Aurelia Wilcox LDS Missionary to Hong Kong

Grandpa, thanks for the fun Mother's Day activities updates. I love my family.

I was able to go shopping a little and get some lighter summer shirts (hou yiht-- so hot).

This week was also a good one. We were able to serve a less active and help her clean her house, and a member helped us! They were able to grow in relationship with one another. We taught English Class, and had every attendee take a flyer to invite a friend to come with them next week. The class was really fun but also beneficial to them. We had everyone involved and getting to know each other, and also were able to tie in the gospel and bear our testimonies. It went very well. We also did a pictionary kind of thing and had the sisters teach expressions, which got a laugh.

One of our less actives has been getting very angry recently. She started smoking during one of our lessons and told us all that matters is her heart and God doesn't care if she smokes and that we shouldn't put ourselves above her. For some reason she takes offense at everything I say (even small things like not knowing what kind of bird eats sunflower seeds) and she started hitting me really hard the other day. I feel that we shouldn't visit with her anymore. She is angry at some of the members/ bishop for some reason (compared him to a janitor) and keeps thinking we are telling her to be humble. Hmm. But we still love her... maybe should just avoid her for now (told me I have a weak mind and that she could kill me with chopsticks if she wanted to/ stabbed them at me).

We have another less active (Anne) who is so sweet and she doesn't come to church because she has work on Sundays. She will start going to the everyday ward in Wan Chai on Saturdays! I am so happy that she is so committed to the Gospel. She also got to see a member this week that she had met 2 years ago (Carman) and they were able to catch up/ get each other's phone numbers. It was a blessing. She was so excited that I got her mini versions of the bible and book of mormon and got Sister Villasin some cookies for her birthday.

On Saturday I sprained my foot playing soccer in the morning. I was trying to get the ball from Sister Hoxer (we were playing on a concrete soccer field) and completely biffed it. Sister Villasin had to wheel me around on a wheelchair on her birthday. It was actually kind of humorous. Service brings happiness, so I guess that was another birthday gift to her (it certainly made me feel appreciative of how sweet and selfless she is!). We had to go all the way to Wan Chai for a meeting that day and back and then went to the ER to get an xray and see if it was broken. We had to wait 4 hours and didn't get home until 1am (curfew is 9:30pm lol). Of course, we let President Lam know. But one of the members works at the hospital and saw us there. The next day he told us we were lucky, because the waiting time is often 8 hours. He is one of the Priesthood Leaders, and he gave me a healing blessing. I am thankful for our members' faith and know it will heal quickly!

Mother's Day was nice and peaceful at church. We made little bead swans in a shape of a heart with a reference to the talk by Sister Marriott in General Women's Conference and gave them to all the Relief Society. I am thankful for our lovely ward. And I got to call my fun family! They are the best.

We met a member on the MTR (train) and he pretended like he didn't know anything about the church for like 30 mins, but we gave him a card after getting to know him and invited him to church. It was funny how the conversation happened, but I guess I passed the test!

Sister Wilcox
loves you all

New missionaries at district meeting (both are zone leaders)

Little house shared by 6 people

Working with shop stock at crossroads

My favorite Sister Hansen

My favorite Sister Hoxer

Mothers Day gift for the ward

New light shirt for summer! yay

Im a 5 star at eating with chopsticks and making ramen (skill)

Investigator get-to-know/ Sister V bday party

So last week I made fun of all the foot injuries... I guess you could call it karma. Oh Tinfuh, you have a sense of humor dontcha? On my way to the hospital.

Stylish mom and baby in the hospital. idk

Debating if I should send it. Eh enjoy. My ankle injury.

Bday gurl (my comp)

My gudetama folder (as requested to send pic to fam)

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Grandpa: Are there a lot of blackberries on your property? That is awesome! The blackberry buckle that my family ate at your Sunday hotdog roast sounded delicious. I love when our extended family gets together. Love you all sooo much! Congrats to Summer graduating!!! Tell my Dad to bring the Canon DSLR and get some really good pictures at her graduation (sit on left side facing stage to get pic of face)! Grandma is funny-- always trying to get us married off by having us go the the YSA ward. She is cute.

Family: Thank you for the fun package! Always brightens my day to hear from you. (And the book is so cute and sweet). Have fun partying in Australia and Hawaii! Life is bliss Friends from Texas: you never put your names on the Easter Package/ letter. Thank you so much though, and the pictures are much appreciated!

We have a really fun bucket list planned. Today we are shopping for lighter clothing (summer is HOT). But we will hopefully be going to Long Island next week. And we have a lot of other really fun ideas planned. Last Monday we went to another really beautiful reservoir called Tai Lam with Sandy and she chenged us twice (dim sum and traditional meal). She is so sweet. We also found a really pretty waterfall!

This week was so great. We are back on track and working hard. Good things.

f We were able to meet with a referral from the Philippines and teach him the restoration in English/ Tagalog (Elder Brandse's uncle who lives in Hung Sui Kiu works with him). He is very excited and has been reading the Book of Mormon (his name is Jeffery). He will be attending the Wan Chai Tagalog ward sometime with Brother Hamilton's family.

We had transfers. Elder Klein left back to England. Elder Andersen (Tuen Mun's new Elder and one of our new zone leaders... it is also his last transfer, and he trained Elder Love from my MTC group) is really great! So intelligent and ready to be diligent. We met with Sister Anne (less active) and she has such an amazing testimony. She helped us teach two investigators. She is just always working except for Saturdays but hopes to get work off for Sunday. She also really helped us in finding people (we met someone interested in English and she got him interested in the church. He wants to come next Sunday). We have been getting many guys interested in church so the Elders have a lot of referrals to work with (Irene Ng's friends Billy and Mr. Man, Brother Chan's friend Chun Ho who wants to be baptized, Eric's friends Frankie and Tom, Sister Li's neighbor Jensen, two random finds Dick and Nick). There aren't many other transfers that happened in our district, (more roomie parties, yay) but Elder Warner also left to serve in Arizona because of Health problems and Elder Ouquist, our other Zone Leader (he served in Tin Shui Wai for his whole mission so far-- 1 year) is now in Castle Peak Bay as Elder McGrath's companion!

We have many new ideas for finding that we have been doing like meeting cute families that play on the playground in front of our apartment building, talking to little old ladies doing Zumba in the park, and handing out English class flyers near a school in Tai Hing (our ward only has one young woman!). We also made cute little swans with beads that we will be giving out with hot cocoa and General Conference quotes for the woman on Mother's Day.

We have finally updated a lot of the Member/ Area book. I have taken a ton of pictures on my camera of all the members and investigators and have printed them out for the Elders and us, because our books were empty when we got here (very hard to get to know ward from scratch without pictures, but now it is much better for the coming missionaries!). It has been a big job, but has been so necessary.

English Class is a lot better. And more focused/ fun because we distribute different tasks to different missionaries each week and meet earlier beforehand. It doesn't seem so rushed and is actually really beneficial to those who attend spiritually and intellectually. We have two new friends who are really interested and one of them is really interested in the Gospel! (Sandy Chan :) and Dick who I mentioned before).

We are hoping to get a baptism date for AJ now that she is done with her Fashion portfolio (prayers for her scholarship!). She already knows she wants to be baptized (maybe later in England) and has a testimony of the church, we will just make it more official and planned!

Weekly Planning has been really great. And we are really supporting and uplifting each other as a companionship (neither are perfect but are growing together). We enjoy doing it outside in the fresh air near cute families playing in the park. We are excited to work together with the Elders more on really growing the ward and doing member work. It will be a good transfer!

Sister Wilcox

We took a jungle hike around the reservoir.

Sandy (It rained a lotttt)

HK from a distance

Tsuen Wan area

Duck (yum), Eggplant soup (yum), Pig intestines and ears (a bit sketchy but Elder Huang from Taiwan says "delicious!").

Im not sure what the things on the left are

District pic before transfers!!!! (Elders apartment literally died... Elder Warner had foot problem, Elder Jensen from tuen mun broke his foot a while ago and Elder Klein sprained or broke his foot playing basketball... this day, the day right before he went home). Lol. What a district! (Sisters apartment was sick this whole transfer too... what a transfer). Good things to come.