Happy New Year!

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​So not much to say this week except for... WE TAUGHT OUR FIRST VISITORS!  I was so excited and nervous.  Visitors are the people that come from Mainland China.  Since you cannot be baptized there, they come to Hong Kong to learn the lessons and be baptized.

So we started teaching at 10am, have a break only for lunch, and then the baptismal service is held at 6pm!  It was a surprisingly fun and exhausting day, but it is such a huge blessing.  These people are so prepared and ready to receive the gospel and enter into a covenant with our Heavenly Father.  They are such great examples of having faith no matter the circumstances. It was such a cool experience and a great "Christmas present"!

We also had 2 new Mandarin speaking sisters arrive.  That means sister Grover and sister Tang are now rooming with us.  So right there, we now have 6 in this tiny apartment.  So it is a little bit of an adjustment trying to figure everything out and how to do studies and clean and cook and put all our "stuff" where we can.  But, I am excited because this means we will be speaking a lot more Mandarin in the apartment :)  So although it got a lot more crowded, I learned there is always blessings in challenges if we look for them!

We also visited a member in Mei Wo, which is an island somewhere around Hong Kong - I am not sure where I just hopped on the Ferry hahaha!  It is a really cute, small, peaceful island with not many people so it was a nice change.  We got to ride bikes around the whole island - which was a struggle I don't know the last time I have ridden a bike.  We visited a single lady who is pretty lonely and was just so excited we came to visit her.  In our branch there are a pretty big number of single mothers and just single ladies so sometimes I feel like visiting our members is just as important as teaching investigators.  Hopefully they are able to feel the Saviors love through us.

Last, I just want to testify that prayer works and is so real!  So, first off everyone who knows me knows I am a pretty open book.  With that said, I have had to pee in the middle of the night every single night I have gotten here.  This is a little bit of a hassle since I am on the top bunk and I just dont like waking up and doing that in the middle of the night.  So, the very first night (and ever since then) I have prayed not to wake up and have to pee and GUESS WHAT?  I dont wake up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom.  So moral of the story, God really hears our prayers and cares even about the little things :)

Wo ai Nimen,

Sister Loo

Mei Wo... 

Apparently in the summer this thing is just full of water.

Our visitors and other members.

The fed us for lunch and dinner after the baptism.

It was a feast!