Hello friends and family!
I know that last email was super short, i am sorry for that!
hopefully today's email will be better.
so with sister dodge we are in the 2nd week of training, she is adapting pretty well, her mandarin is already pretty good (studied 5 years in high school). so i can focus on other stressful stuffs. we don't have a lot of investigators right now, so we are focusing on finding those who are prepared to receive the restored gospel.
president lam before transfers told us that we needed to focus more on a certain part of our area that we kind of neglected before, so with sister dodge we are focusing on this area.
this week i had a lot of things that stressed me, but in those situations i saw heavenly father hands guiding me and placed people on the way.
one of the experience that i had this week happened yesterday.
so since last week, we are working with the cantonese elders in one of the ward in the focusing area. we are trying to work with the members because the solid investigators come from members, investigators referrals. but the thing is that they don't know us and they speak cantonese or they can understand mandarin but they speak cantonese back to me (i can sometimes understand...).
so the first challenge is for them to know that we exist, then communicate with them, then for them to trust us and be willing to introduce their friends, none member's family. so on sunday, we went for the sacrament meeting which started at 9;30, we arrived there right on time, the sacrament was in cantonese of course so maybe i understood 5 %, i was stressing about how i am going to do to talk with the members and get to know them in 2 min because we needed to travel all the way back to kowloon tong for our sacrament meeting at 1. i don't know how many prayers i did but at the end, chen jm who has just finished her mission (she was serving with us in hong kong mandarin speaking), she came and talked to us and then after she invited us to come next sunday to her house she is with her mom organizing a party with members and investigators. and they will help us invite one of the potential investigator t we have in the ward.
that is the miracle, i almost cried when she came to us and invited us.
the most important thing i remember is that heavenly father answers our prayers, in his own time, and he knows what is best for us.
thats the week's email, i don't have time to write a pretty conclusion. but everyone have a great week, i love you all.
bao jiemei.
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