou!
HELLO EVERYONE.
It's been a wild week.
This week I came down with this awful cold. It's been 8 days now and I'm still trying to kick it. It's been funny though--I nearly completely lost my voice for a couple of days there, but I TOTALLY lost my higher registers. This, in English, is no problem, but in Cantonese, a tonal language, it proved to be a bit of a (hilarious) challenge. ALL OF MY HIGH TONES WERE GONE. That means that I'd speak a sentence and only like every other word would come out, leaving me dying laughing (and dying coughing) and the person I was trying to communicate with confused (good thing on the Island I can get away with English). Lots and lots of laughs here.
We did Helping Hands service on the beach again! And our cute new friend Nida came! SO FUN.
I also went on exchanges in Chai Wan with Sister Mangubat (from the Philippines)! So fun and I love all the cute sisters in my zone. :)
We had interviews this past week too! President and Sister Phillips are ANGELS. That is all.
Also, I've been afraid to announce it for the past few weeks in fear of a heat relapse, but I'm going to say it now: AUTUMN IS HERE. We're having less and less rain and more and more cool weather (I even wore a CARDIGAN the other day) and We. Are. Living for it. Bless.
Anyways, time for pictures.
Love you all. God is good. Please go review conference, again and again and again. Remember that God loves us, so He'll never give us more trails than we can handle, but because He loves us, He'll also never give us less trials than we need.
Gayauh!
Sister Wasden
郭姊妹

Pics:
Beach service :)
Card games and cereal for dinner, anyone?
Games night with SO MANY FUN PEOPLE
Saying goodbye to the Chan family, who is moving out of our ward :( :( :(
Cute shirts given to us by an even cuter member :)

SO MANY GOOD THINGS

Leihdeih hou!
A list of good things that happened this week!
1. Got a special opportunity to meet with my uncle, who just happened to be in Hong Kong. This was actually super cool and I'm really grateful for the chance.
2. One of our cute investigators accepted a baptismal date! So happy for her!!
3. Okay so general conference though! SO. GOOD. Hey everyone, I LOVE THE PROPHET. All of our church leaders are so inspired and I felt like so many of their messages were just for me. I hope you felt the same. I'm also loving the direction the Lord is taking the church with home-centered worship. So good.
4. Went to the temple! I love the temple. Just what I needed.
5. Met some new really cool people! I also love new friends.
6. Saw some miracles, as usual. God is here and He's involved in His work (which is my exaltation and yours too), don't forget that.
Anyways, this week was actually kind of a hard week, but looking back I can only see the good. I love how that works. I think that's the beauty of the gospel, is that all things work together for your good, so even in retrospect all the hard things turn into good things in the end too.
Love you all. Have a good week.
Gayauh!
Sister Wasden
郭姊妹

Pics:
Temple temple temple
Fancy dinner with fancy people
Our Helping Hands squad from a couple weeks ago!
I love these ladies :)

[Still Need Better Subject Lines...]

Leihdeih hou!
This week was good! A brief summary:
We went golfing last week for p-day! I actually have never really been golfing before, so it was an adventure, but our sweet member was so patient with us. I made enough progress that I might show some promise in 15 years or so!
This week was full of lots of good things. Lots of good finding sessions, with lots of good new friends. The kind that leaves you best friends after 3 minutes of talking. I love those. We also had some delicious changs this week (meals with members), and best of all, we got to spend time with our cute members! They're the sweetest and feel like family. Our games night was also really good this week--over 7 non-members there! It's a nice casual way to get to know everyone better and let them see the church, without all the formality. We love it.
This week we also got the rare opportunity to do some service! We don't get to do service very much in Hong Kong since they already pay people to do everything, so when we get a chance we take it! This was a stake service project (complete with Helping Hands uniforms and everything) at Deep Water Bay! The typhoon had blown trash all over and had also pushed a bunch of the sand into dunes by the road, so we showed up Saturday morning to pick up trash and move sand. It was hot, it was tiring, and I am still sore, but it was so fun!
This week I've learned a lot about including the Lord in our plans. It's such a simple thing, but it's so important. Our best finding comes out when we say a prayer on the street right before we start and ask the Lord to guide us. Who would have thought He'd be so willing to help out? ;)
Life is good folks. I heard conference was crazy. Excited to watch next week!
Love you all!
Gayauh!
Sister Wasden
郭姊妹

Pics:
1. [help I don't know what I'm doing] Golfing!
2. Hanging out at the driving range
3. I love the members here
4. [help it's so bright] Helping Hands :)