Hong Kongers

Found out this week that my MTC teacher lied to me. No one calls the people who live in Hong Kong "Hong Kongers." Except for me now.

Also, topic lines are getting harder and harder to think of! Maybe I'll just a mad libs title

I plan to cut my hair soon and I need your votes. Trim or chop? I don't know what to do, but it is too dang hot so something is going to have to change and fast 

(This is the point in the letter where my mother will get nervous because she think's I'll have already cut my hair. Not yet mom :) Don't worry)

Makeup time again! Susan is really stressed about finding a job to support her family. So we took our P-Day off to be models so she can graduate her makeup school faster. She is A-MAZE-ING!! She made me look like Co-Co Chanel. It was a little bit scary how much I looked like the picture of Co-Co actually.  Susan is such an amazing person and mother. She's really busy and it's hard to meet with her because she has so much stuff to do and she has to do it all herself. But this gospel is exactly what she needs. The moment she realizes that will change her life. I love her so much! She's such an example to me of hard work, diligence, and taking life one step at a time.

We've been meeting with Ada, Peggy, and Yoyo for about a month now. Ada is a single mom working hard to take care of her two daughters. Her English is amazing considering she teaches herself, mostly by copying her daughters homework. They've been going to church with us for about 3 weeks, but this week they went to mainland to spend time with family.  We didn't mind (family is important!) and then we got a call from them right before we went to bed. They were on their way home and had food to give us! We met them at the train station 10 minutes and Ada gave us a GIGANTIC bag of lychee fruits. Then she brought out a giant bag of "spicy stuff." Looks like marinated vegetables. She started pouring the food into our tupperware when Peggy said "Stop! Don't give them so much! I want some too!" To which Ada replied "Stop complaining! We like them!" I love them so much, they're so adorable. 

We had a water fight church activity this week. We had 3 investigators attend and they all LOVED IT! Which we loved. The only part we didn't love is that we weren't allowed to play with them. It was so hard to sit in the chapel and watch the amazing water fight going on outside. No worries though, it just means I'll have to have an even bigger water fight when I get home. I didn't bring my camera on that day, but just imagine 40 youth soaked to the bone and smiling all the while.

We shared a spiritual message about how the Book of Mormon helps us. It's not a fairytale. It's not a charlatan trick. It really does help us . To help us we had an awesome object lesson. Place your finger on the Book Mormon laying flat and sideways (so you can see half your fingernail) and raise a can high above your head. When trials try to bring us down (bring the can down hard on your finger) the Book of Mormon helps us stay strong. The can comes away dented and your finger is 100% fine. 

Something like this happened for me this week. I woke up....just....angry. At nothing. It wasn't anger towards anything. It wasn't allergies. I wasn't tired or hungry. I wasn't stressed about anything. I was just .... ANGRY. Which felt terrible. I spent some time trying different things (chocolate, cleaning, meditating, eating, doing pushups) but nothing made this giant ball of anger go away. Each thing placed a little dent in it while I was doing it. But once I was done the anger would come back in full force. That is, until I read the Book of Mormon. I said a prayer really just explaining the day to Heavenly Father and pleading that something in the Book of Mormon would heal me. I started reading the Book of Mormon, and 5 minutes later all the anger and stress had gone. It melted away slowly, without me even noticing. There was no "AHA" moment, no magical verse, and no-one fell over as if they were dead. But somehow, I was healed. I say somehow, but really it was through the Love of God, Christ's atonement, and the influence of the Holy Ghost. A lot of Hong Kongers think that our church, and God in general is just a fairy tale. Nothing better than a Disney Movie. But that just isn't true. The help of our Father in Heaven is REAL. We just need to turn to Him and let Him in.

I'm out of time, but I love you all. Keep up the hard work!!

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Love

Sister Hugo

Yiu Ji Muih

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