Week 4 in Hong Kong

Wow! It's been now a month since I came to Hong Kong!!

I hope everyone is doing well :)

Last Friday evening we were invited to watch the Relief Society General Meeting together with the sisters in the Stake, and I LOVED IT SO SO MUCH!! I also loved it that it was on my mother's birthday :) So I can't wait to see the whole General Conference this coming weekend, I feel like that was too early of an appetite for the remaining sessions haha

I am learning more and more how Heavenly Father really is speaking to me all the time if I listen I can hear Him. I am learning to plan with the Spirit, and just learning how the Spirit works with me personally and to distinguish Him from my own thoughts and ideas. I feel at peace with the Lord behind me in everything I do because I really do not know what is going on or what I am doing most of the time, but knowing that the Lord is behind me helps me to confidently step into the unknown and to completely rely on Him.

We also had the chance to visit Polly one of the less active member in TaiPo Ward, she hasn't gone to church in so long, she has forgotten everything, her belief in God is even inconsistant, but since we met her together in the ward FHE (she comes to those almost every tuesday nights at least), she woke up on sunday thinking that she needs to pay tithing, she hasn't in a really long time, and then she invited us to dinner at her home that night and she never let missionaries come visit her before because she said her home is ugly, and she cooked us dinner when she hates cooking! When Sister Bingham gave an opening prayer and blessed the food, I felt God's infinite love for Polly and how despite where she is in her life right now, she is still a very precious daughter of our Heavenly Father and that she also was made to become like Him, to become a Goddess someday with infinite potential. I felt an overwhelming love for her. And it was heart breaking to hear all she does everyday now is sleep, she doesn't work or anything, she's tired all the time, and this past tuesday she cancelled our meeting that night with her and didn't come to FHE because she was tired. In our correlation meeting we decided that since she IS a member she is entitled to have home teachers and that she is also entitled to recieve priestood blessings.

So, um, sad news, Heison hasn't been coming to church neither has he picked up his phone. We ran into him twice since that meeting with him where we took the picture together and he is so guilty that he wouldn't even look at us, it was a great struggle for both of us, it broke our hearts. We decided that we somehow need him to have more faith in himself and his ability to really change, the will power he needs, and we decided with the Lord that we are not to give up but keep sending him texts of scriptures to get him to at least turn to the book of mormon. I know that the book of mormon is all the power we need to conquer our weaknesses because no other books draws us nearer to God than by the Book of Mormon and its precepts. I know that I personally was able to grow and get to know my Savior the way I did and so constantly because I at least read from the book of mormon everyday. I know of its power, I know that it is the word of God, I know that it really speaks to us and gives us the strength we need. Scripture power, keeps me safe from sin,

So missionary work as far as strengthening investigators and less actives and finding investigators has been pretty hard still, but we need to have more faith in the Lord's perfect plan, the lack of faith and mis-use of agency breaks our hearts so often, but each time I think towards how Heavenly Father constantly feels, how He made us and gave us our knowledge and gave us agency, and told us to keep the commandments, and then watching us without affection and hating our own blood and being satan's children instead, I can't imagine the heartbreak He goes through, reading Moses 7:22-69 in Pearl of Great Price helps me a lot, how the Lord weeps over us, how the whole heaven weeps at our iniquities, yet in our Savior Jesus Christ we can find joy and infinite hope. God's plan is perfect because of the Atonement. I love love love it.

On Tuesday morning we were told to come meet a lady at the church, so we rushed over and I thought I saw my mom, this lady named Helen from mainland China just wanted to check the church building, she had been seeing the Mandarin Elders but dues to feeling too pressured for baptism she has been avoiding them, but being able to see her and to talk to her as Sisters blessed all three of us, I think she was able to understand our purpose as missionaries more and that she too was being understood by us sisters, it was really nice meeting. So, everyone here, including Helen, always thinks that I am Chinese or that I look Chinese. When I tell them I am Korean they are always surprised, and it turns out, as Helen told me, that I look more like northern chinese people, which finally made sense because I didn't feel I look like the chinese people around me here and it really confused me. It's just hard to talk to people because they expect I am fluent and then it turns out I'm not, but someday, someday :)

Yesterday was a big Ward BBQ activity at TaiWo Ward, there was this sweet widowed lady with very cute 2 daughters and one son, picture has the two daughters climbing over Sister Bingham, and then one of the two daughters are also in the other group picture, didn't get a hold of the son haha the mom is in black clothes in the far left front row.

Elder Poon one of the native elder serving in Sheung Shui was transfered and had pizza with him for good byes with the recently baptized member Vienna (she's in blue uniform next to Elder Poon in the picture) We'll miss him :)

Anyways Out of time again, but I love you all and as always, you are in my prayers, and I know I am in yours, thank you for that, I think I feel the strength :)

From Hong Kong,

Leih Jimuih