What a week! How was yours? Fast!? Hot? Really tough? Worth it? Same here!!!!!! Other than being working like a horse... on steroids, in heat that made me feel like I was about to have a heat stroke about every single day. This week was really good! Actually I have a lot to talk about!!! I will start on Tuesday last week. We had Mission Tour (Kind of like a conference/missionary meeting deal)! Can I just express how lucky I feel to be a part of the China Hong Kong Mission? I don’t think words would ever get even close to describing. We had half the mission together and Presiding, and teaching, at the meeting was Elder Watson, and Elder Gong, members of the Quorum of the Seventy, along with Elder Wong, a member of the Area Seventy, and of Course our Mission President Chan. President Chan did a sharing about unity for the whole mission, and tied it in with goals. He told us to be unified like his piece of paper... then he took out an apple and gave it to a missionary and asked "... is it real?" like a magician... SO FUNNY! ... It was, and then he took it and forcefully put the piece of paper THROUGH the apple!!! ... Whoa. Yes we were shocked, and I’m sure no one will ever forget that sharing! I know I Wont! President Chan is so powerful, and one of the greatest examples in my life. Then, Later Elder Watson got up to share and says " in the spirit of revelation, I've decided how I want to conduct this meeting... we will have some of You missionaries share a short 3 minute experience or testimony.." as he pulls out a bowl with pieces of paper with all our names on it... so cool! Then He taught us about the Book of Mormon, and how to use it in teaching. SO amazing, this week in lessons I have really tried to use what he taught us and, it really helped a lot! I’m sure the whole mission is using the Book of Mormon more effectively and powerfully. I know what he taught made a difference to this missionary. We had a question and answer period that was really good too. It really seems like they can answer everything perfectly. I am SO blessed to serve in this mission, I can’t even begin to describe, I’m sure that now I really don’t comprehend it anyway, but I feel SO blessed, and SO grateful for all the experiences that I am having out here, especially ones like that. FUNNY STORY! The other day Elder Lee and I walk into Wan chai... to see Elder Watson... hiding behind a pillar... he motioned to be quiet by putting his finger to his mouth... I was curious... but somehow acted like I was ignoring the fact that a seventy was hiding behind a pole, to my later discovery that his wife was actually walking out and he wanted to give her a little scare... HAHAHA! So. Awesome!
Wednesday we went out and worked hard all day long... no success. SO we realized what we were lacking, and Thursday we went out and worked our hardest... AND prayed our hardest. Having set a goal in my mind, and personal prayer, that I was going to do whatever it takes to talk to someone who would be touched by our message of a Modern Day Prophet and the Book of Mormon... I really "Searched"... that day to me seriously seemed like it was beyond finding. It took a little while, but then I saw someone that looked like they were waiting for someone to talk to them, she was pretty far away. I walked straight over there and I did my best to try to contact her, with no result, but she was still there. I had the strongest feeling in my Heart that I had to talk to her and that she needed to hear this message, I tried again... FAIL!... I didn’t know what to do and that feeling wouldn’t go away... so I quickly slipped around a little corner and said a Prayer... after I said my prayer and was determined this time that she would listen (because that feeling was still there) I had another strong feeling to find a member... right as I turned around the corner I saw a Member walk up who said "Sorry I’m late I’m here to help!"... Besides being blown away by how perfect that timing was... we took her over to the other Filipina sister (Jocelyn) and introduced her to the member. After just a few minutes of chatting (in Tagalog) she said she would come to the church! So we showed her around... and then took her to a classroom to share the Restoration. She seemed okay the whole lesson, then we taught Joseph Smith and she seemed pretty confused... we tried to stop and ask questions... then after a minute decided to share about the Book of Mormon and Invite her to read it... When she saw the Book of Mormon and we explained what it is... she told us she wanted the book (kind of teary eyed) and then she asked if she had to buy it... We gave it to her and she hugged it and wouldn’t let it go for the rest of the time that day at church. Now! We have been in contact with her every day and she is so excited to come back!
On Friday and Saturday I went on an Exchange into Chinese work and had a lot of fun working with Elder Maddux that is just a move or two Younger than me. He is a Great missionary and I’ve learned a lot from him too! Sunday we taught Letty again, Her son is on a Mission in Philippines and she wrote him this week telling him that she will be Baptized on the 21st! Yay! So, we had to speed things up a bit because we weren’t quite expecting it... but she knew it all from some personal study and is ready for Baptism this coming Sunday! THAT was Fast!!!
This week, on Sunday, I met a Man named Micker, he is from West Africa (in Libya), I had been contacting him all week on the phone, because Elder Dodd in Yuen Long saw him come to the church up there... but Yuen Long is only Chinese, So he sent him to us... I don’t have much time so I will have to write His touching story (Seriously... I couldn’t hold my tears when I was talking to this guy...) next week. He is SO awesome and doing all he can to follow Jesus Christ and he knows that this is the Place that he needs to do it. He had some pretty incredible things happen to him. I want to help him in any way I can.
Thank you all again for Your love and support! Thank You for the Prayers! I love You all! and You will always be in my Prayers as well!
Love
Elder Mckay Wright
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