Sister Reese Sy: S4:E16 The One Where We Have Another Mainland Baptism

早安！

This week was amaaazing. Let's start on what happened last Tuesday :)

☆ we had a mainland baptism! Yaaaay. It's still crazy to me how special my call is to be a Mandarin missionary in Hong Kong. We taught all the 5 lessons in 3 hours and then they both got baptized after a few hours. While waiting for their baptism, we took them to the temple and they were so excited to go see it. As we were walking, we saw our branch mission leader and his wife who just finished their temple session. It was perfect cause they got to meet other members of the church while being here. We loved having shared a memory with them of running to the temple because of the stoplight hahaha. It was so cute! Then the mom said she feels very touched and felt the spirit as she was in front of the temple. The daughter was also so cute cause she was so happy to see the temple and was talking about how BYU Hawaii has a temple too. She's going to BYU in December and it was so fun getting to know her better. We even promised to meet each other after our missionary service.

☆ on Wednesday I had exchanges with Cheng jimoi! We had a lot of miracles together. So we were determined to join the Wednesday family mother's day activity so we went out and started finding. As we went to the immigration we saw 2 Filipinos who were finding a bathroom and they were heading towards the public toilet but it was under construction. And so we were like heyyy our church building is so close and you can use our toilet. And so they were thinking about it and they said okay let's go and so we brought them to the church chapel and then Cheng jimoi and I started laughing cause we literally just started our finding and 5 minutes in we thought wow our prayers have been answered and now we're gonna have a bathroom conversion story but that didn't happen hahaha they didn't have time to join but hey they know us now! So we continued finding in Tamar Park and we met Kris. We sat with her and shared the restoration lesson with her and helped her download a book of Mormon app. It was pretty cool. Hopefully she comes next Wednesday to church! Then as we were about to end our exchange we did 3 Chapel tours haha, we met 3 different guys and it all went pretty well. It was a very productive exchange with her. We were glad we were able to do Mandarin work at the end haha cause we did like Filipino work since most of the people we saw were Filipino

☆ i got to do an exchange with Sister Bigtas this week too. We went finding again around Tamar Park and got to talk to a bunch of Filipinas! We even met a member whose taking care of two American kids and they sang "Bahay Kubo" hahaha so cute

☆ Saturday was quite the crazy day. We went around Hong Kong visiting less active sisters and we gave them flowers for mothers day. It was raining so hard that day haha and we were drenched but it was fulfilling knowing we were able to share our love to these less active sisters. We got some of the most sweetest reactions and also funniest surprised faces haha.

☆ We had district conference this week!! I loved the talks so much. We have awesome leaders who remind us of Christ and strengthen our testimony. Also Sunday was pretty crazy for us cause we had 8 friends come to church. ISN'T THAT CRAZY?!?!?! That's like the best thing ever it was so happy but I felt like I had to be an octopus at that point. But it was really such a happy day cause they were able to attend the district conference and be nurtured by the word of God

On the spiritual aspect.. (I don't think I've ever included uplifting things in my weekly email lol) I wanted to share a few things I've learned this week.

♡ "While we lack recollection of our pre-mortal life, before coming to this earth all of us understood definitely the purpose of our being here. We would be expected to gain knowledge, educate ourselves, train ourselves. We were to control our urges and desires, master and control our passions, and overcome weaknesses, small and large. We were to eliminate sins of omission and of commission, and to follow the laws and commandments given us by our Father. That the effort involved dignified and ennobles man has been recognised by the world's great thinkers. Consider your origin; you were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

♡ Another question we can all reflect on.. "And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received His image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?"

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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO MY MOMMA THE QUEEN OF MY LIFE I LOVE YOU MOM :)

PICTURES:

• mainland baptism yay!!! bao li hua and bao rui xuan <3

• bao rui xuan (roxana) she's too cute!

• exchanges with cheng jimoi + our new friend kris

• cheng jimoi my favorite bundei

• wednesday family yayayayaya

• EGC literally popped off this week!

• yay flowers!!

• exchanges with Sister Bigtas

• kiko!! one of the members we visited