Week 52 - 1 Year

Well actually I hit my 1 year mark,  but it's crazy to think that a year ago I walked onto a plane went over to Provo and started learning a language in which i didn't know know how to say hello when I got there, and now I've been in Hong Kong for 10 months and teaching people Jesus Christ's restored Gospel in Cantonese!!! It's freaking crazy!!!

But no one actually cares about that stuff so now to what happened this week. On Tuesday night we got a call from the Assistants about a turnover. He was a friends of one of their RC's and had been going to their ward for a couple of weeks and lives in our area, and was apparently super excited to hear there was a chapel closer to where he lives. And it turns out he is from South America but doesn't know a lick of Spanish and grew up speaking Chinese. So it was interesting to hear him speak some Chinese. but yeah he couldn't go to church yesterday but he seems super interested in the gospel!! (I only met him once. He dropped of the face of the earth after that.)

On Friday we also had the opportunity to go to the temple!!! It was so good, and it's always great to just get away from the world for a couple of hours. Sadly Elder Egen woke up sick, so he and elder Jensen couldn't make it.

Then there is 1 less active we always meet with on Saturday morning right before kids English class, and we have started teaching her 10 year old son, and guess what he's gonna get baptized on June 4th!!! Super excited for him. He has wanted to go to church and get baptized, but his mom has had some bad feeling against some members but she seems ready to finally overcome that fear, so we are super excited for our buddy Jason!

Also Saturday we had a Stake baptism and 4 people were baptized, and a family which is really rare here in Hong Kong!!! The other NTK companionship was supposed to have a investigator baptized Saturday but Friday night he said his parents want to go to church before he gets baptized, he already has super strong faith, so hopefully this is actually a blessing that we can meet his parents. (Statelord never got baptized sadly)

And to cap off the week I had a really "Dylan" moment I was unlocking the door to the church for a lesson, and what happens next??? The key breaks in the lock. I panic and call Elder Jensen and he's like we gonna need a lock smith and a new lock because we can't get the broken part of the key out. Then I just start picking at the lock, and after a couple of minutes somehow I get the broken key out of the lock, so I saved the church some $$$ because of my guilt, but we did have to teach a lesson like in the rain under a small covered area, but it all worked out!! (Still that punk Ray)

That was my week. Today we are getting together with some friends back in the new Ts and going to the Bruce Lee Museum!

Love ya all and shout out to my cousin Brandon for getting married love ya bro!!

Elder Dylan Eveson

Temple Day

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Week 51 - Easter

Hey everyone!! Another great week in NTK!!! To start things off last Monday we went out to lunch with another 6 Elders and  a member from Ma On Shan (Yoshi) and went to a super nice German Restaurant. Let's just say we had meat for days and it was probably some of the best meat I have eaten in my entire life. I can say now I am a fan of German food!

Then on Monday night I found out I was going to go to Sha Tin on exchange on Tuesday morning. So that morning I packed a days worth of stuff and went up there with Elder Leong (he's from Malaysia) I went to their district meeting up there too, and I didn't know a single person in the district, but throughout the meeting I figured out that these missionaries are pretty cool and a lot of fun. That day we visited a family and shared a message with the sisters in the area. The young couple son was the craziest kid I have ever seen. Let's just say in our 30 minute visit he got about 1000 pictures(not exaggerating) of all the missionaries haha. We also taught a investigator the Plan of Salvation and agreed with all of it! (She later got baptized! only to realize she was actually baptized 30 years ago haha! She didn't remember doing it haha!) It was a fun day. 

On Wednesday night before the re exchange Yoshi called us up again and took both companionship out for lunch again!!! That man is crazy(rich and nice) and you gotta love him!!! 

The work is slowly moving forward. On Saturday the other NTK 1 companionship will have a baptism, and actually next week we are having a state baptismal service where like 7 or 8 people are getting baptized!! #So Powerful!!! Me and Elder Stone got our set of investigators but we both think these people are gonna need some time, but we are hoping that we can help them.

OH YA and Sunday was Easter!!! To make it even better we got to watch the General Conference Priesthood session with the rest of the zone. It was kind of funny because the Stake forgot an English file, so all the Elders had to pack into the mission office and watch it on the office Elders' computer. It was actually a pretty good setting. I had a nice spot on the couch and all the other Elders had super nice office chairs, so it was super comfortable and we got to watch conference it was almost like watching it back home!

If anyone hasn't had the chance go to mormon.org and watch the churches Easter message #princeofpeace. I am so grateful for Jesus Christ and his atoning sacrifice for each of us, and I know if any of you are down or struggling in life he is just ONE prayer away and I know he will help you overcome all your challenges.

Love ya all

Elder Eveson

German Food with Yoshi 

Lunch with Yoshi

Ngau Tau Kok Apartment

Week 50 - Read The Book

Wow another great week in NTK!!! I can see some good things coming in this area in the near future. The other NTK Elders have a solid teaching pool with like 2 baptismal dates and another solid person who will be baptized soon. Ummm me and Elder stone are building up a pool of formers, and we are meeting with a guy tonight who I think who could have some good potential so good things are coming along. (The guy was named Ray. He would just read the book of mormon and google anti questions to ask us. We were able to answer all of his questions, but it was useless. We met with him probably for 2 months, but during that time he read a lot of the Book of Mormon, but refused to pray. He had 0 faith and didn't even want to try. He became more and more rude to us and some members in lessons. It got to the point where we called him out for being rude, lazy, and dropped him and all contact with him. Elder Stone kind of liked him because he (elder Stone) has a lot of knowledge of the scriptures, but after a discussion we both agreed to drop him.)

I also had the great opportunity to have our transfer interviews with President Lam, and even though it was short i did get some very good counsel from him, and just simple plain ideas on finding people that I never thought of. 

And then this weekend was what we call "The Super Bowl for Missionaries" AKA General Conference which was straight fire and I honestly learned so much. and it was kind of interesting because I sat right behind President and Sister Lam just seeing how they react to some of the talks, and something President Lam brought up was John 3:16 was quoted 4 or 5 times throughout the Conference, and he found that interesting and I might see a future Zone Conference theme in the near future. It is always great to hear from the Prophet himself when he share a short simple testimony of the Book of Mormon, so everyone who gets this email JUST READ THE BOOK!!! That's a regret I had growing up because you can honestly learn so much by just reading like 10 minutes a day!!! So that's my challenge to all of you read just 10 minutes a day!!!

Yeah that's all I got. Oh, if anyone hasn't seen the churches new Easter Mormon message I encourage you all to watch it on Mormon.org.

Love you all and talk to to next week!!!

Elder Eveson

Week 49 - New Area

Hey what's up everyone!!! Since I'm a little short on time I will quickly give a rundown of the highlights from this last week. Last Monday we hiked Lions Rock and it was a lot of fun and a great view of all of Kowloon. It was a lot easier this last time. It's probably because it isn't quite burning hot and humid yet.

On Tuesday of district meeting while walking out of the chapel we heard some people yelling at us. and when I heard that I looked out across the street and it was my grandma.... yeah didn't see that coming, and I didn't exactly know how to react, and walked over to talk to her. That was fun I also met her friend that I also knew back from the new T's. So yeah that was pretty cool.

Ummm we also had an investigator drop us on only our 2nd meeting, but we also met with a new guy, who I have been told used to be a big gangster back in the day, and ran like my entire area. Don't worry he's harmless he can barely walk now, and was also super nice to us, and the previous missionaries that taught him.

On Saturday there was a Primary Easter egg activity at a park and we helped run it. After the activity ended we played tag with them, and lets just say I'm on a new pair of shoes now haha, but now the Primary kids and the Primary Presidency love us, so we are building relationships within the ward, which is by far the most important thing to do in missionary work.

So those were the highlights of the week. me and Elder Stone are still trying to build up a teaching pool, but the ward is super awesome when it comes to missionary work. They are super willing to help and everytimes there is a activity they make sure we are there, and there are always non members/ less actives that come and we can meet. 

Hey love you ALL!!! and I'll talk to you all next week!!!

Elder Eveson

Ngau Tau Kok Elders at Lion Rock

With Elder Stone, my companion

Saw my grandma (PoPo) at Kowloon Tong Chapel

Week 48 - Starting from Nothing

So before I get into anything about my new area I'm gonna talk about my last couple of days in Tuen Mun. Let's just say I felt like Kobe Bryant during his last season and his "farewell tour". I called like every member in the ward to say bye and they all turned into conversations, which took valuable packing time in the afternoon. I met with so many members my last couple of days we barely had time to do some personal study. Then to cap off the "farewell tour" I ate dinner at the Yu's house (if i had to pick a favorite family it would be them) and had some pretty good pizza, which is too expensive for missionaries to buy. Then when I got home I honestly say I was holding in some pretty big tears, while calling the rest of the members. I was there for 9 months, and wanted to stay there my entire mission, and probably go to that ward for the rest of my life. Man I really miss that place.


But of course I gotta move on and now I'm in NTK (Ngau Tau Kok) and it's a completely different world. It's super hilly so I get tired walking around. There are like 20x more people here, and me and my comp have no idea how to get anywhere. Saturday morning we tried to get to the chapel and let's say we got lost. Also there's no light rail like in the New Territories but they got good mini bus system here. Here in Hong Kong there are 2 types of mini busses. One has a green roof, and one has a red. The green roofs are ok and run by like a public transit company, but in NTK area they are all red tops. These busses are ran by the Chinese triads (you know the gangs up here) and let's say every time we go to church we fund the triads haha)

Our first coupe of days we're a lot of just sitting around at our desks trying to figure it out what we are doing because me and Elder Stone are opening a new companionship. We had a area book some LA's, a member book and a German who is still being trained in the area (Elder Egen), and knows most of the area. It's almost like we are whitewashing haha. Yesterday at church it was good. The members really welcomed us and we had the chance to share our testimonies during sacrament meeting. The ward is pretty small, even smaller than Tuen Mun ward, which I already thought was pretty small.


We did meet with a former yesterday, and guess what???? He has a baptismal date!!! so good things are coming!!! (His name is Bro Wong and he ended up being nuts and we think he was bipolar or something)


Love ya all!!!


off to climb a rock!!! (Lions Rock)

Elder Eveson

Yu Family

Me and my buddy Lok Yuen

Last District Meeting

The gate broke in new Ngau Tau Kok Apartment, we have to figure it out how to open it.

Recent Convert Sister Chan

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