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

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