Week 17 in Hong Kong

P-day this week is on Friday, just this week for leadership training and other meeting schedules,

We got to go to the temple today. We are incredibly blessed to go every transfer. Everytime I go to the temple, I feel as if I have come home, I am able to leave all the burdens of the past 6 weeks and start over again spiritually rejuvenated.

Anyways, don't have much time to write because I sent more pictures this time but Christmas was wonderful and Mandy and Angel have a fast coming baptismal date for the January 15!! We got to meet Angel's father and his girl friend who previously was concerned because they heard many bad things about the church but upon meeting us they said all the questions they had were answered just by seeing the kind of people we missionaries were, and that what they heard didn't match up with what we were. It was an incredible humbling experience knowing that truly, no matter how bad our cantonese may be, the light of Christ we radiate is the most important and speaks the loudest.

Although there wasn't a baptism on Christmas for our companionship, many of our investigators are progressing and 3 of them will be prepared to be baptized in January, we are very excited, also, the Elders in Sheung Shui had a baptism on Christmas, and I know that their convert's family will also be influenced by his example. THis work truly is exciting and I know that it has only begun, my 3rd move into the mission hasn't even ended yet and I am already witnessing all these lives change and coming unto Christ. I am so thankful for the examplary Hong Kong Saints, I am so thankful for all the experiences the Lord gives me to help me become who I need to become, and the blessings and knowledge He gives me as I need them and am ready for them.

Yesterday I also met the legendary Sister Kim! The Korean sister missionary that served before I got to Hong Kong, her Cantonese is unbelievable and gives me great hope too haha. Anyways, I know I am sent here in Hong Kong for a specific purpose, and having only less than a year left now of my mission, I rededicate/recommit to give it my all.

I hope everyone also is letting Heavenly Father mold them into what they need to be becoming!

Happy New Year!! The year of 2012 Dun!Dun!Dun!! :D

Love, always,

Sister Burningham

Leih Ji Muih

 Zone Christmas dinner,

One of the game was sticking a mustache on Santa,

for some reason,,the Santa looks kind of like dad, I must have unconsciously drawn him :)

Mahn Jimuih brought her nonmember daughter to SheungShui Ward Christmas Party!

 TaiWo ward Young Women and our 2 new investigators Yami and Jasmine in middle, and Victoria from Taipo ward on right end with Wilma next to her, and Bing Bing on the left end with Amy and Nicole Ng next to her :)

 Hazel Law visited home for Christmas!!! (I serve in her ward-Sheung Shui, and her dad is the Ward mission leader, and we have had dinner at the Law family's house and the mom is amazing cook and relief society presidency!)

People have told me that I look kind of like Hazel, and now looking at this picture I can see it too

 Picture with Sister Farr my current companion and our lovely recent convert Vianna that Sister Bingham baptized

 we also posed together with the mustaches :) Our less-active member Mahn Jimuih also came :) Sister Mahn is on the far right :)

 We made snikerdoodles with our member friends Sister Chan and her daughter Sonia

(they are less-active but are really doing better now!)

and funny thing, Sister chan calls me her korean daughter and herself as our hongkong mother, she also called me a "good-pig" which was funny because my real mom calls me a pig too!! So for me they made a pig shaped snickerdoodle and so there you have pictures me and the 2 pig cookies! haha

                                         Sister Farr and I today after the temple!