Are You Up For The Laxative Challenge?

November 14, 2016

     Well, this week was great. You know that scene in the Lord of the Rings
where they talk about eleventh breakfast...I had a day where we
literally went from meal appointment to meal appointment, for the
entire day. Some of them weren't appointments, but the investigators
made us an entire meal while we were there. We ended up with 2
breakfasts, 2 lunches, and 3 dinners, not to mention all the food they
gave us to take home. 

     I felt like I was about to explode. Also the day before we did this "Laxative Challenge" as a companionship.  We basically just drank a bottle of magnesium nitrate, which tasted like cherry
soda, but then spent the day in the bathroom, and cleaned out our
systems for the next day, where we ate a ton. 

We found a few new investigators, some old ladies who are super hard to understand,
because they're super Hmong. 

     Apparently one guy from church went to Laos to buy a wife he'd been talking to on facebook but she really didn't want to marry him, so he tried to capture her like they do in
Hmong culture, but she got super mad, and sent an axe gang to kill him,
so then he bought a different wife, and somehow got back to the us
safely. Crazy stuff. 

     We met the people our teachers were pretending to be while we were in the MTC.  One of them was Nraj Nyuam, and I had to translate for him, which was cool, but super hard, because I don't
really know Hmong that well.  Plus people were talking about how
science supports God's existence, and they were like God is manifest in
every aspect of the universe, and I was just sitting there thinking
dang....I got nothing. 

     Nee and his family came back to church, which is great because they're such a strong family and can help the branch out a lot. 

     In fast and testimony meeting, like half the congregation
was on the stand waiting to bear their testimony, and it went half an
hour over.  They are all like a big family, they have so much love for
each other. 

     Still don't have winter clothes...it's starting to get a bit chilly... 

     I got to see the temple a few times, not go inside yet, but just see it. It's super tiny. 

     Not much else, but I'm learning every
day. 

     Elder Hutchins