I
cannot express to you all, dear friends and family, how much I love the
people of Hong Kong. I love them even when they freak out and run away
from us, or tell us they're too busy. It's only been a couple of days
since my last P-Day, so this email's gonna be pretty short.
Thursday
after emailing, we went out to dinner with a...member? She's like,
semi-active. Her name is Kathy. She served her mission in San Fransisco
California about...10ish years ago. She said she was really blessed to
have people take her out to eat all the time, so she takes us out about
once a month. She said it's the least she can do to thank us for sharing
the gospel. It was really cool to hear about her missionary experience
and how foreign America was to her. She speaks really good English, so
the entirety of our conversation was in Chinglish. If you don't believe
that is a language, you better change your mindset. People here speak SO
much Chinglish. Anyways, she took us to this yummy Vietnamese food
place and dang, it was to die for. Sister Lubeck and I shared this
amazing soft crab and scallop fried rice with fresh pineapple chunks in
it. served in a pineapple. SO good. It was such a blessing to eat really
yummy food that wasn't questionable as to what it was.
Friday
was pretty fun. We taught a first lesson to our new investigator Lau
Siu Je (Miss Lau) and her little 1 year old daughter Ching Ching
(English name is Kathy). Then we went to Kwai Fong and did a turnover
lesson. We found this girl on the train and taught her a lesson last
Sunday and she lives in the Kwai Fong area, so the sisters serving there
(Sisters Hadley and Johnson) took over teaching for us. It was an
awesome lesson. Then we did an exchange. I went with the Cheung Sha Wan
Sisters and our companions took the Tsuen Wan Sisters (Sisters Chan and
Robinson) out. Since my companion is a sister training leader and so is
the CSW's, it's fun and we get to do this a lot. We had dinner with an
awesome family. Sister Lai and Lai Mahmah (her mom, really old.) invited
us over to dinner and we shared a message about missionary work with
them. Both are in wheelchairs and so they sit at the back of the chapel,
and we don't get a big opportunity to talk to them, so it was really
wonderful to sit down and be able to get to know them. They fed us some
incredible food! Steamed fish, lots of vegetables, and shrimp...with the
eyes and everything still intact. We sat and peeled shrimp and tried
not to eat their brains out and talked about missionary work. Sister Lai
said she wanted to feed us to thank us for our service. A long time
ago, some missionaries pot-muhned (knowcke don her door) and she was
baptized. She's so sweet and I'm pretty sure I'm just going to adopt her
as another grandma. Adorable. That night we taught Kelly, our
investigator. She's so cute. We took some selfies together and Friday
this week we're going to bake with her. I'm way excited. Her baptism is
scheduled for October 5th. Keep her in your prayers!
Also, I found a cockroach in my closet. Ew.
Saturday
was...interesting. It started out great. We did another turnover lesson
in Kwai Fong and then exchanged companions again. Then Sister Lubeck
and I went out finding. It was a rough finding day, and nobody wanted to
listen. Eventually I just sat down on a becnh and cried. Missionary
work is so hard. Nobody here wants to listen to what you have to say. It
doesn't matter what you say. You could offer them a million dollars and
they wouldn't care. Everyone is so busy. "mouh sihgaan! mh dakhaan!"
meaning "No time, I'm too busy!" People here run from the second they
get up to the second they go to bed with no breaks. No vacation, no time
for family or friends... it's very sad. So when you ask if they want to
be with their families forever, most don't want to be. It breaks my
heart. But someday we'll find someone who is prepared to hear the
gospel. It may not be tomorrow, and it may not be ever at all. But we're
planting seeds all the time and we just have to be okay with that for
now.
So
Penny just came home from her mission about a month ago and has been a
wonderful help with us. No one else in her family is members, but Sunday
she brought her 16 year old sister Trisha to church. She doesn't have
any interest in the gospel but I am grateful. She likes us and thinks
we're good friends, so we're going to keep inviting her to activities
and hope one day the Lord softens her heart enough to let us teach her.
Okay,
so another member I love... Sister Lau, our coordinator/ward mission
leader/s wife. She wanted SO badly yesterday to hang out with us today.
It was so funny. After church she was like "Can you leave your area?
Let's go do something! I want to hang out with you!" And then we called
her because she's helping us fellowship our investigator Lau Siu Je
(funny. haha.) and again, for like ten minutes she was trying to
convince Sister Lubeck to drop what we're doing today (getting my HK ID)
and go hang out with her. She's like.... 45-50ish and I have never seen
someone on the face of the earth with more energy. She is so cute. I'll
try to get a picture with her this week and send one. Love her. She's
taking such good care of us.
It's
dang hard, but I love this work. Ga Yauh, gatihng tuhngmaaih pahngyauh!
Good luck, family and friends! Ngoh ngoi leihdeih! I love you all!
-Kuk
Jimuih 曲必必未 (so those characters aren't totally exactly right, but
they're close... the keyboard thing doesn't understand my
handwriting...)
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| Pictures with our cute investigator Kelly...selfie style. |
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| Seafood rice in a carved out pineapple |
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| Sister Lai and her mom, Lai Mahmah. On an exchange with the Cheung Sha Wan Sisters again, sister Tu'Avao and Sister Yong. |
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| Investigator Kelly, on an exchange with the CSW Sisters Sis Tu'Avao and Yong |
