Hong Kong - Kowloon - Track 21- Happy New Year !!!

Happy new year to all!!

 Last night was just like every other nights we came home around 9:00 after a long day.

In the morning, we attended both the po lam and tseung kwan o wards. 

We ate some crackers in the park around the chapel for lunch. then attended the kowloon tong mandarin branch.

 surprise!!!

 When we got there, elder darringhton and his parents were there. 

and vicky is back too (our mandarin branch member who attending byu provo since summer 2017).

 During the sacrament meeting, two missionaries, sister rafie and elder clark shared their testimony. tyler darrington and vicky did as well.

 in the evening, we quickly visited a member from the tsim sha tsui cantonese branch who can speak mandarin. 

On saturday, we went finding around a place we never went before but i felt like we needed to give it a try. we just started that we saw a mom with her child sitting as they were waiting for someone. she was speaking mandarin to her child, so we started to talk to her. she saw our name tag but instead of rejecting us she invited us to sit by them. we talked and talked and then she was telling us why they were out waiting. they are in Hong Kong visiting her auntie, they are living with her but something happened and because the doorwas  closed,  they were stuck outside. 

She asked me to help her send a text message to her auntie who is on her way back to hong kong.

 she was telling me what she wanted me to text and i was struggling writing in chinese with our ''useless'' nokia phone (we spent almost 15 mins writting only a small text) and we could not even send it, it did not work!!!.

 we waited a little bit with them, shared the ''family; proclamation to the world''

. they are going back to guang zhou on january 3rd. 

On friday night, we visited a less active. we did not tell her until we got there.

 she is now catholic but she nicely welcomed us even though she was not okay talking about the book of mormon.... but we left her peacefully with a prayer. yesterday, she texted us a super sad text message asking us to Stop visiting her and other different things. (she was not rude or anything she has just lost her testimony). 

On friday morning, zhen jiemei ( a new investigator) invited us to go eat dim sum with her. we learned a lot of things about her and her family. she is super cute and super nice. when we were eating with her, she was always asking if we wanted more we needed to tell her.

 looking  at her, i could not stop thinking about ''mamie frida'', i almost cried! (yeah she is old, she is in her late 60's- but we are good friends-). 

Recently she had a lot of problems with her phone( attention pas la an iPhone ) like any old people. she is so funny!!! every time she talked about it, she was so mad, but it was so funny for me!


Last week, we mostly did less active visits because most of the people are out of town, visiting their families in mainland.


Today, we are going to eat at ''california pizza kitchen'', yesterday we did not have any special dinner or even dinner so today we are inviting ourselves.


Happy new year again, love you all!


Sister colombel.