Week 71 - When you see people change

Wow another great week here in the Hong Kong! Nothing really out of the ordinary, just trying help some of our current investigators. Yesterday, for some reason I was just really frustrated in the work. No investigators showed up to church when we had like 5 or 6 people that had committed, so sitting in church in my head I was like what could I have done better, why don't people ever keep their commitments here, and all of this was running through my head during sacrament meeting. Then that night I got some calls/ texts from these investigators saying that they were super sorry, and that things just came up they were actually super sorry. That was really something I really needed to hear because one of our super solid investigators has really taken a little dip in the last 2-3 weeks, and I've been just getting really frustrated. His intentions are there it's just that he has ran into some anti church material that really has put some doubts into his head, and he admits its lessened his motivation. So we will have to see how that goes. It's true what President Lam always says "when they are on the path to baptism the devil will throw everything he has at your investigators" and that's probably the most true statement he has said. So now we are 100% focused on helping him receive a testimony of the restoration, his biggest question. However putting all of that aside he is still committed to a baptismal date for Sept 30, and he said he is all in to get that answer!

But to be on the positive side we have 2 other investigators who have made a lot of progress the last couple of weeks! Harold who is one of those "eternagators" has made so much progress since I've gotten to the area. When I got here he slept 16 hours a day and awake 8, and now its a complete switch. He smoked 6 cigarettes a day, now he is down to 1 or 2, and he is completely committed to get baptized. He even went to Institute by himself without us telling him where or when, and share scriptures from it in our lesson with him! Also Ivy since she went to FSY, she a completely different person, and she said she really has felt the spirit testify to her that this is the true church, so she's excited, now its just meeting her mom.... so lets pray for good things to come!

So yeah that's all I really got to say today, love you all! Pray for these people!

Elder Dylan Eveson

Our little trip to Tsim Sha Tsui