So, on Thursday we were supposed to teach another pair of "visitors", but something happened with their passports and they could not come. Since we had no way of communicating with them we had to sit there and wait for 4 hours just hoping they would show up! It is super sad, but we are very glad that they didn't show because of travel reasons and not because of Faith.
Visitors are taught by members and "found" by members in Mainland China. They then take all the lessons from members and decide there if they want to be baptized. So teaching them is super easy because they know all the answers, but we have to teach in a new way that strengthens their testimony and furthers their conversion. The people who want to receive baptism are interviewed by a stake president and then some head of the church up there to see if it is a real desire. So these people are really really prepared and ready. Church is usually held in a leaders home in Mainland. Basically the members that we have in Mainland are amazing!
We also made calls from the people on our potential list. Usually we call about 20 people and they hang up on us, but one women talked with us and we met with her this week! Her name is Wang Jiemei and she has a lot of potential so we are super excited! We also met with another family (Mom and son) who were a referral from the Cantonese ward.
They moved from Mainland because schooling is better here in Hong Kong. So because they can not speak Cantonese, Benny has a hard time making friends so we think Young Mens will be a great opportunity for him; and his Mom has interest in just finding out more about our church. We also might have a potential from the English class we teach so we are super excited and hope to have new investigators this coming week!
We had zone conference this week and one training was on reaching out to the one. Christ always was worried about the one. It did not matter who He was with or what he was doing, one person means the world to him. So we were invited to pray and then reach out to one of the missionaries in our zone that we felt inspired to talk too. It was crazy the experiences and help myself as well as other missionaries received. The Lord will truly help us especially when we are trying to help His children feel comforted.
Well that is it. I would invite you all to work on developing your faith. From our faith in Christ stems a lot of different concepts like desire and goals. If we can increase our faith in Christ we will have a desire to follow Him and serve those around us.
I love you all! Thank you for your support!
Sister Loo
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