Letter Home #073: The Temple and the Rain
Dear People,
So, in the LDS Temples there are a lot of older, loving, grandparent-type people that have the time to volunteer 8 hours a day and keep things running smoothly. When Sister Chan from our ward saw that we were there she gave us a delicious white swiss roll, think white cake with whipped butter on top, then rolled up. When she saw that we were sopping wet because we'd forgotten umbrellas, she told us to give her our suits so she could dry them.
While we were getting dressed in our white clothes (to symbolize peace and purity inside what is believed to be the literal house of God) a Temple Worker named Brother Lee came and asked for our suits. We passed them to him, figuring they'd throw them in the dryer.
Much to our surprise, when we got back our suits had been drycleaned and there was a pair of new white socks in the pocket of each jacket! They even thought about our sodden feet! Really, it doesn't matter what people say about Mormons, we LOVE to serve others! Also, there were a bunch of people from Mainland at the Temple, and a few from India, which was really cool to see. We had a good 4-5 countries represented there today!
We, unfortunately, didn't have a baptism this week, and there isn't one scheduled for next Sunday. We do have 4-5 scheduled for this month, so I'll hopefully be sending out some pictures of my Komp wearing his whites (I've baptized enough people, and I'll baptize my kids later, my Junior Companions can get the spotlight time from now on).
Beyond that, not much is new. We go finding a lot, eat "2 Grocery Rice" a lot (I used get 2 orders of Sweet & Sour Pork), and we do serious work! We also take wrong buses that get us home 4 minutes past curfew, soaked to the bone and all of our possessions ruined. It's a miracle that the phone and my camera survived, it really is.
Life is great, God is Good, and I love Hong Kong!
Love,
Elder JE O'Gara
[according to the Hong Kong Observatory Hong Kong got 2 inches of rain and nearby areas got as much as 4 inches. "The easterly airstream converged with a southerly airstream in the vicinity of the Pearl River Estuary this morning, bringing more than 50 millimetres of rainfall to the widespread areas of Hong Kong. Rainfall exceeding 100 millimetres were recorded over parts of the territory."
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