This last week has been really great! We have been working with a lot of investigators who are progressing really well, and finding more who are really prepared.
The best part is, that we havent had to go finding for a long time, because every day we have things scheduled from morning until night.
I have really found a love for working with members. If there is one thing I have learned since being in Kwun Tong it is that working through the members is a hundred times more effective than trying to do things on our own.
We found a lot of old information and a paper that named all of the Recent converts in our zone and how they were found. For the most part, they were almost all referrals. Only a very small amount were found on the street.
But for some reason, missionaries spend all day every day out on the street finding.
But in Kwun Tong we spend our time serving members, and helping less actives come back to church.
A few months ago this ward had 1 young man.
Now we have around 10 active young men.
The ward council is extremely happy with us because all of the people who they wanted us to focus on and help bring them back to church have been successfully brought back and reactivated.
Our last four baptisms in the ward were all member referrals.
So lately I have been trying to help the zone focus on working with members.
Sometimes going out in the hot streets finding seems like the most effective thing to do because you feel like you are working hard. But I have foudn that actually for a lot of missionaries it is much easier to do that then to work with the members, because they dont know how to do it.
Chinese people do not like other people serving them, and also, it is hard to form relationships with people if you dont know their language too well.
So we have been trying to help other missionaries do exactly what we are doing here and trying to help them understand how to really serve the wards. Because if they just ask the wards what they can do to serve, everyone will say they dont need anything.
I really feel like at this point in my mission, I am having a lot more fun. I am making more friends, and working with people a lot more. And consequently, we are having a lot more success.
However, we have been extremely busy because we are having a ton of investigators and people to take care of on top of taking care of the biggest zone in the mission.
Oh! So I just remembered a story.
Lately we have been finding GIANT spiders in the apartment.
They are all about the size of my hand stretched out. HUGE!!!!
A few days ago we went to the chapel in the morning to teach a lesson and I walked by the stairs and saw something huge on the ground. I took a double look and saw it was a spider the size of my face!!
I froze and my companion came in and looked at it then started screaming like a girl. We were both scared to death and so we started throwing books at it and stuff.
Well one of them hit it but didnt kill it and the spider just started slowly walking away like nothing happened. Then one of our recently activated members came because he wants us to help him prepare to go on a mission, so he is helping out very frequently. He saw it and just took a broom and jabbed it super hard with the back, stick end of the broom. Its legs started going crazy and I thought Iwas going to throw up, it was so gross.
So last night, something woke both me and my comp up and then we had to get a drink. So we left the room (which was a horrible idea).
We walked out into the main room and there were huge cockroaches and spiders EVERYWHERE. We noticed that we were surrounded so I took out a wooden sword that was hung up on the wall and started hitting them all over the place. We quickly ran back into the rooms and I dont think we will ever come out at night again.
So yeah, thats my story.
Anyways, I have beenreally happy lately.
Once again, I am so happy that I have this opportunity to be here serving the Lord.
I continue to learn everyday and be inspired by the things I see. (not the bugs though)
Thanks for all that you guys do!
Love you so much!!
Love, Jordan
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