it's has been a very fast busy week!
We had the General Conference last weekend, and I couldn't love it more. The ones that helped me the most was Elder Scott D. Whiting's Address, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland's Address, and Sunday Afternoon Session of President Thomas S. Monson's Address. Yuen Ying (16 years old) and Gaga (11 years old) came and stayed and came again, even though they had a hard time understanding and concentrating, they had the desire to be there to hear the Prophet and they really tried. :') It was also Vina (15 years old), a recent convert, her 2nd General Conference experience. She said the first time she thought it was boring and didn't get much out of it. But this time, it answered her questions and comforted her heartaches. She has been going through much, she is so mature for her age, she is grateful for her trials because it helps her get more out of the gospel, feel its need, and be lifted up and taught by the Lord. And she is so blessed for it. Her mother has gone to Mainland for the week, but still has the desire to see us when she returns. We are also helping Brother Leung to progress, to really set goals and make plans to achieve them, and actually do them. We are helping him to pray and to read. He feels very far away from God, and feels that the needed change from 90+% worldly life style to more church life style is a great challenge. But he admits he has a testimony, he knows that gospel is true and good, he just struggles with the enduring to the end part. We shared with him about the growing up analogy. How sometimes we get to comfortable as God's babies, and are content in our perfect crawling. But we have the divine nature, we are meant to become just like our Father, an "adult" that can not only Walk, but to run and be so independent and can do so many things, be God! And so babies will try to walk as it gets older, and it will fall and trip many times. That's really going to be uncomfortable and disheartening and discouraging. We may want to give up and go back to our old life when we were perfect at what we did, and totally content in just crawling forever. We may just want to stay as successful crawler and never try to stand. Because if we do, we may fall, and are not perfect anymore. But we are meant to utilize the Atonement, the encouragements from our Heavenly Parents for all the falls and trips, to keep trying until we master the walking, then running, then all others! And we can. It seem to really help Brother Leung as he is a father himself of a little 2(?) year old daughter. We want to bring in these father analogies more to help him understand how loving Heavenly Father is and Brother Leung's divine potential.
We have been striving to strengthen the members here and to help them feel the spirit so that we can help more of their loved ones that doesn't know the gospel yet. Also Yuen Ying and Gaga's mother has said she is willing to come to Stake Conference with us this Sunday!!! We are very thrilled! And so are Yuen Ying and Gaga :)
Yesterday was Sisters Training Meeting, (also Sister Jamison's birthday!) where we discussed about how it will be if things were arranged so that sister missionaries would serve in one ward only instead of 2,3, or even 4 wards, as it is often the case. It was such an uplifting discussion, we really felt considered and cared about, President Hawks is really like a loving father to us here. There was shared so many things, including a quote from a missionary shared by President Hawks: "In my mission I am learning that the Lord is more interested in my self improvement than my comfort." The meeting was as powerful as General Conference and really spoke to my heart. I am continuously awed at how much Lord is aware of me and how much He is communicating me and supporting me despite all my shortcomings in His work. I cannot express enough of His mercy and grace.
Time is really speeding by, and so are these email times :)
In our mission they will be switching our P-day now to Mondays instead of Thursdays. So in the coming Monday we will have another P-day. So I will be writing you again soon. :)
Loves to you as always, hope everyone is doing well and coming closer unto our Savior :')
Sister Lee
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