Elder Dylan Eveson's Mission: Week 80

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