WEEK 32 RICHMOND: Holiness To The Lord, The House Of The Lord

Got to go to the temple twice in one week???

I'd say that's quite blessed!

This week all around was pretty flippin' amazing!

Wednesday we hit up exchanges. I went to Burnaby with Elder Meyer. Colin (he's a YSA member from Van that always hung out with us) visited us and got us each Cadbury Eggs! Shoutout my King! Found a deaf guy. It was pretty cool. Unfortunately I had completely forgotten everything I learned in my one year of ASL. Except Banana. But phones are pretty epic, so it's chill.

Thursday was the big day! After exchanges, we went to a friend's house. They are some people Elder Barnes used to teach, but they made us super good dumpling and wantons. Then it was time. After 3 hours of filling up the font and sitting at church, the moment arrived... 范弟兄 got baptized!!! It was so amazing. It's moments like this that just make this work so worth it. This message truly is a message of joy. Sang happy birthday to Him and it was complete. My boy is a new man. A new brotha in Christ. Shoutout another King! 

Finished the night off with some friendly Bible Bashing

Had interviews with Pres. on Friday. Hit up lunch with some other elders. Gotta love it. Had a lesson with Anne and Han弟兄, both are great, and it's great teaching them.

Saturday morning was temple sesh #1. We went with Brother Chen and Vivi. They were both receiving their own endowments, and it was so amazing. The temple is great. Covenants are great. It's all just so great. Had a lesson with Li, and our member brought up W.O.W and bore fire testimony about it. Then had a recent convert lesson with our boi Victor.

Then Sunday. It's kinda crazy how many blessed days you can have in a week. But Visited Chen 妈妈, she's super amazing and still alive! Lets gooooo! Had church, and got a bunch of friends to it. They all loving it! Then the sisters had a bap right after church, so that was amazing. After it, I talked to Li, and he said he wants to be baptized!!! It's set for next Tuesday, but we gonna need to push it back a lil, so we can make sure we can get everything taught. But it's so amazing, since it was fast Sunday and we talked about it the day before, bro said ya, I'm fasting, and am gonna try and stop drinking some stuff. So amazing and a huge miracle! God is working double time on him, and he's changed so much. Then had an epic member meal with a family!

I may use this word a lot...

But it's True...

Blessed!

Monday was a great day. Minus the start...saw a car crash. But everyone was chill. I can add that to the list now. Seen a real life car crash... but uhh.. the rest of the day was just lots of planning. Did math with Annie and Caroline, thank goodness they weren't lil demons. And had a lesson with Wong Guo Ming!!!!!! He's the goat. We finna go to the temple with him here soon.

Tuesday! Temple rd. 2! Lesss Gooooo! It was epic. Also played Ticket to Ride. So no complaining here. Pros hour consisted of lesson, crazy member lore drama drop. and English class.

So

I guess you could say:

It was a pretty flippin' awesome sauce week!

General Conference was fire!

So let me drop a lil.

This comes from Sister Porters talk.

5 loaves and 2 fishes

It's a story that everyone knows pretty well.

And it's a story that applies to every single person here.

Let's pretend everyone has 5 loaves, and 2 fishes. Now theres a couple thing you can do with said loaves and fishes. Eat them, or try your best to feed a couple out of the 5000+. It's good, you tried your best to help out.

But what did this boy do. He didn't bury his talents. He didn't take it for himself, he didn't even share it with others at the start. Instead, he saw a man. A man he believed in. A man he had faith in. The kid probably had heard the stories, maybe even see it with his own eyes, but he knew this man was a Miracle Worker. So what did he do, he took his 5 loaves and 2 fishes and took them to the miracle worker. He brought them to Jesus. 

In the eyes of the the boy, it's nothing compared to the 5000+ hungry people. It's a spec of dust on the ground.

But it's what he had, it's what he'd been given.

So he took it to the Miracle Worker.

And in the eyes of the Miracle Worker. In the eyes of Jesus. It was everything. It's exactly what He needed. It's what He needed to work a miracle.

So now there's a third option. One that surpasses the other 2. With a little faith and belief, we can take our 5 loaves and 2 fishes to the Miracle Worker...and feed the multitude!

God has given us each individual talents and gifts. To us, it may look like a meager offering; heck, it might seem like half a loaf and a 2 week old rotten potato. But in the eyes of the Miracle Worker, it's everything.

Give yourself to the Lord, and because of your faith, because of your effort in trying to help those around you and bless the lives of others, the 5000+ will be fed. (With leftovers included) And you can be a miracle worker to those in need.

Ok Fine 晚安.

 he's turned from 先生 to 弟兄

Holiness to the Lord The House of the Lord

So blessed

WEEK 31 RICHMOND: 🎵It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Easter🎵

Take a look at the empty tomb

Well you can't get much better than Easer and General Conference!

So much Jesus and it's awesome sauce!

I keep saying this every week, but yes, it was another amazing week. Kinda funny how that works. It's almost like we are blessed and find joy when we serve the Lord.

Pretty neat I'd say.

After de-thawing from my trip in the frozen river..... we had an amazing lesson with 范先生 Wednesday morning. We taught commandments and laws. Went super good, bro was good with all of them, and was like, ya, I'll stop drinking tea. Had DC. Hit up T&T with the district. Chinese food *chef kiss', then had a lesson with Li. Then hung out with one of our members at McDonalds. Les go!

On Thursday, we had a surprise lesson with our new friend Judy. She's super cool and is super interested in learning. So humble and willing. God truly does prepare.

And God provides, lemme tell ya.

Some of you may remember a sweet old man named Huang Qi Fa. I've been taken out by him a couple times my mission. He's so cool. He had a stroke when he was like 40 and completely lost speaking capabilities, and some motor function. But he's improved a lot, and ever since he found the church, he's just the happiest guy in the world. Him and Elder Barnes are like best friends. So he treated us nice. Bro took us out to one of the nicest restaurants ever. I'm not even joking, like bro, the bill was over $1000. He let us invite 3 people, so we picked this one member and her two kids who are just the coolest people ever. So it was just so amazing. And the food was divine. Eternally grateful for that man and the Lord. Like incredibly BLESSED! He just always be smiling and laughing.

That evening we had a super spirit-led trip to the mall, where our friend David showed up and was like what's up, and we got to talk to him. Played mafia in the evening for English class.

Friday, we literally became doctors. We were at the church from 2-9. It was insane. At two we had a lesson with Li, he had such a cool experience, we invited him to go pray in the chapel by himself, and like 30 minutes later he came back and was like, "I heard God talking to me and telling me the everything is going to be fine." At the start of the lesson, he was super anxious and all over the place. When he came back, his demeanor was completely different, super peaceful. I just love being a missionary. That  lesson was like 2 hours. Then we had a  lesson at 4 online with some Colorado missionaries who needed help translating. Then our friend Han 弟兄 pulled up, had a pretty crazy lesson, but at the end bro was like, ohhh I finally get it. That lesson went over, and we have our next friend in the "waiting room", Han left, next person in. Had a great lesson with Anne. Then she went a lil over. Opened the door, she left, next friend came in. 范先生, did mock bap interview with him. Then finally we were finished and got invited to the English ward barbecue. So blessed.

Insane day, I love it.

Then general conference!!!! So good!!! Li and Han came in the morning. Both loved it. Cleaned the church in between sessions. Anne came to the second session. Went to the library for 'language study', but ran into a Burnaby member, so just talked to her the whole time. She served in Taiwan the same time as me brother. Then got Thai food, shoutout Mom (love you)! Goated tradition!

Finally, no more mold! That night we grinded out that bathroom. Wahooo!

Happy Easter Ya'll

Sunday was so amazing. The morning session was miracle loaded. We had so many friends pull up. They just kept coming in. And they all loved it. Li even brought a notebook and took notes. So lit. David came to which was actually a huge miracle. 范pulled up for both. The prophet is goated. The good word of God is being spread. 感谢主! In between sessions the Vincents had us over for lunch and said bring your friends, so Wesley and LI came with us. So good.

Monday was also amazing. Sunday, 范先生 actually told us he couldn't be baptized because of family issues that came up, and he was leaving Vancouver for 3 weeks. We woke up to a text saying 我的旅游取消了. It got canceled. It was such a miracle. So set your calendar everyone. April 9th! The rest of the day was weekly planning. And a quick math session for one of our members two little girls. They are insanely crazy, but it's so much fun.

Today was chill. Went to big Buddhist temple, and played pickleball. Had 范's baptismal interview. Les go! Then had English class. 

All in all...

Epicness

Thanks for reading.

On Christmas day we started a challenge. The BOM challenge. It was to finish the Book of Mormon from Christmas to Easter day. And we marked blue every name of Christ in it, and highlighted things we liked in red.

Did I fall behind?

Yes.

But we have the atonement.

So it's chilly.

But I just want to say how truly amazing this book we have is. It is the Word of God meant for each and every one of us today. This book has power, and blessings in store for those that read it. So I'd like ya'll to do the same. Read this book. It will change your life. If you've already read it, read it again. And it will continue to change your life and bring you closer to your Savior. 

(Also drop some fav parts from conference if you'd like to share)

He is Risen 

All my kings in one place

#frozenelderalert

Home decor at its finest

This is why we can't have nice things