Joanna's Journeys: Sister Hugo's experiences as an LDS missionary in Hong Kong: Celsius is different

We're finally emailing from somewhere we can send pictures! I can only fit 3 in this email, but I volunteer my family to put the rest of them on the blog

Got to go to the temple this week!

A member taught us some calligraphy.

Got to see them take off an old Angel Moroni, and put on a new one. That was special.

We went on STL splits this week, which means I got to serve in Fanling. All the way next door! Actually, I live in Fanling, which means it's closer than my own area. Anyway, all of our lessons cancelled on us. Which meant that we went finding for 5 hours!! But it was 37 degrees outside, which means that no one was outside. Sister Cote said it was literally the quietest she's ever seen it. It's been weird having to work with Celsius instead of Fahrenheit (however you spell it). But I'm fairly certain 37 degrees is the temperature of the freezer.....on the surface of the sun. Not suite that bad, but we treated ourselves to ice cream that day. :) (Editors Note: 37 Celsius is 98.5 Fahrenheit) But the awesome part was looking back to 3 months ago. Going finding for even 15 minutes was TERRIFYING! And now I'm a pro(ish).

In Skype TRC one week we had a super awesome lesson with Chan JiMuih, who lives in Utah County. Well, she visited the ward that Sister Terry serves in, and she remembers us! She asked about all of us by name, and thanked us again for that amazing lesson. I remember planning that lesson and being excited but also uncertain. We were teaching about the Atonement and Christ's love because that's what we felt like we should teach. But that is some deep stuff! And our Cantonese was NOT good enough. It just wasn't. But that doesn't matter. During the lesson several times she said "Your Cantonese doesn't make any sense. But I can feel in my heart the message you're trying to say." Just wanted to share that the Lord is doing his Work. And He may be using missionaries, but it is NOT US! Not even a bit. If it was just us, this church would have crashed and burned a long time ago. But we just have to push forward, open our mouths, and have faith.