Sister Reese Sy: S4:E11 The One Where We Eat to Our Heart's Content

大家好！早上好！

How did everyone's week go? As I am thinking about what to include in my weekly email. I have completely forgotten what has happened this week. As I open my area book planner to remind myself of what has happened this week, it feels unreal because I feel like these things happened like a month ago haha! Time goes by so fast! It's crazy

Here are some of the memorable meetings and events that happened this week:

♡ Grace and Joy at General Conference!! We invited our friends to come to church last Tuesday and we all sat down for 2 hours listening to the Sunday Morning session. I was so scared and nervous because I knew they wouldn't be able to understand what the apostles and leaders were talking about. I was just praying in my heart that they would feel the spirit! We gave them an opportunity to make friendships with other people in the branch too. Grace is just so golden and ready! She needs the gospel so much in her life right now. The next day I received a message from her in which she sent us a screenshot of her watching the video of President Nelson talking about forgiveness. She said that the message struck her heart and then she opened up so much about her life and what she has been through. It was so crazy because we didn't even send her a link or anything. She searched it herself on YouTube. She said she didn't get over about the General Conference. It's so exciting to see people progress and develop their faith! It makes you so excited for who they can become and what blessings they can receive. I'm so happy we met Grace at Victoria Park. Victoria Park has some amazing miracles please pray together with me so Grace will be ready to receive the restored message and will soon make commitments in her life!

♡ We visited Alice and Sunny's new home together with Winnie. It was the best hotpot I've ever had. And it was homemade hotpot which makes it so much more special. She had this sauce that was just so FIRE and it was just so so good. We had a great time with their family. The food was so spicy, their home was a little hot and I just started coughing because of how spicy it was hahaha I had to go to the bathroom to cough out loud. And as a companion I had to save my companion cause she didn't want to waste the softdrink Alice served us. I had to drink so much softdrink when they were all in the kitchen so we wouldn't waste anything haha. Then she added more softdrinks I was so full at that point and couldn't eat anything else. But we had a great time getting to know our relief society leaders and their families. They have 2 dogs, a bird, 2 fishes and a lizard. Sunny showed us how she feeds her lizards with cockroaches. Their home is a literal zoo. During dinner I was just looking down at my socks because I wore black socks and my socks were covered with their dog's fur. It was so gross haha but it is what it is! After we got home, we were talking about how good the food is. And I shared how being a missionary has changed me because I used to be so picky with food but now I eat anything and so sister Brady told me we just had like blood on that hotpot... I honestly thought it was like a mushroom of some kind but hey! #themissionchangesyou

♡ We had lunch with Joy at HKU. Before meeting with her, we were stopped by some Jehovah's Witnesses and they were trying to share a message with us. They actually gave us a call the other day asking us to go back to HKU so they can teach us more. They're probably better missionaries lol jokes aside we are excited to learn more about Jehovah's Witnesses! We had a lovely time with Joy sharing with her more about the Book of Mormon and what we believe in and getting to know her more. She was so cute. She reminds me a lot of someone back home.

♡ We went to Deep Water Bay with Christina! We thought we were just gonna sit down by the ocean and enjoy the view until she sent us a message saying she bought a swimsuit hahaha I forget people swim lol. It was our last day with her. She's going to Turkey now. I hope to see her again someday it was a super special relationship that we had with her. A friendship with someone whose language we cannot even speak. Our story feels like a movie haha. 3 girls in Hong Kong from different parts of the world speaking to each other using Google Translate. It was such a sweet time with her and I really do hope that one day we can see each other again.

♡ We also had exchanges and I went with sister Frear. We passed out a lot of Easter devotional flyers. Got to visit someone's home near Ocean Park and leave a pamphlet by their door. During our exchange we were walking for 6 hours! Our feet were so dead that day. Not just us but also the other companionships. That was the longest exchange I have had so far. It was fun getting to do exchanges and just hear all the miracles that everyone had that day. I was craving for ice cream and just wanted the mobile softie to be there that day but there wasn't one. And then a guy came to the chapel, he was from Taiwan and had so many questions about church. We immediately passed him off to the Elders and later that night we found out he was put on date. ISN'T THAT CRAZY??

♡ We had dinner at the Furness' home and the food was so good. We were able to talk about the temples since Chad works in with the Asia department for the temples and church buildings. We were also able to talk about general conference and share our testimonies of Jesus Christ. It was a spirit-filled home

♡ Yesterday we had an unexpected lesson with Echo. She's from Mainland and has been learning about Christianity for awhile now. She wants to learn more about our church and the Book of Mormon but will only be here for awhile. She was also just the sweetest because as we were teaching her the Restoration with the pamphlet, she invited us to read the characters! It was such a cool experience. She helped us define the other characters that we didn't know. It was so pure! She even asked us to sing Silent Night together because it was her favorite song. Another sweet miracle we as Mandarin missionaries witness.

♡ We had our Easter devotional last night and we sang "Savior Redeemer of My Soul", it's on the China Hong Kong mission page! It was so fun to listen to music and hear testimonies through songs. I'm grateful for the power that music brings. Hope you guys can rewatch that live! We sang 2nd to the last.

*PS. Yesterday I was reminded that I hit 7 months. dang that was fast

PICTURES:

• Zone Korean BBQ

• Break the Fast with some YSAs

• Lunch with Joy

• Beach with Christina

• My 2 previous comps who are now comps together haha

• Families can be together forever frame! It's so cute ♡

• Exchanges with sister Frear

• I fell asleep during language study for a full 45 minutes found this picture 2 days later during device audit LOL

• Cute little selfie with Echo!!!

• Dinner at the Furness' (May and Chad) love them so much!