Elder Dylan Eveson's Mission: Week 34

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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