Elder Connor Duersch Hong Kong (China) LDS Mission: Week 50: Victor and the Restoration, Kids interest Class, Judgment day!

Leih hou muiyatgoyahn!!!

Another week has come and gone by with a flash! This transfer has also gone by super fast! There will be more on the transfer call later on in the email. The weather here is now starting to pick up and I fell asleep for a couple of minutes because the heat in our apartment was 34 C and it made me really tired. The rule for the AC is that we have a 8 hours for the week during the day and we can have it on during the night so that we can sleep. Typhoons have been more and more frequent and they just suck up all the air so it is so flipping hot! I had the most amazing food the other day! It is Pineapple rice! It was a pineapple chopped in Half with rice, meat, and some vegetables. There was also 2 oysters on top and this dish and it was so great! My new favorite meal to eat. Ox tongue is still my favorite meat though! Good food out here it is always fresh. They grow it or get it shipped from all across the islands and from main land China. SO good and tasty. I also ate half a watermelon with a spoon last night, straight from the shell so that was also really fun and a long time since I have eaten one. Right then lets get started then!

Elder Connor R. Duersch(Stan Theman/Dahng jeunglouh) Ministering in Hong Kong.

Victor and the Restoration:

We met with Victor again this week! We went to his house and he was a bit late so we just sat on his door step for a bit and then his flat mate Kevin came and let us in. We got to know him quickly and that he could have some great interest with the gospel. He is grateful for us to know Victor cause he told us that we help him out a lot and it is good for him to be surrounded by such good people and role models. Victor finally came and we made some snickerdoodle cheese cake bars for a while and then he made us some great dinner!

His curry was amazing and Kevin made us a really great chicken! The we had some beef stew from some Vietnamese beef. SO goood! We then were able to share the message of the restoration and it was really tricky doing it in English, but it was one of the most powerful lessons I have taught. He understood it and he had some questions which we were able to answer. We watched the first vision and when it was going on both Victor and Kevin were glued to the screen.

When it was done, it was quite for a sec and then he just said wow with a choked up voice. He has questions but will ask them next time we meet. We invited him to pray about Joseph smith being a true prophet and he also said the closing prayer and it was so great! We look forward to hearing how it went this week and I am super excited to keep teaching him! He has so many good stories and loves this church. He also came to our games night and it was so great to have him there and to play Uno with him. We also played a Chinese version of Big 2. It was just like the american card game Scum. He was also sick this Sunday so he couldn't come to church but we will meet him again soon.

Kids Interest Class:

We had our Saturday class with the kids and it was a little Moana treasure hunt with the kids and we set up a little coconut target practice course where the missionaries hold up plates with little cut out coconuts on them and the kids through ping pong balls at em! It was supper fun and there are more kids coming every week and this week is cooking. We probably arent going to give them flower and knifes hahaha. But it will all work out in the end!

Judgment Day!:

As you all know six weeks has come and gone by so quick again. The whole zone got changed with this transfer call and man I am blown away with it all! Well this may shock some of you but, i am still staying here in Tai Wo for another 6 weeks! Ya i thought I was out for sure but I am still needed here for a reason! So lets have another round then and do the work of the lord!!!

Spiritual thing real quick I prayed one day this week to know about my purpose and it lead me to 3 nephi 5:13. Talking about I have been called of Jesus Christ to teach his gospel to His people! So strong and it was so great! One of my new favorites!

Well I got to go! Love ya all and please email me if you got the time! I would love to hear from you all!