Week 34 - Merry Christmas

I'm gonna start off by saying this our numbers were very poor this week, but we got alot of stuff done. We visited a part member family on Monday and the daughter who is 10 and is not a member was completely cool with us coming over and teaching her. Also we got  2 other families to come to the performance of the Messiah and we are starting to work with them. One family already really likes us because they are regulars for our English class and they have a good relationship with all the missionaries in Tuen Mun!! (Kelvin, Katie, and Coco)

We also started teaching a guy from India named Chanresh. We started teaching him and he really likes me and Elder Jensen. He even woke up early to exercise with us haha. He has no religious background of God, so we slowly introduced that to him when we meet with him, and also the Messiah performance he stayed and talked to us and the other missionaries for like a hour!

Then the messiah performance itself was super good. It was 1.5 hours of straight music singing about Jesus and there was twice as many people than they were expecting, so I guess the smallest zone in the mission brought in by far the most people, so powerful!!

Then last night I probably had the most powerful experience on my mission. We visited a member in the hospital who fell and was paralyzed from the waist down, and got so sick he can barely talk and can't eat, and even with this circumstances he straight up told us he is still super happy and was so happy to see us. We gave him a Christmas card and a pass along card with a picture of baby Jesus and he kissed it and said he loves Jesus. I have never met someone as powerful as brother Tam and dispite all the challenges he faced family and physically he never lost his testimony. gotta love that man!! I also had the opportunity to give my first blessing ever in Cantonese. We offered to give one to him, and he said he wanted me to do it haha! I was super nervous, but with my limited Chinese I felt the spirit and gave him a simple blessing of comfort to overcome his life's challenges and also reminded God was aware of his pains and will always be with him. I was a great experience and testimony building experience for me. (He eventually was able to check out of the hospital, but wasn't able to come to church very often due to his health. He was such a great example of enduring to the end and keeping the faith despite his health problems. After my mission in July 2019 a year after i got home, I was able to meet up with Bishop Yu from the Tuen Mun ward. Sadly brother Tam passed away in early 2019, but he said he continued to stay faithful to the end. Such a great man!)


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> So that's my week's highlights. so MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!
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> Elder Eveson

Elder Fakatou dressed as Santa at his ward Christmas party!!!

 hey look a pig in the church saw the guy cut it into tiny pieces too and it was sooo good!

Exchanges in HSK finding on the border!

Week 33 - Another Week Down

Hey everyone, another week in the beautiful Hong Kong! Not alot happened this last week. The only things out of the ordinary was we had zone training on Tuesday. It was alot of fun. We all invited members to attend so we could practice teaching the Christmas initiative, and we also did a family feud game with districts againest districts, and I'm sad to say my district did not win, but its not about winning it's about learning right???

The Tuen Mun Elders also had the wonderful opportunity to teach English class!! and I didnt know we were teaching it until about 20 minutes before our weekly meeting to discuss what is gonna be taught.. so we literally planned the entire thing walking to the church, and guess what everyone loved it!!! They also really liked the church's Christmas video this year, so that was great.

ummmmm we also had a district find where we got kicked out of every place we went to, but did get 1 phone number!!! and I went on exchanges with Elder Hanson, which was alot of fun where we hit the streets and went finding for days!!! There are alot of great things happening this week in our stake, and we are hoping the members invite their friends to these activities. In hong kong a group of members are performing the Messiah and we have been told alot of non members will attend it, and the Asia Area Presidency wants the missionaries to go crazy at this event and talk to everyone!! It's gonna be AWESOME!!

Oh and I almost forgot on Saturday we visited less actives with the young men in our ward, and were able to drop off Christmas presents to them, and also share a Christmas message! They all really liked us visiting them, and it for some it was the first contact with church members in years, so some progress is being made!!

Remember that guy who was pressured by his friends to meet with us, and we turned over to the butterfly elders? Well he got baptized this week! (3 years later is on a mission now!)

Love you all for the love and support. hope you all have a great Christmas!!

Elder Eveson 彥長老

I took too many selfies with Elder Yeung & Huang

what 2 years on the mission will do to you haha

Week 32

AYYYYY all of my friends, everything has been great this week, and the highlights of the week was... 2 new investigators!!! Something that is really hard to find in Tuen Mun!!! but yeah thats cool. We got both of them to come to a meet the Mormons activity at our church, and half of our zone was there because they all got RCs, less active, or investigators! There were a total of 28 people there and we were expecting like 15 max!! Also something that I have forgotten to say this, but a couple of weeks ago when Elder Wong came and spoke to our mission he promised us that if we do what he taught us, the mission's baptisms in November and December would double what it was in September and October and guess what it's happening!! Our zone in November alone doubled the 2 months before, and there are more to come in this month too!! Also as a mission in 2 weeks, after the mission made some changes, baptismal dates went from like 60 to over a 100!!! It's so cool to see the work moving forward here in Hong Kong!

So this week I had to do a lot of exchanges this week as Elder Jensen had to start prepping for zone training tomorrow, so I spent a lot of time with Elder Clark in his area in Yuen Long, so I guess I'm now like a half Mandarin missionary even though I can't understand anything of what people are saying in Mandarin. I also got to go on exchanges with my district leader Elder Huang, and it was so much fun! Taught a couple of lessons and went finding, and learned a lot from him, so that was a lot of fun!

Also this week we had our quarterly interviews with President Lam, and all I can say is even though he's only been a member for like 20 years, he is a very powerful man. I always learn a lot from him and I respect him very much.

So that's my week. Our lessons have dipped in the last couple of weeks because of meetings and also the lack of investigators, but we are hoping our 2 new ones will start to show some potential!!

With Elder Yeung

New Suit made

Love you all!!!

 Tuen Mun Apartment

DIstrict Selfie

彥長老