China Hong Kong Mission: 05/21/18

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Léih hóu!

How are y'all? 😊
By the way, thank you for your letters and emails! I appreciate them all. I miss the outside world! LOL. Been here in Provo MTC for almost a month now (crazyyyy!).

Picture: "Thai noodles night" with the sisters in our zone - Sister Delong, Sister Elison, Sister McColgan, Sister Valencia, Sister Komkajone, Me

Well, I had an exciting week! Here's why:

(Updates/Highlights of my week)

Monday 5/14 -

The older district left this morning and off to their respective mission fields. From 40 missionaries in our branch, there's 18 of us left... I miss them all but I know they're doing the Lord's work now and we'll see each other again someday 😊 (I just easily get attached to people.. is it a good thing or bad thing? Lol.) At dinner, we had TacoBell haha (simple joys haha but I'm missing Filipino food na!).

Picture: Twinning with my BYUH friend - Sister Enriquez - during our gym time lol

Tuesday 5/15 -

Today at class, our teacher taught us about the "Parable of Temple Sermon" in 3 Nephi 11-18 which relates to the importance of the covenants that we do inside the temple.. 😊 For the Tuesday Evening Devotional, the speakers were Sister Duncan and Elder Kevin Duncan (from the Seventy) who both talked about the Book of Mormon. Sister Duncan then shared a story about two ducks (male and a female) who goes to their yard everyday; the female duck has only one leg. Sister Duncan's kids always give these ducks food/crumbs to eat and every time they do, only the female duck eats it and the male duck will just watch her eat (he is just her protector and companion). The moral of the story was the ducks were inspired to go to their yard because they know that the Duncan's will feed them. Similarly to missionary work, God prepared for me the people that I'll be teaching and I know that He'll help me find those people. "Finding by the Spirit is as important as teaching by the Spirit." .. Elder Duncan then compared our testimonies to volcanoes ---Some are perfect outside but dormant inside --- weak/less testimony, while others do not have a perfect shape but are active volcanoes --- strong testimony. He also shared to us the trailer of the Book of Mormon videos (exciting!!! It'll be out on September 21 this year). Can't wait to watch those and use it for investigator lessons! 😊 .. He also counseled that we should always read the Book of Mormon because scriptures will always be one of the key components to know more about Christ..In his talk, he also shared a video of "Social Experiment of #BOM #531". It's an experiment conducted wherein they distributed 531 pages of the book and had the non-Mormons read just a page. Their comments after reading a page were like: "Where's the next page? I want to know more!" or "I think and I totally agree about this book! I think I am a secret Mormon" or "I know that this is true and I want to more about God".. This shows that the voice of the Lord speaks to all and imagine that if a single page of the Book of Mormon can give/have an effect to someone's life, what more if he/she will be able to read the entire book? 😊 .. I know that the Book of Mormon is a powerful book and it will be one of the greatest tool of conversion.

Picture: Hosting new missionaries!

Wednesday 5/16 -

Today, we had the chance to HOST the new missionaries! 😊 yaaaay! We helped them with checking-in, dropped them to their residence, and to their classroom. It was a fun experience even though I have to carry their heavy luggage from the underground garage to the stairs to the building lol. 😊 .. Today we taught our investigator about prayer and the importance of it. Me and my companion planned on teaching him about the Book of Mormon but we had the impression that we should change our lesson plan and teach him about prayer instead.. I know that it's good to have lesson plans set but when the Spirit prompts, you have to listen to the Spirit 😊

Thursday 5/17 -

So last Tuesday, we sang "Let Us All Press On" for the choir and today, we (I and some other "chosen" missionaries) were called to sing and pre-film a video for the 40th year commemoration of the Priesthood given to all worthy men --- Click here for link. Hopefully my face won't be cut out haha. They'll show the video on June 1st. .. Taught [our investigator] about the Book of Mormon and he committed to read the first few chapters of the book. In class, we taked about the chiasma in Alma 36. 😊

Picture: This is when we did the "Pre-film video" for the 40th yr Commemoration of Priesthood.

Friday 5/18 -

Our teacher told us (me and my companion) that we will have a General Authority sit-in in our class today but he didn't show up. Hahaha. He said this General Authority knows Cantonese and since it's only me and my companion who are Cantonese speaking missionaries in the entire Provo MTC, he wants to meet us. I wonder who it is, hmmmm. Taught [our investigator] about the Plan of Salvation and he had tonsss of questions! (but it's good! That means he's curious and wants to know more about it).

Picture: Temple day May 21

Saturday 5/19 -

TRC day today (shared a lesson/message to Cantonese speaking members). Today, me and my companion shared about Christ's Atonement (What is it? Why do we need it and How did it blessed our lives?). It's always an interesting discussion when we teach and ask the members to share their personal experiences). I feel like it's really easier to teach members than teach investigators hehe.

Picture: Temple day May 21(pt 2)

Sunday 5/20 -

Sundays are always a busy day! Back to back meetings, Zone Conference, Choir practice, and Devotional... For the devotional, Sister Martino and President Martino shared a very powerful experience. They talked about the impact of the two missionaries (who taught them) in their lives.. After devotional, we watched Elder Holland's talk entitled "Open Your Mouth". He said: "You must deliver your own conviction and there has to be at least one convert on your mission and that is you... An obedient missionary always has the Spirit of the Lord with him/her... When a man works by faith, he works by words."

Monday 5/21 -

P-day and temple day! 😊

That's my 4th week! :) See y'all next week and have a great week everyone!

Dojeh leih!

Your Sister in Christ,
Aū Jímuih - Sister Apao