Week 47- End of an Era

Well it's sad to say, but my 9 months in Tuen Mun are up. About 5 minutes before I walked into the library to email, Elder Smith gets a call from the zone leaders, sits down in the MTR station and I just walked away in fear. After the call he covers up our companionship and tells the rest of our district, and then uncovers Tuen Mun, and I didn't see my name in the spot. So yeah I'm opening a second Elders companionship in Ngau Tau Gok. Umm I was pretty sad, actually I still am, but when I found out who else was moving to the area it was alot easier to take in because Elder Jensen (my trainer) is going to be in the other Ngau Tau Gok companionship!!! and my buddy Elder Hansen is moving to the office which is also in my zone, and if my MTC comp Elder Earls doesn't move he will also be, so it should be alot of fun! So yeah lets end that part.

2nd this week we had Zone Conference and President Lam said some really bold things during that meeting. He pretty much said don't ever go street finding, and to visit members and teach them to build up trust and eventually get their friends involved, and to do the street contacting between lessons. It was pretty bold, but he quoted prophets the entire time saying the members really need to step up their game when it comes to missionary work, So I guess I would encourage everyone to invite missionaries to their homes a little more, but also bring friends too!

Me and Elder Smith also had the opportunity to teach a couple new people this week that we have found through English class, and our English class went from pretty pathetic to super popular since I've been here, and actually the last 2 months or so. I'm very happy where Tuen Mun is and I know Elder Smith will take good care of it. He's a great missionary and it has been a pleasure serving with him the last 11 weeks.

Oh I guess I can talk a little about my last pday at monkey mountain. Ummm let's just say the group of Elders I was with we got chased 3 times by monkeys and the very last time a monkey looked me straight in the eyes hissed and chased after ME. I was scared for my life because some how I scared the monkeys baby, but I swear I didn't do anything, but don't worry I'm ok.

Today gonna chill with my MTC buds Elder Earls and Cobabe and are gonna have a nice Korean BBQ, the missionaries favorite expensive place to eat!! 

Love ya all, and im excited for a new change!!

Elder Eveson

Monkeys everywhere

The Mom monkey is the one attacked me

With my buddy Carson in English Class

We made pizza in English Class

Week 46

Hey another week down in the HK! It's been the same old same old that I usually say yeah. Actually Wednesday we had to go down to Kowloon Tong to for a self reliance training that is held every year. It was pretty good, and I guess I learned how I can improve a little bit, but it was also good to see some old friends that I haven't had the chance to see in a while, and even ran into my good friends/MTC comp/ roommate for 8 months down there as well, so it was good.

On Thursday we also had the chance to go to good old Crossroads for our weekly service, and actually last week I actually hit 100 hours of service there, so now I can get a nice shiny letter of recommendation from a world wide charity so YAY!! Also when I first got to Tuen Mun there were only 8 missionaries that volunteered there every week, and now its 22, so I think it's safe to say that the "Mormons" in 2 hours of service do more than than all the other volunteers do in an entire week haha! No wonder they keep asking for more of us! But anyways me and Elder Smith were assigned to fix up a water damaged bathroom in one of the apartments there, and you can always count on Crossroads to make work in the dirtiest of environments! But hey it's all good we can make the hardest things fun!

Then on Friday me and Elder Smith taught a BOMB English class we played the price is right and everyone loved it, and everyone thought our made up prices for items were fairly accurate except 1 member wasn't impressed with our prediction of the ping pong table. We guessed around $170 US, so what would you guys have guessed?

I guess our finding miracle of the week was we stopped this guy at the street, and the first thing he said was "I've seen you guys like 3 times this week, and I've said I was busy, so I'll give you a chance" so we talked and he went on a rant about medical stuff me and Elder Smith didn't understand, then when we asked to exchange numbers he was like na it's ok. We were pretty bummed then handed him a flier with our number. But the miracle was like 2 days later when he called us just to say "hey do you remember me??" and the end of the story is we scheduled him for later this week, so yay!

ummmm what else??? oh!! Yesterday we had Stake Conference, and it was super good. Saturday night and Priesthood session was all about missionary work, so we got to hear President and Sister Lam speak, and we were able to get our less active buddy Martin to come too! He had to leave about halfway through but he came and we were able to schedule him!!! He's the guy our bishop really wants to focus on when it comes to LA work, so I'm excited!

So yeah that was my week! sorry no pictures but I promise some will come next week! Off to Monkey Mountain to chill with my good old friend Elder Jensen, and to get attacked by some monkeys!! (I actually was attacked by one! It hissed at me and started to chase me!)

Love ya all!!!

Elder Eveson

彥長老

Week 45 - the Atonement is REAL!!

Hey what's up Everyone!!! All is well here in HK. The cold weather that never was actually cold is rolling away, and today I started to feel that humidity that killed me over the summer starting to come back, so wish me luck!

So, as far as news from this last week we have met with a couple of new people we have met along the street, and me and Elder Smith are trying to help them to know the things we teach are true because most of the people we have met with don't have alot of interest, but are white guys that know Chinese, so that's a reason to meet right?

And I guess any other news is that we got a new ward mission leader, who I think can really help us a lot, and we also met with the Bishop to discuss what's the best thing to help our ward. So I'm really hoping find some new solid people to teach to really help our ward. Also do you remember that LA Brother Yiu we found about 2 months ago and was inactive for 20+ years, and his life wasn't the best because he had a word of wisdom problem? Well he is doing great he is now clean from his problems and got a new job that he likes and doesn't have to work on Sundays, and he's super grateful that we found him and that God gave him another chance because if you remember we only talked to him on the street for about 30 seconds and somehow ended up with his number. Our Bishop said he is working on getting him a calling in the ward so yeah!! The atonement is REAL!! 

Top of Castle Peak with Elder Smith

Other than that we hiked a mountain in our area today (Castle Peak) and it had a super beautiful view. You could see the ocean and on the other side you could see like 3 different cities. We actually did personal study up there, and chilled for like another 1.5 hours or so! It was super hard to get up just think of a couple of miles of straight stairs!!! Yeah that's how hiking is here in Hong Kong! No wimpy switch backs and flat trails, they just got straight up!

So those are the highlights of my week

Love ya'll!!

Elder Eveson

Other side of Castle Peak

Another side of Castle Peak

English Class

Week 44 - 10 months

Hey everyone one another great week in Tuen Mun!!! and so today marks my 10 month mark on my mission!! (actually its tomorrow because Hong Kong is like 16 hours ahead but ehhh) but it also means I've been in Tuen Mun for almost 8 months as well! It's been a lot of fun and actually there is still a month left in the transfer, so I'll be 9 months by then!!!

This week was actually pretty slow. We are now just finding a lot to find a new set of investigators. Last week we also had our interviews with President Lam and something he really stressed is street finding is not the most effective ways of finding. He wants us to work with our bishops with part member families and getting referrals from members. We are meeting our new bishop who knows the members really well already and he probably has a good idea of the part member families in the ward. So we are excited to work with him.

Also do you remember the 2 people from Africa we taught last week?? Well we taught them again, and the lesson was really good. They had some really good questions and we plan on extending a baptismal invitation next week!

I guess the only other thing out of the ordinary this week is on Saturday morning I woke up with my left eye almost completely red, and me being my stubborn self refused to go to the doctor (because it would take like 4 hours for them to tell me to buy eye drops) and so I bought some eye drops at the store put on my glasses which are the most annoying thing in the world, and called it good. and you don't need to worry my eye is almost back to normal today, so yeah that was my week!

Love ya all!!

Elder Dylan Eveson

Oh yeah since my eye was a little on the red side, I didn't take any pictures this week, but they will come next week!