Week 44: May 11, 2020

Hi!

A couple things from this week!

First! The prime minister announced yesterday that we can now leave our flats more than once everyday for exercise! That's the only change though haha. We still have to keep social distancing, still no baptisms, stores & restaurants arent opening, etc. So looks my hair isnt getting shorter anytime soon. Haha unless I trust elder cheang to cut my hair :)

Last week on monday, the fuse for our cooker blew. It happened once or twice back when I was in manchester like 6 months ago. 6 months ago, they told us that there wasn't a problem until it happened again... and then last week it happened. So we called a bunch of people and they finally said that they would send an appliance engineer over on thursday to fix it. But until then to keep the fuse for the cooker switched off.

So guess what we did for 4 days?? Yep, we cooked all our food in a microwave, on a George foreman grill, and in a chinese hot pot. For those of you who dont know what a hot pot, it's basically a Chinese thing where you have a boiling pot of broth in the centre of a table and then you put like vegetables, meat, etc. into the broth and then eat it once its cooked. Super good, highly recommend. But I don't recommend  trying to cook other things in it haha. Some things we cooked this past week with our limited resources:

-ramen ;)

-rice (we put a bunch of rice and water in the microwave and hoped for the best. It actually turned out super well haha. Now we cook our rice in the microwave even though we can use our stove now haha)

-Curry

-Chicken wings

-Meatballs

-Garlic breaddddd 🤤

Well they finally came to fix our stove, and told us that actually there wasn't actually anything wrong with it, we probably just let a pot boil over and it got in the electrics. So we put in all that effort for nothing haha. But now I know how to live in case my stove actually breaks haha

Also, this past week we finally called through all our phone contacts. So now its gonna be Facebook finding for a couple months haha. But actually it kinda works cause some random chinese man randomly liked one of my posts without even being my friend. So I friended him, started a conversation, and now we're teaching him! Hopefully we'll see more success!

Also, our mission president shared a quote from this past week: ”A survey by ComRes last week found that almost one in four British adults have watched or listened to a religious service since lockdown began. Academics from British Religion in Numbers estimate that typically just 6% of adults regularly attend a religious service.” The work is still progressing! The virus is softening peoples hearts :)

-Elder Ensign 高长老

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Altrincham Road

Manchester M22 4BJ 

England 

For lack of any other pictures here's our garlic bread and chicken wings :))