Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Transfer 4- Week 2
Transfer 4- Week 2
Conference marks my 6 month mark (plus 1 week but who's counting?) I can't believe half a year has passed already. I'm not really sure what to write today. Well for sure I love all of you guys and hope you're doing well. It's been a while since I've heard from some of you so not really sure how you've been, but hopefully I can hear from you guys soon.I made korean BBQ beef yesterday for inbetween conference sessions that was pretty fun. Chinese is going well, my spanish has been improving too. I'm writing a letter home too so you can get one of those. Julie! I did end up finding a place to use the chipotle gift card at, thank you, i had a nice delicious burrito.The work is going well, I enjoy my companion elder Wang he's teaching me a lot of Chinese and I'm teaching him English and Spanish, we have a lot of fun working together.Love, Elder Adam Kwan-Min Wong
Monday, January 28, 2013
First Snow!
We had our first snow out here last friday and again today, it's a nice experience. Funny enough it's still not cold enough for me to want to put on a large jacket so I still wear my suit coat hahaha, the other Elders think it's way too cold, guess body heat has its uses sometimes.
I've been blessed to be able to practice a lot of piano while waiting in between appointments so I've been improving a lot.
Our companionship has been having a hard time getting new investigators so we decided to shift our focus to doing less active member work while the other companionships go out and find investigators.
Not too much else to share hope you're all doing well! here's some pictures of us at 6:30 am during district prayer, also 6:35 AM birthday cake. Hahaha
Love you all
Elder Wong
I've been blessed to be able to practice a lot of piano while waiting in between appointments so I've been improving a lot.
Our companionship has been having a hard time getting new investigators so we decided to shift our focus to doing less active member work while the other companionships go out and find investigators.
Not too much else to share hope you're all doing well! here's some pictures of us at 6:30 am during district prayer, also 6:35 AM birthday cake. Hahaha
Love you all
Elder Wong
Monday, January 7, 2013
Big Heart, Tall Boy
Hey Family, not really much to share no real major breakthroughs out here. We've been continuing teaching lessons and sharing the gospel with people, we still offer English Classes and just trying to do our best to do well. It never snowed out here, or got cold enough for me to need to use that overcoat that we bought hahaha.
Mom and Dad, one sister in the ward about 80 or so, wants to congratulate you. She shared with me how it amazing it was to have 8 kids and have them all be faithful within the Church and all raised to be good people. She said she was distraught because her son wasn't interested in the gospel and didn't believe in God. There's a saying that the Chinese people really adore "Renhe chenggong bu neng mibu jiating de shibai" Any success is not possible to compensate for failure in the family. I think I've already shared this before but yeah, you really did good, and I'm sorry that I was a pretty disobedient son when I was home. I really should have worked harder at realizing the blessings within my life that you have provided me with, so that I might be more respectful and put in greater effort to be obedient to you.
Family, I share your picture to people when were tracting on the street, they're amazed by how big our family is, and it helps get them interested in the gospel just a tiny bit more. It's been hard lately because people have been telling me that my Chinese is bad, that they can't understand me I know a lot of the words, but I just can't speak it correctly because of the tonal language. Other times people really just look at me with this sort of scorn in their eyes, really looking down on me despite me being taller, it's tough, we were taught that it's the gospel that they are rejecting and not you, but still it hurts that there is just so much hardening in their hearts, but I still press on because I know that this work is true, and it's my responsibility and my privilege to help be a part of it. ... I'm working on memorizing 7 Chinese characters every day so by the time I get home I'll have 4900 or so and 5 new words every day.
It's always so good to hear from all of you hope there's much love and kindness at home.
Love,
Elder Wong.
(P.S. don't forget to send my hong-baos (red bags) from Chinese New Year here! hahaha kai-wan-xiao- eryi only kidding!)
Mom and Dad, one sister in the ward about 80 or so, wants to congratulate you. She shared with me how it amazing it was to have 8 kids and have them all be faithful within the Church and all raised to be good people. She said she was distraught because her son wasn't interested in the gospel and didn't believe in God. There's a saying that the Chinese people really adore "Renhe chenggong bu neng mibu jiating de shibai" Any success is not possible to compensate for failure in the family. I think I've already shared this before but yeah, you really did good, and I'm sorry that I was a pretty disobedient son when I was home. I really should have worked harder at realizing the blessings within my life that you have provided me with, so that I might be more respectful and put in greater effort to be obedient to you.
Family, I share your picture to people when were tracting on the street, they're amazed by how big our family is, and it helps get them interested in the gospel just a tiny bit more. It's been hard lately because people have been telling me that my Chinese is bad, that they can't understand me I know a lot of the words, but I just can't speak it correctly because of the tonal language. Other times people really just look at me with this sort of scorn in their eyes, really looking down on me despite me being taller, it's tough, we were taught that it's the gospel that they are rejecting and not you, but still it hurts that there is just so much hardening in their hearts, but I still press on because I know that this work is true, and it's my responsibility and my privilege to help be a part of it. ... I'm working on memorizing 7 Chinese characters every day so by the time I get home I'll have 4900 or so and 5 new words every day.
It's always so good to hear from all of you hope there's much love and kindness at home.
Love,
Elder Wong.
(P.S. don't forget to send my hong-baos (red bags) from Chinese New Year here! hahaha kai-wan-xiao- eryi only kidding!)
Monday, December 10, 2012
Adam's First Week in New York!
Sooo first p-day out here in New York, and I haven't gotten stabbed! Woohoo. Right now I'm currently in Dyker Heights and I must say sometimes I forget that this is still America with all the Chinese people here. I found out why we have the most baptisms in our area is because that the Chinese people here want the baptism mostly for a Green Card, and so past missionaries would go ahead and baptize them anyways because they just want the numbers, our current district is trying hard to fix that so we have a term for "green" investigators and so we're working on that, as well as we're working on getting more overall ward activity just to yeah.
My new companion is Elder Wallis, a great guy, funny too. The weird thing is that our district is 8 people and we're all within the same apartment building so we have a lot of district unity going out and tracting sweet sweeping (advertising english class and what-not). A lot of the elders say that my Chinese is phoenomenal for the amount of time I've spent learning it and that it's great that I'm not like other greenies and are scared to use their chinese for the first week, but I just started talking right away. Our district was in kind of a lull because the past 5 weeks have all been service so we're working hard to get back into more diligent Church work.
One of our investigators name is Kelvin, he's 12 and his dad is a less active member, and oh my gosh this family situation is pretty terrible. 4 minutes into meeting the mother as she came home, started about an hour of criticizing their kid to us, basically the missionaries are something of therapists for this family. They shared many stories about how much of a liar he is and he's unwilling to change and can't focus, my heart was aching that these people had no reserves in railing on their kid with no problem. So, definitely praying hard for that family.
We also have Gao Di xiong Brother Tall, he's a "green" investigator but slowly and surely we're trying to help him get more interested in the gospel and give it more meaning to him to be baptized other than just receiving a green card.
Then we have Zhu Zai Kan, he's a bit of a quiet guy and we can really only meet with him on Sundays but he's progressing pretty well, and his baptism is set for the 23rd.
It's been a pretty easy adaptation into New York, it reminds me a lot of Los Angeles, so no real problems there, continuing to make strives in the Chinese language and I'm going to work harder on learning the written and reading portion of the language.
Not really anything else to share at this point other than I'm working hard to stay obedient and diligent, which is kind of tough since the older missionaries have kind of gotten relaxed so it's part of my duty to help get everyone back to working hard.
Love you all!
Mission Address is
85-69 60th drive
Elmhurst, New York 11373
it'll just get forwarded to me from there.
Elder Wong
My new companion is Elder Wallis, a great guy, funny too. The weird thing is that our district is 8 people and we're all within the same apartment building so we have a lot of district unity going out and tracting sweet sweeping (advertising english class and what-not). A lot of the elders say that my Chinese is phoenomenal for the amount of time I've spent learning it and that it's great that I'm not like other greenies and are scared to use their chinese for the first week, but I just started talking right away. Our district was in kind of a lull because the past 5 weeks have all been service so we're working hard to get back into more diligent Church work.
One of our investigators name is Kelvin, he's 12 and his dad is a less active member, and oh my gosh this family situation is pretty terrible. 4 minutes into meeting the mother as she came home, started about an hour of criticizing their kid to us, basically the missionaries are something of therapists for this family. They shared many stories about how much of a liar he is and he's unwilling to change and can't focus, my heart was aching that these people had no reserves in railing on their kid with no problem. So, definitely praying hard for that family.
We also have Gao Di xiong Brother Tall, he's a "green" investigator but slowly and surely we're trying to help him get more interested in the gospel and give it more meaning to him to be baptized other than just receiving a green card.
Then we have Zhu Zai Kan, he's a bit of a quiet guy and we can really only meet with him on Sundays but he's progressing pretty well, and his baptism is set for the 23rd.
It's been a pretty easy adaptation into New York, it reminds me a lot of Los Angeles, so no real problems there, continuing to make strives in the Chinese language and I'm going to work harder on learning the written and reading portion of the language.
Not really anything else to share at this point other than I'm working hard to stay obedient and diligent, which is kind of tough since the older missionaries have kind of gotten relaxed so it's part of my duty to help get everyone back to working hard.
Love you all!
Mission Address is
85-69 60th drive
Elmhurst, New York 11373
it'll just get forwarded to me from there.
Elder Wong
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