What up people, this will be real fast because this Aussie is distracting the crap outta me. 

Ivan got baptized yesterday and it was super good. He is so ready and I am honestly so proud of him. As I baptized him, looking out into the crowd of people there I didn't see family, I didn't see friends, I saw members. These people became his family. They cared about him and where ready to receive him. I hope that they can continue to do so. 

My new comp and I are doing so good. We get a long and we have some crazy goals for this transfer. We both just want to get going and lost in the work. Filled with love for these people, all we want to do is serve. We have had several comp studies where the spirit is just so profound and we really have a desire to get stuff done. We are going to do whats called the 40 day missionary fast. We will fast for 1 day, and during that day write down a list of all things that we need to stop doing, or things that we shouldn't be doing and other non missionary things. then for 40 days not do those things. we will see how it goes. I have full confidence and hope that when we do this are basic desires will change. We will become greater children of God. I'll keep y'all posted on how it goes. Also his name is Elder Dudfield.

We also a gave a cake to another elder whose birthday was Saturday. 

love you all!

-Elder Young 

Mission President Email Pics

Kowloon West and International Zones

September Birthdays Celebration 

Typhoon Mangkhut

I'M ALIVE

WOW, I finally can communicate with you all. So good. It feels like it has been forever!  

Alrighty, so the Hurricane was pretty fun. We got stuck in our apartment on the 30th floor for 2 whole days. Wasn't that bad. What was the coolest thing is that the building was swaying. Literally, I was just chilling and thought to myself, why am I moving? And then realized the wind was rocking the building. Super good. Also before the storm I bought 4 monsters to help me not want to die, so I pounded 2 and was feeling pretty good. Although we just hung out inside EVERY SINGLE window was leaking water. So while everyone was doing missionary work and stuff, I was going from window to window mopping and drying water. I literally did this for 4 hours. So good. 

Some crazy news, This Thursday is transfers. And I am kicking my trainer out! He is headed to Dai Bou and I am staying here with an Elder Dubfield. He is a great guy, wonderful missionary, and an Aussie. So this is gonna be great. AND neither of us have any district or zone leadership crap so we can focus completely on the area. I am pretty pumped. I will be sure to send some really good pics next week. 

This week has been pretty crazy, before the storm we were meeting with a ton of people, I was on 3 more exchanges and it has just been hectic. Something really cool, on one of the exchanges I was with Elder De Guzman, the Tapacios cousin that I meet on the Christmas Party, and we met this dope kid. We were waiting at the bus stop and this guy walks up and is chilling for the bus too. I say hi, he says hi. I notice that he has down syndrome. Then he looks at my shoes and tries to sneak a pic of them. I start a conversation with him, and he is hilarious. He starts by asking about where I got my shoes and how much they are. (kind of like my street contacting strategy) He starts telling us that he loves bowling and I asked him if he does it competitively. He said yeah, and then something I didn't understand. Translated it on my phone and it says "Special Olympics" I MET AN OLYMPIAN!!! this kid is so cool. After that we got back on to shoes and he taught us how to tie shoes, it was great. Gave him a flyer to go on LDS.org latter with his mom. He was such a stud. 

thats about it, obviously lots of stuff happened but most of it i forget but know this!!!!! I am safe and have the post caffeine jitters

-love, Elder Young  

oh and me and De Guzman went door knocking for a few hours, felt like a real missionary lol

Birthday Madness

Alright peeps. I am so full that it isn't even funny. I seriously haven't had breakfast in 4 days. I have been feed so much that I am skipping meals and still feeling full. Now, do not worry I am not getting fatter, just a little bit bigger chest and thighs. (My gut is pretty bad rn) We have been fed almost everyday this past week and we have eaten a total of 7 cakes. SOOO MUCH FOOD. I got a ton of gift cards, and gifts it was insane. Yeah I can just brag about how much I am getting treated, but honestly what I feel like this tells me, is that the ward knows about us. And they care about us. I love this. I love knowing that they see us and want to do missionary work, or help in the smallest way they know how. It is so awesome. 

Sadly Ivan didn't get baptized this week, but hopefully we can get him dunked next week. If all works out.

All right nothing else going on here, I love all of yall stay cool, 

-Elder Young

One of the cakes we got was this mango cheesecake and it was SSSSSOOOOO good. This is our usual FHE dinner(sooo much food!) OH also I guess I love seafood lol. And here is our church, we have this one small hallway that everyone is like butted up against each other its crazy 

We went to an open mic

JK, we didn't actually go to an open mic night or anything. We just had testimony meeting yesterday and man let me tell you guys. My ward went absolutely nuts. The bishop started it off pretty good, but he was cracking a few more jokes then usual and was all over the place. Next up a brother went up and had his fun. Then our patriarch and his wife went up and they both chastised the ward and said they need to be having more children and that was weird. (We just had a baby blessing) Then all the youth got up and bore their testimony about their experiences at EFY which was this last week. They all just went hard. Crazy jokes everyone was laughing, and it was pretty bad. I only understood a little bit and it was funny, but afterward my comp and I looked at each other and where like "yeah, that probably wasn't the most reverent sacrament meeting..." Its ok though.

Also our sacrament meeting changed from 10 to 9, and so I wasn't expecting a whole lot of people to make it on time. But it was pretty good! One thing that really got to me though, we are teaching this older man called Dahng sin sang (Mr. Dung) and he has a lot of problems. He has been coming to church and meeting with us regularly and it is wonderful. This last morning however I didn't think he was gonna make it to church. The time change the weather and it just felt like he wasn't going to come. I was ok with that, wasn't super mad or disappointed. But then I saw him walk through the front doors, and man let me tell you that I felt a wave of joy for this man. Through all that he goes through, whatever he has done in his past and whatever ails him at this current stage in his life, he knows that this Gospel ,whatever it is, gives him peace. It eases his pain. It strengthens his resolve. I can't lie, after I shook his hand and thought about him and his simple expression of faith I cried. I hope I can continue to help this man. 

We are also teaching this wonderful young man whose name is Ivan and he is getting freaking BAPTIZED on Sunday!! can I get a what-what!!!! so pumped. Somethings though. We have only taught him for a week and still need to go over some things like tithing and keeping the Sabbath day holy but we have taught this wonderful young man the word of wisdom and law of chastity, and even though he has a few questions with both of them he is willing to change to receive the ordinance of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. What a stud man. You have no Idea how ecstatic we are for this guy to receive baptism. The ward likes him he likes them and its all just great. Pic included 

Alright gang, catch ya next week on the District lol

-Elder Young

Pcs explained: this taxi guy had 5 phones with stuff I don't even know what for. Took a minute to realize where I was and noticed the buildings. This is Ivan and my trainer (still with him...lol jkjk) 

Running Again

I haven't been working out nearly as much as I wanted to be and so I convinced my trainer (yes I am still with him) to wake up early to go running everyday! Woooo! I missed the burning feeling in my calves. Feels so good. 

Anyway, this week has been pretty crazy, my trainer is getting real transfer trunky and thinks he is leaving this coming transfer and I really do not know what to think about that. I do not want to be Junior Comp in my first area. That will just suck. But hey we will see what the Lord has in store for everything. 

We have two people lined up to get baptized this month and that is really exciting and terryfying all at the same time. I want them to get baptized but really scared something might come up. So I have this really weird emphasis on being like extra obedient this week (because I am not) so that way the Lord will show me how to do his work and bless those young people with baptismal dates. Because in reality we all now I can't convince anybody to do anything, so we will see how it goes. Besides that just keep moving nothing crazy! 

-Elder Young

this pic was like from 3 p-days ago sorry