A Miraculous Week in Long Beach Visiting Jessica's Mission

Jessica and I had an incredible experience as we visited her mission in Long Beach this past weekend.  I was so touched by our experiences there that I’ve decided to write it down and include it in Amanda’s mission book (that will be made from this blog) at the end of her mission.  Amanda knew some of these converts so I think she will also find it very faith-building.

As Jessica stepped off the plane in Long Beach in September of 2015, the reality of a mission had hit her.  She was overwhelmed, tired and homesick.  As in many missions, she was put to work proselyting that very day.  One of the first doors she knocked on was Mike and Lurene Flynn.  Lurene told me later that she will never forget Jessica’s tear-stained, blood-shot eyes and the sweetness of her demeanor. 

A few years earlier, Mike and Lurene’s daughter had passed away at the age of 22.  She was beautiful (like Jessica) and even looked similar.  When Lurene saw Jessica and started visiting with her, she was vividly reminded of her daughter.  Over several months Jessica and her companion taught these two and they accepted the invitation to be baptized.  It was a wonderful day and my parents (who were also serving full-time in the Long Beach Mission) attended this baptism with Jessica. 

Then a few months ago we got a call from Lurene telling us that she and Mike were going to be sealed and would love us to attend!  We got our plane tickets and made arrangements.  We boarded a plane last Thursday to be there for this BIG day.  

The BIG day was Saturday at noon. On Friday we got a text from Lurene asking Jessica if she would stand in as proxy for her daughter, Natalie, who had passed away.  Jessica was ecstatic and accepted this invitation.  We also learned that Mike had lost a 3 year-old son several years earlier and he would be getting sealed to him as well.  

At the temple, Jessica rented a white dress and we were unsure if all of Natalie's temple work had been done and if Jessica needed to put on the temple robes.  After much asking and no answers, a sweet lady from Lurene's ward came in.  She was Lurene's visiting teacher and her husband was their home teacher.  She told us that they were temple workers in the Newport Temple and that earlier in the week she had personally done Natalie's initiatory and endowment in preparation for this sealing!  Jessica quickly put on the temple robes and we were escorted to the sealing room .  Two other couples from their ward were in attendance.

As Mike and Lurene walked into that room, true joy came over all of us.  When the time came for Jessica to join them at the alter, the veil became very thin and we knew their loved ones were nearby.  This was an expereince we will never forget and and are so grateful to share with this faithful couple!

Julie, Jessica, Lurene, Mike, the Home-teacher, the Visiting-teacher and the Weiks 

Jessica made several appointments with investigators and new converts that she wanted to see and wanted me to meet.  We spent the day Thursday doing this and it was a day I'll never forget!

Our first visit was Sarah.  Sarah was baptized a few months ago and is the only member in her home.  Her husband and adult children don't have any interest.  We sat with Sarah at her kitchen table as she told us how happy she's been since her baptism.  She had her Book of Mormon marked in 2nd Nephi.  Jessica asked her how her reading was coming and she said she is enjoying and understanding the Book of Mormon.  She got teary as she told us about the passing of her sister.  Jessica quickly opened up to Alma and marked a chapter for her to read.  She was so humble and had such a great desire to believe.  It was also evident that Jessica had such a great love and concern for her.  We all left with big hugs!

Jessica and Sarah

Our next visit was Tami and her darling 4 kids.  Tami had been married to her best friend for 21 years when he came home one day and told her he wanted a divorce.  It was devastating to her.  Her step-father is a member and asked if she would be willing to listen to the missionaries.  She consented and Jessica and her companion began teaching her.  She felt the Spirit very quickly and her girls connected with Jessica very well.  Within a short time Tami and her 12 and 10 year-old daughters were baptized.  Tami is truly converted and expressed her gratitude for the peace and comfort she has felt since accepting the gospel.  She has been embraced by an incredible ward and her 12 year old is headed to her first Girls Camp on Catalina Island today!  

Tami and her family

Wonderful member families that have taken in Tami and her kids in Westminster.

Our next visit was to Jake.  Jake has had struggles with addiction.  He comes from a very active LDS family and grew up in the church.  He is only a few years older than Jessica.  Jake's mom is the Relief Society President in their ward and asked the missionaries to reach out to Jake.  They challenged him to go through the 12-step program the church has provided.  He did it and reported to us over lunch that he is now 11 months sober!! It was humbling to visit with him and hear how difficult his decision to stay sober is EVERY DAY!  He is clinging to the gospel and making plans to further his education and become the man he wants to  be.

Jake & Jessica

Since we had already had some amazing sushi for lunch (right across the street from Jessica's apartment in La Mirada), we next joined Bob and Judy for a drink as they ate lunch nearby.  Bob and Judy met and married around the age of 40.  They both grew up in NYC and were active in the Jewish religion.  They both experienced some health challenges about 2 years ago.  Judy had a life-long friend who was Mormon and they found each other living in California close by.  One day Judy's friend suggested that the LDS missionaries come by each week and take out Bob and Judy's garbages.  This was becoming very difficult for them with their health.  Judy accepted this invitation but was adminant there would be no "preaching", just serving:).  Jessica and her companion began going over weekly to empty and take out their trash cans.  Judy told me that they came faithfully for about 3 months and one day Jessica asked if they could come in and offer a prayer.  Judy said she was taken back, but couldn't refuse a prayer.  The next week Jessica asked if they could come in and visit with them about the church. Judy said she felt guilted into inviting them in because they had been serving her and Bob so diligently:)  Within a few minutes they had shared the story of the Restoration.  Bob knew a lot about Joseph Smith and wanted to hear more.  He was very well read in the Bible and had studied Mormonism over time.  

Within a short time Judy had a strong witness of the truthfulness of the gospel.  She told me how amazing it was to see Jewish religion and Mormonism come together so naturally.  The only obstacle was teaching her that Jesus was the Christ.  Jessica said once that moment came, Judy was ready for baptism and has been on fire ever since.  Bob was not ready to be baptized, but was supportive of Judy.  Judy was baptized in October of 2016.  Then about 5 months later Judy said she went to the store with Bob and ran inside to get something.  When she came out, Bob had tears in his eyes and told her he was ready to be baptized as well.  He said while she was in the store, the Spirit had come to him and told him this was the true church and he needed to join it.  He was baptized in April of 2017.

As we sat and visited about their experience, they talked about the love they felt when the missionaries would come.  They made sure they ALWAYS had cookies, a drink, and a pack of gum to send home with them.  They grew to LOVE Jessica and Judy sheepishly asked if I was OK if she referred to Jessica as her daughter!  I said ABSOLUTELY YES as Judy had been a loving, caring MOTHER to Jessica on her mission.  

Then Bob and Judy told us that they were preparing to be sealed in the temple in April of 2018, one year from Bob's baptism date!  They asked if we would come back for it! YES YES YES!

Bob & Judy

We stopped by a few homes of wonderful members that were instrumental in missionary work during Jessica's mission.  We also visited all three of her apartments.  Only one of them made me nervous!

Our last stop of the evening was at Jenny's.  Jenny is about my age.  She has been married to her husband for 20 years and they have 3 beautiful daughters together.  Jessica was referred to Jenny upon arriving in Westminster, but told that Jenny did not want to be baptized.  She just wanted to be friends with the missionaries.  Jessica told me that with this preface, she went in to LOVE Jenny and her family and that is exactly what happened.  

Jenny's husband has struggles with the LDS church.  He came from an active family and served a mission but has been inactive for several years now.  Jenny grew up Catholic. In the earlier years, Jenny's husband introduced Jenny and his 3 daughters to the missionaries.  His oldest daughter, Rebecca, accepted the gospel and wanted to get baptized.  However, she was told by her father she must wait until 18 years-old.  She did and is now baptized.  

Jenny told us that she knows the church is true and she loves the Book of Mormon.  She talked about how she "visits" with Heavenly Father all the time.  She runs a house-cleaning business and recently was in desperate need for a reliable, hard-working employee.  She said she prayed about this and pleaded with Heavenly Father to help her find someone.  She then went to work making a flyer to post.  She woke up early one morning to print these out and distribute them, but her computer wouldn't connect with her printer.  She was running out of time and needed at least one.  She made a deal with Heavenly Father that if He would help her print at least one flyer that would help her find a good employee, she would be diligent in the gospel and continue going to church.  Suddenly her printer turned and ONE flyer printed. She was in shock and couldn't get the computer to print anymore after that.  She hung the flyer up and within a week had a wonderful new employee.  

Right before Jessica went home, she and her companion were alone with Jenny and asked her to pray.  Jenny is terrified to pray in front of anyone and so this was a big request, but she knew Jessica was leaving and loved her.  Jessica asked her to pray out loud and ask Heavenly Father how He feels about her and her being baptized.  Jenny told us that as she started to pray, a wonderful feeling came over her.  She felt as if Heavenly Father was resting His hands on her shoulders and the words came to her that "Everything will be OK.  Keep doing what you're doing."  Jessica described this as one of her most spiritual moments on her mission as the Spirit filled the room and was undeniable.  Jenny grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist and told me she has never had an expereince even close to what she felt that day.  

Jenny is still not baptized, but wants to be.  She is waiting for her husband's blessing and feels his heart is being softened every day in miraculous ways.  Jenny is one of the most humble, kind, responsible, and earnest women I have ever met.  She LOVES her family and is teaching her daughters and wants the blessings the gospel has to offer them, but realizes she must be patient and continue trusting Heavenly Father! 

I know that Jessica (and every missionary for that matter)  is sent to their mission for very specific reasons and people.  She found them!  It has been the greatest blessing of all to see the full blessings of the gospel being received by these wonderful people and we look forward to another sealing in a few months!

Jessica's love for these people is about as Christ-like as I've ever witnessed.  She was truly given CHARITY and continues to feel this love for her brothers and sister in California!

My "Gam ma" Moment

In Hong Kong, "gam ma" means 'duh...' and this week I had a very VERY big "gam ma' moment. My sister, Jessica, sent me a package this week, which was much needed! She sent some talks, including "The 4th Missionary" talk.   I can’t even begin to describe how this talk has changed my life this past week!  Thursday I got the talk. Friday I started reading it. Saturday I realized I was the 3rd missionary.  Sunday I decided to give up, and give God my will, 'because that was the only intelligent thing to do”, as the talk says.  It has now been 12 hours since I decided to do that, and I can’t even put in words the differences I have felt since I decided to give Christ my agency. It's been the only thing holding me back for the past 18 years of my life. He's had everything else accept that one thing. So this was my “gam ma” moment.

The things that let up to my “Gam ma” moment:

Monday night:  A good native friend of me and Sister Flynn told us that we need to work harder on the language and she was really worried for us. We cried when she left.

Tuesday night:   We found a man named Michael. He has lived an interesting life.  He's 52 years old and was very interested in why we would give our lives up for as long as we did to do such a strange thing. We scheduled him for next week.

Wednesday:  Crossroads (where we volunteer each week) . . .  we got the number for a lady who works at Crossroads, called her up this last Sunday, asked how her worship service was, told her about ours, and said we wanted to spend a P-day with her this coming month.

Thursday night:   We met a woman named Malish. She is 20 and a home worker (we called them ‘helpers’ when we lived in Singapore) for a family here but lives with her own family.  Her parents don’t want her to meet with us, but we scheduled to 'accidently' run into her next Wednesday night at the train station at 8pm . . . miracles of the faithful.

Friday night:  An old investigator came to English class and scheduled us for next Monday!

Saturday afternoon:   I talked to a lady at English class who is interested in our message. She said she will be out of town these next 3 week, but said when she returns she is willing to meet.

Saturday night:   We went to go find Malish because she called and wanted to meet up, but she never showed up because her parents wouldn’t let her leave. As we were about to leave the place we had planned to meet her, the Spirit told me and my companion first to stand up and stop sitting.   Then we felt impressed to move over to another area and stand. Nothing happened for about 5 minutes. Then a boy sat down in our exact seat and we knew it was who we needed to talk to, so without hesitation we walked right over to him.   We didn’t know what to say so we just started talking.  It turns out he is a Christian,  he would love to do what God wants him to do,  and he goes to a different church all by himself. We got his number and asked if we could meet with him this next week

Sunday:  Three new people came to church this week . . . a record number since my first transfer!

So overall, I know this email was long BUT this is to show you that God knows when you will decide to give your will to Him. He knew that Sunday afternoon was when I would surrender. He knew that by the end of the week I would have given him my all. And so what did He do?  He helped me and my companion be ready to prove He understands our righteous desires and wants to give us the things we are asking for. He helped us find these 6 new potential investigators, and I know it’s because He could finally trust me as a missionary.  He knows I will listen to Him now.

So I want to extend a challenge to all of you . . . It’s just a flip of the switch-change in your mind-and we give our will to Him. But then it’s a constant effort to keep your will in His hands.  The longer the Lord has our will, the easier it will be for Him to bless us with the things we need. Don’t hold back from Him. I wish I would have learned this 6 months ago, but it’s better now than never!  Stop doing your own thing, put everything on the table, and say, "I GIVE UP!  Take it all!  I surrender my will to Yours!”, and I promise you that you will also have this “gam ma” moment (:

Love you all!!

Love Sister Webb!

Fun on the train!

This week in English class we taught our students about Superhero's!

Captain America, Missionary Style!

Cutest Goliath ever!  I threw marshmellows at him as hard as I could!

The kids here are so cute!

No One Goes His Way Alone

“No one goes his way alone”

This quote kept me on my feet this week!  I would say this has been one of our harder weeks. We lost all of our investigators and our members this week were straight 0's. Not that numbers matter, but that also means we aren’t reaching any of our goals.  It’s been really disappointing. I was reading in “The Teaching of President Hinckley” this week and he writes a letter home to his dad about similar problems he faced on his mission.  He was concerned about wasting the Lord’s time and money and feeling quite useless (which that is a feeling I can relate to this week).  He dad responded by telling him to “lose yourself and go to work." I set my mind to do just that!  The next day there was a typhoon and we were stuck inside from 7am to 4:30pm.   That made “getting to work” really difficult!  This put me right back into a dark place darnet!  Overall I would say Satan got a hold of me this week and shook me pretty hard, so that was kind of mean of him.

One of the highlights of this week was the blessed opportunity to go to the temple. I can't even begin to express the gratitude I have for the temple. I am trying not to envy you people who can just go whenever you want. I remember before my mission, my visiting teacher at BYU telling me that I would have hard days, sometimes weeks, in my mission.  One thing that helped her when she had those days on her mission was to close her eyes and remember the peace and love she feels in the temple. The next day she took me to the temple with her and sat with me in the celestial room and said, “This feeling is the feeling you need to always have with you!”  How perfect is it that on such a hard week we physically got the opportunity to go to the temple!?   Amazing tender mercies of the Lord.

Anyway, I've been watching lots of pioneer movies lately and keep being reminded of the fact that 'no one goes his way alone.'  No matter how hard the trek, how desperate the emotions, or how negative the attitude, you will never have to do it alone.   That has kept me on my feet this week. I have an incredible companion and I have God on my side, so eventually things will work out! (even if we did have a really hard week!)  I refuse to lose faith!!

Love you all

Love Sister Webb

On the bus heading to the temple

One of my favorite companions from PG!  It's really HOT here!!

My companion, Sister Flynn

Our third companion for the next 3 weeks.  She is darling and is helping us with Cantonese so much!

Humbled One Way or Another!

This week has just flown by. I feel like there is no time to reach our goals or accomplish the things we plan in weekly planning! It just FLYS!!!  Speaking of time flying, I hit my 6 month mark!  I’m sure when it’s over I'll look back and it will have flown by.

Anyway, I’m super excited for this next week. We have a summer missionary (a teenage member from Hong Kong) staying with us, not over night, but all day.   We are really excited and it we are hopeful it will also help out our Cantonese!

So this last week has been really humbling.   First I was chastised because of my attitude towards finding. They asked us as a district what we thought of finding in Hong Kong, and they went around the room and asked each person and I said it is 'really hard, and not very effective.' This got a response out of some of the 'older' missionaries. They told me that what I put in is what I'll get out, and that it all depends on my attitude towards finding. I felt very small in that moment, and a little embarassed to be honest, but I learned that sometimes the guilty take the truth to be hard. GUILTY! So then the next day me and Sister Flynn went out finding and I had a new attitude about me to actually meet people and accomplish something.   Things went much better!  We taught one lady the plan of salvation and we got the number of these two teenage girls who didn't have a religion but were interested in coming to church. Then we ran into a less active member who (surprisingly) was really happy to see us and said she will be coming to church next week.  We ran into one lady twice and the 2nd time we were able to talk to her a bit about the church and give her a pamphlet. SOOOO moral of the story, if you show God your effort and work your hardest with an attitude to accomplish something, God WILL provide.

This week we also had the chance with our investigators and recent converts to watch the Joseph Smith Restoration movie. WOW!   That movie is something else. I cried and cried and just couldn't stop haha (: AAHH!   I just felt the truthfulness of the story of the Restoration!  So because I'm on a Joseph Smith high, I want to share a quick testimony on the power of the Book of Mormon:

Growing up, my family always read the Book of Mormon and prayed together and we held regular family home evening.  I’ve learned that these things are not something to be taken lightly.  A family united in prayer and scripture study is the most special thing in the world. It allows the children (me) to see our parents testimonies close up and observe their teachings.  It allowed me to hear learn the feeling of the Spirit and learn to recognize His voice. But not only is family scripture study and prayer important, personal scripture study and prayer are as well. I know the scriptures are something special. not just a history of the Americas, but of Chris’ts people and His hand in their lives. It’s a special book full of truth, wisdom, knowledge and love. So FAMILIES, TAKE THE TIME to read to read and pray together! Take the time INDIVIDUALLY to read daily and pray morning and night . . . EVEN when once you know it’s true (:  Our beloved prophet, Gordon B, Hinckley once said, “ So many of us use our lives as if they were entirely our own.  Ours is the choice to waste them if we wish, but that becomes a betrayal of a great and sacred trust.”  So don't waste your life away!

Love you all

Have a good week!!

Love Sister Webb

FUN P-DAY ACTIVITIES!!

BEAUTIFUL SUNSETS IN HK!

Angels

This week I think it rained every day. ALOT (: My mom told me once upon a time that when we see lightening to smile, because the angles were taking pictures of us!  When we heard thunder, stand proud below it because the angles were clapping for us! So it’s been a good week. All week angels have been thundering us along and taking pictures of our every effort!  They’ve been such a good support group (;

This week’s email will be short, but this week just seemed to FLY by. I felt so much like a missionary this week and the language study is becoming more and more effective each day!  Just a few things I learned this week...

Sometimes God prepares people for you, but some will only be ready for the seed. If you can plant the seed, then you have given them a building block for their foundation. I also learned that each person, individually, is the gardener of their own seed. God is the “Gardener” of us all if we're willing to give up our will for His, but we personally are the gardener of our own seed. If you don't work hard to nourish it every day, if you don’t let others see it grow, if you don’t encourage it . . . then nothing will happen to it. It is on YOU how fast or how slow your own seed grows.

I also read a quote this week, "We can only change perception through experiences. We all needed these lived experiences because they cause us to change." If we will look day to day with this kind of perspective, be open and humble to learn and understand truth, and not be afraid to experience the things God has in store for us,  it is MUCH MUCH MUCH easier to submit our will to God’s will. Sometimes we just have to live through it and then that personal change comes in the way we perceive things.  So here I am, living it (:

For all my friends going out on missions this month, "You might flail, But you WILL NOT fail!"   You’ve got this!!! Pray and read EVERY day!!   I am praying for you all specifically this week! Love you so much!

Love Sister Webb

For anyone who knows me well, I can fall asleep just about anywhere in any position.  It's a curse and a blessing!

Love our apartment and roomates!  We have so much fun together!

 This week in English class we celebrated the 4th of July and summer in the USA.  Kids learned  items you take to the beach and adults learned how to celebrate the 4th of July and make hot dogs!

You can't have hot dogs without tons of ketcup!!

Happy 4th of July!

Amanda keeps talking about recent converts she is helping and teaching.  I haven’t seen any pictures of baptisms, so I asked her about this.  This was her response:

You are lucky if you get 1 baptism in the HK mission.  It’s not about baptism though.  God promises He will provide prepared people if we are doing what we need to be doing.   Sometimes . . . actually most the time, those prepared people are the ones who are prepared for a seed or a root to take place.  Not all at once will the flower bloom and truth be recognized.  Yes, this is a converting and baptizing mission, but they need to be converted first and that’s not up to us how long it takes . . . that’s up to God. So right now I have come to a happy conclusion that I am planting seeds that hopefully will one day be realized.

Now here is her weekly update:

Monday:  We attempted to go on a hike by our apartment, and we made it up about 1/8 the way BUT way to many GINORMOUS spiders appeared all over the trail!!  So we turned around and came home! BUT we got some good pictures of them!

Tuesday: We had district meeting with our new district for the first time. Super fun district! Then we scheduled a member later that night with the Elders, but she "forged" us (didn't show up) so that was  "chaam" (to bad).  We also visited another member and brought him flowers (: Cute old guy.

Wednesday: CROSSROADSS!! I love love love crossroads! This week me and Sister Flynn’s job was cleaning out an old office and painting it! I had paint all over me... What do you do (: Then one of the workers at crossroads took us to her house for ice cream (: YUM!!  Then we went out to visit a Less active, Luk mouth Lam, and she wasn't home, AGAIN!  But her cute 9 year old was, so we got to talk to her a bit (:

Thursday: We tested out pretzels for English class, and they were SOOOO GOOD!! We woke up the next morning and all the dough went bad. SO we had to start from scratch for the actual English class and it turned out BROWNIE MIX was all we had, so we make “Pretzel Brownies”. . . you can imagine how gooey that was..

Friday: Weekly planning.. took us a while.. Then we did a study class with some youth in our stake going on missions. We did our personal and companion studies with them, and it was a mess! I was just a HUGE flirt fest, and they were on their phones the whole time. So... this week I think we'll change a few things up.. Then we had English class . . . the messy sticky brownie pretzel English class . . . but it was fun (:

Saturday: We taught our recent convert, Leung Hing Daih. We taught him at a member’s house and they made us cinnamon rolls!   YUMMY!(: Then we went to the church and taught kids English class. I fell asleep the whole time . . .  oops.

Sunday: Ward correlation at 7:45am, so we woke up at 6:15 and left at 7:10.  I tried to curl my hair, but when I walked outside, “BAM”,  no curls. Love Love Love the humidity! (;  I could've slept in till 6:45  . . . pity.  Then we had a member invite us over for dinner (: the KINGS! . . . an amazing family in our ward. They are so cute!  They made us french toast and it was so good !!

This week was pretty good. I learned a lot about how to manage stress, cuz yes, a mission is stressful. who'd of thunk?!   I also FELL IN LOVE with the Because of Him video. That part where the camera turns on Christ after He's resurrected and he takes a step towards Mary Magdalene.   Oh It just gets me!! We're also in the middle of 17 miracles in honor of the 4th of July and the 24th of July.  Levi Savage is one AMAZING missionary. Much recommended video for those of you about to go out on missions!

Love you all!

Have a good week!

Love Sister Webb

Ice Cream with all of the missionaries who help at Crossroads.  Sherry, the supervisor, had all of us over.  She's so nice and so appreciative of all we do!

Celebrating Sister Groberg's ONE YEAR mark!  (She's from Pleasant Grove and has become a best friend to me!  She's in the red shirt)

We may have eaten a bit too much in our PARTYING!!

Accidentally sent this text to the Ward Mission Leader . . . oops . . . Book of Moron:O

Our Mormon Greeting

Hello!

This week was pretty good! We had zone conference, it rained a lot and our recent convert had a change of heart and recommitted himself to all the covenants he made at baptism! (: So it was a pretty good week.

The language is coming along I think, but this week was pretty hard.  My companion and I came to the realization once again that we really don’t know a lot of Cantonese!  If anyone has language study plan tips I'm open to ANYTHING at this point.  We hit a low point and decided to drown our frustrations in ice cream.  It seemed to help!  The gift of tongues is interesting.  I can’t really explain it.  It is real but it comes and goes.   I’m so grateful when it comes!!

So this week in zone conference, a senior missionary made up a Mormon Greeting! haha (: In America we great people with "Hey, how are you”.  In some places of the world they say, "Have you had a bath today?" In Hong Kong we greet people with, " Leih sihk jo fahhn meih a?" meaning,  "Have you eaten yet?" In different cultures there are really polite ways to greet people, and Elder James brought up a good point. In the Mormon culture we don’t have a greeting, so he introduced this:   “Hello.  Have you had any revelations today?”  This is now how we greet each other (in Cantonese of course).   Isn’t that the best thing EVER!!!   It was a good reminder that we all need to be more sensitive to the Spirit. We are receiving revelation all day, and if we don’t acknowledge the Holy Ghost’s hand in the revelation we receive, His voice will become further and further away and harder and harder to hear. So help people remember the voice of the Spirit, "Have you had any revelations today?" (:

Funny language mistakes we made this week (translated):

Our Elder: So where is your son now?

Member: In heaven. (tin gwok)

Our Elder: Oh is that in mainland China? (daai lok)

Member: Mh.. sei jo la ( no, he's dead..)

This was a really unfortunate misunderstanding, but we can’t stop laughing about it.  Poor Elder!  Here is another one:

Sister Flynn: Leih hou, (hello)

Member: Nice to meet you (hou hoisam ying sik leih)

Sister Flynn: Bye Bye (hou)

 Sister Flynn meant to say, “You too”.  The member just started laughing.

 Overall It’s been a good week!!   You are all in my prayers!! Love you!

Sister Webb

One of our last district meetings before Sister Gomez left

Great markets in HK . . . no we didn't buy these

My new comp, Sister Flynn, is awesome!

Lunch with a member family

Face masks with the gals

Crossroads . . . the awesome organization we volunteer at!

This is Amanda's stink eye . . . I never know what she's thinking but it makes me laugh!

The Elder in the red striped shirt is teaching the ward the Haka!  They LOVED it!!