Elder Connor R. Duersch(Stan Theman鄧長老) Ministering to Hong Kong 1 by 1! Chapter 87
你好!!!
Good morning! How are we all.
This one is going to be a doozy so take your vitamins, grab a life best and buckle up!
We had probably one of the coolest Zone Conferences on the planet this week. We had a member from another ward let us use his Boat and we had Zone Conference on a boat and we went and visited little islands and had super awesome training.
The boat!!! It was so cool! I will send as many pictures as I can. Since I have been emailing from my phone it can only send about 1-2 pictures at a time so that has been the reason why I haven't been able to send lots of things. But I have lots of pictures
don't worry.
The weather was super nice on the boat and there was gummies and fruit and granola bars! We packed our own lunches and when we stopped for lunch it was in front of a Chinese temple and the ward member told us some meanings of the pictures and
statues. For example on the top of some door ways are four different paintings of flours. Each of the four represents a season so that was fun to learn. And above the main door is usually pictures of a family or people. This actually tells the story of the
person that lived in the temple and what they did with there life and how they came to be themselves.
We then went on a little 20 min hike over a mountain to a cove and we had other training's out on the beach. At the end President Phillips brought some little baskets and we did service on the beach for about 15 min collecting all sorts of trash
to make it clean again. Hooray service! I love service! We don't get to much of it our here and it is just the best when we can do service.
We sang songs and came back home and we had a very great time and very spiritually uplifted. We had lots of training's on charity and love towards your companion and other missionaries to make sure they feel loved and appreciated here in the
mission.
The other super awesome thing that happened this week was exchanges. I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Johnson this week. He was the Assistant for a really long time and now he is my zone leader. We had such a great time walking around
and talking about life and movies. We played board games when the day was over.
The 2 best things that we did on the exchange was our studies and an experience we had out finding.
Our Companion study was so amazing! It was so strong with the spirit and we learned so much about our missions. He will be finishing his mission at the end of May and I will be finishing soon as well so we had a really good time talking about
our experiences and what it really means to ha e success as a missionary. It was again so powerful!
The other thing that happened was while walking near the pier we tried to talk to a man and a little into the conversation things got pretty heated and he was telling us that what we believe is fake and we need to stop believing in it. He told
us you have never seen God or ghosts so I k ow your religion is wrong. He wouldn't stop talking and elder Johnson looked at him and asked if he could say one sentence. And the man agreed. And while he was saying his sentence about his testimony the man kept
coming in. We just got to the point and asked if he had interest and he said no and so we left. But we made sure to let him know that Christ lives.
I was so impressed with how elder Johnson approached the situation. He told me after that one tool that people will try out here is to talk so much that it makes it impossible for us to open our mouth and be able to speak. Just how like with
Joseph Smith the thing that the adversary tried to do to stop the Restoration was to bind his tongue. He is still trying to do this today and we must do our best to open our mouths and let them be filled.
This I testify is true. And the savior of the world is reaching out to you now and wants you to be happy now and in eternity.
Have a great week love you all!
Love ya!
Yours in Fellowship and Love,🐲🐼✌🍜
鄧 長 老
Elder Connor R.Duersch
Dahng Jeunglouh
Stan Theman
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