This week Vina brought a friend who wanted to learn Korean, we have seen her a few times already and she offered the prayer in Korean-Chinese as well! She also prayed on her own but is unsure if it's working or not, just that she's learning Korean pretty fast. She then even agreed to come to church on sunday even though it didn't involve Korean and she usually gets too shy and nervous around many many people she doesn't know. But suddenly just before Sunday she told Vina that her mom doesn't want her to learn Korean and that she wouldn't come to church. We don't know what happened, Vina thinks she might have went online and read some false things about our church. We will continue to follow up for more details.
On Friday Sister Tse from Tseun Wan Ward invited us over for FHE dinner with her 2 non-member friends. The friends are sisters and the older one, A-Fung just had her husband pass away about a month ago. The Spirit was very powerful as Sister Tse openly bore her thoughts, feelings, love, and testimony about A-Fung, how special she is and how much she believes that they knew each other from the Pre-Earth life and how she is ready now. We shared on the Plan of Salvation, which seemed a bit of too much information at once for her, especially with all the kids round about. But as we explained about Prayer very simply it seemed to have more meaning for her and more motivation to try it out. We will be visiting her to teach her daughter English, and to teach her more about the message of the Family Home Evening.
In the Ward Thanksgiving Party on Saturday (we had two going on in the same building, both Kwai Chung and Tseun Wan, we just kept going back and forth between the two) and at Church on Sunday, we also met some potential investigators brought by the members. We hope to be able to schedule them soon.
We are also preparing Yuen Ying and Kaka to be interviewed on Saturday!! They are very excited! Kaka even shared excitedly about her dream that she had that really meant a lot to her and helped her to feel that God is hearing her prayers and she knows the Book of Mormon is true!
Thanksgiving Day was very very good. I think it was my most meaningful thanksgiving season of my life. Satan is working hard on me to be discouraged and distracted lately, but I have set a goal to think of at least 20 grateful things to count each time, or until I forget about being tempted by him. And it has been so amazing. Then that counting blessings session would normally begin and end with a hymn in my mind and thoughts towards my Savior. This is a habit I want to possess all my life. And I hope to continue to improve. With all the reminders lately about how little time I have left in Hong Kong, and feeling how much I never want to leave this place and how much I don't want to go back home and fear of returning to my old life, I was just so grateful for our Father's eternal perfect Plan of Happiness and His companionship of the Holy Ghost to comfort and guide and instruct me. I have also been reading bits and bits out of Jesus the Christ about how He lived His last moments before His crucifixion, and it has helped me very much. I am so grateful for our Savior and His everlasting, perfect, strengthening example.
I hope to endure to the end in love as He did. Knowing that broken heart is just part of the process and required sacrifice of becoming more like Him.
Loves to everyone as always,
Sister lee
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