100% PREACH MY GOSPEL MISSIONARY

4/30/17

Family,

The Mainlanders are awesome!  Two of my favorite branches from the mainland were down this week. It was an especially cool experience for me because a year ago, I was able to teach one of the members that came down with the branch. Also, a sister in Tin Shui Wai, that I was able to teach, got baptized a year ago, is also good friends with the branch and now apparently is a referral machine. The 2 people that came down to get baptized were from her missionary work. She is great and it is so cool to see how much she has changed and how enthusiastic she is to do missionary work. Pretty awesome. 

Our goal last week was to be a 100% Preach My Gospel missionary. That is still our goal. One really cool result of this goal was in a lesson we had with one of the investigators we are teaching. We went a little extreme and tried to do something we had been practicing in companion study in which the missionaries will only ask questions and testify, that is it. We wanted to bear our testimony more and help the investigator learn from the spirit so we tried this idea. It was awesome. Because we were 'forced' to only ask questions and testify, our questions became better and we testified much more in the lesson. Also, this naturally made us more bold and direct. It was a really powerful lesson and we were able to find out the hidden concern for this investigator not coming to church. He now has a baptismal date for the end of the month. He opened up more in the lesson. Just a cool blessing of trying to be a Preach My Gospel missionary.

We love the Kowloon Branch. President Zhou is great. He is very willing to help and uses the missionaries to help him as well. We appreciate it. We were able to have a correlation meeting with the new Ward Mission Leader. It has been a while and we have just been coordinating directly with the leaders, but it good to have a Ward Mission Leader. Because this is his first time, we are trying hard to make the first few the most effective they can be so that will set the tone for future meetings and he can know how a correlation meeting should be run.

Another incredible thing this week. We were sitting on the couch waiting for an investigator to show up to the church and I called the Hong Kong Observatory to check the temp and humidity. I then asked Elder Lau his guess. He guessed them both exactly correct. 21 degrees 76% humidity. It was amazing. I couldn't' believe it. I tried this with Elder Darrington in Yuen Long for months and could never guess both right. He did it 1st try.

I really think there is a lot of power in being a Preach My Gospel missionary. I think all the missionaries could be reminded of this and study this tool more. I worry that it goes for granted in to many missionaries missionary work.

A cool tender mercy as well from Li Jm, the sister in TSW who was down with the branch. We were having some snacks together after the baptism and she was reminding me about the lessons we had together when she was an investigator. She says something like, 'you were very direct. you kept asking me when I was going to get baptized. I knew when my son got baptized that I always wanted to get baptized, but didn't know when. you were very direct.' That was cool because I have been trying to follow PMG better this week and be more bold and direct when teaching.

Elder Josh Stratford

lunch on P-day

random crazy escalator going

Elder Sargent wiped out on the couch

Bowling. We were planning on going on a hike and then Elder Hansen went down with a twisted ankle playing basketball in the morning so he was not to mobile. Luckily he is good to go for today.

Tan Jm and her daughter.