From the Land of yam chah and chyuns

something funny:
chinese fashion. yea, it's pretty interesting. i've seen pretty much everything here. the other day, i put my argyle socks on with some shiny, sparkly shoes with my sweat pants and took a picture making fun. the next day, i say a girl wearing that exact thing. yep. they wear pretty much anything with anything here. i love it.

something food:
yam chah!!!!! the best thing ever. some members in our ward took us out to do yam chah, which means "drink tea" literally, but we don't of course. it's basically where they put out a bunch of food on a turn table and you dip it in all kinds of sauces and eat till you are so full you can't move. it's amazing! i had my first chicken legs too! not bad, but it has been described as trying to pull meat off of a baby's hand. yes, gross. but overall, good experience!

something miracle:
last p-day after email my trainer and i discovered we were locked out of our apartment. we were suppose to go to the temple and had been looking forward to it all week and were fasting for some of our investigators. my comp's recommend was in the apartment, so we part our heads together and discovered that we could open our apartment with an umbrella. yes. it was a miracle. we go in and made it to the temple. nice try satan!

something exciting!!!
today, we had a zone activity and played football against the New Territories Zone. it was pretty much the most fun i've had since i came here. my team won first place after some intense tournaments. it was insane and i have never been so sweaty in my life. i love football and got a lot of exertion out that needed to get out. i will try to attach pictures! we lost our first game, and it was double elimination, but we came through and won the next 7 games. it was crazy.

something language:
i had my first pass off success last week on saturday and passed off lesson one! wahoo! only 5 more lessons to go! they always make me really nervous, but i learn a lot and they are good. i have set lots of goals to pass them all off before the end of my second moves. we'll see how it goes. it pushes my language a lot!

something spiritual:
Uncle Bob sent me this quote and it is perfect for here in hong kong where everything revolves around time. everyone here is so busy and has no time for the gospel! here it is:
"Time isn't your natural dimension. There are days when you wish that time would pass quickly, and it won't. And there are days when you wish you could hold back the dawn, and you can't and it's because you and I are not at home in this dimension we call time. It's because we belong to eternity. A fish is at home in the water but you and i aren't at home in time. if we really were at home in time, we wouldn't wear wrist watches and have clocks on the wall. And that ought to tell us something. So in those moments when life presses in upon you, remember that you are struck out of eternity. And this is not your natural home. And time is not your natural dimension. Now we have to function in it. But the fact that we're not at home in it ought to tell us where we really do come from." -Neal A. Maxwell

I love you all so much! Cheerio!