• Jehovah Has Blessed My Willingness
    Life Stories of Jehovah’s Witnesses

    • In his class was one of my former Gilead classmates, a young man named Fu-lone Liang, who was then serving in Hong Kong but had been invited back to Gilead for additional training in connection with branch responsibilities.a Fu-lone asked Ramón how I was doing in Peru, and afterward Fu-lone and I started writing to each other.

      Early on, Fu-lone made it clear that our corresponding with each other meant that we were dating. In Hong Kong, Harold King, a fellow missionary, made regular trips to the post office, so he agreed to mail Fu-lone’s letters for him. Harold would draw little pictures and write brief notes on the envelopes containing Fu-lone’s letters to me, with remarks such as, “I will try to get him to write more often!”

      With Fu-lone

      After writing to each other for about 18 months, Fu-lone and I decided to get married. I left Peru after having served there for about seven years.

      A New Life in Hong Kong

      On November 17, 1965, Fu-lone and I got married. I enjoyed my new life in Hong Kong, living at the branch office with my husband and two other couples. While Fu-lone did translation work at the branch during the day, I was out preaching. Learning Cantonese was hard, but the other missionary sisters and my dear husband patiently helped me. Conducting Bible studies with young children while learning the language also helped to reduce some of the pressure.

      The six members of the Hong Kong Bethel family in the mid-1960’s. Fu-lone and I are in the center

      After some years, Fu-lone and I moved to a missionary home in another part of Hong Kong called Kwun Tong, so that Fu-lone could teach Cantonese to newly arrived missionaries.b

  • Jehovah Has Blessed My Willingness
    Life Stories of Jehovah’s Witnesses

    • After a few years in Kwun Tong, we moved back to the branch, and Fu-lone started serving as a member of the Hong Kong Branch Committee. Over the years, I worked in housekeeping and at the reception desk. Fu-lone occasionally had to travel for confidential theocratic assignments where I couldn’t accompany him, but it was a privilege for me to support him as he cared for his responsibilities.

      Fu-lone releasing the second volume of the publication Isaiah’s Prophecy in traditional and simplified Chinese

      An Unexpected Change

      Sadly, in 2008 my whole life changed overnight. While my dear Fu-lone was away on a trip, he died unexpectedly, not long before the Memorial of Jesus’ death.