Elder Dylan Eveson's Mission: Week 36

Ayyyyy everyone since I skyped last P day I didn't get the chance to say Merry Christmas, but I can say Happy New Year!! So transfers are this week and on Thursday Elder Jensen will be moving back to his first area Causeway Bay on the Island and Elder Smith is coming to Tuen Mun. I've met him before but I don't know a lot about him, but it should be fun. Also Elder Oquist and Ledingham are going home this week, so that means everyone in the apartment are getting new comps too! and the funny thing is both have never heard of their new companions haha! Elder Earls was like "who is the world is Elder Guinn?" haha so last night was really interesting and also very messy with all the people packing.

Our ward also decided to do a combined Christmas party with the butterfly ward, and they told the missionaries that they needed to perform 2 songs during the performance part of the party. Well since I'm a really bad singer, us elders had to get really creative! We sang Rudolph the red nose reindeer but you know made it a lot more fun and energetic! I was the guy yelling after every line stuff like "light bulb, Columbus, and all that good stuff!" Everyone loved it and it was definitely the highlight of the show! Then for the second performance (we didn't plan) all the missionaries just sang silent night haha. And of course Elder Earls had to be Santa!

Christmas was really fun we ate dinner at our bishops place and he actually got sick so his wife wouldn't let him eat any of the regular food or the ice cream, or the smoked Salmon. New years was nothing special I actually forgot it was new years until I got to church so that shows how my new years was haha, but everything is great. Since the last time I sent a mass email we got 2 solid baptismal dates 1 at the end of the month and 1 in mid February, So I'm excited for that. I finally got the chance to go to the one of the world's largest Buddha's somewhere I have never gone to in the several past trips to Hong Kong.

On Christmas day after church, we also visited brother Tam in the hospital again with bishop Wong and Bro Lo. He is doing a lot better now, and was able to laugh and mess around as well. He is still very sick, but his spirits is back to usual!

The workers at Cross Roads wanted to thank us for the service we do every week, so we did a refugee simulation where we had to make paper bags and try to sell them to shop keepers and of course me being the person I am was the 1 person chosen to get picked on the most, which I didn't mind it was just funny. Then I was the one called out all the time. It was a lot of fun and crazy to realize what some people have to survive every week and what they are willing to sacrifice to live. So we gave the head guy of the charity David contact information with the churches refugee director and he was super excited to maybe work with the church.

A couple of weeks ago, sister Lin from our ward invited us to teach seminary, and the day i dreaded finally came haha! We were given about an hour to teach from the seminary manual, which happened to be from the bible (my bible knowledge and vocabulary isn't that great haha!) Also seminary started at 6:30 am! so we had to wake up at 5:30 in order to get to the chapel and prepare! I was pretty nervous, but of course everything went good and it was a great experience. Sadly only 2 people showed up that day haha. Then right after, I went on exchanges with elder Rostedt, and we helped a LA member move apartments, which was pretty difficult in suit pants, but oh well.

oh and we had a pretty boss zone Christmas Party that was capped of with Elder James one of the senior missionaries quoting the entire Grinch story word for word, that man is powerful and a stud. This is like his 4th mission in Hong Kong. He literally goes home after a mission and 2 months later has a new call and is again serving in Hong Kong.