from the land of terrible cheese, but amazing noodles

something cool: chyuns and math! (chyuns = apartment buildings)
1 chyun has 30 floors. each floor has 20 apartments. each apartment has about 3 people. that's 1800 people per chyun. in one area there are about 4 chyuns in 5 acres of space. that's 7200 people in 5 acres of land. welcome to hong kong.

something funny:
so there are a lot of crazy people here in hong kong. and they all speak english for some weird reason. and usually know something about the church because they are they only ones crazy enough to talk to us...:) one man in particular amuses me. he stands outside of the tai wai mtr station and directs all the buses coming in. he has self appointed himself to this position. he isn't needed to do this. BUT, day after day he comes and yells, and moves people around and calls to the drivers and makes all sorts of scenes and movements with his hands and arms and "directs" the bus traffic. i love it.

something food:
cheese here is definitely not a main food source. it is expensive and hard to find. i had chinese cheese the other day at an investigators house and it was the most awful stuff i have ever tasted. terrible and potent in every form of the word. i will stick to cheddar while i'm here i think.

something worth quoting:
"the only way to go swimming as a missionary is to swim in your own sweat." -me

it has been hot here lately and i'm feeling the affects of the humidity and all. i will get use to it i guess.

something spiritual:
so one of our investigators is a very smart girl and has studied lots of philosophy. she is amazing and i love talking with her. she told us a funny story yesterday about a quote she found in the bathroom of her school. it had the famous quote from Nietszche that says "God is dead." and underneath it someone had written - "Nietszche is dead." - God. very true. hahaha. God is not dead. he is very much alive in this world and helping this work along every day. i've so grateful to have this knowledge and am working my hardest to help others know that God is not dead. he lives. this i know.

something miracle:
a man we ran into on monday who is very smart and intellectual told us that if he was suppose to learn about our church he would see us again and then it would be fated. we didn't see him on tuesday, and wednesday it was raining very hard. my companion sister vance felt we should go out finding anyways and felt prompted to go to the bridge area where we cross the river. so there we were in the rain and talking to people on the bridge and along comes yaji - the man from monday. we are meeting with him this coming monday! being a missionary is so much fun, because we know that fate is real - God is the one in charge of it and he is the one helping us! now that's fate!