Week 7

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing amazing!
Sister Farr and I are doing well, it was an overwhelming start for both of us, me not quite all the way trained and her being just barely come out of her training the responsibilities have been quite the load but we have had many helping hands including first and foremost, the Lord.
Sister Farr came to the area with many great new ideas to excercise more faith! One of them are our Sacred Teaching Times. We each prayerfully pick 2 one hour long finding time during the week and prayerfully decide where to go as well, and we cannot replace or postpone the time even if it means re-scheduling our investigators for another time. Because we have prayerfully dedicated those times to find someone the Lord wants us to meet, it has become very sacred. Each of those times we have had special moments, one of them including finding our amazing new convert Mrs.Jau! We found her after almost an hour of searching and not finding anyone with interest, meaning right at the end of our find. And she is SO great, we were already able to teach her twice and she has so far kept all of her commitments and will be coming to church on Sunday with her daughters! We also have prayerfully decided on a baptismal date for her that we are looking forward to giving her, she already understands that baptism is her goal and that she needs to pray to find out the truth herself! I am very excited for her. Oh and she is a new investigator for the TaiPo ward!! Tai Po hasn't had a baptism for about two years, so we're really excited for the day she'll be baptized!
Last Saturday we also had another drawing class, this time the turn out was great and we were able to meet one of the formal investigators of Sister Mills and Sister Black (quite long ago), Kube, and help her with her English homework.
Our work is starting to really pick up and we are working our hardest, the new responsibilities are still a bit overwhelming but we feel the Lord's strength. We also have incredible wards that are so friendly and willing to help out.
I have also realized that October 22nd marked my 4th month into my 18 month mission. It's making me a bit nervous to realize how short this mission is, and looking out and seeing thousands and thousands of people that yet do not know the gospel and that are "perishing in unbelief" (Preach My Gospel) can be very overwhelming and desperate. But I do know that this is the Lord's work. And He has His perfect best Plan for all of us, and anything is possible to Him. I know that there are people ready everywhere, and the Lord has His plans, He invites us all to participate by inviting others to come unto Christ, but this is still His work, He is the Gardener. And I only need to put my trust in Him and do as He commands, excercising my faith. I know that since being on a mission I was able to learn more on how I personally can constantly receive revelation after revelation, I can better recognize the Lord's voice, and He really comforts me and strengthens me through His words. I love Him and miss Him very much.
The weather is starting to cool down more and it's feeling very nice, Utah must be close to the snow season. We are having a halloween party for kids this saturday where we missionaries need to make a pinata(?) for, we'll see how that turns out, members have promised to bring friends so it is something we are looking forward to. I hope that all of you back home really are doing well, I miss you, I pray for you. At tiimes I still can't believe that I am in Hong Kong right now, speaking awkward Cantonese, really, who would have thought? I love the people here, they really are my brothers and sisters,
and I want nothing less than the eternal happiness and exaltation for each and one of them all. I also know that through my mission, my family is being blessed very much, and also other precious friends back home. At Asian multi-stake conference last sunday (really great meeting, it was SO good) one of the talks was reviewing back to Elder Scott's recent conference talk, about scriptures being our best friend, and how we need to spend more time and attention to develope deeper friendship with our scriptures. I know that message is true, it was the scriptures that really pulled me through everything. They really are best friends. I hope that all of you back home are also striving to strengthen your relationships with your best friends :)
Love you lots and lots for ever
Leih Ji muih