S4:E5 The One Where I Meet Angel ♡

 

                                                       

早安！

What a stressful week  haven't been feeling myself lately. I feel like I've worked too hard this week. We were able to hit our goals this week which was so great.

We have a new friend named Tracy Song! She was found at the visitor's Centre and was passed off to us. She has been coming to our game nights and then she said she would come to church on Sunday. It was so cool! She sat beside me and had so many good questions. She has never been to church before so I was so scared for her especially when the speakers started sharing their talks. They were talking about baptism and the Atonement of Christ. She was even translating for me haha and it made it even worse cause the topics were too much for her. Yet she said that the talks were meaningful to her. It just shows that this is the Lord's work and He will sustain the work that you are doing.

We also met the cutest little kid. She might be my new favorite! Her name is Angel, she's 7 years old. We have been calling her a lot this week and she is absolutely a cutie!!! A few of the things that she said that made my day was:

1. Okay give me a lesson now

2. You can call me tomorrow anytime okay

3. You are my number 1 friend. Actually my number 0 friend is God and then you are number 1 

4. You pray to have egg tarts?!?!?

5. Little Mrs. chicken

6. God is in my heart

7. You can visit me okay and we can play together and you can give me a lesson

AAA I'm so in love with her haha I can't wait to meet her in person. When we called her yesterday she picked up and said "hey remember I said you can call me anytime?" I'm so happy I can still mingle a lot with these children. I don't ever want to leave Wan Chai, I want to be able to develop a friendship with all the children.

I'm so close to hitting my 6 month mark, it's crazy!!! I'm going home in a year haha I'm so excited for what happens next. Sister Wright and I always have late night talks about what might happen after our missions. We talk about visiting one another after our missions or going to BYU together. All I can say is that I've been doing great as a missionary, I've been fulfilling my purpose and it's been going great. So many small and simple miracles happen in the daily and it shows me how merciful the Lord is everyday.

PICTURES:

1. Shek O with Sistah Brady

2. My Canadian cutie

3. Chili party spicy food

4. This was so spicy I started crying

5. Our cute zone

6. This sweet lady called us a 邪教

7. Lele falling asleep during English class

8. Morning dimsum with Tino! He works as a security guard at the church. He served his mission in Singapore.

9. ANGEL!!! ♡♡♡

薛姐妹

XUE JIEMEI

Sister Sy

                                                       

S4:E4 The One Where We Meet a Person Who Has Been Taught for 20 Years

 

                                                      

早安！

How has it been going?! First I would like to ask everyone if they have been to the temple recently because DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON??? That session was straight up FIRE  I have never felt so close to God. Definitely recommend a visit to the temple because it's sooo good!

首先。。。A small miracle share from this week: we planned to go to North Point to go finding and almost everyone was old. Which isn't a bad thing but we would really love to teach younger people as they know how to speak English and it helps a lot! As we were about to leave the harbor, I was prompted to stop and say hi to this cute lady and start speaking in Mandarin. (PS, I usually greet people by saying leih hou or chou saahn but at that time I was prompted to speak in Mandarin and say ni hao!) As we did, she replied so happily and then asked us to sit down!!! THAT BARELY HAPPENS GUYS :) she talked to us and was so patient with our language and we were able to build a good relationship with her. She said we should come back to the harbor with her so we can practice our Mandarin. She was the cutest little lady ever! Small miracles. God puts so much patient people in our paths and help us practice our Mandarin.

接下来。。。 we met our friend Emma at a Malaysian restaurant. She's from Mainland but has been in Hong Kong for so long and met the missionaries because of an "English Class" sign. She started meeting with the missionaries and she shared how she discovered how we could pray anywhere at anytime through the missionaries. She shared to us how prayer has helped her so much and that God is like her best friend, she talks to Him when none of her friends can listen. She also says she feels bad how others don't know they can pray anytime anywhere which is why she shared about prayer with her friends too! We told her about the Book of Mormon and shared it with her and she was so excited about it!!! She said she really wanted a copy so PLS PRAY WE CAN MEET AGAIN. She is GOLDEN 

最后。。。last night sister Brady and I agreed on giving one last final call to this lady named Angel Guo. She has been taught by the missionaries since 2004. (wow I was a year old when she met them!) We carefully thought about how she has been taught for so long and no progress has been made. She knows the church is true, the Book of Mormon is true and everything else but doesn't want to get baptized because she doesn't want to get interviewed nor doesn't want to quit coffee/tea but she loves meeting with missionaries. We decided to give her a little discussion about how our time in HK is so precious and she already had the chance to accept the gospel for probably so many times. We felt the Spirit so strongly during that lesson but still there are many things holding her back. That lesson made me so grateful for sister Brady too! She is such a powerful missionary. Angel Guo kept saying that missionaries always ask her to get baptized and we explained how important it is. We told her that this isn't our invitation but it was Christ's. I learned so much from that lesson and it's so sad that it has been over 20 years of missionary lessons but no action. It's so hard to drop her and stop meeting but it's about time! Missionary work is so great. You develop so much love instantly for people you barely met.

PICTURES:

1. Kennedy Town Harbor! A picture of us attempting to street contact the person who took the picture lol

2. Our sweet miracle! Liu Zu Yu ♡

3. Emma Xu! Our golden girl, she is such a sweetheart

4. Finished the chair game! It looks so simple but it's really hard to stack them all up

5. Some Malaysian food, aaaa so good! 

多谢！

薛姐妹

XUE JIEMEI

SISTER SY

                                                   

S4:E3 The One Where I Lose my Companion

 

大家好！

This week has probably been the fastest week of my missionary life so far. We were able to see some miracles.

First off, sister Brady and I are doing an English fast right now. I have seen so much improvement with our Mandarin! This week we were able to teach the Restoration to so many people many times. I'm so scared cause at some point, I'll need to be able to learn the second lesson vocabularies and I've somehow mastered the most important parts of the first lesson. 

I have been constantly surprised by how I am able to deliver a message or continue a conversation with people. The gifts of the Spirit are working so well in our lives right now. This week a special experience I want to share is how we were finding people in the harbor. This harbor usually has a lot of people but on this day, it was like a ghost town. As we were leaving, I felt so sad that we weren't able to get any contacts. But I felt prompted to go another direction and we were pretending like we weren't gonna talk to them. I heard Mandarin and my heart was jumping for joy! We immediately turn our backs and start a conversation in which we were able to share a few restored truths. She's from China!! She asked for our contact number and so we swapped emails. 

We were also coming back from a member meal with Kiko and Kathy and as we were about to hop onto the train: sister Brady steps inside and the train starts to close and I didn't make it!! We were separated and it felt so wrong being alone hahahaha. It was a funny experience.

I've been so busy in the work recently and it feels so overwhelming. I don't know where to begin and I don't know what to do. But I have also come to love the work even more. I noticed how much love I've developed for people. I'm just so grateful to be here in Hong Kong to be a missionary. It truly is such a noble calling. It really is the greatest work right now on earth and I don't ever want to leave Hong Kong. Can't believe I'm saying that haha. The work is so hard, so draining, so stressful but I love it. Being a missionary for Christ is such a privilege. How lucky am I to be here to love and serve and help people know who Christ is!

I invite you guys to prayerfully study a talk by Elder David A. Bednar called "Character of Christ". This is my favorite talk at the moment :)

I love you guys! Let me know how your week went ♡

Pictures:

1. Huang Jing Jing: she fed us so much food and it was all so good. She's so cute!

2. Shau Kei Wan

3. Kathy and Kiko member meal visit 

薛姐妹

XUE JIEMEI

SISTER SY

                                                     

S4:E2 The One Where I Train

 早安！

This week was transfers and I'm with my first baby sister Brady. She's so amazing! She has so much fire and desire to do missionary work. The first day I was with her, I was so pumped to do better in missionary work.

It was also my last week with sister Stakkeland and I miss her so badly!!! I consider her my best friend. We got along so well and we would talk about anything random. I'm so sad our companionship has ended but I'm so happy for her at the same time.

Last night, we were doing former calling. It was such a crazy and fun experience! I was so scared to call people because I never really had a chance to do it when I was still in training. I never took the lead but last night was filled with miracles. Sister Brady and I are fresh missionaries and we both don't know a whole lot about the work but as we started calling people in our broken Mandarin, we tried our best to show our love and then we started sharing a message and invited them to meet again. 3 of them accepted the invitation! It was so crazy and there was so much success, we were overwhelmed. We have really good feelings about this transfer and we think we will be able to do so much good.

How was your guys' week? Let me know 

Pictures:

1. My first baby, sister Brady! She's from Kansas but also from Utah

2. Zone conference! So many good insights and trainings that boosted the fire

3. Last temple day with my FAVORITE GIRL ever sister Stakkey 

4. Lantau Island hike with the district! Look at that view AAAA

5. After 10 breaks because it was so exhausting !! 3 hour uphill hike

6. Big Buddha view :))

薛姐妹

XUE JIEMEI

SISTER SY