We have been teaching a ton of lessons and our investigators are doing really well.
A few days ago we went and met with some guy that I called because I found his phone number laying around and didnt know who it was.
He wound up being someone that missionaries had met 6 years ago in a different area. I am really glad I decided to call him because he has a super cool story.
When he was growing up his parents died so he lived with his grandparents. But they didnt have any money and would go collect cardboard boxes everyday to try and get money for food.
They were so poor that they would walk around and find rice on the streets and the floor of different places and collect it to eat it later that night.
Well when this kid was seventeen he was determined to get his family out of that situation so he spent hours in his room thinking of ways to do it. Finally he said God just answered his prayers and gave him some ideas of how to start his own business.
Well now he is 24 and that business has turned into 2 high end restaurants and a hotel as well as he manages all of the food everything in Ocean Park (that is a theme park that is huge here. Everyone likes it way better than disneyland). He is swimming in cash and now so is his family he has been supporting.
He is incredibly nice and a very smart guy.
So anyways, we asked him why he wanted to meet with us and he told us that he considers himself a not-baptized Latter Day Saint. He said that 6 years ago he started going to church when he lived in Sham Shui Po, but that quickly after that he moved to Kwun Tong area so he lost contact. But since then he has read the entire Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrine and Covenants twice! He knows just about everything and is really really good. His problem is that he said before what was holding him back is his smoking and tea drinking problem, but that now he wants to start coming back to church and working towards baptism. So I am really excited for him! :)
After meeting him, I was shocked. In Hong Kong one of the saddest things is that people dont really progress in any way throughout their lives. There is a lack of hope that is really sad to see, and it makes it difficult for us missionaries sometimes. People here are born into a social class and get the idea in their head that they can not escape that social class but are going to stay the same forever. They all have dreams of social progress but dont usually actually believe they can achieve it. But this investigator took his horrible situation and changed it.
Then I realized that when it comes down to it, we all can change our situations (socially, spiritually, etc...) and only because of the atonement.
I am so grateful for that and that we are able to continue to improve ourselves continually.
Well that is about it. But thanks for eveyrhting you all do!!
I lvoe you all so much!!
Love, Jordan
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