Well, this week has been pretty funny! Between trying to teach Elder Chan how to say bleach without swearing, trying to help missionaries with crazy apartment problems, and a lot of different random stuff. We had a lot of things that were just crazy, Mandarin transfers added a LOT of people to the Mandarins this week, and I tried to just Speak Your Language Mandarin with them, my Mandarin's been improving like super fast this week and I feel pretty good about it haha! Looks like they're getting ready to hybrid me. :P
It's been a lot of good things, although all of our investigators fonged us this week (didn't come to the lessons) and so we are kinda bummed about that. Dang, super crazy!
Rainbow is looking like a super good potential, she's ready to be baptized except for she's trying to improve her relationship with her mom before she asks her. She'll be baptized in October! We are so happy!
Thanks for reading the weakly newsletter (Yes, that was a pun because this week is super weak. :D)
--Elder Chance Farr
And....
This week has seriously been awesome. We have been doing what we can, with crazy transfers we have just been pushing to get things done! I've decided I am going to use Visual Basic in order to design an app that can take care of all the stocking for me. It's been necessary for a long time. Also, we have officially moved to Windows 10! For me it feels like night and day, Windows 10 works so much better for me!
So for the crazy situation in the apartments: This week is what we call the week of the broken toilets. 3 toilets broke this week and all started leaking profusely. And so of course we were called by scrambling missionaries attempting a futile effort at changing it themselves! So we had to have some plumbers go over to take care of them. Explosive toilets.
Spiritually I've had a lot of realizing how much of a gift this gospel is. As well as the gift of tongues. We get a lot of opportunities to speak to mainlanders, so I can speak quite a bit of Mandarin without any study of it.
One of the cool things I gleaned in personal study is this:
"Other than our will, there is no present we can give God that he hasn't given us first. But giving him our agency, something that is ours and something praised in the scriptures, is something that is a true gift to God." That's not direct, but I think it's close to the way Elder Anderson put it. Isn't that a cool concept? Sacrificing our will is truly the thing to be praised.
My past companion, Elder Wilcoxson, got a needle stuck in his foot. Through that experience I learned the word for Industrial Sewing Needle. I've learned these days that President Lam has the funniest dry humor. He told Elder Wilcoxson that now he has just a tiny inkling of what the Savior went through. Yeah, most people would think that comment was inappropriate, especially because of the laugh that came from it. Such a President Lam joke! President Lam (who is a doctor) doesn't actually have a license here, but often times he just takes care of that stuff. In this instance, he is in the hospital because they had to cut his shoe off (RIP Elder Wilcoxson's shoe, 2016) but I heard he should get discharged today.
Me with the branch president from Gwong Zhou 2nd Branch
(a branch from Mainland China that visited Hong Kong)
MASSIVE galleons in Tsuen Wan
A cute little girl that sent us a picture on her birthday!
(I asked, this is the same cutie that he taught to cross her eyes and sends him pictures all the time!)
This is with the Lee family, the bishop's brother who isn't a member. His other entire family are members, so we are trying to work with him. He finally prayed! It's exciting.
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