Week 106 pictures

I took a lot of pictures with my friends from the mission before I went home so here they are!

Last district picture with sister Allred and Anderson

Zone buds

Dinner with Athena

The peak

the Peak with President and Sister Lam

Peak with Elder Earls

Seattle Airport

Week 106 - The End

Well, this is it, everyone! My last email coming from the HK! The last week has honestly been crazy, and so many great things are happening in our area! To start off yesterday was a great day at church because we got 4 people there! that really just doesn't happen here in Hong Kong. That's the most I have had at church my entire mission! and the greatest part is every single one of them has a lot of potentials as well! They all have a strong desire to grow closer to Jesus Christ, and I know Elder Newbold and his new companion Elder Siddoway will do a great job and take care of these people! 

Another miracle that happened this last week was one of our new investigators this last week named A Wah. So 2 weeks ago there was a couple who came to church out of the middle of nowhere, and we found out the guy (A Wah) was not a member, but they left when the second meeting ended, and I was actually really mad! But then yesterday before church we were told by the bishop that they were coming back, and A Wah said he would have interest in taking the missionary discussions, so we taught him right after church and he's a pretty chill guy! (He eventually got baptized! according to Eunice) Then after that lesson, I found out a member of my ward also got his mission call! His mom is actually good friends with my mom growing up, and she has wanted him to go on a mission for well like 5 years haha, and he got called to Hong Kong! The entire ward was there, and they went nuts, and his reaction was like "Well alright then". I'm pretty excited for him.

This week I have also had to say "goodbye" to a lot of people. It was pretty hard, but yeah it's crazy I'm going home....

The rest of this week we are visiting some members for dinner, and meeting all of our investigators all 1 more time. I've had a lot of fun here in Ma On Shan. I've seen the ward go from absolutely no faith in missionary work, and us with no investigators when I got here to 4 solid high potential people who are willing to come to church, and another 4 who I think someday can also get there when they build their faith, and the ward now is full of energy towards the work, and I don't even need to talk to investigators at church because they are always with a member! 

The last 2 years and 3 weeks have been fun, and I have learned so much, and I guess I will see a lot of people in a couple of days!

Love y'all!

Elder Eveso

Sister Ng, Woo, and Lai from NTK came down to visit me before I left!

My buddy Hughe

I got attacked by the English class students when they found out I was leaving

Nephi got his mission call to the best mission, HK mission!

My buddy/ investigator A Hin

Week 105

This week was another one of those "we didn't do that bad this week" weeks. We were able to find 2 new investigators this week! The one with a lot of potential is named "Betty" so when I stopped her we actually talked for like an hour and she talked a lot about how she felt she needed to start going back to church, but the reason she stopped was because all of them were fake! Then a couple of days later, we were able to share the restoration with her, and when I asked her how she felt, she said "I believe it's true!". It was one of those miracles because we were walking the streets for like 2 hours and hadn't stopped a person, then on the way home, we found her! Then she came to church on Sunday, and it just happened to be a broadcast from Salt Lake specifically for Hong Kong and Taiwan, and she loved it! I'm excited to help her to continue to develop her faith in the restoration! ( I've been home for a little over a year now, but Betty ended up being great! She got baptized a couple of months after I got home and has stayed active since. Every once in a while she will whatsapp me thanking me for finding her on the street!)

Then on Thursday, I had an experience where I was pretty scared for my life! Me and Elder Newbold were street contacting and ran into a super cool kid named Lishawn and the kid was just loving us (we are meeting him tonight for the 1st time!) but after we met with him we didn't want to walk back the same direction, so we kept walking straight and ended up in a pretty sketchy area. So when we turned around we accidentally took a wrong turn, and walked past some older people who I'm pretty sure were drunk. Then they started yelling at us "AYYYY HELLO!!!" because well we were the white people then we saw one get up and start walking towards us and the second we turned a corner we booked it into a full on sprint into the woods! Then we found out it was a dead end, and it was this sketchy "fort like place" I had ever seen with a tarp as a roof and a dog barking at us! so I was ready to smack this guy and run! Well it all turns out they were telling us to get lost and that sketchy place their "home" and they said "look at the signs that's private property" (there were no signs in sight they pointed at a tree)  I still don't 100% believe them but once I was once again out of sight we booked it again! Well that was fun!

So yeah, that was my week love y'all and talk to you next week!

Love,

Elder Eveson

Yoshi took us to a cool Korean buffet! He's a legend!

gotta love biking!

Week 104 - 2 Years

Well, it's crazy to say, but I've finally hit my 2 years mark a couple of days ago!! But looking at the bright side I still got 2 weeks left!! This last week was a pretty normal week, but we did get to teach a new person this last week! His name was A Hin and he is a stud! After the 1st lesson we just chilled for another 10 minutes just chatting! You gotta love when you meet those people and just hit it off right away and become buds!

We also finally were able to meet with Athena, the 1 investigator in the area, when I showed up! So she's back! we are teaching her again tonight, so hopefully, we can get some of that interest that she once had back!

Other than that, it was the normal talking to people on the streets, talking to as many people as I can! It's honestly such a blessing to be serving my mission in Hong Kong and being able to speak Cantonese as well!!

Well love everyone and talk to you next week!

Elder Eveson

We went to Ferris Wheel

Cheung Chou

Cheung Chou

Cheung Chou

Cheung Chou

Week 103 - The Prophet came to Hong Kong

This last week was a blast! Last Tuesday we had the chance to go to the temple, and the second I walked into the session someone waved me down and it's a friend of my grandma! Then less than 2 minutes later, of course, my grandma walked in haha! It was pretty funny! We had a good chat, then after the session, we talked for a couple of minutes outside the temple! It's crazy how many times I've run into on the streets here in Hong Kong.

Then last Saturday there was a special member devotional with President Nelson and Elder Holland! It was held at the convention center in Wan Chai and it was the largest gathering of saints ever in Hong Kong! Elder Holland talked about Liberty Jail being a "prison temple" and how our hardest challenges in life is when we can receive the most revelation for our self. President Nelson talked about a lot of things, like his trip to Jerusalem, us being children of God, the importance of temple attendance and some experiences the last couple of months. He also apologized to all the missionaries he was too busy to meet with us, so he had all of us to stand up and gave a "air handshake" to him. It was super good.  You could just see how much he loves the members around the world! I also got to see a lot of members from previous wards as well!

It's crazy to think in 4 days I will hit 2 years! Time really does fly by fast. Luckily I still got 3 weeks left here in Hong Kong and I gotta make them count! Well love you all and talk to you next week!

Elder Eveson

cool avengers setup in the mall in Kowloon Tong!

my popo and her friends

our district

one of my favorite families from the Tuen Mun days!

Week 102 - Moving (apartments)

Hello! Another good week in the HK! This last week was honestly a little hectic. It started with Tuesday we had to move apartments. We moved from Ma On Shan to Tai Wai into the largest apartment in the mission! It's pretty nice, and we finally have roommates again! We now live with the Tai Wai and Sha Tin Elders, and it's honestly a blast! I missed living in 6 man aparmtents! It also helps when it's some of your good buddies from your last zone, and never get to have the chance to just talk with them!

Then on Thursday, we had Zone Conference and we watched the 2016 missionary broadcast. It was honestly a good reminder for me and alot of the mission of what our purpose is as missionaries, and how we can improve what we can do to help people become converted to the gospel. I also got to see some good friends that i haven't seen in a really long time!

Other than that it was kind of adjusting to a new apartment, and honeslty trying to figure out time schedule because we now live 30 minutes out of our area, and this is the 1st time I haven't been able to walk out the door and go street contacting, but ehhh I've gotten used to it now.

love yall!

Elder Eveson

The Lee Family

Week 101

Another great week we had here in the HK! Actually to be 100% honest not a whole lot happened. We did, however, did get a new investigator this week! His name is Xengxus (pronounced census) you gotta love Chinese people and their weird names! but anyways this story goes back 3 months ago to my like 3rd day in Ma On Shan. I met him on the street and taught a full like 30 minutes restoration to him, but he refused to give me his number. 2.5 months pass along and I run into him on the street again and he uses the normal "I lost the flier" excuse and asks for our number again haha. So I type it in his phone and pressed call haha! He had a mini panic attack because 1 we now had his number, and 2 our number was already saved in his phone haha! Anyways he actually answered the phone, met with us and came to the conference yesterday! I still don't really know how much interest the guy has, but it is still a good story, right? Anyways we will keep trying to work with him! (We met a couple more times but he had no interest. Just wanted to hangout or something.)

Then another thing pretty funny that happened yesterday as we were out finding on the boardwalk in our area and who do we run into? We ran into our investigator Sammi and it was super awkward but she tried to help us street contact. No success but it was pretty funny!

Then yesterday we had the chance to watch General Conference. It was a super cool experience to sustain President Nelson as the Prophet and the spirit was felt so strong in the room of missionaries watching it! I know President Nelson is called of God!

love yall for all the love and support!

Elder Eveson

Weekly Planning

District Photo

we were taking a funny photo then i tripped...

funny photo

My boy, Miles