Wow! Crazy Day!
Sister H. isn't my companion anymore!!!!!! Sad! But the good thing
is my companion is Sister K.!!! (She's my friend C. G.'s roommate) I'm excited!
She's super sweet and we've been friends since my first day in HK. Sister
K. had to come out of Macau today, so Sister L. moved to Macau, Sister H. is
now with Sister L.'s old companion and Sister K. is with me! Macau is
just the wild card in our moves calls! Actual moves calls are next
Tuesday. I'm almost definitely staying, otherwise Sister K. would be
off-white washing a 3 ward area!!! Nuts! But we don't know what will
happen. Sister K. is going to try calling the Assistants to the President tonight to see to what
extent she can unpack her stuff, so we might have a better idea then. It
is also her year mark tomorrow, so we went with her MTC district to an Indian
buffet, it was sooooo yummy but I am STUFFED!!! (not an uncommon feeling in HK!
haha) Luckily, we don't have correlation at the Chan's tonight. I
thought I was going to be amongst a ton of old missionaries that I didn't know,
and then I realized that these are my brothers and sisters in the mission!
They're just starting to go senior companion and train too. They're
only 2 moves older than me!!! Yikes!!!
Speaking of Senior
companion, I'm senior companion right now. It makes sense because I know
the area and such, but I'm a bit worried. The best way to have a
companionship is not to distinguish, but I realized last move that there is a
responsibility that comes with being a Senior companion and I really could feel
Heavenly Father leading our companionship sometimes. I'm a little nervous
about how to fulfill my responsibility as a Senior companion when my
"junior" companion is 2 moves older than me! Yikes! As
with the last move, I know Heavenly Father knows best and miracles are in the
future!!!!
Ok, I'll do your
questions first.
1 – Are you still running?
Usually, we rotate between running
and yoga days. I'm not sure what Sister K. will want to do, but luckily Sister
F. wants to get into running, so I might still have a running buddy! If
it doesn't look like I've been running, blame it on the 3 wards who all have
members who LOVE to cook good food! hahaha!!
2 – Do you have to get up earlier to
run? You get 30 minutes to exercise, right?
We usually get up 20 minutes earlier
because it takes awhile to actually get downstairs so we can exercise.
Thanks for sending me the updates from everyone! Everything back home seems SUPER foreign to me right now. America, short houses, grass, BYU, everything is just weird, but I'm sooooooo happy!
This is our last week
with President Chan as the mission president! Crazy!!! I'm sad to see him
go, but excited to see how the new mission president runs the mission.
I've heard a lot of people predict that he's going to do a lot of re-aligning
and changing. I'm excited for the chance to improve even more!
We had a really cool
week this week. Humbling, but cool! We have a lot of investigators
right now, but a lot of them are busy or hard to schedule so we haven't had a
lot of lessons. We've also been trying to build a stronger relationship
with our Sha Tin ward. So these were the 2 big challenges of our weekly
planning. As we planned I felt that we could find 3 new people to teach
last week. That was a high number considering we haven't been able to
find one for the past few weeks, but we set it as our goal. We also
realized that if our Sha Tin members were too busy to meet with us, the least
we could do is try to run into them while we were out working. We asked a
ward member for some suggestions for where there were a lot of members live and
plan finding time in those places. Then before we went finding we prayed
not only to find people to teach, but that we could see our members and that
they would see us out working. We made a goal to find for at least 15
minutes every day and practiced simple ways to testify of the restored gospel
simply and powerfully. That sounds simple, but I noticed that our finding
was more effective, we weren't as tempted to stay inside and make calls if it
was raining (which it did) we went out and offered to help people who had
forgotten their umbrellas!!! (It was so fun!) Our finding was more
sincere because we really truly wanted every person we talked to, to feel our
love and joy. We taught 1 lesson the whole week. . . BUT!!!! on Saturday
the Mandarin Elders met with a couple and taught them a lesson, but realized
their Cantonese is better and gave them to us to teach!!! That's 2 new
investigators!! Sunday night we still didn't have 3 so we made a ton
of calls!! Finally at 9:45 we needed to stop and plan. I was thinking
about it that night and wondered why I felt like we could have 3 new
investigators but didn't, then I realized that my calls that night had been
more successful than ever! Instead of expecting people to hang up, I was
expecting them to listen and some of them did. Maybe Heavenly Father
didn't want us to have this goal so we could find 3 new people, but so that we
could grow and improve. This was such a testimony to me that missions aren't
about the numbers, but we constantly need to be striving to improve. Also,
Heavenly Father knows soooooo well what we need. Honestly, we have no
idea what's best for us. The best we can do is to rely on him and follow
His guidance through the spirit and we will end up better, happier and more
blessed than we could EVER imagine!
I know this gospel is
true. It has to be. It is changing people's lives so much!
Heavenly Father loves us so much and has given us a plan so that we can
be happy and return to live with Him after we die. He doesn't expect us
to be perfect, but expects us to do our best and improve every day.
Because we are not perfect he has given us His son Jesus Christ to suffer
for our sins. Heavenly Father has promised that if we have faith in Jesus
Christ, repent and improve each day, through baptism promise to always remember
him and then keep this commitment through our lives, we will be worthy to live
with Him. What a blessing! He has given us soooooo much guidance along
the way. Through prayer, scripture study, going to church and of course
the guidance of the Holy Ghost, we can always know how to be on the right path
and do Heavenly Father's will. I know this is true and it brings me such
happiness because I really don't have to worry about anything else!!!
I love you all so much
and hope you have a great week!
Love,
Kasey
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