Hey everyone! It's awesome to be able to send these out every week, and I hope my experience blesses you (and makes you laugh) when you read it (well, if you do. :P)
So let's dive right in, we were able to meet with Lily on Monday night last week, and taught the Plan of Salvation. She really liked the idea of living with her son together forever (Although she joked she wouldn't want that ;) ) And so I think she's really getting that. We went to a suit shop (woah, suits here are cheap, and they're tailored to you) and looked at suits. I bought a super long tie that is blue, which is now my favorite tie XD. Elder Merrell got a suit ordered that's light blue (for post mission) and it's gonna be super nice, it's gonna have purple silk on the inside (By the way, shout out to Elder Merrell, the Coolest Companion of the world!!)
When we got home we noticed something that looked like a leaf hanging on the exit sign on the 34th floor of our apartment (We live on the 34th floor). As we walked back out however, we realized that it was DEFINITELY a bat. We hid as we watched it twitch a bit. Elder Merrell took his umbrella and stuck it through the door we were using as a riot shield to poke it and jabbed it. It took off and landed on the ground. As we snuck closer, we realized we were wrong BOTH times. It was a sphinx moth that was black. That was almost worse than a bat O.o I can almost feel what my mom feels about moths now.
So this week we ate with Yoshi twice (Elder Love and I) and ate sushi, and then Japanese pork chops. They were for Elder Love's birthday (Which we did not tell Yoshi on purpose) Yoshi told us to go find the other Elders and he'd go to get seats at the restaurant, and while we were waiting he came back up behind us with a cake in hand and handed it to Elder Love. When asked how he knew, Yoshi answered simply, "I know everything." So that was awesome.
Time to get into spiritual stuff:
Cool story: Elder Love and I were in Sheung Shui, waiting for an appointment. Let me explain a little bit about this appointment. So there was a contact online, about someone who was feeling very depressed and wanted to know more about our religion and was truly seeking peace in his life. so we went to stand out where we said we'd meet. Ten minutes passed by, we called him, no answer. 5 more, called him and he said he was coming. 10 minutes, and we call him and he didn't answer. So we got on the bus figuring he decided he didn't want to come. I felt bad about it though, but we had district meeting very soon and we needed to go. I felt really bad about it, like it was wrong to do. As we boarded the bus and scanned in, (Mom, octopus cards are so convenient) he called us and asked us if we were coming. So we got back off (Darnit, $4 wasted) and met with him. To our surprise (which his name was Umer so we shouldn't have been surprised) we met to Pakistani men. Elder Love and I reluctantly approached, a smile on our face nevertheless, and they sat down with us and Umer explained that he desperately wanted to learn about our religion. He told us he hated his past religion (Muslim) because he hates that it causes so much violence and pain and suffering. So he wanted to convert. One thing you gotta know about that: If Muslim people convert (especially from Pakistan) it is legal for their families to kill them. He told us he hates his family because they do evil things, and they hate him. He loves his wife and his children (At the time we thought he had two wives because he didn't know the English word for Divorce. So grateful his Cantonese is basically perfect.) So he explained to us he wanted us to teach him about the "True" religion, and not about the fake one "I do not want any fake in my heart." So we taught him and as we discussed he basically named off about 30 or so principles that fit right in line in the gospel, about family, about God as our Loving H.F. He was amazing. He's so prepared and we've met with him basically every day this week. We can't commit him to baptism because he has to meet with President Lam first. He's an amazing man and has one brown and one blue eye, he has a deep integrity and I'm so happy he was able to find the correct church online!
We had a game night with the Sheung Shui ward, where you have to cover your teeth with your lips and pick a fruit for you to be (Yeah. This was in Cantonese. With Tones and all.) To start, you say yours twice and say someone else's fruit (I've not learned any fruit words, and now I know a bunch) And they have to say theirs twice and call another fruit. My face has hurt since Saturday, but I think I won ;) jk jk.
That's all I have for you!! The gospel is true!
--Elder Farr
(I asked what octopus cards were: "They're like credit cards but you just have to press them on a box and they scan. They are the transport cards here, and they're way better than ticket systems or bus fares. Just press your wallet (and it scans through like 4 of my cards in my wallet) against the squre and it beeps the money. Electronic transactions are so Fong bihn (Convenient)!)
(One more note: Elder Farr didn't give any details, but Norton wasn't quite ready for baptism yet. Hopefully soon!)
This is the food that we ate with Ian (A less active, he's like one of our best friends, and he's very close to being reactivated)
My pictures of my family are being defended from the Evil Chinese Coin assassins via my Ninja brethren. ^.^
And my home looks like it's actually in Columbus (The Bioshock city that flies).
(what a video game nerd, but an awesome picture anyway!)
And since he didn't send a proof of life picture, here's one sent to me by Yoshi.
More funny from Chance:
HAHA, it was SO MUCH DESSERT!
Funny story time: We were sitting eating and Yoshi tells us it's the full birthday dinner for Elder Love, and starts to buy food. We were already full before dessert and he got us each a scoop of ice cream, and we both ate half a cheesecake slice and half a creme brule. (My first time having that.) He then turned to the waiter and ordered something in Cantonese (I heard Jyugulik syut gou, which means chocolate ice cream) And right after talking to the waiter he asks politely, "Do you think you have enough time for more ice cream?" The question was not time, but was definitely room. We still ate the whole sundae (it was made of milk from Japan, and was the Japanese style with cereal like things inside, with crushed oreos and it was seriously fantastic.)
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