Week 19 - First Zone Conference

Well this week was probably the craziest week so far on my mission. It all started right after P day ended last week when we went finding. The first person we met we talked to on the street for over an hour and he invited us to his home! He fed us a lot of food and me and Elder Jensen were like "what is happening" but it was super cool and we talked to his son a little bit, The sad thing is we didn't have time to share a message because we needed to be home by 10 and by the time we finished eating it was 9:45. so we got his phone number and ran to the train station, and of course the train was gonna take 10 minutes to arrive and we needed to be in our apartment in 10 minutes, so Elder Jensen had the "bright idea to run home, and I was like no that's crazy, that's almost 2 miles away and the next thing I knew we were sprinting home. We did make it back before the train, but we were still about 5 minutes late and drenched in sweat, and I was honestly in a really bad mood because um I ran almost 2 miles in dress shoes, slacks, a white shirt and tie oh and of course I was carrying a bag too! I bet people were like "them Mormons are crazy" haha, but looking back it's a good story to laugh at and give Elder Jensen a hard time. We now call that experience the "Siu Hong River Run" because we ran from Siu Hong station along the river! (3 years later i still give him crap about it!)

Another cool experience this week we visited a member in our ward and we just like to visit him every couple of weeks because he has no family named brother Tang, but we were able to get Jacky a recent convert who was baptized the week before i got to Hong Kong and is 12 and he totally helped us which was awesome! He is such a great kid and the only member in his family! Anyways brother Tang is a little off and lives in a retirement home, but really enjoys our visits. 

Saturday was probably the craziest day this week because we had zone conference! it was awesome because every single training that day was focused around Jesus Christ and his atonement. Then right when we got back we met with one of our newer investigators sister Tsang and she is super excited to learn about the church and she totally went to church on Sunday, and me and Elder Jensen actually had to help teach primary and she stayed by herself and totally participated in Sunday School! Well back to Saturday after her lesson we visited a less active family and they welcomed us in and fed us dinner and we totally retaught everything we heard during zone conference that day about the atonement. Then we ended up having the same problem as on Monday and there was no way we were gonna make it back by 10 so we called President Lam to let him know, and a miracle happened because some how we hopped on the train went 3 stops sprinted home and was in the door by exactly 10! We were pretty proud of that.

And the week just gets getting better because on Sunday we had 4 investigators come to church, and a random guy walking in to learn about family history! and Jason one of the Priests in my ward bore his testimony on the savior, and some things we shared last night with the less active, He really never realized that part of the atonement, so yeah this week was great!

love ya all

Elder Eveson

oh and Elde mcgrath got transferred this last week and is training and white washing in Kowloon City!