I am SO sorry... there were a lot of emails in my inbox because i haven't had a p-day in a week and a half. So today's will also be short and kind of pathetic :) but it's okay, you get to hear from me again in 4 days!!
Actually... I have no time at all. I'll just send you some snippets from my bogo (that's report in Chinese) to President Hawks this week:
Thank you so much for your advice during our interview. I've been praying to know how i can keep improving and the answer came during district meeting this week! (As well as what you told me in our interview). I need to be a better teacher! Sister Aguilar gave a training in District meeting about asking questions. I realized that I'm not very good at asking good questions. It was a little bit hard for me to admit that to myself, as well as admit it to my companions, but I'm really glad I'm with Sister Aguilar right now. She's a really good teacher. I feel like I'm learning a lot from her about how to ask questions and connect with our investigators. She teaches really clearly. So, I am taking your challenge! I am going to focus on my teaching skills. Ever since that district meeting, my personal studies have been focused on how i can improve and i've found a lot of ways! I'm excited to keep progressing and learning. Maybe all I needed was to ask Heavenly Father, "how can I improve?" and He probably laughed and thought, "Oh, you are so far from perfect. Here's one way."
We had an interesting thing happen last week.... Hung Shui Kiu, as you know, has been suffering low numbers for a while now. We were thinking during weekly planning about how to improve and increase our investigator pool. We said, "Sister Choi, where's your area book? Can we look at it?" Turns out the HSK area book was STUFFED full of former investigators. Why were they formers, you might ask? Only because they hadn't been contacted in so long. We called through maybe 10 and scheduled 3 for the very next day. A lot of people's responses on the phone were, "Oh, missionaries, yes, hi! Where have you been? I haven't been contacted for a long time!!" I'm glad we were inspired to look through the area book. We're hoping to build up HSK fast and furiously!!
Our investigators are doing well, but we feel like Satan is hitting them so hard from every side. It's sad to watch them struggle and heartbreaking when they don't realize that they have SO much potential. Like Kami, for instance. Her entire family is against her going to church. She's only 17 but I'm so proud of her. Whenever they say, "That church is evil!" or give her an anti website, she sticks up for the church! She's brought a lot of her questions to us. We always encourage her to find her own answers through prayer and scripture study. She's a strong spirit. I feel like she's my daughter, in a way. I look at her and see a vision of her future, a future with a family and the gospel and so much happiness..... I want that for her SO bad. Like PMG says, "ONLY the gospel" can give us that future. I'm so thankful that I have a testimony of the happiness and peace the gospel brings.
Did I tell you about Christina? She told us the reason she doesn't want to get baptized is because her parents are opposed because of tithing. Ah, tithing! It's such a problem for so many people! I talked to my parents about it on the phone when I called them for Mother's Day and they reminded me to get the members involved! If we have a member with a really strong testimony of tithing help Christina understand why it's important, it'll help her progress so much. We took her over to a member's house, the Fife's, on Monday night for FHE and taught tithing. I thought they did a good job of testifying how many miracles and blessings tithing has brought to them. Members really are the key to helping our investigators progress!! After the lesson we asked Christina what she thought and she said, "Tithing seems pretty incredible." We've been hoping and praying she'll keep progressing and gain her own testimony of the principle of tithing. And the principles of other things!
I love the time I have here. I know that God lives. I know that this is His church, and He wants us to spread the happiness and peace of the gospel to everyone on earth. I love this little piece of heaven -- Hong Kong -- and the fact that I'm here, spreading this message. It's hard work, but it's so worth it.
Family, I love you so much! it was the most wonderful thing to talk to you on Monday morning :) We have the best family in the world. I can't believe we're all growing up so fast. Ah, it's weird and scary, but at the same time, we're blessed to have so much knowledge and happiness. The church is true! It truly gives us so much happiness!!
I love you! I love you! I love you!!!
Love,
Sister Gwok
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