Week 78 - Training

So this was a very good week in the China Hong Kong Mission! On Thursday I picked up my trainee fresh out of the MTC, and let's just say he has already made me a better missionary! His name is Elder Frey from salt lake and he is fresh out of high school, but he is already so diligent and wants to talk to everyone. We have already seen some cool things happen since we have been together. The coolest thing about him is he doesn't scare to do anything even though he really doesn't know any Cantonese yet, but he will do everything I ask. So something I have had him do is sit next to an old man in the park and leave him all alone to talk to him haha. At first it was more as a joke, but since he does it, it's some good practice because they can't run away from us like a lot of people do! So it's super cool just how enthusiastic he is for the work, and we have gotten several phone numbers in the last couple of days, so hopefully some of those people can turn into investigators!

So hopefully some good thing will come. I'm super excited for next week Elder Evans of the 70 is coming to visit the mission for mission tour, so some good things should come from that! Sorry not a lot of time left, but love you guys and thanks for all the love and support!

Elder Eveson

8 Elders in a small cave in Cheung Jau

 We got rained on Ii guess that's what happens when you go a day after a typhoon!)

Human pyramid!d 

My new son!

Week 77 - Let the Chaos begins

It's that time again transfers! So there are 28 new missionaries coming in this transfer, and like 6 leaving haha. So I know this transfer was a headache for President Lam! But anyways so Elder Rodriguez and I are both staying at Ngau Tau Kok and are both gonna train a greenie fresh out of the MTC! So there will once again be 2 companionships of Elders in our ward. Also I'm going to be the new Lions Rock Zone Leader! It should be fun and my Zone Leader companion is gonna be my MTC companion Elder Earls! So it should be alot of fun! Also some good friends are also opening some areas in my zone too! Yeah so pretty much every companionship in the mission is having changes but luckily I don't have to open a new area.

The rest of this week was really good except yesterday sucked. There was  another typhoon, so Church, Priesthood session of Conference were both canceled and we didn't get cleared to go outside until 7:30 pm. Let's just say we did studies and deep cleaned our apartment and did extra personal study and language study for another 6 hours haha.

We were able to meet with alot of people this week though! We met with an investigator we haven't seen or heard from in 4 months. Gotta meet with the coolest LA in the world who drove us from Kwun Tong to Kowloon Tong! Harold took a massive step forward this last week progression wise! Oh yeah yesterday was Elder Rodriguez's birthday, so we celebrated that on Saturday where a member took us to eat Korean bbq! So yeah it was a good week and we will see what happens in the coming weeks!

love yall!!

Elder Eveson彥長老

KBQ

 Last weeks Pday squad

One of the coolest people ever Aiden!

 gotta see my buddy Tyler from the new T's

 I had muffin mix and no oven so we steamed it and it worked!

Week 76 - When you're down you can only go up!

Well this week was a little on the interesting side. To start off our most progressing investigator blocked our phone number and me and Elder Rodriguez were super confused. After a couple days with no luck of contacting him, I finally asked our Bishop to try to contact him. Let me tell you this last week required a lot of praying on my part to allow us to get a hold of him and find out what happened. As the week went on nothing changed and honestly I was a little down at the time. I kept thinking "What could I do better". On Friday we got to go to the temple which was great by the way, but I prayed so hard for that guy. Then that night I asked the Bishop to try to contact him, and he was able to. But yeah everything is good now! He came to conference and was still as enthusiastic about the gospel. He told us the reason he blocked us was because he was busy with exams and didn't have anytime to talk to us. He apologized and admitted he was pretty dumb to do that haha. So everything is good now!

Also we got to watch conference over the weekend, and it was probably one of my favorite conferences. One of my personal favorite was Brother McCallister who just listed like 100 reasons why the Book of Mormon is true and it is impossible for it to be fake! Also Elder Anderson's talk to end conference had all the missionaries and President Lam in tears by the end, and just solidified my testimony of living Prophets! So in the end this week even though it had some struggles in the beginning really ended up being an amazing week and something I will remember for the rest of my life.

By the way, I got the see my entire family yesterday as well! It was a unexpected surprise but it was great to see them all!

Elder Eveson

Me and Harold after conference

District Temple Day

Family Attended General Conference

Week 75

Another great week in the beautiful HK! Well to start of the week last Monday we went bowling, and lets just say that I had a pretty good game! I broke my high score!!! It used to be a pathetic 125, but now its a respectful 145!! Well actually after the 9th frame we ran out of time and our lane shut down, and I was pretty mad, so I gave myself a respectful 9 for my final frame, so that's how I got that number. I even told Sister Lam about what happened and she also told me to tap on a 9 for that frame, so that how that goes.

This week we have had a lot of ups and downs with some off our investigators. Some have taken big steps forwards, but others have taken big steps backwards, so honestly only time will tell what happens with some of these people. Elder Rodriguez and I can only do so much to help these people, but in the end they need to act for themselves, and to be honest some of them have stopped, which is honestly the most stressful thing ever for a missionary. 

Other than that we have been trying to find new investigators and more people to teach, but right now the entire mission is struggling with finding  new investigators, but we are trying our best to find the prepared people in NTK (Ngau Tau Kok).

Well yeah that's all  really happening right now. We haven't had the chance to watch conference yet we still gotta wait until this weekend because they gotta translate the entire thing into Chinese and that's pretty hard. However I am super excited because we get to go to the temple this Friday!!! It should be fun!

love y'all hope you enjoy my 1 picture from the week!

Elder Eveson 

Bowling with other Elders