Friday, May 25, 2007

Just Like the Old Days



After visiting the Church's new building we went to grab lunch at one of my old favorite spots on Kowloon side, Ruby Tuesday. Much to my dis-appointment it is gone from the mall now and we ate at some random restaurant with a nice view of downtown. We took the subway up the peninsula from here and visited Mongkok, one of HK's many notorious shopping districts. Fernando and I both got 2 ties while Mackenzie picked up a belt for roughly 30 cents. We hopped back on the subway and went to Kowloon Tong to visit the Temple and look into doing a session and staying in Temple housing in the future (we ended up deciding to stay at the Salisbury YMCA where they have hostel style dorm rooms for a little more than our current accomodations but in a much more convenient location). While visiting the Temple I decided to go upstairs and see the mission home and had a very pleasant surprise. A then-19ish young man, new member from the Causeway Bay Ward (I served there for over 4 months) who was taught and baptized by my trainer is now a full-time missionary and I ran into him unexpectedly. He couldn't go on a mission then because his mother was old and in poor health, disliked the Church, and depended on his income to provide for them both. He was/is the nicest, humblest young man and I was so happy to see him serving. That was definitely the highlight of my day and I need to tell his trainer the good news. Since we were beat from the day's adventures we headed home a little earlier than expected around 8pm.
The title of this blog derives from what we do all day, walk around and travel around HK. It reminds me of my mission because I became so tired and sweaty/dirty from just walking around and seeing the sights. It was great to be back but I think I make a lousy tour guide as that was never my interest in the past and I don't really know what to do to entertain others. Hong Kong for me means mission I guess and it probably always will.

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