Our call was early because they were meeting the Sister Missionaries in their District at the church to hang out for their PDay.
We did get an extensive tour of his flat including the empty cupboards and fridge. Sounded like grocery shopping was on the list of "Must Do" for later in the day. He also showed us how the toilets flush and sadly they flush in a way that there is no swirl so we couldn't see for ourselves if toilets really do swirl in the opposite direction on the other side of the world.
Well, here is the weekly letter:
Aloha everyone!
Happy Chinese New year!
This past week for me has been really good. We got alot of work done and found lots for new people.
On Tuesday we went on an exchange with the Zone Leaders and I was with Elder So'e Chu Shing, we found ourselves at some guys house and he bred southern American birds. There were macaws of every color, and size. It was cool. He was nice enough to show us around and see all of the cool birds.
*On our call with Elder Beattie he mentioned that some of these birds are worth crazy amounts of money, up to $20,000. Looks like he has quite the collection going.
On Saturday we did some service for a guy Ned Monte, we filled in the holes that we dug to find the broken pipes. That took a couple of hours and afterwards he made us some killer hamburgers that had a spicy sauce, BBQ sauce, some bacon and an egg. It was actually really good. After that service my companion (the District Leader) had an idea for everyone in the district to find at least 1 person before we went back to the flat. We decided to knock around one of the members houses and we accidentally took a wrong turn and missed the house by like 3 streets. When we were walking towards the members house we saw a kid playing basketball by himself, we both felt like we should go and see him, but we kept on walking. We ended up walking past him like 3 more times before we went up to him. His name is Hunter and he was 14 years old. We played some 1 on 1s and he destroyed both of us. It was kind of humiliating. After we lost by alot we shared a brief lesson about the Atonement and then left. He seems to be seems to be pretty interested.
When we were walking back to the car we noticed that we were out of water so we asked some guy in his garage if we could have a quick drink. He was super nice and got us some water and we chatted a bit. He doesn't seem to be super interested, but he wants to learn more about our church.
Today was great as well, it was district pday and we hung out in the church gym and played basketball, volleyball, ping pong and some bored games. It was pretty fun. After that we went back to the flat for our dinner appointment. At this dinner appointment they had 2 kids that are un-Baptized and we got to teach them the first lesson after dinner, it was sweet.
The biggest thing that I learned this week was to listen to the spirit and never ignore a spiritual prompting. If we had ignored the prompting to leave hunter alone, we never would have met him.
Emoji of the day: 🇨🇳 (Chinese new year)
Slang word of the day: uso: brother. (Used in the same way that you use the word bro)
Elder Brayden Beattie.
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