Lieh Hou Ngohge Pahng yauh!!!
Hope You all are doing well and have seen the new Light the world Videos this month. Tiz the Season to Remember Christ and all the things he has given us!
Alrigth lets get on to this weeks episode of Stan Theman Hong Kong Adventures!
So we had a stake activity this Saturday and there was so many people there! The activity was for a family history party and it was open to the public and there was so many people. I took pictures and will send them! There was canopies of little booths of families and pedigree charts of family trees! Connor And Derek CAME!!! They had fun with the games they had there. You had a blank family tree card and you played games to get stamps to fill in the tree. There was an archery tournament with a nerf bow and Guess who did pretty well hahahahaha. They took my picture in front of the targets ha! Every time you got a stamp you could go and get some food from the food tent thing. They had fish balls and Seumi which is more fish stuff, Pop-Corn which was so good to eat again, a chocolate fountain with marshmallows, and malt Syrup inside crackers on a stick. That was a treat that all Hong Kong parents would give there kids and they would eat so much of it. The upstairs of our church which is the gym and chapel was turned into a family history computer room with ward members helping people out to learn about there family. There was also a balloon pen that me and Elder Beeson took some balloons and sucked the helium out of them. Everyone loved us doing that and being goofy. I scared Hoh Hingdaih from behind him with my helium voice and he literally almost had a hear attack! he is my Ward mission leader by the way. We stayed after all the festivities and cleaned up a lot of stuff. All in all it was a really good time and we are hoping to get Connor and Derek back to church to teach them even more lessons and share with them the gospel.
Alright here is the coolest thing that has happened to me yet on my mission so buckle up and grab some snacks! I went on Exchanges again this week with Elder Egens companion Elder Paulsin. I wasn't to thrilled about another exchange but I would see what could happen. We decided to do Diablo Finding! Some of you know what a Diablo is but I will quickly explain. It is a massive yo-yo you spin on 2 sticks and a string and launch it in the air. We took it to the Tai Po Market and Elder Paulsin did some awesome tricks and it got a lot of peoples attention! There were 2 ladies who were watching and laughing at him so I had to kick my self and go and talk to them in my broken Cantonese. They were so nice and we talked for 45 minuets about what we do as missionaries and why we are here. There names were Apple and Faanny. We gave them 2 pamphlets and light the world Flyers and Jesus Christ Flyers. They were willing to listen and to talk. We had to go early cause I had a language pass of. It was super cool to talk to them. Later we did it again in a park full of little kids. They all were so fascinated by it and there moms came over and we started talking to them. We gave them flyers and English class flyers as well and they all were really excited about Free English class. After that we had a lesson with Tim. For those of you who don'r remember Tim was a potential investigator that Elder Beeson found and we had to give him over to the Tai Po Elders. Tim is doing so well and has a baptismal date for the end of December WOW! After the lesson Elder Paulsin told me we were going to go Paak Muhning. So I will tell you what that is and it is the one thing I feared the most coming out here on my mission and that is.........DOOR KNOCKING!!!! We went to a little village that we could legally do it in and I had the first door. I was so scared and a mom opened the door and we told her we were missionaries and she wasn't interested at all but she wanted a free English class flyer. We tried countless other doors and I had my first Door Slam which wasn't to bad. We saw a pitch black alley way and we said Hey lets go check it out. So we went down the alley way and there was a door wide open. We knocked on the metal gate and there was a lady cleaning her floor. We said we were missionaries a couple of times and she couldn't hear us because of the water. So we just Screamed MISSIONARIES!!! She got a smile on her face and came to the gate and opens it up! We introduced ourselves and she called her husband over and I was so afraid that he would kick us right out. He was happy to see us and he had to go take care of there little boy and girl so he went into the other room and was quite. The Lady on the other hand INVITED US IN!!!!!! I was absolutely speechless at this point. Me in the middle of Hong Kong getting no where finding on the streets and my first time knocking we were accepted in. We sat down on her couch and we talked for a bit and asked if we could share a quick message about the Restoration of the Gospel. She said YES!!!! I have never felt more confident in my language in my life when we told her about the restoration and the lesson when so fluid I was speechless. Elder Paulsin told the First vision and my legs and body went numb from how strong it was. We shared a little about the Book of Mormon and we gave her 2 copies and she was so excited to read them that she was going to give one to her neighbor up stairs. We bore powerful testimonies and asked if she could say a prayer before we left. We taught how to say it and she did it in an interesting way but it was the sweetest prayer ever! She asked when we had church and Elder Paulsin told her our time. We left and we both couldn't believe that that just happened! I cant Believe that just happened! We found a little tunnel and said a quick prayer of thanks.
Fast forward to Sunday! SHE CAME WITH HER FAMILY AND HER FRIENDS FAMILY!!!! 9 PEOPLE AT CHURCH From one door knock! I still cant believe it.
If there is one thing I have learned from this, is that the lord has a plan that he knows what is going to happen and we need to have faith and do as he leads and the blessings will come. This will forever be a faith builder to my testimony and to my life from meeting Mrs. Wohng!
There is the bomb shell of the week for you all. I cant tell you how happy I am to be out here doing the lords work! Thank you all again for your love and support and most importantly your prayers. I have recently been feeling the prayers of you all and it helps so much!
Stay Strong, Weird, and yourselves!
Yours in Fellowship and Love,σΎπ²πΌ✌π
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Elder Duersch
Dahng Jeunglouh
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