6 Cookies
After the Typhoon last week, Sunday, I made beef stew with a borrowed slow cooker. When I said a slow cooker, I mean it is a SLOW cooker, it took 4 hours for the stew to warm at high! Anyway, I started making it on Saturday, cooked from 3 to 10 pm on high, then next morning, I have it on medium from 8 to 5 and it was just right, despite the fact that it took so long, it was good, We invited the Normans (Sister Norman is vegan, so Elder Norman was glad to have some meat) and Sister Lee over for dinner.
We have not been able to do much with YSA besides visiting different wards each Sunday. We are still not quite sure about what to do with communication. We were glad we are able to take a more of an active role with the FSY program. We met with the local couple that will be over FSY, Brother Ryan Lee and his wife Callie and Brother Timothy Leung who is over Logistic. Ted updated the spread sheet on the time line of when things need to be done and I was able to translate (update) the organization chart into Chinese. The one Salt Lake did was done not quite the same as the English version. There were assignment made and most of all, the meeting was more effective done in Chinese without having to keep translating it back and forth from English to Chinese etc. We have wonderful leader to work with. I was able to type up a summary of our meeting so everyone could follow up... All though years of serving as Stake YW secretary did not go to waste!!! I was able to get in touch with Sister Hansen in Salt Lake and get a lot of thing going before the end of the week. It is going to need a lot of training of local leaders and ysa leaders but it will be great for the youth in both Hong Kong and Taiwan. I anticipate being very busy this next week to get a more accurate timeline going with training, ordering supplies etc!!! We were able to meet with Elder Kuan who came in from Taiwan for training and he was glad that we will be able to help him with Taiwan; theirs is going to be 800 youth!!!
So why the 6 cookies? In one of our meeting with Elder Wong, he talks about our callings in related to the areas we are serving, some areas are more ready for the whole program of the church but others are not, so we have to do small thing over a period of time, Sister Beckstead mentioned that they make cookies in their condo over the weekend, the oven is so small, they could only bake 6 cookies at a time. Elder Wong used this to liken the church in the Asia area, if we were to make American size cookies, we could only bake 6 cookies at a time because of the small oven, verses in America we could make 18 cookies because of larger oven. In order to make more cookies here, the size of the cookies might have to be smaller so that you could make more at one time. It is so amazing that we can learn a lesson from baking cookies!
On the training meeting on Friday, Elder Evan shares D&C 31 with us. It was the section when Thomas B. Marsh was called on his first mission, there are promises made that is applicable to our mission, I have been feeling we are being under use despite of the assignments we were given, We are not having a lot of stuff to keep us busy, We have been praying for more opportunity to help and be of more useful. This section answered my question and I felt my answer was answered and the Lord is and has been very much aware of our desire to serve: verse 2 talks of the blessings Heaven Father would provide for our family while we are serving our mission, verse 3 that this is the time for us to serve and verse 9: BE PATIENT ... so I will be patient and continue to pray to have the strength to serve the way that Heavenly Father would have me serve!!!
There are so many tender mercies this week:
We prayed for missionary experiences: Monday and Tuesday, on the way to home, we were stopped to ask some families why there was a boat coming into the boardwalk, we found out people take those special boat out to open sea to do high stake gambling, we asked where the couple are from and then introduced ourselves and gave them a I am a Mormon card; we were also able to share our testimony a couple times with random people that came into the Chapel thinking they were visiting our temple. On couple from Chinese seems very genuine, He has a lot of question about God in general, we taught him the first vision, the restoration and gave him a copy of the book of Mormon, taught him to pray and ask that he read and pray about our message. He is only in Hong Kong for 48 hours but he stopped by our church. Our message about eternal family impresses them. We invite them to come back to visit us again when they come back next time. I so miss being a proselyting missionary!!!
Working on translating and writing in Chinese on the computer has been a challenge. However, I am surprise how much characters I could remember and I was able to use google translate and MBDG English to Chinese dictionary to help me. I made a pamphlet folder for us to use when visitor comes to the Chapel. We are so glad that Elder and Sister Thong has started doing this and we are now able to assist them when they are busy with their assignment.
We have a surprise visit from one of Sister Thong's friend from Seattle, Her name is Virgina Leung. As we visited, she realizes she knew my mom and dad when they lived in Iowa with David's family. I was so glad to hear her story and it reminds me that we are all related in one way or another. She said that she served a mission in Iowa in the last 70's, there was only one Chinese family in the small town she served and it was David and Jennifer and their small family, she remembered visiting with Grandma and Grandpa Chan and knew of their two daughters in Seattle, She had always wanted to meet them but never had a chance. Some time last July (2016) she went back to Iowa for a visit, the town was still small, she wanted to find the building she lived but it was demolished. In its place is a big apartment building, she then visited the chiropractic school, the parking lot was big, she decided to park and walk up to the park, she remember the Chan family that was so nice to her when she was a missionary. As she looked around, she noticed a small pledge on tree next to her that read "Dedicated to my parents, Wayne and Faye Chan, by David and Jennifer Chan", she was so thrill to now meet me!!! What a small world it is when you are members of the Church!
Friday night, Ted and I was able to have dinner with Auntie Choi-Ying, she is a good friend of Ted's mom, we haven't seen her for over 30 years. She is 93 years old and is still very fit. She travels between New York and Hong Kong and then to China 2-3 times a year. It was so good to visit with her.
Found these two signing on the ferry, Can you tell what they are talking? Don't think it is ASL!
We have not been able to do much with YSA besides visiting different wards each Sunday. We are still not quite sure about what to do with communication. We were glad we are able to take a more of an active role with the FSY program. We met with the local couple that will be over FSY, Brother Ryan Lee and his wife Callie and Brother Timothy Leung who is over Logistic. Ted updated the spread sheet on the time line of when things need to be done and I was able to translate (update) the organization chart into Chinese. The one Salt Lake did was done not quite the same as the English version. There were assignment made and most of all, the meeting was more effective done in Chinese without having to keep translating it back and forth from English to Chinese etc. We have wonderful leader to work with. I was able to type up a summary of our meeting so everyone could follow up... All though years of serving as Stake YW secretary did not go to waste!!! I was able to get in touch with Sister Hansen in Salt Lake and get a lot of thing going before the end of the week. It is going to need a lot of training of local leaders and ysa leaders but it will be great for the youth in both Hong Kong and Taiwan. I anticipate being very busy this next week to get a more accurate timeline going with training, ordering supplies etc!!! We were able to meet with Elder Kuan who came in from Taiwan for training and he was glad that we will be able to help him with Taiwan; theirs is going to be 800 youth!!!
So why the 6 cookies? In one of our meeting with Elder Wong, he talks about our callings in related to the areas we are serving, some areas are more ready for the whole program of the church but others are not, so we have to do small thing over a period of time, Sister Beckstead mentioned that they make cookies in their condo over the weekend, the oven is so small, they could only bake 6 cookies at a time. Elder Wong used this to liken the church in the Asia area, if we were to make American size cookies, we could only bake 6 cookies at a time because of the small oven, verses in America we could make 18 cookies because of larger oven. In order to make more cookies here, the size of the cookies might have to be smaller so that you could make more at one time. It is so amazing that we can learn a lesson from baking cookies!
On the training meeting on Friday, Elder Evan shares D&C 31 with us. It was the section when Thomas B. Marsh was called on his first mission, there are promises made that is applicable to our mission, I have been feeling we are being under use despite of the assignments we were given, We are not having a lot of stuff to keep us busy, We have been praying for more opportunity to help and be of more useful. This section answered my question and I felt my answer was answered and the Lord is and has been very much aware of our desire to serve: verse 2 talks of the blessings Heaven Father would provide for our family while we are serving our mission, verse 3 that this is the time for us to serve and verse 9: BE PATIENT ... so I will be patient and continue to pray to have the strength to serve the way that Heavenly Father would have me serve!!!
There are so many tender mercies this week:
We prayed for missionary experiences: Monday and Tuesday, on the way to home, we were stopped to ask some families why there was a boat coming into the boardwalk, we found out people take those special boat out to open sea to do high stake gambling, we asked where the couple are from and then introduced ourselves and gave them a I am a Mormon card; we were also able to share our testimony a couple times with random people that came into the Chapel thinking they were visiting our temple. On couple from Chinese seems very genuine, He has a lot of question about God in general, we taught him the first vision, the restoration and gave him a copy of the book of Mormon, taught him to pray and ask that he read and pray about our message. He is only in Hong Kong for 48 hours but he stopped by our church. Our message about eternal family impresses them. We invite them to come back to visit us again when they come back next time. I so miss being a proselyting missionary!!!
Working on translating and writing in Chinese on the computer has been a challenge. However, I am surprise how much characters I could remember and I was able to use google translate and MBDG English to Chinese dictionary to help me. I made a pamphlet folder for us to use when visitor comes to the Chapel. We are so glad that Elder and Sister Thong has started doing this and we are now able to assist them when they are busy with their assignment.
We have a surprise visit from one of Sister Thong's friend from Seattle, Her name is Virgina Leung. As we visited, she realizes she knew my mom and dad when they lived in Iowa with David's family. I was so glad to hear her story and it reminds me that we are all related in one way or another. She said that she served a mission in Iowa in the last 70's, there was only one Chinese family in the small town she served and it was David and Jennifer and their small family, she remembered visiting with Grandma and Grandpa Chan and knew of their two daughters in Seattle, She had always wanted to meet them but never had a chance. Some time last July (2016) she went back to Iowa for a visit, the town was still small, she wanted to find the building she lived but it was demolished. In its place is a big apartment building, she then visited the chiropractic school, the parking lot was big, she decided to park and walk up to the park, she remember the Chan family that was so nice to her when she was a missionary. As she looked around, she noticed a small pledge on tree next to her that read "Dedicated to my parents, Wayne and Faye Chan, by David and Jennifer Chan", she was so thrill to now meet me!!! What a small world it is when you are members of the Church!
Friday night, Ted and I was able to have dinner with Auntie Choi-Ying, she is a good friend of Ted's mom, we haven't seen her for over 30 years. She is 93 years old and is still very fit. She travels between New York and Hong Kong and then to China 2-3 times a year. It was so good to visit with her.
Found these two signing on the ferry, Can you tell what they are talking? Don't think it is ASL!
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| Elder & Sister Thong (Mulkiteo), Sister Virgina Leung (Seattle) |
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| Walking home late one nigh, forgot how pretty the harbour of Hong Kong is a night. Can you see the big wheel? |
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| Aunt Choi Ying, she is 93 years old, keeping loading Ted's plate to feed him during dinner! |
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| Gary Lew was one of the AP when I served in Hong Kong, We both served under President Mitchell. |
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2 Comments:
Chinese sign language is different than American SL. The members use some ASL for church/religious terminology. You should learn Chinese Sign, it is relatively easy to learn and fun communicating with the members.. think there were 2 wards for deaf members when I served in Hong Kong.
I have not heard about any deaf ward so far, will be interested to see when we go around visiting!
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