Well this week was pretty awesome. It's starting to get a
lot more hot a lot more often (except the day that it rained ALL day this
week). The rain felt super nice after a pretty hot week. Not too many mosquitos
though, so that's a HUGE plus. We also have a HUGE jump in our numbers and I
will describe what happened in specifics next week, but suffice it to say for
now that when I got to this area, they were on average teaching about 13
lessons. We just got 21 this week, and we already have 17 planned for
this upcoming week because of this specific thing that Elder Love have started
doing. It's a lot to do, but it's so worth it. Our finding activities feel so
much more fulfilling and successful. We are happier more consistently
throughout the day, and I feel more successful as a missionary doing the work
this way. We are definitely pushing the limits as far as time though, running
home as fast as we can from a 25 minute lesson so that we can be home on time
every other day because people are so nocturnal here that they refuse to meet
if the sun is visible. It's good though because the entire time we're running,
we're smiling and panting our comments about the lesson, what went well, what
could be improved, etc.
My area isn't really effected by the boundary changes that
will be happening since we now have 6 stakes, but Tai Wai and Sha Tin now have
to go to the Kowloon Chapel, so that's a little more inconvenient for them.
It's all working out for the best though. I am so happy to see how the members
are growing right along with these changes. The youth are especially involved,
and the Sheung Shui ward already has 4 missionaries out with 3 more sending
their applications for this year! I don't have any pictures this week, but
instead of wasting time with that, open up your scriptures to D&C 78:19 for
my ponderizing scripture this week (cuz I need to recommit to that).
Love you all!
Notes from mom: Ian also included some other pieces of information in another email response. A member of our ward served his mission decades ago in Hong Kong. I told him at church that 2 more stakes had been added to the mission. He was so happy to hear this news! I told Ian about Brother Jackson and he replied with this: "One question for Brother Jackson: Did he ever have a
companion named Elder James? I ask because Elder James is probably one of the
most powerful men in China. He's one of the counselors of President Lam. Just
wondering."
I asked how the new area was coming along and Ian said, "Something else I would like to tell you about this week that
I will elaborate on NEXT week. We were getting about 8 full lessons a week in
the Tai Wai area. The Sheung Shui area had about 13 or 14 when I first got
there. Because of something we have started though, we got up to 21 full
lessons this week. I will be very excited to explain it in full to you next
week." It sounds as though things are busy!
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