YES! So this week!!! SOOOO SOOO SOO
DOPE!!!! RRRAH! T-Rock! Hahaha Anyways, cool, so the subject of this email,
begins yesterday. in Gospel Principles class. The Topic: Eternal Marriage The
teacher: Brother Fung (The Ward Mission Leader) So in this class, there are
only 4 Unmarried people in the class, Me, Elder Petersen, Sister Lee (Ward
Member) And Ng Jeun Yin (Ward Member 17 years old) So as we enter the lesson,
Brother Fung talks about the ordinance, what it means to be a good and honest
spouse etc. etc... Then he asks me... "ELDER CHEN, Youre not married
right?" "Right." "What are you doing to prepare yourself
for marriage??" A little thrown off by the question, cuz. Marriage... Ew.
I say "JOUH CHYUHN DOUH!" (Go On a mission) and then he asks
"What are you looking for in a spouse?" Once again, barely gathering
my bearings from that first question, start stuttering.... "Uh. Uh...
Ngoh, mh Ji dou wo" (I don't know) "Mei Lam gwo" (I
haven't thought about it) And then he goes off. "Elder Chen, I started
looking for my wife on my mission, when I was about a year in my mission, I
started meeting people and seeing what I liked and what I didn't like! You know
why I have such an awesome wife?? BECAUSE I Started looking early" I
couldn't help but laugh.... But after a considerable thought... I decided
against looking for a wife... Sorry for a terrible start to the email, but its
the first story that came to mind... I mean it was funny if you were there...
Anyways! Cool! Powerful week! This
week was so so so so cool, because Elder Petersen and I were able to organize a
ward finding activity! Where we could get all the youth and whoever else wanted
to come and go and street contact, and go Less active finding, a really cool
activity actually! We have been preparing for about 2 weeks for it, calling all
the people, we even got 25 ish members to sign up to come out, when the time
actually came 10 people showed up, a little disappointing, but more than enough
to get the work going, so that was a tender mercy already! Anyways, We split
the people up into companionships, and some went and visited less actives with
Elder Petersen and then some came street finding with me, and man we went hard
for it, in 1 hour, we gave away a total of 25 book of Mormon, 13 Restoration
pamphlets and more fliers than I can even count, it was awesome, got a lot of
cool numbers Elder Petersen and i get to call now to follow up!! It was a
blessing and a huge testimony builder that when the ward gets together in the
work, the missionary work gets amplified infinitely, it was super cool to see
all of the success, and how awesome some of the youth in the ward are at
finding.
There is one in particular, that
surprised me, A-Bill, one of our recent converts, of about a year, started off
being so timid, he's 17 and he likes to play video games... Like a lot. Super
quiet, but yeah, after like 15 minutes of street finding, he had no problem
sharing his testimony, and he wasn’t afraid, I guess its not that hard to get
over when you’re speaking your own language! hahaha but yeah its cool to know
that the best missionaries are never wearing name tags, Elder Petersen and i
have never seen so much success in finding for one hour. Powerful... Just
Powerful hahaha.
Anyways, this week has been quite
exciting, in a morning finding session, we were walking around, and some guy
calls us over to a bench, he has a bag with a lot of stuff in it, and he's
playing a Chinese flute... First thought that goes through my head.... "It’s
a crazy... it’s a crazy... we'll stay for a little bit, share a message, and
get gone..." hahaha turns out, he's just a master flutist... Taught elder
Petersen and I how to play the flute... and in turn we were able to share a
little bit about the Book of Mormon, we gave him the book. And in turn he said
"I have something for you too" reaches into his big bag of stuff and
fear starts to rush back into my head, "He's going to pull out like a dead
rabbit or something, or like some weird Chinese herbs... I guess the same
thing" Anyways. turns out he gave us two Chinese flutes... turns out I was
a terribly judgmental person, he was normal, and so we continued to share a
message about the book of Mormon, and yeah.... That was that... Now I play a
flute to wake Elder Petersen up, so its a good time.
Ay! So moves calls came this week...
Moves calls... Moves Calls... Moves Calls... So Elder Petersen is leaving. to
Pok Fu Lam, in the Island zone, he was afraid of the Island because one of the
missionaries in the apartment once upon a time said that there is a lot of
finding to do on the island, but after telling him of my amazing Experiences in
Chai Wan, he got over it... Hahaha But my new companion. for Two months at
least... is... ELDER HANSEN!!!!! BLAAAH!!!! CONNIPTION!!!! HAHAHA I am way
excited because he is literally my best friend in the mission, way excited but
hey! Good things to come. Right? haha emails will be very exciting, filled with
more exciting stories.. But hey. Good stuff.
Anyways, good week! I love you all!!
Stay safe!
Love,
Elder Jonathan Chen
Picture 1: Me and a Giant Gift That
Man Sin got me, She's the best
Picture 2: On the way to the stake
activity #Dope Hahahaha The hat was on just for the picture...it doesn't look
like a Pokémon trainer hat, but it is a hat indeed... (TBT... Didn't take any
pictures this week, so hey"
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