E-Mail: August 27th, 2009

This Week in Ma On Shan,

Hey everyone! =) I love My Mission! I see miracles everyday! And I know that you can all see them too. If you ever have a bad day and you just want to go home and sleep or whatever, try to thing of one miracle that happened that day. Just one positive thing before you go to bed and write it down. I do this everyday and I started seeing how many miracles really do happen everyday. I love you all!!! I miss you all!!! The Church is true and I know it with all my heart.

This week has been pretty different. It's been a little slow as far as investigators but that's not stopping us. We've gotten a whole lot of finding in this week. We taught more street lessons last week than we have since I got here. See miracles =) haha I love finding. It's really hard and sometimes can be discouraging but you learn a lot and you really get close to the Lord. When you pull someone aside on the sidewalk, who probably wasn't even thinking about the purpose of life or anything like that, and you teach them about Christ and you see a spark light in them that they didn't even realize was there. It's amazing. I love it!!! I hope that you all can have an opportunity to share your testimony everyday.

I love you all so much! The Gospel is true and I know it with all my heart. I'll talk to you all next week.

Love, Elder McAllister

E-Mail: August 12th, 2009

This Week in Ma On Shan:

Wow this week has been really crazy. We have six Elders in our apartment. Me and my comp, the Zone Leaders, and two Mandarin Missionaries. This last week for two days my comp, one of the zone leaders and one of the Mandarins were all sick. So me, Elder Storrs (Zone Leader) and Elder Oneil (brand new Mandarin Missionary that just came to Hong Kong) were a threesom companionship for those two days. It was really cool though because while Elder Storrs was teaching this member family , Elder Oneil couldn't understand anything because he's learning Mandarin so I had to translate for him and I realised how much I've actually learned this last move. It was a really simple translation and I can't get all the words but I love seeing the blessing that God gives to us and I know that it's only by his help that I can learn this language.

So we have an investigator, Fei, that on Sunday we challenged to be baptized and he said that he would. I'm so excited for him. He's progressing so much. It's such a miracle how we found him. He just walked into the church one day while we were eating lunch. Miracles do happen everyday.

I love Hong Kong. It's been raining a lot lately but I love it. All our zone just played Soccer in the rain. It was awesome. I love how small Hong Kong is. All the missionaries in the zone live within thirty minutes from everyone. You get to see everyone a lot. Hong Kong is the best mission in the world. =) haha There's a lot of changes going on right now though with the new Mission President. President Chan is awesome and I'm really glad I'll have him for my whole mission.

So just a random fact that I learned over here. The last name Chan in Cantonese is pronounced Chun. And the last name Lee is pronounced Lay, like the Hawaiian flower necklace thing. Oh and Jackie Chan's real name is Shing Loong or something like that. haha Anyway, I love you all and I will write you all next week =)

Love, Elder McAllister