大家早安！
It has been a good first week living here in Kwun Tong back in the Mando work! 
We did a bunch of findings in Baptist University and it has been another weird adjustment doing Mandarin work even though I've literally been doing it forever haha. It has been fun to get rolling on in the Chinese work, definitely a shift in teaching more about prayer and simple things.
Sunday was a really special day, we were able to recognize at least 10 miracles that happened that day!
First, sister Wright thought we could take a different route going to Wan Chai as we travelled to our district conference.
☆ Our first miracle was meeting this cute little Hong Kong family who was taking their baby to a crawling competition lol, it was super natural cause they brought the topic up when they saw our tags. They were super sweet and wanted to stay in touch as well.
☆ Our second miracle was our friend Abbie who came to church and she was listening really well and was asking questions about the talks during the conference. Also a funny story, before we met, we texted her introducing myself and she responded "wow we have the same skin color, I just feel so close to this girl already" 
☆ Third miracle was a different set of sisters passed off a lady to us from Bangladesh and we got to give her a Book of Mormon in her language, Bengali
☆ Our fourth miracle was asking President Holyoak how to study our patriarchal blessing. He taught us an important lesson. When I asked him that question, he asked if he could grab juice before giving us an answer and then he started setting up some chairs. He then asked us how we studied the scriptures! Then he said to do the same and treat our blessings as scripture. Here are some notes I took when we had a mini one on one session with him. He's so full of wisdom! Then he asked us if we knew the reason why he had to grab juice before answering us and then he said because he needed time to receive revelation because no one has ever asked him that question and as he was answering us he was also receiving revelation. So cool!
Some ways to study it:
Annotations
Use the scriptures and cross reference
Treat it like scripture
Read patriarchal blessing everyday
Split it into 2 also 13 articles of faith: (1) love God (2) love your neighbor
Put like footnotes on it
You define it, only you are allowed to interpret it so it can mean anything!
Study it in context
☆ Our fifth miracle was walking out and then a member stopped us and he asked us how missionary work was going and then he shared his experiences when he served a mission long time ago in Scotland and it was super neat he pulled a missionary on us and still had it with him! He gave us a lot of tips and advices but those were definitely the old ways of missionary work, there is new revelation now and the work is a lot more different but we learned a lot and we felt more pumped to start applying his thoughts.
☆ Our 6th miracle was meeting a semi active member and we put her on temple date. She's preparing herself to go to the temple again and really understand it better this time.
☆ Our 7th miracle was when we saw President Wu (mission president counselor) he asked us if we needed anything or want to tell him anything so we started thinking and sister Wright and I were jokingly talking about going to Macau to become the Mandarin sisters and we didn't say anything but we smiled and then he asked if we wanted to go to Macau for pday that was so funny
that was so funny ☆ Our 8th miracle was 杜姐妹 we originally planned to go over to read the book of Mormon with a friend that she is fellowshipping but she 方'd us like 30 minutes before but she said to still come. It was my first time over and it was such a cute little home! She cooked for us and I felt bad cause we couldn't finish everything but she is so pure and so full of love!! As she cooked I offered to play the piano for her and then she said she really likes the song Fur Elise and then took it out and asked me to play. She was so happy!!!! And it made me so happy to serve her that way, after she finished cooking she said "I enjoyed listening to the music as I cooked, now this food is full of love and happiness" AAAAA my heart. I love 杜姐妹 she's such an angel, she is one of the reasons why leaving makes it so hard
☆ Our 9th miracle was meeting Zayn in the MTR. No not one direction Zayn. As we entered, I said a prayer that I could talk to someone who was willing to talk to me or to send someone to me. I asked this girl how she was and she said "oh! You are a latter day saint! My husband and his family are members but I'm not" and we got talking and she was so nice, she initiated the whole conversation and it was so cool. She said she would come to church her next day off.
☆ The 10th miracle is recognizing these miracles. We need to pay attention to the miracles that happen everyday.
XUE JIEMEI
薛姐妹
SISTER SY
PICTURES:
• 1st visitors centre shift with 文
• 杜姐妹做的食物
• 杜姐妹
• lion rock hike
• abbie chu
• i hope sister 文 is happy hahaha
• me in lion rock #survived
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