MACAU 2 Happy New Year!

This week was Chinese New Year, so almost all businesses were basically closed, including the library, so here is my brief late email to you all :)

I am truly blessed to be serving in Macau right now, we are finding new investigators, one of our investigator A-Yan is progressing so well to her baptismal date, she even helped us teach another investigator and bore powerful testimonies and encouraged her to also keep learning the gospel. She hasn't even been baptized yet, and she has already recognized how happier she has gotten since meeting the missionaries. That other investigator Jenny, is also doing great, we found her last week and she has come to church last week, the same week we found her, and already has developed great friendship with our member Tiffany. We have high hopes for her, she really enjoys the members, activities and us missionaries and has kept all her promises and really loves to learn the gospel.

For the new year our mission went up to the Big Buddha in Hong Kong, it is supposedly very huge buddha on a hill (Wow, that's a big Buddha"), but unfortunately I couldn't really see him because that day there was a very thick fog (Wow, ,,, where is he?) haha. It was a great activity, we also had a vegetarian lunch together which was delicious with so many kinds of tofu I have ever seen. Oh, and also on Sunday they assigned to give a talk in Sacrament, and it was so nerve-racking doing in Cantonese! I get nervous doing it in english in the first place, but it worked out well. I hope the Branch rises up to my invitation to work together in this missionary work :).

Oh and another news while ago I moved on to the second language level and started learning chinese characters, I was working hard on my language because my setting apart blessing told me to read the book of mormon in the language, but I don't know how to read Chinese! So I began since coming to Macau, to learn to read, and it is actually possible :). Well, of course, the Lord wouldn't command me to  do something without providing me a way to accomplish it!

So yeah, working hard and learning much, I hope the same for all of you back home. Nothing provides more purpose, meaning, and joy than what serving the Lord can bring.

Yay mortal life!

with love as always,

sincerely,

Sister Burningham