Hey everyone! It's so nice to be throwing out another email, sending it into the old world :) Haha just kidding, but I'll get started.
One thing I've realized here is that we definitely, definitely can use love to overcome anything. Love is the literal power of Jesus Christ, and it can bring the spirit, it can perform miracles, and it helps us to be better people. It is the great motivator, although fear is much more common. So isn't it awesome that this Gospel is All about love? That's literally all it's about. Is Heavenly Father's love towards us, Jesus Christ's love toward us, and our love toward other people. So I invite everyone to go out and serve someone in love. I know that if you do that, you'll have a happier life regardless of your current circumstances. (That's a missionary promise by the way. ;) )
So things that are happening, Norton will be baptized next week (Lau Hing Daih will perform the service) And we will keep teaching the people we've been teaching as always. Alex has made a bit of progress, he told us he knows that it's true right now but he wants to feel it before he keeps the commandments (How do you explain that's not how it works? :( ). Right now we are working with JR, who is just kind of chilling on either side of the fence, we are trying to help him see how he can show his faith because he has so much. I don't think he has faith in himself, which is crazy because he's awesome.
On Sunday we had an awesome sacrament meeting with Elder Wong (The 70 who spoke the first general conference talk in his native tongue, which was Cantonese btw :D:D) and when he spoke, it felt like all the words were directed to Samuel, a less active who happened to be at church. I'm so happy that he was able to hear it and he seems to have a new resolve to go to the temple. We've been working with Ian and he seems to be doing well. Lily is a woman in her 40s that we've been teaching a bit, she's super nice and she's been reading the Book of Mormon. Relatively new, she's showing really good faith and I know that she can feel God's love for her. I'm excited to see her follow the commandments and repent, like every person needs to.
Funny things that happened this week:
Tong hing daih told us that he learned how to swim through the power of the spirit (he's a recent convert in Sheung Shui)
Norton told us that if he had a million dollars, he'd contribute his 1/10 (this is just part of his English, he knows it better in Cantonese) to the Church, spend 20,000 on his family, spend 35,000 on a girl and the rest on himself.
I was called princess by someone learning English... :P
Norton told us to "Come in!" and bursted in to "Chamachamachamachamachama Chameleon!!" Which now won't get out of our heads.
So overall, life is great here! I'm so happy to be here and have this opportunity to serve.
Last of all, I'm sure a lot of you have heard about Elder Hampton's passing. I knew him in the MTC, and I'm shocked to hear about what happened. I know that he served well, and I know he is definitely doing missionary work right now in the spirit world. Although it is sad to lose him here, he is still living and working hard. I know that the Lord will bless his family with peace and comfort as they go through this trial.
Everyone, Ga yauh.
Love you all,
--Elder Farr
We found these shirts at H&M for 70 HKD (like $9)
Reuiniting at Training Meeting! (This is his district from the MTC!)
The view this morning out of my window
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