Chegau

No time for small talk. Too many amazing stories!

We went to visit with a Less active, Lo JiMuih. She's a grandma from Taiwan who lies by herself. We walked to her house and somehow got there half an hour early, but we called and she was home so we just came right in. 3 minutes later a man walks into her house to give her food. We're confused but play it off cool and try to talk with him but he just waves his hands at us and goes to the kitchen. When he comes back he says to Lo JM in Cantonese "Do you know these people aren't christian?" to which we respond (in Cantonese) "Actually, we are Christian. We love Christ" His mouth drops to the floor (these two white girls speak Cantonese!) "Also, we're not chegau (a cult)" he didn't say anything but his face said "AND THEY CAN READ MY MIND!!"

We ended up just chatting with him. Turns out he is Lo JM's Son in Law and brought her food because she wasn't feeling well. At first he really didn't believe we believed in Christ. But we just talked with him about normal things (We love the TV show Friends too!! Does China have Netflix? Oh man I miss Netflix) and some missionary stuff (We really don't get paid! And we don't listen to music. And we wake up at 7 and go to bed at 11. We really do spend hours outside just talking with people) and a few spiritual things (What's that? Oh, that's the book of Mormon. It's kind of like the Bible).  He ended up staying for about an hour and a half, it seems like partially to make sure we didn't hurt Lo JM (yep. this is who you need to be afraid of. Two white girls in skirts who want to talk about Jesus and help your mother in law clean her house) and partially out a curiosity as to....just everything about us. We don't have his phone number or anything, but now he knows we're not a cult! We're praying we'll run into him more often. Especially because he is SO funny and his English is amazing.

Yesterday at church I understood almost 1/2 of Sacrament meeting!! Woo! I'm really glad that I prepared myself by imagining not understanding anything for 6 months because it makes the little victories that much more sweet.

Sunday night we ate with the Ling family. All of them are converts of about a year and a half. Wai Kei is going on her mission soon! They're all so amazing, I love them. Anyway, after dinner we were comparing heights with everyone. I was the tallest one there, which made me excited. Sister Ling was confused why I was so happy so I explained how I want to be 6 foot. She squealed "No! If you get any taller you'll never get married! I'm already worried about you!!" I laughed so hard. But it would be worth it to be 6 foot. So watch out world, prepare yourself for a 6 foot engineering spinster. 

 Today we had a meeting with all of the trainers and trainees. Which meant an MTC REUNION!! I missed them all so much. Not everyone was there, but I'm glad that so many were. I miss those who weren't there, but I know that the Lord will take care of them.

Anyway. I loved seeing everyone!! I gave out a lot of hugs, and reminded all the Elders its only 21 months till they get the hug to end them all. I'm so proud of all of them! I completely understand why I can't give them hugs. It makes complete sense. .......It's still hard to not hug them.

After the meeting we rushed downstairs to go to the bathroom. Then we went into the mission office, and there was a surprise birthday party!! AAHH!! Not gonna lie, I cried. There were egg tarts, and my MTC companions gave me notes. It was amazing. No pictures, but just imagine me smiling so hard that my eyes disappear into my cheeks X)

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Love

Sister Hugo

Yiu Ji Muih

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