Macau Handover Day Parade
Hat from the Parade
Roast Pig at the Mission Christmas Party
It was soooo fun to talk
to you this morning! It's amazing how fast 40 minutes flies isn't it?!!! But I
was so grateful to hear your voices! Not to worry, when I get back we all
probably won't shut up for several weeks to make up for 1.5 years with only
2ish hours of phone time!
Christmas here was
really great, we had a lot of miracles too! Monday we got up bright and early
to go to Hong Kong for the mission Christmas party! I included some pictures.
It was so fun to see everyone! Unlike last year where I had no idea what on
earth was happening! They had 2 roasted pigs for lunch and a man came and cut
them up in front of us!! Sister Hawks made Christmas cookies, and I got
to sing in the mission choir which was really special! On the ferry back to
Macau, I talked the whole way with a man from Sha Tin. We ended up talking
about the plan of Salvation a lot. He says he believes the world has a God, but
doesn't know where he is. I explained how we have a Heavenly Father who loves
us and who we can pray to. I got his number and gave it to the Sha Tin Elders,
hopefully they can teach him again! Other good news, my part of the
conversation was in Cantonese! I've still got it! Unfortunately, it is becoming
hard for me to understand it, since I don't hear it all day long anymore. I
need to speak Chinese more with Sister Law. . .
When we got back we went
straight to a Christmas Eve party at our Relief Society President's house. On
the bus home we happened to see one of our investigators who doesn't have a
holiday all December so we can't see her, but we had a 20 minute bus ride with
her!! It was awesome!!!
We also had people feed
us lunch on Sunday and dinner on Saturday, so that makes 5 Filipina meals since
Saturday!! We both felt like we would EXPLODE!! hahaha The thing
about their food is they don't each veggies or fruit!!! It's all deep fried
meat and carbs or things drowning in sweetened condensed milk and nestle
cream!! yummy!!! We probably could have had dinner at someone else's house last
night, but we had to leave for a lesson.
The other sisters from
my apartment went to visit the blind lady I told you about last week. We
couldn't go because we were supposed to have a lesson, but the other sisters
said that she remembered everything we taught her about the Plan of Salvation
last time, and thanked Heavenly Father for it in her prayer. I thought that was
so neat because she couldn't even say Plan of Salvation by the time we left the
last lesson and really didn't seem to understand much of what we said. Yet, she
understands and believes it now! Heavenly Father really works in amazing ways!
Last Thursday was Macau
Handover day to celebrate Macau becoming a part of China again. I wasn't really
sure of the details of the celebration. I just knew there would be a
parade and that the park near the church has had construction for a huge stage
and lights system for weeks! I scheduled an investigator to meet us at
330. The parade just happened to start nearby at 4 so we were lucky enough to
see the preparations. Everyone had crazy hats (I'll send a picture of one that
I got that was left over after the festivities) and the costumes and dancers
looked so cool, Imagine mixing Chinese, Portuguese, Turkish, and the pop
culture (more specifically Korean Pop culture) all together. It was pretty
cool! You should look it up on-line!! We
didn't stay because we had other things we needed to do, but I was glad to
catch a glimpse.
Questions:
1 - How often do you get
dinner appointments? Do they have a missionary dinner calendar like here in the
states? Not super often, some wards have a calendar, but this one doesn't especially since it is mostly single Filipina sisters. It really depends on the ward.
2 - When
does the Chinese New Year start?
Around
February 10
3 - Do you expect Macau to
be as crazy for the New Year as Hong Kong?
Yes, there's most
likely going to be some sort of festivity.
I better go, I wrote
my report in the middle of e-mail today so I'm not sure how long I've been on
here!! I love you!!!
Love,
Kasey
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