January 13, 2014

G'day!

 

Thanks as always for a wonderful e-mail this week! I loved reading it and it sounds like you are having as many 'miracles' as me! I did have a very good birthday this past week and the cake was good as always! So thanks for that! Elder Lau bought me some dinner from a restaurant called 'Nando's' which was really good (it's like grilled chicken with some spicy sauce that's delicious!). So this week will have to be a quicker e-mail again because we have Zone P-Day that we have to be at soon and the library was very busy so we weren't able to use the computers as early as we normally do. This past week was another really good one though. One cool miracle that we saw came while we started going through the area book and tried contacting all of the former investigators that missionaries had taught over the past several years. As we did that, about 6 hours of it over 3 days, we were blessed to have really good responses by most of the people and have 18 people that invited us to come back this week. So that was really good for us and we have gone through maybe half of the former investigators so we hope the 2nd half will be just as fruitful and receptive. We also were able to teach about 17 lessons this week which was great. Jack will be receiving the Aaronic Priesthood next Sunday which is exciting and he asked me to ordain him which will be an honor. It will be the first time I've ordained someone to the Priesthood, so it will be a memorable experience for both of us. Simone also said she is still preparing to be baptized as well, so we hope in the next week or 2 she will be ready for that. Another cool miracle happened at church. If you remember, I think I mentioned last week or 2 weeks ago (I might not have) about a less-active Chinese lady and her daughter that we went and visited and invited to come back to church. Well this Sunday she (Wendy) showed up to church! It'd been a long time since she'd been to church but there were heaps of the members of the ward that remembered her and made her feel really welcome, which was great! And her daughter seems quite interested in the church as well. So there are heaps of good things happening in the ward and in the area! The ward members are continuing to 'catch the wave' of missionary work as well and more and more people are stepping out of their comfort zone and finding people to share the Gospel with, which is bringing about heaps of miracles for them as well. Anyway, as I mentioned before, this week is a shorter one, for which I apologize, but I'm grateful for all the love and support! I hope that you have a fantastic week and continue to receive blessings in all aspects of your lives! I love you heaps and I'll talk to you again soon!

 

Love,

 

Elder Hopkins