I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go , If I Like It

October 25, 2016


     Well, This week was nice. We learned about one of the Hmong creation stories, which involves Eve birthing a living chunk of meat, which grows until she cuts it into 36 pieces, and hangs pairs of the slices on random things like a broom, a tree, a fence. 



Then when she wakes up they're all babies, and that is how the 18 hmong clans came about. 

     This week we taught our last TRC's (which basically means we skype members who speak hmong and teach them). This week we were going to teach the restoration, but when we got there, we instead taught of the importance of the Book of Mormon. 

     Turns out, when our teacher talked to her afterwards to review, she said she hadn't been reading the B.O.M. lately since she was a busy with her new baby.  But during the lesson we had talked about how the Book of Mormon can help families, so she said it really helped her remember the importance of reading.

     ONLY ONE MORE WEEK! Then, I leave for Minnesota. Not ready to translate the sacrament meeting into Hmong my first week. My teachers said it took them 6 months to feel comfortable translating....I'm about to be hit by the bus of humility. Still excited though. 

     This week we get 35 new missionaries in our zone, so that's cool, although I won't really get to know them that well. 

     Oh funny story about the Mongolians who leave this week.  A few got reassigned to missions in the US while they wait for Visas. They were bummed out, and they were supposed to sing a song with the Indonesians in sacrament meeting since they're all leaving.  Well, since they weren't going to Mongolia they didn't want to sing. Turns out the song they'd chosen to sing together was............"I'll go where you want me to go".....

     Wow...more like, "I'll go where you want me to go, unless its somewhere I don't really want to go, in which case, I'll still go but have a terrible time".  So that was quite ironic in my opinion. They left the 2 indonesian sisters to sing alone.  It was still pretty good though.

     Not much else really happened this week, we got flight plans, and we got name tags with our Hmong names on them, so that's great, but we can't wear them until we're in the field.

Have a happy halloween! 

Elder H

Carry on in the merrymaking and cider drinking!

K