On Tuesday we heard bagpipes... we walked for 15 minutes and finally Bagpipes!

The sound of bagpipes carries on the wind like Ian opera singing and Natasha's voice {a cousin}. That girl can sing! I miss everyone so much! For real though, I'm reminded of Grandma Pat's love of the pipes!

Hello, chan ngoi ge ga tihng tuhng keih ta meih laih ge yahn (beloved family and other beautiful people),

Monday was Jung Chau Ji (=mid autumn festival)! The #2 party--only Chinese New Year is bigger!

Can I just say: China knows how to party! WOW.

We got to spend some time finding at night (because the Mak family's FHE was cancelled) in Sha Tin Park (next to the marriage registry and New Town Plaza, it is a BEAUTIFUL place even on non-moon-festival-days.

But for Moon Festival? I was AWE STRUCK!

The park, first of all, was DECKED OUT. Hanging, lit lanterns of all shapes and sizes seemed to be floating overhead, and HUGE, lit animals, people, peacocks, flowers, even a house-sized VASE covered the grounds. There is a huge fountain in the park that runs into streams, and in it were floating lit lanterns of fish, water lilies and boats with the reflections swirling around---so beautiful!

The best part of Mid Autumn Moon Festival is that it's all about families visiting each other in reunions, so the finding {tracting} and the Spirit was AMAZING.

I smiled at a man on my way up out of the escalator (he was going down) (not out of the ordinary, I smile at EVERYONE). He gave me a weird look and I noticed he was wearing a pretty big cross.

Figured he thought we were che gaau, so I shrugged and kept smiling. We walked outside and found a quiet place to pray to be led to prepared people--then opened our eyes to see this same man. He asked, HEY. What is the difference between your church and other Christian churches? And why are you so happy??

Wow, OK, we would love to answer those questions. We taught him a quick lesson (and gave him the ELDERs' phone number since he did follow us outside). Then we met Isabella, a student waiting for her friends, and got to teach her a really special lesson, hopefully it was to her needs, and we may see her again this Saturday! We were finding in Sha Tin, but she lives in Ma On Shan (so perfect, tee hee).

Then, when we were about done for the night and thinking about where we would eat dinner, when we saw a man with a rice box--and he saw my nametag. Yeh Sou?! He shouted (= Jesus??), Ngoh seung seun! (= I believe!), bei ngoh gaau wui ge sih gaan! (when does your church meet?!). It was pretty hilarious.

Then we got to eat under the lights in the heat and the beauty of mid-autumn festival, so thankful that we're here in Hong Kong on the Lord's errand.

Chinese Lesson for today:

Sahp chyuhn, sahp meih literally means ten all, ten beautiful, but in Cantonese, figuratively those words mean BEST DAY EVER.

Sister Cheung taught it to me that night, after we collapsed in the lift on the way up to our apartment--bug bitten, heat exhausted, foot sore and INCREDIBLY HAPPY.

Love all! Be safe and happy and keep praying for all God's work to move forward!

Sister Dia Darcey Baaaaahk