Week 87 - Merry Christmas

Another great week in the Hong Kong!!! This last week we had our Zone Christmas party and that was a lot of fun and had some pretty good food as well! Me and Elder Frey decided to give the turkey a shot, so we made the turkey for the entire zone and for some reason people actually said it was good! So I guess I can call that a success! At the party we had a white elephant gift exchange thingy and there were some pretty good gifts and pretty pathetic ones as well. The worst was some athletes foot spray and a sister got it and was not very pleased!! So once again it was a lot of fun!

Honestly other than that not a lot happened, people are always busy during Christmas time so we didn't teach as many lessons as usual, so I guess everything is about the same when it comes to investigators. 

Yesterday we got to visit a member for Christmas which was a lot of fun, but other than that not a whole lot of stuff to talk about this week.

I guess it was nice to talk to the family bam as well! The next Skype day is Mother's day May 13! I'm coming home May 18 haha just thought that was a little funny!

well love y'all and merry Christmas!!

Elder Eveson

Turkey before

Turkey after

 we visited sister Lau last night!

Week 86 - 5 Months Left

Well I don't have alot of time today but this was a good week. I did finally get my release date for May 18 which is kind of crazy that there' is only 5 months left..

Well this week was alot of fun. On Thursday we had Zone Conference which was great as always, but this time I had to help give a training in front of like 60 missionaries. It was pretty scary, but I thought it went pretty good. Our Zone Leaderships topic was "You are what you eat" and the focus was on feasting on the words of Christ which is found in 2 Nephi 31 20. Our invitation was to have everyone one study the life and teaching of Jesus Christ and try to apply it in their own life, and also into their teaching, so I thought it was pretty good.

On Friday we had our ward Christmas party which was fun as always, and on Saturday we had an English class which included 2 pinatas of course. The funniest part was after all the kids had gotten their turns hitting the pinata it still was going strong so we called over a member and she destroyed it and the candy went flying! Yeah it was pretty fun.

This week has also been good finding. We got 2 new investigator this week, and the work seems to be moving forward!

Love yall and have a great week!

Elder Eveson

Elder Turley as Santa

Me terrance and Harold at the Christmas party

the group

me and Elder Stober at the peak

this wild pig scared the crap out of us

mirror selfie

Week 85 - MLC

Well this was a pretty fun week here in Hong Kong. A couple of cool and interesting things happened this week. Well let's start off with the good stuff. On Wednesday we had MLC (Mission Leader Conference) and that was a lot of fun we got into a big discussion on obedience and also on are we doing what Elder Evens taught us 1.5 months ago by talking to everyone and asking 100% for referrals. When I looked back at myself, no I didn't do that especially on the subway standing next to thousands of people on a single train. That's something I've become motivated to do better at, and even though I haven't been able to receive any numbers on the trains I have talked to several pretty cool people on the trains. Also during MLC we had a nice surprise, one of my last companions Elder Smith (now Calvin) was in Hong Kong for 1 day and I ran into him in Kowloon and I was super excited! Then that night I had a missionary meeting with the Stake President to discuss the status of the zone with him and that was also pretty fun. I said some things I didn't even know I can say! I had to lead most of the meeting because my ZL (Zone Leader) companion Elder Taylor has been here this area for a week haha. He was super stressed out!

On Thursday things got pretty interesting. Me and Elder Frey witnessed a mugging and a old man getting beat up by a couple of thugs, and even though hundreds of people saw it we were like the 1 of 3 people who waited to talk to the police, so I was interviewed for like a hour in Chinese about what happened! Yeah that was pretty stressful but I can check that off the bucket list!

On Saturday the Zone sang Christmas songs in a mall and that was a lot of fun. The best part was people actually thought we were good haha! Then Sunday was also pretty interesting we met with a new guy who turns out to be completely nuts we met his 4 personalities haha. That was also a experience to remember haha.

Well that's it, love y'all!

Elder Eveson

 me and Calvin! (he went to Malaysia for the weekend and had a layover in HK for a day)

The trio all made it to MLC!

Week 84 - Tai Po Biking

Sorry not alot of time this week, but I will just name a couple of the highlights from this last week. so last week we went to Tai Po to go biking, and I'm gonna say that was one of the most fun/ painful pdays of my mission! We rented a 4 man bike that was designed for Chinese people, and let's just say every time we pedaled our knees would hit a solid metal rod on the bike haha. It was alot of fun and some legs were sore for the rest of the day haha.

Um other than the regular we had dinner with our investigators the Au family and that was alot of fun and they pretty much committed to baptism without us really even talking about it, so that was pretty cool, so now its the process of getting them there now! I'm super excited to see this family grow into the church!

Love you all and hear from you next week!

Elder Eveson

Our adventures while biking!

Week 83 - Thanksgiving

Wow this week has been super amazing and the work in NTK is finally starting to get where I want it, but first we got move calls this last weekend and me and Elder Frey are staying together for another transfer, so that means I am now going on 10 months in NTK! The only thing really changed is that Elder Earls is moving to my aunts ward ZL Victoria 1 and my new ZL companionship is now gonna the Elder Taylor from England! So that's gonna be fun, The only annoying thing is I'm the only one out of the 4 zone leadership spots that are staying the same, so I guess Im gonna have to "hold down the fort" for a little as to figure out how the zone is.

This week we had Thanksgiving! It was a lot of fun and we ate a lot of food! We played some games as a zone, and the turkey was pretty good! Then that night we met with a referral from the new T's and she's pretty golden! She said she was gonna go home and read the Book of Mormon without us even inviting her, then that Sunday she brought her entire family to church and they liked as well! This is the first time and probably only time I will ever be able to teach a family on my mission and I'm so excited! Also Terrance accepted a Baptism Day on January 7, so pray for him because I think he is almost ready too!

Then on Friday I had the chance to go on exchanges to Tai Wai with Elder Stansfield and that was also a lot of fun being able to go to another area, and see how it is doing. I think they are doing good, and the work in Hong Kong is moving forward. It has also been about 1 month since Elder Evens visited us and told us the better way to find, and in 3 weeks in November the mission already surpassed last months NI number and last week was a 5 week month, and last week was the highest NI number President Lam has ever seen in 1 week! and that was 50! So good things are happening, and the mission should be able to build on this success for the rest of the year and into next year as well!

love you all for the love and support talk to you next week!

Elder Eveson 彥長老

Zone Thanksgiving Dinner

Exchange with Elder Stansfield

Week 82 - Finding

Wow another great week in the Hong Kong. The weather is now finally starting to cool down now. It's down to a low temperature of 19 degrees Celsius, which is like 65ish in Fahrenheit. but I love it! Finally I'm done with sweating 24/7!! Yeah if you didn't know I prefer cold over heat any day. This week we were able to get a new investigator named Ken he was found from a potential sheet from 2014 haha.  I was super surprised he remembered us and even met with us 2x! He's pretty chill, so he has already committed to come to church this coming Sunday, so we will see what happens, but I've already seen some cool things happen and having more people to teach since I started training. 

This last week we also tried to basketball finding again with the same group of kids from a couple of weeks ago, and even though it was a close game the Elders came up on top again, but this time after the game we were able to actually talk and get to know them a little better, and we even ran into a LA from like years ago and played with him a little bit as well, and somehow we were also able to get them to play soccer with us, so the hope is in a couple weeks or so we can get these kids listening to lessons some time soon. Sadly my jump shot was pretty cold that day, but I did get some nice drives to the hoop against these kids, and actually dribbled through like 5 people to score a goal in soccer too haha.

Then last Friday we had the chance to help paint a members house with a members non member husband, that was a lot of fun especially since I really haven't been able to any service since I got to Ngau Tau Kwok 8 months ago. Sadly you all know me there's no photo evidence this ever happened, so you're gonna have to believe me.

Then yesterday we had stake conference which was pretty good. I got to see some of the family again. I gotta see my nice grandma along with you know like all my moms friends growing up. So I got showered with food again haha.

So yeah that was the week! love y'all talk to you next week!

Elder Eveson

Got to meet op with Zero

10,000 Buddhas

It's that time of year