And The Destroyer Will Pass Them By

September 20, 2016

     Well, 3 weeks down, and 3 general apostles heard from. Elders Cook, Ballard, and D. Todd Christofferson. That number will go up when we watch conference...in person. 

     I had to buy a red tie, so I could match everyone else in the choir.  Look out for me on Saturday.  I think that is when we'll be there singing. 

     The choir director is HILARIOUS.  if anyone serves a mission, and he's still here, DO IT!  He's great.  

     Also while on the topic of songs, I sang a special number in sacrament meeting this week. And One elder, his name is Elder Calahan, just makes up songs on the fly about random stuff.  Sometimes we'll even sing about poop to gross out my companion. 

     We've taught 3 investigators and a few members some lessons. I find as I try to do my part to learn the language, and get away from looking at the script, I start to have words and phrases come to my mind which testifies to me of the power of the gift of tongues. 

     Also in my personal study, I started looking for things pertaining to opening your mouth, or missionary work in general. There is SO MUCH stuff about it, its crazy.  Also the scriptures talk about mouths a lot, like A LOT.  Swallowing, and feasting, and whispering, and tongues, and lips, its weird. 

     One cool thing I learned that I hadn't really noticed before was that in Jacob 4:18, Jacob talks about how he's SUPER excited to share the gospel with his brethren.  So excited he's actually afraid he'll lose the spirit.  That's how I want to be.  And sometimes I kinda already feel that, like just get me out there I have something I need to share!  

    

     Anyways, other than that, the only interesting news is, I've lost a few pounds in the first week, my waist size went down a bit, but now I'm starting to put on muscle, so I weigh 185, but my waist is still a bit smaller.

     A cool thing about Hmongs is they believe everytime they're sick an evil spirit has stolen their soul, and they're about to die. So they have shaman come sacrifice pigs and chickens and journey to the other world (spirit world) to get it back. Which we might think is weird, but Jesus cast out evil spirits, so we know that people can be possessed by them. 

     Also they put a red cloth above their door to keep out evil spirits, which is reminiscient of the people in Egypt, who put lambs blood above the door to keep out the destroying spirit. They're a living testimony of the scattering of the tribes

anyways 

Hwj Chim out