Ni(ca) Hao, Hong Kong!: It has been quite an amazing week!

We taught visitors on Tuesday. I am still so amazed by the faith of these people and their desire to follow Christ. These visitors (mom and son) had been introduced by a friend who is a recent convert of only 3 months! How amazing is she, so excited to share the truth with others!

One thing that was neat about the mom was that she was intrigued and her testimony started when hearing about the Word of Wisdom! She thought it was amazing that God cares about our physical health as well as our spiritual health and that was the foundation of her testimony. I know as missionaries (especially in the Chinese culture where smoking and tea are so normal) we are often scared to share about the Word of Wisdom, but she was ecstatic to hear about it! It gave me a new perspective on commandments and how blessed we are to have them!

As a zone we set our goals for September and they are pretty high. WE know that if we rely on the Lord, have faith and work hard that they are more than achievable! I am excited as we set them together and it wasn't just a couple of people so we are all committed to this goal. It will be amazing to see how much the Lord blesses us for our hard work. I am excited to see what this zone can do and hopefully how these goals will push us to become better, more effective missionaries!

This week our branch has committed and we have made for them a week long promise to help them get in the mindset of member missionary work. They have all graciously accepted and I am SO excited! Coincidentally the second hour gospel principles lesson was on missionary work. Elder Evans (of the quorum of the 70) was also in attendance. Our original idea was to take the members out finding on the street and show them how ineffective that is, but time was limited so we were not able to do so. But, Elder Evans did amazing explaining to our members that following a prompting to share the gospel with a friend is a million times more effective than street finding!

We were also able to watch the work of salvation video before starting the class and it touched a lot of people! It was a lesson/discussion filled with the Spirit. Member missionary work is important, I can not stress that enough :) I know I want to be better when I get home.

Elder Evans also pointed out that it should be natural and not stressful. I would invite everyone to watch this video. There are no words, just music, but it is AMAZING (sorry I feel like I have used that word a lot, but I can not explain my feelings.. just watch the video)! No greater joy is felt than when sharing the gospel.. I can truly testify to that :)

Last but not least, our investigator Michael was baptised yesterday! It was such a treat to be able to attend his service! Although he is a teenage boy and did not want to show his emotions you could tell in his countenance how happy he was and it was truly a treat to see. Along with that we sang at his baptism a beautiful arrangement of Come Thou Fount and If You Could Hie To Kolob and the spirit was so strong! A couple of sisters were crying and it really testified to me again that music is just another way to invite the spirit. The crazy thing is that we sang in English and the sisters who were crying did not speak any English! It was amazing.

Well, gotta go.

Love, Sis. Loo