5.7 5.14 Elder Cheng

Hey everybody!!!

So what i want to share today is a funny incident that always happens to us missionaries and at times we find annoying. usually what we teach first, is the message of the restoration, explaining from God, to prophets, to Jesus Christ, to Apostasy, to Joseph Smith and Book of Mormon and the Holy Ghost. almost everytime we get to Joseph Smith and the first vision, guess what happens?? Can you guess it? their Cell phone rings. it is sooooo weird. really, almoste verytime we teach, their cell phone rings at the moment we share about the first vision or the restoration portion. Satan knows that this church is God's true church and he stops at nothing to prevent His children from hearing the true message of the restoration. it's so weird. i dislike when their cell phone goes off at that moment! Just thinking about this just makes me think more about how this church is God's true church! i dont know if any of you have had this experience, but it is really interesting.

other than that, this week has gone by really fast too. we're getting moves calls on monday and we dont know whats going to happen. i dont know if i already told you all, but they are shrinking the missions down. and the China Hong Kong mission is one of them that will be losing missionaries. we were at 150+ missionaries, and i heard that it will be reduced to about 90 missionaries. 14 missionaries are dying (going home) next week and there's only about 1 or 2 coming in. so on our side, we dont know how many companionships they will be closing. i might be moving again, or i might combine with one elder in the other companionship in the district. who knows. this is big change! we've already heard from rumors... good sourced rumors, that elders in one apartment in our zone will be moving out of that one and into another one, subtracting one apartment from the zone. so. who knows!

work is still going on and stuff. investigators are constantly going up or down. right now, we're stuck in a rut because the kids here about to take their government tests that makes or breaks their future. so what they are all doing right now is tutorial and studying. it's like their SATs but each year they take the SAT's to go up in grade. man that's tough. im so glad we dont go through that in america!

ps, we get to call home this week for mother's day! how exciting!

thats about it for now. until next week!
Elder Cheng

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Hey all!!!

wow. it is goign to be super crazy here inthe New Territories zone in Hong Kong. so they are shrinking down the mission alot. and just in our zone, they closed down four companionships in our area. one from each of the districts. so what happened with my district is that they closed one companionship and i became comapnions with E Waddoups from Utah. we have double the amoutn of investigators now because both companionships were high on investigators. its going to be hectic but we'll be able to handle it. so i found out that our area, even though it is small, like really small, maybe as big as the UC Berkeley campus, has 500,000 people living in it. so it's not hard to find people. but anyways, also what's different is that the mandarin elders are moving into our apartment. which is cool because i always wanted to learn mandarin and now i can get a jump start at it! so thats so cool. but yeah, there is going to be so much change here in the Chian Hong Kong mission.

actually iwanna share about some miracles that happened this past week. mostly about 24s. (24's is a 24 hour exchange of companions. you go to a new area, or if not, you just get a different companion for a day) there was so much that happened! i was on 24s in another area, and then we contacted a gu really quick in english. we said that we'd be able to help him with english because he's got a test coming up. swtiched numbers and left. that night i went back to my area and itotally forgot about that guy, but the companionship in that area had been seeing him eeyr other day. and i heard thi spast week that he's progressing quickly. he doesnt know 100% that God is there but he's still going to keep trying. when i heard that he was prgoressing, i was so amazed that with a person i contacted really quickly, became a great investigator. 24's is amazing! other stuff happened with 24s as well, but im running out of time. it's just amazing to see so many miracles!

that'll be it for now
until next week
Elder Stanley Cheng