Hey Family!

So next Monday is memorial day so I'm just sending the email early because I won't be able to write on Monday. It's raining outside now so we decided to take a break and write our emails home and to mission president. also my hands we're pretty cold, see you all later!

 

We had a super cool experience last night with the "T" family, they said the felt the truthfulness of our Church right after they met with us the first time and read the restoration pamphlet, I was so blown away, I never expected it to happen in my mission. Still got to be careful about how sincere they are, but honestly it seems like they truly do believe, gotta pray extra hard haha.

 

So other than that I'm doing pretty good! Me and Elder Toone have been doing a lot of cooking lately so that's been pretty fun. The weather here is so crazy one day it'll be raining the next day it'll be 85 degrees. Haha, the weather is as unreasonable as the people I like to say.

Hope everyone is doing good.

 

 

Elder Wong

Transfer 5! Week 2.

Start of a new Transfer, I'm working with Elder Toone, I love it. (He looks like buddy holly)

 

He's really funny and we have a lot of fun working together, we get distracted sometimes so we're working hard on keeping focused. We do a lot more than just cooking ramen together, we make wraps a lot of the time with breaded chicken cucumber lettuce tomato, it's pretty awesome.

 

Not too much to share this week.

 

I like talking to spanish people more, they're a lot nicer than chinese people...

 

Well I think a whole issue is that I'm racially at a disadvantage in my mission. I'm an ABC, most white people don't like talking to chinese people cause they don't speak english. Chinese people don't like talking to Chinese people because they're chinese people. So there's my chinese portion of the mission. The Spanish people think its a riot that they can talk to a chinese guy in spanish so I'm displaying my willingness to the lord to find people... in Spanish... and hopefully he'll bless me with chinese investigators too hah.

 

I'm kind of getting frustrated with chinese people... but It's just a test to have me love them even more.

 

 

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

 

 

Email sent from a member in New York:

Met these two fine missionary companions at church in New York today: Elder Wong and Elder Wang. Thought you would like to know:
They look good. They are happy. They are in a great ward that's taking good care of them. And they're working hard!!  Happy Mother's Day!  : )




We are here in the NYNYS Mission to pick up our son Elder Scoffield. :)  :(

S. Scoffied

Broke a Chair...

How are things? Hope everyone is doing well at home.

 

I broke a chair at a Member's house during a DA. I would say its a sign for me to start to work out, but thing is I'm already working out a lot... and lost a lot of weight...

 

One of our investigators was baptized yesterday! Her name is Sunny . Our other investigators are progressing pretty well, happy for them.

 

It'll be fun to call next week for Mother's Day.

 

 

Love, Elder Wong

April 22, 2012

I had two exchanges this past week so I got to learn from my past missionaries some good knowledge. Elder Quist one of our zone leaders is amazing, and from him I'm learning more and more about the atonement, not just the redeeming power of the atonement but what the enabling power of the atonement can accomplish for me not just now, but for my entire life so I'm very grateful to him for the good example he has set for me, he also loves name puns.

 

I've started studying characters because it actually helps me remember Chinese better than just standard pinying pronunciation and what not, so that has been fun!

 

Hope all of you are doing well at home and I'm excited to talk to you in a couple of weeks! I cant believe this transfer is halfway over already!

 

Love, Elder Wong!

Transfer 4 - Week 3

Wowie another week gone by fast.

 

Main points of this week... nothing too much really it was a pretty average week. I stepped in Dog poop, the entire heel of my shoe was covered in dog poop it  was kind of rough...

 

We went to graffiti park last week that was really cool, and my ability to read Chinese characters is improving as well.

 

Love all of you very much hope everything is going well for you guys, the days are going by faster and faster it's pretty crazy!

 

Love, Elder Wong

Photos of Adam in New York 4