Week 21 - Tim is so strong; Korean Fried Chicken; Hong Kong Island, Christmas Party, Chinese traditional medicine

Not too much to report for this week. Our friend who is close to baptism, Tim, is still going strong. We taught him about the Word of Wisdom on Tuesday and he totally was immediately willing to live it. Tea is a big issue for people around here because it is such a huge cultural thing, so I started to explain that there are some things in the Word of Wisdom that we just need to have faith on, like coffee or tea, because we may not know exactly why we are commanded not to consume them. He cut me off and was like "Oh, no, that makes sense. People can get addicted to those kinds of stuff too." Elder Finklea and I were just like "Great!" What a kid. He's always surprising us. Tuesday, before we even finished saying hello, he pulls out his copy of the Book of Mormon having read 7 chapters ahead of where we asked him to read and had all of these awesome questions. That was soooo awesome to see. He's real about it all. 

Wednesday, nothing too special happened. One of our new friends who came to church last week canceled his lesson with us so that was a bummer, but a member took us out for Korean fried chicken. It was super tasty so it made up for our friend.

Thursday, we taught Tim again about tithing and fast offerings. No issues there either. The only thing that makes him cooler is the fact that he's super into boxing. 

Friday, I went out to Hong Kong Island with Elder Finklea for another choir performance in a mall. It was super awesome, I got to hand out a lot of pass along cards with candy to passersby. People loved it and took lots of photos and videos. Some people wouldn't even stop walking on their way and would just snap a photo as they walked. Pretty funny. 

Saturday, we had our ward Christmas party which was a blast. We had blasted our potentials list with texts about it hoping to get some new friends to come. Three said that they would and zero actually showed up. We had a fun time nonetheless. The only bummer really was that afterwards, I got really sick to my stomach. 

Sunday, I woke up feeling not so great but forced myself to go to church. Once we got back, I slept for 5 hours and then tried not to throw up as I did studies. Elder Kwok tried to do some Chinese medicine on me by having me rub Mentholatum clockwise on my stomach and then having him pinch and pop my back.  I'm feeling alright this morning after sleeping really well but I don't know if it was that or the clockwise rubbing or the back pinching that fixed it. 

Nothing too special besides those things this week. I'm getting pretty excited for Christmas even though not much will happen. We will do something to make it fun though.