Week 106 - The End

Well, this is it, everyone! My last email coming from the HK! The last week has honestly been crazy, and so many great things are happening in our area! To start off yesterday was a great day at church because we got 4 people there! that really just doesn't happen here in Hong Kong. That's the most I have had at church my entire mission! and the greatest part is every single one of them has a lot of potentials as well! They all have a strong desire to grow closer to Jesus Christ, and I know Elder Newbold and his new companion Elder Siddoway will do a great job and take care of these people! 

Another miracle that happened this last week was one of our new investigators this last week named A Wah. So 2 weeks ago there was a couple who came to church out of the middle of nowhere, and we found out the guy (A Wah) was not a member, but they left when the second meeting ended, and I was actually really mad! But then yesterday before church we were told by the bishop that they were coming back, and A Wah said he would have interest in taking the missionary discussions, so we taught him right after church and he's a pretty chill guy! (He eventually got baptized! according to Eunice) Then after that lesson, I found out a member of my ward also got his mission call! His mom is actually good friends with my mom growing up, and she has wanted him to go on a mission for well like 5 years haha, and he got called to Hong Kong! The entire ward was there, and they went nuts, and his reaction was like "Well alright then". I'm pretty excited for him.

This week I have also had to say "goodbye" to a lot of people. It was pretty hard, but yeah it's crazy I'm going home....

The rest of this week we are visiting some members for dinner, and meeting all of our investigators all 1 more time. I've had a lot of fun here in Ma On Shan. I've seen the ward go from absolutely no faith in missionary work, and us with no investigators when I got here to 4 solid high potential people who are willing to come to church, and another 4 who I think someday can also get there when they build their faith, and the ward now is full of energy towards the work, and I don't even need to talk to investigators at church because they are always with a member! 

The last 2 years and 3 weeks have been fun, and I have learned so much, and I guess I will see a lot of people in a couple of days!

Love y'all!

Elder Eveso

Sister Ng, Woo, and Lai from NTK came down to visit me before I left!

My buddy Hughe

I got attacked by the English class students when they found out I was leaving

Nephi got his mission call to the best mission, HK mission!

My buddy/ investigator A Hin

Week 105

This week was another one of those "we didn't do that bad this week" weeks. We were able to find 2 new investigators this week! The one with a lot of potential is named "Betty" so when I stopped her we actually talked for like an hour and she talked a lot about how she felt she needed to start going back to church, but the reason she stopped was because all of them were fake! Then a couple of days later, we were able to share the restoration with her, and when I asked her how she felt, she said "I believe it's true!". It was one of those miracles because we were walking the streets for like 2 hours and hadn't stopped a person, then on the way home, we found her! Then she came to church on Sunday, and it just happened to be a broadcast from Salt Lake specifically for Hong Kong and Taiwan, and she loved it! I'm excited to help her to continue to develop her faith in the restoration! ( I've been home for a little over a year now, but Betty ended up being great! She got baptized a couple of months after I got home and has stayed active since. Every once in a while she will whatsapp me thanking me for finding her on the street!)

Then on Thursday, I had an experience where I was pretty scared for my life! Me and Elder Newbold were street contacting and ran into a super cool kid named Lishawn and the kid was just loving us (we are meeting him tonight for the 1st time!) but after we met with him we didn't want to walk back the same direction, so we kept walking straight and ended up in a pretty sketchy area. So when we turned around we accidentally took a wrong turn, and walked past some older people who I'm pretty sure were drunk. Then they started yelling at us "AYYYY HELLO!!!" because well we were the white people then we saw one get up and start walking towards us and the second we turned a corner we booked it into a full on sprint into the woods! Then we found out it was a dead end, and it was this sketchy "fort like place" I had ever seen with a tarp as a roof and a dog barking at us! so I was ready to smack this guy and run! Well it all turns out they were telling us to get lost and that sketchy place their "home" and they said "look at the signs that's private property" (there were no signs in sight they pointed at a tree)  I still don't 100% believe them but once I was once again out of sight we booked it again! Well that was fun!

So yeah, that was my week love y'all and talk to you next week!

Love,

Elder Eveson

Yoshi took us to a cool Korean buffet! He's a legend!

gotta love biking!

Week 104 - 2 Years

Well, it's crazy to say, but I've finally hit my 2 years mark a couple of days ago!! But looking at the bright side I still got 2 weeks left!! This last week was a pretty normal week, but we did get to teach a new person this last week! His name was A Hin and he is a stud! After the 1st lesson we just chilled for another 10 minutes just chatting! You gotta love when you meet those people and just hit it off right away and become buds!

We also finally were able to meet with Athena, the 1 investigator in the area, when I showed up! So she's back! we are teaching her again tonight, so hopefully, we can get some of that interest that she once had back!

Other than that, it was the normal talking to people on the streets, talking to as many people as I can! It's honestly such a blessing to be serving my mission in Hong Kong and being able to speak Cantonese as well!!

Well love everyone and talk to you next week!

Elder Eveson

We went to Ferris Wheel

Cheung Chou

Cheung Chou

Cheung Chou

Cheung Chou