February 14, 2016
Family,
Investigators are still in Mainland. Chinese New Years usually lasts a few weeks up in Mainland. They should be back this week though. Thanks for all the updates from home.
Not much to report from the last 4 days.
We had a cool little miracle while traveling on the light rail. We walked on and a Filipino says, Hey Elders. Turns out she is a member and hasn't been to church since moving to Hong Kong since she doesn't know where to go and she left her scriptures in the Phillipines. So we were able to meet up with her Sunday morning, give her an English Book of Mormon and tell her about where she can go to church here. She was so happy to get a Book of Mormon. We gave it to her and she hugged it and said how much she missed it. We also showed her that she can just download all the scriptures on her phone, which she obviously didn't know about.
This random lady and her husband showed up to our English class on Saturday. She was from Venezuela and her husband was from Hong Kong. It was so weird. She spoke a little bit of Cantonese and spanish, so we had like 4 languges going on. It was weird. We were speaking Mandarin and a little Cantonese and trying to use some spanish to help her undersand and learn english. Then pretty soon, while I was helping others in the class, I was talking in Mandarin and started throwing random spanish words in for no reason. My brain couldn't quite handle it. Anyway, they should be coming to church next Sunday.
Also, Elder Darrington got caught by a member this week while we were having dinner at her house. She put a huge mushroom in his bowl for him and he hates mushrooms
One thing that I liked in personal study was in Alma 36 when Alma is counseling his son Helaman. He is telling him of his conversion and how he was racked with torment when in v17 he remembers something his father had said about one Jesus Christ. Because of this, he is able to be forgiven, and have those feeling taken away replaced with joy. Then he goes on to be one of the greatest missionaries and prophets in the Book of Mormon. I think that v17 is a good reminder to each of us to make sure that our lower lights are burning, because there are struggling seaman out there that are watching longing for the lights on the shore and we can be those lights for them.
Love,
Elder Josh Stratford
start of the hike.
at the top. kind of cloudy.
Elder Darrington was kind of tired after the hike.
got a simplified name tag.
i don't know what this is.
funny trail head sign.
Elder Darrington bought an orange tree.
Elder VanDyke trying to pay for part of the orange tree. Elder Darrington didn't take it.
from our apartment window. some people banging drums and dancing with a dragon
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