Week 81 - Would you rather have 100 chickens sized T rex's or 1 T rex sized chinken?

I couldn't think of a title so the title is a quote said by Elder Turley this last week.

Wow this was a busy and very fun week! Something we have been struggling with lately is finding people to teach, and we made that a priority at the beginning of the transfer, and now we are starting to see our hard work pay off. We were able to meet with 3 new people this last week and 2 of the 3 said that they had solid interest to learn about the gospel, so we are super excited to see what else can come from our efforts. Also for this last week we also have another 2 new people scheduled as well! So let see how the next couple of weeks pan out. There was a 12 year old kid and when I asked him "Do you know why we want to meet with you?'' he was like yeah I know you're missionaries and your gonna teach me about God so let's gets started. I was kind of mind blown and he accepted the restoration super well. After the lesson we talked to him for like another 30 or so minutes and so I think he has some solid interest and he already said his parents are ok with him meeting us, and as I asked if he had any friends that wold be interested in our message he said "yeah I gotta will try to bring them to church next week! Man this kid Jack is a stud, and he should be good!

On Wednesday I had the chance to have a stake correlation with President Lam and the Stake President in my stake. It's pretty much a massive report on how all the missionaries and investigators in the zone are doing, and how the stake can help them out and give some advice. To be 100% honest I was pretty nervous because the entire meeting is in Chinese and I'm kind of new to all these reports I need to do now, but it was super good. I got some good feedback from President Mak and language never was a problem. 

We were also finally able to meet with our buddy Terrance who has been hard to schedule the last couple of weeks, but he's been doing good we had a good lesson with him last night. It's more of a process for him. I really believe he will be baptized soon, so keep him in your prayers!

Love you all and thanks for all the support it's crazy to think I got less than 6 months left!

Elder Eveson

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Week 80 - Mission Tour

This was a great week here in Hong Kong, and it was a very motivating week as well. Elder Evans of the 70 visited us and the crazy thing is he didn't prepare anything specific he just prepared spiritually and just followed the spirit and it was sooooo good! He taught us a more effective way of finding and he said "I really believe this method will work you just need to faith that it will. We don't need to work harder for more people to teach, but instead to work smarter" and that method is on the 2nd page of chapter 9 of Preach My Gospel titled "Teach when you find and find when you teach".He said ask everyone for referrals especially the recent converts of the ward because they will want to share their testimony with their friends right after they get baptized. I also really liked when he literally spent an hour talking about the 1st 5 pages of the Book of Mormon. My favorite part of that discussion was he read the first verse in the Book of Mormon so 1 Neph1:1 and the first line says" I Nephi having been born of goodly parents" then he said the very 1st verse to the restoration of the gospel talks about the importance of families. I've read that verse a thousand times and that has never crossed my mind, and he did that with another 8 verses in that same chapter, so that just proves the power of the Book of Mormon because there were people in teachers when he talked about this.

Then on Tuesday we had mission leadership council with Elder Evans where we just discussed everything we learned, and established some new mission goals. So the mission goal for confirmations this year is 242 and we currently have 154. so 88 left for 2 months. That was a big discussion and at the end of the day we decided to keep the number and doing everything we humanly possible to achieve that goal, then pray for miracles. We know its probably not gonna happen but we talked about ending the year strong and keeping the goal for next year and actually exceed. Elder Evans should be a motivational speaker because when he talks the room is filled with the spirit.

Then on Thursday night we went basketball finding and I swear every person there had handles like Kyrie and they all started laughing when we asked to play, but they let us in. They had all the flashy moves but us Americans stuck with the basics and rebounded and knocked down our shots, and luckily my 3 point game was on point that day. We actually smoked both teams we played, and they invited us to play with them again, I see that as a success!

Well I'm running out of time but Saturday we had a ward party in Sai Kung.  It  was a lot of fun. We had a bbq, did some hiking and tossed the football. Also there is a members son who just graduated from BYUI and he actually moved into one of my old student wards, and knows some good friends of mine from BYUI, so small world!

Well that's it for this week love y'all and talk to you next week!

Elder Eveson

we saw a praying mantic

us and Daniel (the guy from BYUI)

me and Harold

Week 79 - 18 months

Well I have officially hit 18 months now, and that's actually super hard to believe!  Actually not a lot happened this week. We have actually just been hitting the streets talking to as many people as possible. We have had some success, but the hardest part is now turning them into investigators, so we are starting over and focusing a lot on finding. We still got investigators, but they are all super busy with school, so we can only meet with them on weekends, and that leaves us with a lot of time for finding, so wish us luck! Other than that we had a ward Halloween party last Saturday and that was a lot of fun umm yeah..

This upcoming week will be a lot of fun though. Tomorrow Elder Evans of the 70 is visiting the mission. On Thursday I have MLC with Elder Evans where all the ZL and STL discuss all the needs of the mission and President Lam trains us on what he wants us to focus on during the month. Then Saturday we have our "ward vacation" where they bus us somewhere for the entire day for run activities and we are going to Sai Kung, the most beautiful part of Hong Kong, so yeah its gonna be good week!

Love y'all!

Elder Eveson

Ngau Tau Kok Ward missionaries