The most important one; although it is frustrating, agency is a gift given to everyone and we can not do anything, but encourage people to make right choices with their agency. This week we had a goal to get 8 of our investigators to church. Throughout the week we reminded them, followed up and they all said they would be coming. The day came and only 3 of them showed up. Although we did all we could, the choice was still ultimately up to them and that is what is frustrating. Sometimes I wish we didn't have agency.. well at least the investigators ;)
I said a couple of weeks back about how our zone had set some pretty lofty goals for the month of September. Well, the last week of September (in missionary terms) was yesterday and we did so awesome! None of the goals were necessarily hit, but we came close to it in all of them and goals are meant to make us stretch. We saw SO many miracles and blessings! It was so fun to see our progress throughout the weeks. It is so true that if we work our hardest, we will not be disappointed with the results and will have a peaceful conscience!
This week was also exciting as two more Vietnamese sisters had troubles with their visas and were living with us. There is something cool and special about living in an apartment or interacting with people who have the same purpose as you do but are from different parts of the world. It just confirms to me that the church is the same everywhere you go and it is spreading everywhere!
Another thing that happened this week that made me feel not like a lopsaahp (garbage in Cantonese.. don't know the pinyin) missionary. Often the filipino sisters will need our help on sunday teaching lessons because they have too many people at church.. yeah I know I wish I had this problem haha, but we have taught a sister two weeks in a row and get a text yesterday night from her sister who is a member and fellowshipping the lessons that she feels more comfortable with us and would like us to teach her from now on. We are not sure how to handle the situation yet, but it was weird because we both felt the last lesson we had with her she wasn't totally engaged or listening so to get that text was a surprise.. You just never know when or how the spirit is working within someone!
The life of a Hong Kong person is VERY busy. They work about 12 hours a day at least and don't have or make time for much else. We were talking about Family Home Evening yesterday and I realised that if our family is our greatest (which it should be) priority we will make time for it. If we have no time for Family Home Evening then we really are TOO busy and need to reprioritise. His gospel is perfect and there is an unbelievable amount of benefits to having a time where we can develop relationships with each other and have a safe place to strengthen our testimonies! SO I hope everyone can put aside a time to do so AND has made time this week for general conference.. it is the greatest time of the year!!!! Plus who wouldn't want to hear what men called of God have to say??
Love,
Sister Loo
Just some random and fun pictures from Hong Kong... (me sleeping of course...missionary work is exhausting! LOL...)
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