Lieh Hou!!!!

Thanks Giving! We get to have it this Thursday at the Ma On Shan church. Each companionship has to bring food for the feast and we all get to eat a nice big Turkey. Fun fact, Turkey in Cantonese is Fei Gei I think.translated it means "Fire Chicken" hahahahaha!

Here is the top stories for Elder Stan Theman  - Hong Kong Survivalist

We had the opportunity this week to go and talk with a Less Active that Elder Beeson has been working with for quite some time. Elder Beeson has been in this area for almost a year now and his trainer was the same way. So that will probably be the case for me unless something happens. Anyway, he was baptized a while ago and he is 60 years old. He has a job as a taxi driver and that is where the problem comes into play. He doesn't work on Sundays but he works late hours so he gets home like at 4 in the morning and sleeps through church. There was a time he didn't have work on Saturday and he came to church willingly. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and how god wants us all to be happy and learn in this life. I bore my testimony on how families are key to our happiness and god wants us to be happy. I bought a 16 dollar sleeve book and put all my pictures you sent me in there. He loved seeing you guys (Family and Friends) and all the Chinese people here love seeing families. We have two ideas that could help him out with his situation. 

1. He either changes his work Schedule or quits his job. I that is the case we can share experiences from church members who quit there jobs and get better ones that pay more and make them more happy if they come to church and do what they are supposed to do.
2. There is a ward on Ma On Shan that has church at 2:00 that he could get some sleep and still go to which would be a better option if he is up for it.

We decided this week to also go to a new area that Elder Beeson (Yih Jeunglouh) has never gone to. We bought a map book of Hong Kong and found our area. There was a big spot past water front park that he had never checked out before. So we waddled on over there and this place was so sketchy man! It would easily fit the qualifications for a zombie apocalypse movie! There were factories everywhere and buildings that looked like they had been bombed or something. There was no one there either! It was just like the factories ran themselves and just cars everywhere. We later went up north of that area a bit and there in the middle of this jungle was this 5 star hotel. Literally in the Middle of nowhere. That is kinda how Hong Kong is: there was once upon a time a huge jungle and forest and then WHAMMOO they threw a City in the middle of it all! We took a bus back near our home and went to another area called "Wonder Land". Well it wasn't that wonderful hahahaha. It was just apartments and a train.

Some time this week we went to the area with the Tai Wo Hostpital is. There was not a lot of people there wanting to talk to us so we made our way back home. We went through this huge tunnel for bikes and walking and there was this old man sitting in a rocking chair playing some guitar. Elder Besson asked if he could play some songs for him. The old man said yes and Elder Beeson just went on for like 30 minuets and this old man was so happy to hear the music he was playing. He asked us some questions and we talked with him for a long while. He wasn't that interested in religion stuff but told us his wife and kids were religious but that was the extent of that adventure.

We had the opportunity of taking the sacrament to the Ng Gatihng! They are the Sweetest people ever! She is like in her 80 or 90's and her husband had a stroke years ago and is permanently in his bed and cant talk. But he can still eat and understand what people say to him.

She talked to us for a while and talked about her family. Trying to understand the older generation in Hong Kong is pretty tricky since everyone talks a little different. She was so grateful and gave us some Chocolate filled bread! The bread here is by far one of my favorite things to eat. It is always fresh and is so tasty and  so many varieties of it as well!

Connor our investigator is doing well as far as we know. He is just 16 and wants to be baptized but his family is not wanting any of that at all. We are going to try and have Bishop Wohng Help us out with our next lesson and see if we can help his family. If not he is just gonna get baptized when he is 18 so it is great he still wants to receive baptism. 

Trying to find new investigators is pretty challenging here in Hong Kong. No one wants to give you the time of day and they all don't think they need a religion in there lives. Their schools here teach some religions and they have days where they do seminars about why other religions are bad and not true and Mormons is on there number one list dang it! Oh well, we will keep trying and praying we will get a new investigator soon.

Well that is all the highlights from this week. I have the feeling that you all need to read Ether Chapter 12 and really dissect what is in that chapter. It is probably my new favorite chapter in all of the Book of Mormon. READ IT IT IS SO GOOD!!!

Love you all and I pray for you all every day! 

Stay Weird and Awesome!!!

Yours in Fellowship and Love,🍜✌🐼🐲󾓭 

Dahng Jeunglouh

Elder Duersch

Stan Theman