First Full Week in My New Area

This week I am starting to get a hold on this new area and new investigators.  It is still so frustrating because people here work and work and work.  It seems like everyone we want to meet can never meet with us because they are so busy.  Good reminder to us all that while working is important, we can't forget about spiritually "working".  It takes work to maintain and grow our testimonies of the Savior and faith in him.

Every Saturday we teach a kids English class as a service opportunity.  On Thursday we went out English class finding which is basically just giving out a flier to every kid you can see haha.  Now about 75% of these end up in the trash, but that is okay because on Saturday we had 23 kids come to English class with their parents!  The room was packed full.  Afterwards we met with a mandarin mom and her daughter and they have a lot of potential!  She was so happy and excited to accept our invitation to pray together and thinks it will really help her current situation!

Yesterday I was reminded about the importance of a positive, looking at the glass half full attitude.  We were out finding and were having no success.  No one was really listening to us and would walk away as soon as we approached them.  Now the miracle is that as soon as we finished the time we allotted to finding it started to rain.  This probably doesn't seem like that big of a miracle, but here in China when the rain comes out the Asians go and hide.  So we would not have been able to talk to anyone, but we at least had the opportunity to try and bear quick testimony to them that hopefully they will remember later on.

I also got to attend Cantonese branch here as a lot of Mandarin speakers can speak back and it is much more fangbian to go to Cantonese branch then travel all the way to Wan Chai.  Well I had no idea what was being said and then your normal missionary tiredness so I could not keep my eyes open for the life of me.  Mid song I was comparing the Mandarin words with the Cantonese and I fell asleep haha.  Oh gotta love the mission!

Some funny quotes from the Asians this week.  

*Talking about going to Disneyland and Ocean park*

"Wow yeah that would be awesome like killing one bird with two stones"

*Sister Leong sprays perfume and has a pancake in her hand*

Me: "Wow what's that smell, it smells so good!"

Sister Leong: "Pancakes..?"

Gotta love being with asians whose English is not the greatest, which makes my blonde moments not as bad :)

Wo ai nimen!

Sister Loo

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Buddhist temple!
So pretty, but not as pretty as our temples haha
(My goal is to take a picture with a Monk but I am not quite sure if that is allowed) 

Happy Valentines Day!