Self-Sufficient Guys and a Good Old-Fashioned Jam Session

Dear Friends and Family,

Things this past week in KwaiChung went very well. We probably had the most lessons we've had of any week that Elder B and I have been together and spent about 26 hours teaching or so (that's pretty significant for us!). I think I mentioned last week was the big Mid-Autumn festival, but festivities are still in the air as we roll into October--Tomorrow is some sort of public holiday that everyone is getting pretty excited for. I think it's something about Freedom in Hong Kong but I'm not really sure.

We are getting a lot of street lessons recently which we're pleased about, but we're having a hard time getting people interested in church attendance, reading the Book of Mormon, etc... As a result we had just two investigators at church this past week. However, one of them, A-G, brought a referral with him and we had a great opportunity to sit down with her and share about the Restoration. She said it all made perfect sense but she's getting hung up because of the things that she has heard about the church and how her ministers were really unsupportive of her coming and checking out our services. I 'loaned' her a Book of Mormon so that we can see her at least one more time. We invited her to read 2 Nephi 29 because she had a lot of questions about why we would believe in another book of scripture.

Apart from investigators at church we had six less active men with us! That was quite a feat for us. We had planned on nine but various circumstances kept some away. Two who came are S and A-K. S is the man that we found out on the street 3 weeks ago. He's making great strides and is interested to going to a more comprehensive Gospel Principles class. He also really wants to give a talk in church. We told him next week is fast and testimony meeting and he's welcome to go up and use a few minutes. I appreciate that he is a self-sufficient guy. He will introduce himself to people and make insightful comments in class. 

A-K is about 32 and became less active some years ago when he switched jobs and had to work on Sundays. Soon after he just kinda stopped reading and hasn't been to any church service in 3 years. He also happens to be the older brother of one of the missionaries that I previously lived with in ChaiWan. We recently learned that he had a great interest in music. So we called him up this week and scheduled him for a jam session on Friday night. Elder B on guitar, A-K on guitar, our member fellow-shipper/good friend of his on vocals, and I was audience--Ha! :). After a few songs we went into a lesson. Shared one scripture; Moroni 6:9, which is about church and music, and told him we wanted him at Sacrament meeting this week. He pretty readily accepted. His father is another less-active that we're trying to work with and the Sister missionaries go over once a week now and teach his Mom who is not a member. Things are looking pretty good for them and we hope to have them active soon. The mom and dad both retire this December so after that they have no reason not to be at church. My missionary friend gets home in November so he'll be a good influence for them as well.

I mentioned how A-G brought a friend to church with him. Though he's not baptized (because of his parents) he's pretty much a member and we use him to fellowship, seek referrals, and this past week, Tuesday to be exact, we went with him to Seminary. The class was at 6:30 so it cut our sleep time by an hour to get up and get dressed, but A-G was there! He was first there and first to go (he had to leave early because he has to take the MTR for like 25 minutes to get to class on time). He's doing really well. Really interested in the early history of the church currently.

Brother L is also doing really well. We saw him 2 or 3 times this past week including once in his home. We had scheduled him for an evening lesson and he expressed that he wanted to treat us to dinner. So we went over to his home where he had prepared a really tasty tomato soup, steamed fish, rice, spam, oranges, and stir-fried veggies. He kept saying the whole time how sorry he was that it wasn't enough food. If only he knew how little we were accustomed to eating! Haha It was more than enough. RIght after his lesson we walked down the stairs of his apartment from the 7th to the 3rd floor and met with Sister N who is a less active member.

On Wednesday morning right after exercises we got a call from the Bishop who said he wanted to meet with us immediately. We hurriedly dressed and went out to meet him. I thought he was mad but he just wanted to treat us to a typical Chinese breakfast of ramen with beef chunks in it (not exactly what I think of when I think of breakfast, but everyone else does I guess), we talked for a long time about how we could help in the ward and he couldn't stress enough the need to strengthen members through visits and bring the less active members back. He says he gets calls every hour of the day and night from members who expect him to answer every one of their questions and demands. He shared some really spot-on advice on how commitment to the gospel and doing the basics could solve every one of their problems. He's a man who works, has raised to kids, sent both on missions, and been a bishop twice for a combined 15 years so far. He knows what he is talking about. Lots of good insight. Good ward members and leaders are such a blessing.

I'm out of time for this week. Hope everything is going well!

Love, Elder Siebach

P.S. Mom, I got the package just this past Friday! Thanks so much! It's awesome! I can't think of anything else I'm really in need of right now.

P.S.S. I'm gonna send pictures one of these weeks....

Usagi, U-schmag-i...

Dear Friends and Family, 

Here's what my parents were seeing on the news over the weekend

I'm alive! Here is the blow by blow of the great typhoon of the 21st century! Saturday evening Elder B and I were eating in a Chinese cafe when we heard the latest news from the chatty restaurant occupants and a few glances at the TV weather reporter. It sounded so ominous, we started asking ourselves if church was even going to happen the following day! After dinner we did some visiting in a remote village and looked to the skies for some kind of sign. Nothing. We thought maybe it was a hoax. Happily our severe weather hopes were confirmed when that Saturday night we got a text from President Hawks informing us of the coming storm. It was all we could talk about as we turned off the lights that night. 

Here it is a little bit BIGGER:)

Sunday morning it was HOT! Like really hot. High humidity and everything felt particularly sticky. All through church the rain never came and then there was just a light sprinkle as we walked out for some lessons we had in the evening. I started making district calls at 5:30 and it still just sprinkled. 7 PM the warning text came telling all missionaries to close and secure all windows and get in their apartments. By the time we went to sleep at 11 it was raining a little bit, but nothing out-of-the-Hong-Kong-ordinary. When we woke up this morning, lo and behold, cloudy with no rain, followed by 5-minute bouts of alternating heavy rain and clear skies. 

Wow! Very close!

So there you have it: the dreaded Super-typhoon Usagi! If you've ever lived or worked in Hong Kong, you know I'm just describing a typical summer's day. I wish I could say that it was scary or thrilling, but it was honestly just another day...in paradise--haha :) Typhoon signals were all taken down this morning at about 9:30 and P-Day continued like any other. Your prayers for our safety were answered mom; thank you very much:) 

Usagi is the fearsome japanese word for bunny rabbit

This week was incredibly fast-paced. I couldn't believe it when I realized today was P-day again!

On Tuesday I went on a special exchange with the District leader from Tung Chung area and the two of us made our way to Kowloon Tong for a Mission Leadership Training meeting. Elder Larry Y. Wilson and his wife presided and were the keynote speakers. They had amazing insights into the ministry and leadership of Jesus Christ. It was interesting to learn more about the plight of women at the time of Christ. They were treated very poorly, and more often than not, it sounds like the men didn't talk to the women unless they were at home or when absolutely necessary. Men wouldn't even touch them. The testimonies of women during Christ's time were not counted in the courts of law. Imagine everyone's surprise when Jesus went out of his way to talk to the woman of Samaria, heal the woman with the blood ailment, and especially when he appeared to Mary of Magdalene before the other 12. She 'witnessed' to the apostles of Christ's resurrection. I thought it was a really fascinating and well done presentation. They tied it into how we as members of the church are different than our times much as Christ was different from his times. We need to stand for truth and not lower our standards or engage in the world's standards. 

The following day we took an early morning bus up into the New Territories and had Misson Tour. Elder and Sister Wilson presided again and shared about the 3 Pillars of Eternity: the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement. The 3 complete each other and are eternal in scope and magnitude. It was very interesting and something I will have to study further (CLICK HERE see Elder Bruce R McConkie's talk on the subject)--teaching something of that depth to me at 9:00 AM didn't sink in as well as it might have a little later in the day. Still, it was a fantastic experience and I got to see some of my friends whom I haven't seen since mid-May when President Andersen came to the mission. 

I was also drawn out with a handful of other missionaries with whom President Wilson wanted to interview personally. We only had a few moments to speak together, so he just asked me about how I thought my mission was going, what was going well, what my family was like ( I said wonderful of course :)) and then we talked about working with wards and building unity and love among a people that are so independent and seemingly emotionless at times. He had some good insights and encouragement. 

Thursday was Mid-Autumn Festival (CLICK HERE for a good description of what that is). Basically everyone works a half-day and celebrates by eating dinner with family and friends and eating these pastry things called "moon cakes". They're really pretty good! Fattening for sure, but good. 

Because we missionaries have no family around the bishop called us that morning and scheduled us for lunch with him. It was a really thoughtful gesture and didn't go unappreciated. I think as missionaries the times we get the most homesick are during holidays since no one will schedule and they all say they have family stuff. It kinda causes you to dwell a bit more on your family than you usually do.

That evening we were able to schedule L and one other new member named M and the 5 of us were able to share a couple different flavored moon cakes and talk.

Friday was a public holiday for everyone and so Elder B and I went out and got some really good finding in. We both taught lessons on the street and met a lot of families. 

Saturday morning we played American football with a few of the young men in our ward. A few hours later a drunk guy walked-in at the church, so that was a fun surprise to our otherwise typical lunch time. Afterward we went up and visited an less active member and did some finding/exploring in a part of my area that I haven't spent too much time in. 

Dad mentioned to me last week in an email that I have neglected to record weird foods that I have eaten recently. So I gave it much thought and reflection and came up with some things I had this past week or two. First, I ate some nasty boiled-in-oil eggplant, some less-than-desireable pig liver, had some fresh squeezed durian drink (had to brush my teeth and tongue for a long time after that). I tried my first fig this morning for breakfast, and a week or two ago I ordered pigs blood in my soup. Pigs blood wasn't bad, it was just a hard thing to get over mentally. 

Pig's Blood Soup

One more thing; I'm sure you know all about the Mormon.org website. As missionaries we all get to make a profile on it and update it regularly. Well this past week, every chapel in Hong Kong was issued a huge "I'm a Mormon" poster that they can take and use to advertise or for anything else. Well, Elder B and I decided to try to go finding with it!

The London tube

We stood with it on display near a mall in our area, but in 1.5 hours we only got 1 email :( We're still in the process of finding a better, more effective way to use it, but it's kinda fun to have a big poster to go finding with. Send your ideas!

I"m out of time. I hope everyone had a great week! You are a Child of God! (Romans 8:16-17). 

Love, 
Elder Siebach 

World War III and Locating Lots of Less Actives

Dear Friends and Family,

Elder B and I made the mistake today of going to the local gaming arcade and renting 2 computers to write our emails! It's slightly more convenient than having to take the MTR to go email, but the sounds and smells aren't to be cherished; kinda hazy with smoke and no one has headphones on. All their online games are cranked and it feels about like what I imagine World War III would be like. Lots of explosions guts and gore. We're doing our best to avert our eyes!

It's been an interesting week. We've been working non-stop and having some great results. A couple times we got out a few minutes late from our lunch and so that just motivated us to work even harder and to make sure we're out on the street on-time. One afternoon we had about 3 hours of finding ahead of us. We went to one of my favorite roads and walked it and talked to anyone and everyone. There are a couple of benches along the sidewalk so it's just perfect for lessons. Not too many cars since it's up on the side of the mountain and dead ends in a bus stop. The first hour we had a lot of good conversations but no real lessons. Then in the 2nd hour I got into a good conversation with a guy. He was pretty cool I thought. Seemed willing to re-meet. He even knew a little bit about the church since one of his friends is serving in San Francisco right now. I hope we can reach him somehow. He gave me his number but as is all-too-often the case, I called it up, no answer, painstakingly sent out a Chinese message, and the response was that the person I was trying to contact had changed phone numbers... If he's serious about learning he has my number. 

After two hours in that spot we walked 100 yards or so down the side of the mountain to another one of my favorite spots. It's right outside two apartment buildings and there is a massive elevator that carries people to the mall situated above. Pretty much a constant flow of people coming through. We had an hour left and in the first 3 minutes Elder B met a young man and sat down for a lesson. 5 minutes later I sat down with another guy. We taught our lessons, rescheduled my guy (Ji) for church, and then still had about 30 minutes to find. The first person Elder B contact stopped immediately to talk. I asked him after-the-fact how he did it so fast and he said that the guy had actually been an less active member (LA) who motioned for him to sit down first!

I am pretty surprised by how many LAs we ran into this week! On Tuesday we met with S--someone we found last week and brought to church with us-- in our lesson he started asking about Thomas S. Monson, which was a little strange; I just assumed he had done a little research. And then as we were establishing expectations and doing things that missionaries do (i.e. trying to talk about the gospel) he told us he was a baptized member! Turns out he was baptized like 35 years ago! So there is another LA that we've contacted and are bringing back.

On Saturday we went up to an area called Shek Yam and did a little finding up in a park over there. I didn't even get an opportunity to try and contact someone when a man shouted out to me in very poor English, "Hey, Hey!" He beckoned me over and shared with me that he was a member of the church who lives in Mainland currently. He was born in Vietnam and doesn't have Mainland citizenship so he's been in HK the last few days sleeping in parks waiting for his visa. We called up our correlator who lives just 3 blocks away and he came right over and we made accommodations for him to be able to keep his stuff in the church. He overnights in the parks. since he can't actually sleep in the church, but he was at church all 3 hours with us yesterday.

Actually yesterday we had 5 less-active men with us at church and then one other LA who technically belongs to a different ward but wants to come to KwaiChung since that's where his friends are. We had a rather skimpy investigator turn-out to church this week. We had Jo, G-J, and that new investigator Ji. I think Ji will be pretty great to work with. He's about 25. working class; seems sincere. He had to leave right after Sacrament meeting so we rescheduled another appointment later this week.

Mr. L is confusing. I don't think I really understand everything that is going on with him. We met with President Hawks last week just to talk about him and get some ideas. He went to his hearing on Friday morning and then told us that he won't get the results until October 9th. Friday, Saturday, Sunday he was unavailable and he hasn't answered the phone yet today. He definitely need to clarify his situation and then we will know what to do about a baptismal service.

For the time being Jo is still scheduled for baptism this next week! I love him so much! He will get interviewed this week, and the service is set for Thursday!

So there you have it. School is in session. We still teach a good amount of lessons each week (between 15 and 20) but our investigators are few, our baptism dates are even fewer, but most importantly we're trying to rebuild and strengthen those investigators we do have. Elder B is working hard; I'm working hard. I got about 185-200 characters down this week. I'm not being too earnest about learning characters since I also need to make sure my tones and spoken language stay up. No super weird foods recently. Mostly just rice, noodles, weird cuts of meat and fat. We've also decided to do A LOT of cooking at home. It's cheaper that way and Elder B and I are loosely "dieting" you might say:) We're mostly just cutting down portion size and cooking more veggies; for some reason it just doesn't feel like buying steamed veggies on the street is worth our money.

Hope all is going well! Keep the faith!

Love,

Elder Siebach

Rapid-Fire Finding and American Football

Dear Friends and Family,

First off, Happy Birthday Grace! Hope that it was a good time with the surprise party and unexpected first date! That should be fun! Dance clean! No kissing! Things in Hong Kong are going very well. Nice sunny days recently and I can feel I'm getting my tan on! It's only been like 4 days since I was last on the computer, but there is some news that I can update y'all on.

First off, street finding. I'm becoming a big fan of street contacting. It's harder to do for me when there are more people on the street, but it also gives you a lot more opportunities to rapid-fire find. I've reached a groove where I approach them for about 3 steps and then while saying hello, I wave and stop right there on the pavement so that they have to acknowledge me. That takes 1 second tops. Depending on their reaction I either walk with them or they have already stopped and are about to ask me what I need or want (they probably haven't quite noticed the tag on my shirt.) I proceed to then tell them my name and identify myself as a missionary for this church. If they are interested we start from there. If they aren't I then say what exactly I am called to share and teach. If they still aren't interested I might hand them a flyer that they can contact me later on. All this is done in about 5 to 6 seconds. So in 1 minute I can get about 10 people; hence, 'rapid fire'. Of course every missionary would rather have the opportunity to talk to one person for 1 minute rather than 10 for 6 seconds each. It's a good system for me and as helped me cut down on wasting time with people who just aren't ready yet. (Testify twice and then be gone. More often then not I'm holding a Chinese Book of Mormon in my hand to show to them as well).  I think this way has also helped Elder B and I find more street lessons and new investigators. Speaking of which, on Friday while we were out finding we contacted a guy who had heard the missionary lessons 35 years ago. He's about 50 now and says he has a lot of interest to re-learn. He was at church with us on Sunday and really liked Sacrament meeting. We'll see him again tomorrow.

Also on Friday, as we were winding up in one area and walking to another the sister missionaries called us up and told us that there were 2 men who wanted to learn more about the church. They had just showed up at the church building. We booked it back only to be greeted by a Pakistani and an Yemeni. They were incredibly nice, had awesome English and OK Chinese. They had a lot of questions about Prophets and so we had a great opportunity to share about the Restoration and Plan of Salvation. The man from Yemen's wife is a Christian looking for a church and so he's trying to help her out. The man from Pakistan is a religious scholar of sorts who seems intrigued by the similarities of Mormons and Muslims. We can't teach them again unless we have permission from President Hawks because they are Muslim and we don't want to create any problems.

In other news, on Friday we also had a Zone Training Meeting. 34 missionaries met together in one room and had a very respectful reverent meeting. Just looking back on that I can't picture 34 college-aged young men and women in any part of the world who would behave anywhere near like we were. Pretty interesting to see the mantle come on people when they are missionaries. The meeting was good. Long. But good. At the very end we got the newly Church-issued 3-column Book of Mormons! Characters, PingYam, and English! They look fantastic, just a little big and heavy. Super nice though. After last week's Zone Leader and District Leader exchanges I was also cleared to start learning characters and picked up the character cards on Friday. I've gone through the first 100 of the 3000 so far. Memorized just from walking around the streets of Hong Kong for the past year. I didn't realize how many characters I already knew! (I guess its not actually that much in the grand scheme of things).

This past week at church was pretty spectacular. The whole program was missionary-based and we had 4 of the 5 ward youth who had served 2-week summer missions go up and bear their testimonies. It was really neat to see the fire in their eyes. They all had struggled in some way or another but said in a sense that they saw the hand of the Lord support them. Made me grateful that my service doesn't have to stop after just 2 weeks. Gospel principles class was also based solely on missionary work and then in Elder's quorum we talked about Priesthood power and all the converts in the class talked about previous missionaries that they admired for priesthood authority and power, and then all the other returned missionaries in the class talked about the power they had on their missions. Missions are life-changing!

Mr. L had just finished a 32-hour shift down at the container ship pier and then came right to church with us and absolutely loved it! His baptismal date is this coming week! The only thing that will keep him from it is this hearing that he has to go to on FRIDAY THE 13TH! Pray for him! He's doing really well. J is also doing well. His date is the week after and he is still going through the repentance process. It's progressing well though.

For the past month or so the YM in the ward have wanted to learn how to play American Football, so this past Saturday we went out with them (about 8 of them) 3 of their friends, one of our investigators, and played! It was a great missionary opportunity and incidentally as we were warming up a 20-ish year old came up to us and in perfect English asked if he could join. We were more than welcoming and came to find out he had lived in New Zealand and learned to play there. He and our investigator absolutely crushed everyone else. It was so fun! Kinda reminded me of Saturday mornings in Tokyo when Dad, Sterling, and I would go out with a few of our friends to the Yoyogi-Uehara gravel park on Saturday mornings and play some two-hand-touch. Memory lane...

At church we had 4 investigators and 5 less-actives with us! We filled two or three benches! It was great!

Saturday night we made sack dinners and met up with a less active member and talked with him while watching soccer at the local pitch. We then taught him the importance of making time for God. He's more than willing to work 50+ hours a week between a full-time and a part-time job but says that he thinks 15 minutes tops is what he should give to God. It was tough to hear him talk like that and just completely deny the testimony that he once had. I hope we can continue to work with him. He's 20, so he's our age too.

That's the week so far. Today we met with another less active member who took us out to Dim Sum together with his wife. It was fantastic food, but he wants to be friends with the missionaries; not come back to church. Very aggressive about that:-(.

Things are good! Elder B and I are working hard and seeing miracles. Maybe I should slow down so that the time won't go by so fast! Keep reading the scriptures and praying! Go to church! Fulfill your callings!

Love,

Elder Siebach

Wake Me Up When September Ends

Dear Friends and Family,

I can't believe it's September already. I feel like I blink and a week is gone. Things these past 10 days or so have been really good. I was happy to be able to unwind and go to the temple this morning. What a great blessing to have a temple in my mission. I can seriously be out my apartment door one hour before a session starts and take the MTR, walk, change clothes and still have about 15 minutes before the session starts. As I was sitting in the Celestial room this morning it

Hong Kong celestial room

occurred to me that the floor to ceiling sliver-like windows in the Hong Kong temple have been etched with waterfalls. I contrasted that to the heavy rains that were falling outside and it fulfilled for me the scripture 3 Ne 24:10 which talks about how the Lord will "pour out a blessing that their shall not be room enough to recieve it." I don't think that promise is made just only for tithe payers. I think it has relevance to our covenant keeping regardless of what it is. I feel like I've been blessed for the get-go having been raised on the gospel principles and that has only been enhanced after my baptism and many other covenants. Just sitting here it occured to me that the water could represent oil that we need in our lamps, or have a physical and spiritual cleansing that comes in the temple. Anyway, I'm rambling a bit. Needless to say, the symbols in the temple can have many unique and different interpretations. 

This past week back home was a big one! Sterling started school, my parents' 22nd Anniversary, and Grace's birthday this coming Sunday! Congratulations to all! In case y'all are wondering today marks 13-months in Hong Kong for me and 6 months since I came to this KwaiChung area. I'm blown away by everything that has happened in the last year. Time speeds up on the mission I guess and I hope growth does too. I feel like I've changed significantly since I've been here.

A few months ago (3 to be exact) Elder B and I participated in a district find in bustling TST. We were assigned to find for a few hours right next to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. It was a hot day I remember and the first hour or so we did pretty well talking to people. With about half an hour to go I felt impressed to pick a particular lady out of the crowd that was going by and somehow managed to stop her even though she was a few yards away. I taught her the first lesson and got her number to give to the TST sister missionaries. I think I may have also scheduled her for church with them. Well I didn't contact her after that but I saw her about a month ago and she said she was still investigating and making leaps and bounds. Well, as I was doing Call-In Reports this past Sunday I saw that the TST sisters had a baptism. Curious, I asked the Zone Leaders who were sitting nearby who it was. Sure enough, it was Esther, the lady I had contacted! So there you go! I'm really excited for her!

In other news, last Saturday TsingYi ward had a musical festival in the church and they invited some of the nearby missionaries to participate in one of their musical numbers. After 2 half hour music rehearsals we were pretty much solid on our parts and go to perform it just last Saturday. It was a medley of D&C 6 done by W.W. Phelps. I didn't get any pictures but the Lewis'--a senior missionary couple--did. They informed me that they sent them on to Grandpa Siebach already. (They know Grandpa because they served in the Palmyra temple with him). I haven't seen the pics, hope they're good! 

This week all the school students went back to school. That means that we have fewer fellow-shippers and fewer lessons for right now, but it makes afternoon finding, something we do a fair amount of, very effective! They pour out onto the streets and it's just a missionary frenzy! It's pretty fun and we blend in pretty well with them considering all the schools have uniforms and so the schoolboys have slacks, white shirts and ties on. Most of them also have the crest of their school ironed onto the pocket of their shirts. Kinda like 20,000 missionaries on the street of KwaiChung instead of just 2!

I'm not really sure why, but recently Elder B and I have been getting called by random phone numbers. Some of them are pranks but some of them are legitimate. For instance, this past week we went up to the hospital to visit with a lady who called us. She has pretty good interest in learning this message and so we will probably try to head up their again before she gets released from the hospital. On the other hand, the KwaiChung Sisters companionship got a phone number and address from a man last week that they didn't feel comfortable contacting and so they gave it to us. We went up two days ago and had the most evil feeling as we met with him and as he talked to us. We kept trying to find a good opportunity to leave and eventually left once he started trying to give the laying on of hands to HIS husband... We did't realize that the man we were talking to had undergone 'surgery' and was really a woman. He/She followed us out the apartment complex doors and then we booked it. We won't be going back again. Ever.

Previously I mentioned that J would get baptized this upcoming week. But I regret to say that after reviewing the baptismal questions we feel best with delaying a few weeks more. Mr. L is still doing fantastic, and really wants to be baptized. He has his court hearing next Friday so that will be the real indicator as to whether he can be baptized. Mr. W is hard to get ahold of... He canceled a lesson on us last week and every time we call up to reschedule his wife answers and says he is out and then hangs up on us. We finally went up to his home yesterday but no one was home. Hopefully we can reach him this week.

I started the Old Testament this past week and am on a reading schedule of about 4-5 pages a day and I should have it finished by the time I end my mission. I'm also back in the Book Of Mormon. I've been reading in 2 Nephi lately and am impressed by Jacob's testimony. He has strong faith and explains the resurrection and atonement very well. I hope that I can teach it as simply and as powerfully as he does. The prophets are awesome! 

We will be working and praying for another good week here in KwaiChung! I hope we can get a lot of new investigators and people at church!

Things are going well! 

Love,
Elder Siebach