Hello Everyone!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ITS CHRISTMAS EVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cant express just how excited i am right now!!!!!
HOW ARE YOU!!!! are you enjoy...ing...? your Christmas over there in the USA? Is it cold? I'm still sweatin' over here!!!! ha :)
i really don't even know what to say....
Today has been awesome. the whole mission got together and we did skits and had a gift exchange at Kowloon tong. it was alot of fun. our group did a special dance... ill try to send the video next week... it was SO funny! then the best part of the day is... about a month ago everyone turned in their pictures to put into a slide show about the year 2010... it was so great... it was a pretty powerful slideshow :),... it definitely had some emotion in it... :) I LOVE being a missionary!!!!!
So... not much to talk about this week... but just to update... waih hohn (the kid who called the church to find out more) we are still teaching him very regularly... on Sunday showed up in a white shirt... AND TIE!... i was SO happy! he was all dressed up and looked like a pretty cool kid. then, he came closer to me... and i saw that he got a new ear piercing... ha-ha.... and i guess he has been going to parties all last week because he magically got a ton of friends!!!!... so... we might have a little bit more teaching then we had planned... but that's okay! we saw him on Tuesday and talked to him about the parties he goes to and his earing... and he is willing to give up both of them!... pretty cool!...
I'm still finding as much as i can while Elder Lee follows me... finding isn't his favorite thing... but... that's okay! he likes teaching! and cooking! and cleaning! ha-ha... that's so bad of me to say... but... i help! :) its a pretty equal companionship. :)
Well... that's really about it... sorry about the short email! everything is going very good over here... I want to say a special thank you to all of you out there :) you have all helped me so much in my life... even if you don't know it! :) i am very Very thankful for the example you have all been to me, all the support you give me, and for everything you've done, and continue to do for me :) thank you :) love all of you! and.....
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Hello Everyone!
Merry Christmas!!! :) how are you!? have you eaten rice yet?! Are your christmas decorations up? AWSOME! I miss the christmas feeling in america... LIVE IT UP!... where i am right now... there isnt a soul who has decorations as far as i can tell... i guess only in the nice malls and buildings... Want to hear something funny? i was looking for special christmas cards a couple weeks ago that would look really cool and maybe have some chinese stuff or charecters on them... and there arent ANY!!! i couldnt find one to save my life! it funny, ( and to me will be funnier the rest of my life) there are few things that are special to china in hong kong... and when people say " everything comes from hong kong" they are not kidding... its actually hard to find things that you couldnt find in america... im pretty sure they just send EVERYTHING over there! :) anyway!
This week has been SO busy!!! ive never taught so much and i love it!... granted it still isnt very much... but its more than they ward has seen in a while, and they Love me! and Elder Lee of course. So we got sisters in our zone this week and President chan is having us all turn over our female investegators to them, and having the elders focus on the men. For me and my companion... there was no real affect... because all of the people we teach are male!... but i heard of some companionships going from 12 lessons a week... down to 1! so crazy! its sad how some elders are upset... sometimes i hear things... and i wish people would just stop crying about it and do what president chan is asking us to do... He has made SO many promises... actually this week... he Promised us that if we could find 13 new investegators... then 1 would be baptized. Sounds Great to me! :)We've Almost called all the potential and former records... and nothing has come yet... and its kind of driving me crazy... i want to talk to people! even if the results were the same... i still would much rather talk to people on the street! its always alot funner and alot more interesting.
Im not sure if ive mentioned a new kid that we have been teaching named leih waih hohng... he is a pretty good kid... and we taught him on tuesday... everything has been going great! and he told us that he wanted to hear the commandments in our church... so... we prepared and on tuesday taught him about the ten commandments... it was a pretty... special... experience. Everything was fine... until commandment #2... when somehow they got on the topic of if playing to many video games is like idolatry... and we talked about it for... a while... and settled things... then moved on... and everything was good until... #3... "thou shalt not take the Lord thy Gods name in vain." ... and no swearing... He is 14... and, well, I learn something everyday... Tuesday i learned that kids in china... swear in english... ALOT!... i almost lost my ears! even after we told him why we dont say these things, and were not supposed to, and its very disrespectful, and a commandment, and to stop,... he just kept going! "@$!@#$@#%#@!?... is that okay?" "NO" "oh... @$@#%$#%@#$!.... is that okay? "NO! (thats actually the same thing you just asked...) " etc etc etc... it was bad... and... took a while... i just thought he was so innocent before... but... wow... ANYWAY! we moved on past the sabbath day, past honor thy parents, and past no killing (luckily) adultery or stealing, got through with not bearing false witness... and then we got to thou shalt not covet... this one was... not good... we couldnt get the idea of... " wanting things is OKAY!... dont be jealous of others things, but be grateful for what you have... and just got an " Ill try"... we'll work on that some more... but.... that was the most "special" lesson that i had this week... in a while actually...
Everything is going so good over here! Im still frustrated with the language, but if im honest with myself its getting alot better... actually... the other day i stumped a cop who tried to bible bash me!... i felt pretty good afterward :) after that i felt quite suprized that i knew what was happening... i guess i would call that improvement :) ... but... now i have to work on humility :) dang. i made a new goal to myself that i would get a cops number next year to contact him :) then try to get President Chan to help fellowship :) (ill save this story... he is former cheif of police in hong kong... and... well... simply put, he is a pretty darn famous cop... :) My mission president is the Bomb.com basically :) ... )
Thats about it this week! I love you all so so much! thank you for all of the support, prayers, and everything you do for me! :) i wish you all a very very Christmas season :) We are very Blessed :)
Much Love,
Mac ( Elder Wai )
Merry Christmas!!! :) how are you!? have you eaten rice yet?! Are your christmas decorations up? AWSOME! I miss the christmas feeling in america... LIVE IT UP!... where i am right now... there isnt a soul who has decorations as far as i can tell... i guess only in the nice malls and buildings... Want to hear something funny? i was looking for special christmas cards a couple weeks ago that would look really cool and maybe have some chinese stuff or charecters on them... and there arent ANY!!! i couldnt find one to save my life! it funny, ( and to me will be funnier the rest of my life) there are few things that are special to china in hong kong... and when people say " everything comes from hong kong" they are not kidding... its actually hard to find things that you couldnt find in america... im pretty sure they just send EVERYTHING over there! :) anyway!
This week has been SO busy!!! ive never taught so much and i love it!... granted it still isnt very much... but its more than they ward has seen in a while, and they Love me! and Elder Lee of course. So we got sisters in our zone this week and President chan is having us all turn over our female investegators to them, and having the elders focus on the men. For me and my companion... there was no real affect... because all of the people we teach are male!... but i heard of some companionships going from 12 lessons a week... down to 1! so crazy! its sad how some elders are upset... sometimes i hear things... and i wish people would just stop crying about it and do what president chan is asking us to do... He has made SO many promises... actually this week... he Promised us that if we could find 13 new investegators... then 1 would be baptized. Sounds Great to me! :)We've Almost called all the potential and former records... and nothing has come yet... and its kind of driving me crazy... i want to talk to people! even if the results were the same... i still would much rather talk to people on the street! its always alot funner and alot more interesting.
Im not sure if ive mentioned a new kid that we have been teaching named leih waih hohng... he is a pretty good kid... and we taught him on tuesday... everything has been going great! and he told us that he wanted to hear the commandments in our church... so... we prepared and on tuesday taught him about the ten commandments... it was a pretty... special... experience. Everything was fine... until commandment #2... when somehow they got on the topic of if playing to many video games is like idolatry... and we talked about it for... a while... and settled things... then moved on... and everything was good until... #3... "thou shalt not take the Lord thy Gods name in vain." ... and no swearing... He is 14... and, well, I learn something everyday... Tuesday i learned that kids in china... swear in english... ALOT!... i almost lost my ears! even after we told him why we dont say these things, and were not supposed to, and its very disrespectful, and a commandment, and to stop,... he just kept going! "@$!@#$@#%#@!?... is that okay?" "NO" "oh... @$@#%$#%@#$!.... is that okay? "NO! (thats actually the same thing you just asked...) " etc etc etc... it was bad... and... took a while... i just thought he was so innocent before... but... wow... ANYWAY! we moved on past the sabbath day, past honor thy parents, and past no killing (luckily) adultery or stealing, got through with not bearing false witness... and then we got to thou shalt not covet... this one was... not good... we couldnt get the idea of... " wanting things is OKAY!... dont be jealous of others things, but be grateful for what you have... and just got an " Ill try"... we'll work on that some more... but.... that was the most "special" lesson that i had this week... in a while actually...
Everything is going so good over here! Im still frustrated with the language, but if im honest with myself its getting alot better... actually... the other day i stumped a cop who tried to bible bash me!... i felt pretty good afterward :) after that i felt quite suprized that i knew what was happening... i guess i would call that improvement :) ... but... now i have to work on humility :) dang. i made a new goal to myself that i would get a cops number next year to contact him :) then try to get President Chan to help fellowship :) (ill save this story... he is former cheif of police in hong kong... and... well... simply put, he is a pretty darn famous cop... :) My mission president is the Bomb.com basically :) ... )
Thats about it this week! I love you all so so much! thank you for all of the support, prayers, and everything you do for me! :) i wish you all a very very Christmas season :) We are very Blessed :)
Much Love,
Mac ( Elder Wai )
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