An actually good email.lol

Alright I know I haven't been the greatest at telling you all about what is up so here it goes, forrealsies this time. 

First off, we have an Investigator named Prince. His English is seriously super good. He went to college in Edinburgh and is a really goofy guy. He goes to this church called Destiny and honestly has a lot of faith but man he has a ton of questions. He honestly just met with us for a while because he liked us. We tried our best to teach him but it always ended up in an argument. This last Tuesday we had a lesson with him and we taught him again about the Restoration but he asked so many questions and we just argued. But this time I didn't. I stayed calm and was praying for patience and the Spirit. It was awesome. When Elder Freeman went through his favorite chapter in the Book of Mormon all I did was pray that Prince would soften his heart. And he did. It was awesome, for the first time he felt the Spirit and it hit sideways and I saw it. And I leapt on it and literally became a PMG missionary. I taught off of my comp, he taught off of me, I really felt the Spirit and really testified of the truth of the Book of Mormon and then did the super formal "Are you willing to read the Book of Mormon and sincerely pray to God if these things are true?" and promised some blessings like a boss and it was awesome. We have met with him several other times this week and we are finally starting to have some real progress with him. WOOOOO 

Our other really neat investigator is Gary, he is a stud. He wanted to meet with us because we spoke Cantonese, So we met with him once before, and he is just a cool guy. We like a lot of the same things and talk about video games and he shows me some new games that came out (dont tell my trainer) and just had fun. He asks the best questions, and before we taught him the Restoration and he thought it was all good. And this time we wanted to go over Jospeh Smith but he asked us "What is God" and we explained that he has a perfect body and created us, then he asked "Why didn't he create us with perfect bodies?" and I looked at my trainer and I thought 'we really about to teach the Plan of Salvation?' And my trainer just started and we taught the plan of salvation. And we asked him if he had any questions at the end, and he just said it all makes sense. WE GONNA BAPTIZE THIS SON OF GOD!!!! So pumped for him. Afterward we talked about girls and this one chick he is trying to pick up. so funny. He is seeing a trainer and he worked out so hard he can't bend his elbows past 122ish degrees. So funny. Love this guy. I'll try and get a selfie with him.

This last week we also met with the Mission President and set some serious goals and plans. Pretty cool. 

Two funny stories about my trainer

1.My trainer stares like mad at every fruit stand, restaurant, or ice cream shop and like he stops walking or just runs people over as he walks and looks at food. This one time, he was starring at this little cheap Chinese food place and was there for like a solid 5 minutes and this little Asian lady just looks at him and starts chatting with him and halfway through the convo she gets a bowl and fills it with rice and says what do you want? Not even thinking he points to three things and pays for it. Literally, as soon as he gave her the money he realizes that he didn't even want it and just got super mad. So funny. He was all like it wasn't even good, not  that cheap even. I didn't even want it. blah blah blah I just laughed at him. 

2.We are on our way to email today right? He has a PB&J sandwich. We are chilling in the elevator of our apartment building and he spills some jelly on the floor. He starts to freak out because he needs to clean it up but has nothing to clean it with. I was like whatever, we will just get a napkin on the ground floor. THIS GUYS STRAIGHT UP TAKES HIS SHOE OFF AND WIPES THE JELLY OFF WITH HIS SOCK AND PUTS HIS SHOE BACK ON. WHAT??!?!?!! My trainer is a weird dude. 

Wow! This is long. ok love y'all here are some pics and gifs, stay tasty. 

-Elder Young 

pic explanation, this hairdryer looks like a death ray, we played settlers of Catan on Saturday, I changed my hairdo so yeah 

Mountains of Hong Kong

Alright, pretty slow week, but it is finally P-DAY WOOT WOOT. umm Not doing a whole lot, just gonna go to the dentist and such. buy some groceries. just love p-days man. 

Anywho, two really interesting things happened this last week. I had my first 8 hour finding day, and I went off on my trainer. 

Well let's get started with the less dramatic one. I woke up and was feeling really good and the night prior I decided to do a fast. Didn't eat breakfast and had a solid 10 minute prayer to start this bad boy out. Did a serious work out because why not, got home, showered, got ready, sat down to start planning looked at my schedule and saw it was BLANK. I mean BLANK, man. So I looked at my trainer and said we are going finding today for 8 hours. So we do our studies and my trainer eats lunch and we are out of the house by like 12:30. We start by going up into this mountain and we are up there for a few hours knocking on doors and walking through the jungle, talking to the random old guys just strolling. And we sweat so much my shirt was soaked, my pants were soaked and the BofM I had in my bag had water damage because of my back sweat. Freaking gross. We get out of the mountain and go back to the city and I look at my watch and it says 15:00...... we still got 5 hours..... freak man, that was crazy. I really wasn't tired until like the last hour but I was just being rolled around on this weird spiritual journey as I tried to talk people, fight my hunger and remember why I was fasting. My patience was real low and I kinda yelled at this old Asian guy (in Cantonese) cause he called us a cult, and so I said "Sorry, but we aren't a cult, we are the blah blah of Latter-day Saints, not a cult. Thank you" and looked at him for a second then he looked at the ground and kept walking. Most people here in Hong Kong are just punks so you gotta let them know what's up. ANYWAYS, towards the end of the night I started to reflect on the day, and was thinking about what was different. The things that I asked for, and pondered over subtly manifested themselves to me throughout the day and  I didn't even realize it. So wonderful. This church is true. 

Ok, so I went off on my trainer right? Yeah it was pretty bad. We were arguing over the dumbest thing and I thought to myself "Am I really gonna do this right now?" and I just snapped. If you would have shaved my head and given me a campaign cover it would be all too familiar. I for  real was knife handing everything, in his face, speaking a thousand words a minute, full on D.I. I went off for like 10 minutes. I did slip and say the F-word, which made me more mad and I said a trail of a couple others. But eventually I got a grip, and calmed down and apologized. This kid just sat there and took it. Didn't do anything. If he would have fought back or done the slightest thing I honestly might be having a special meeting with the Mission President right now. 

What I learned from this week? Both consequences of both good choices and the bad choices are only a few split decisions away. It is a constant battle to who will win over the thoughts of your mind and the emotions of your heart. Remain diligent and conscious of the choices you make, that is when the light will win the battle. 

-Elder Young 

About the pics and me and my trainer are cool don't worry.

pic explanation, the scenic stuff is from the mountain find, my trainer does this weird stretch all the time so here is proof because pics or it didn't happen, am I right? We went to the temple so here is a bomb photo, the Asian guy is Prince, one of our Investigators that is super weird but I love him, we went to the beach and suffered because we couldn't go in the water. OK peace.

What What

I have no Idea why, but that song from 2011 has been going through my head everyday for this past week. So strange....Sorry I have no pics this week. I am a terrible person, but hey, I am a little bit more focused. Not really. lol. We have been doing a great job, me and my trainer, at turning this area around. These past few weeks we haven't really had a whole lot of time so we were all over the place and I went on a few more exchanges. It was crazy. Although we were all over the place yesterday we had a real cool experience. Obviously when we share Joseph Smith's first vision the Spirit is there and it is great but man, let me tell y'all something. We met with these two girls named Vanessa and Carey, and they are just the best. They believe in God, they do this weekly service project because they like to help other people, and the best part is they pray of their own will EVERYDAY. Insane. So we are teaching them, right. and we get to the First Vision, and I start to talk but they already read through the pamphlet. I was like "ok, well you have already read this, so I just want to tell you that I know that God and Jesus Christ visited this young boy". And as soon as I said that the room changed. I felt the fire of the Spirit like never before and it was wonderful. I began to recite the First Vision with my broken Chinese and the Spirit abounded and uplifted us all. I know that there is nothing on this physical world that can make me feel that same way. I know that the Spirit was there. I know that those words went into their hearts and I am extremely grateful for their faith in believing upon the words of Christ. I am just grateful to be the mouth piece for the Lord. 

-Elder Young  

All Over the Place

Sorry if this is short but just some short things. Really enjoying this area and there is starting to be a change. We went from a transfer of straight zero's to allowing the Lord to put this area to work. Got kinda sick so I look like a freaking ninja. WESTOVER FAMILY, thank you so much for the box, I cannot believe you guys put this box together for me. Because of it and the letter that was written inside really helped me understand a little bit more whose work this is. The importance it holds and who I need to trust in. Also,  cool bull and a creepy door.

Weird turn right quick but I wanna end on a spiritual note. The Lord worries over His children. They need His care. His attention. The knowledge that He exists and loves them its not just missionaries that need to be willing to share that but EVERY ONE who knows of Christ and has faith in Him. Freak guys I know that Jesus is my Savior, do you?

Chocolate Milk

Pretty pumped for this next month, because as the title states, ya boi is gonna have chocolate milk every other day for the entire month. Which totals to about $320-ish Hong Kong, so like 40 bucks US. Not that bad! So I was doing personal study on the coach in our freaking corner of the apartment and I took a pic of my desk because I thought you guys would want to see it. I have got all my stuff up there, even my lil' Tech Deck that I am pretty much a pro with. All the Ramen I have is stashed up in that bottom left corner, my umbrella, my wall full of motivation, and post it notes. All my books and the World Cup stats hanging from the white board (thats a lil' reachy) and don't ask who becky is... also, mom you said you wanted pics of me so I will start to add at least put one of me every week.... sorry.. the food is what a usual FHE dinner looks like. AND OH MY GOODNESS soooooooooo goooood. Man oh man it is so good. And that last one is just how awe struck I still am of the complete difference in these houses, so insane. 

This week we met this one guy who is my absolute favorite. His name is Prince. (RIP the real one) and he loves to talk about Christianity and religion but he hates religious people and he makes all these jokes and it is so much fun to be around him. Hopefully we can really start to teach him and its awesome.

Also, we no longer have sisters and so that sucks but the funny part of that is this last week we literally had lessons with like 6 girls. Freak man. My trainer has got some serious hots for these little people. He also invited them all to church and I was like this is gonna be so bad. One week without the sisters and we are already going crazy. Hey... flirt to convert I guess. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

lol ok but yeah having a good week, and really having fun with this freaking language. Talk to y'all later