December 5, 2017
Well this week was pretty bomb.
We pretty much only find women who are interested in the church, so this week we were praying for guys, so we could have some priesthood holders. Then there was one day where all our appointments fell through, and our backups didn't work either, so we went finding for a while. Literally every single person we found that day was a guy, and they all seemed super interested in the church. Prayer, answered.
Also it was pretty funny their names were like, Kong Vang, Kong Xiong, Kong Yang, Kong Chang, and another dude whose name was surprisingly not Kong. We also met this cool guy named Sylvester Williams, he's not Hmong, he's from Liberia and he works in the ministry of sports, apparently he's in charge of scheduling FIFA games, and so he gets to go for free.
(Don't worry Trevor, I got the hookups for ya') He was in the US for medical attention, and was staying with his nephew, but he'll be going back soon, and meeting the missionaries in Liberia. He also wants the missionaries here to meet with his nephew's family, so that was pretty sweet.
We had a Christmas party, that was awesome, and we got some less actives out, and even met some new investigators.
One girl, Sandy, is getting baptized, Sunday at church. She told us her spirit said she's home. Yes girl! Her boyfriend is currently less active, but not for long. He came teaching with us, and we had a really cool experience where we were prompted to see this one investigator, who is having trouble keeping any commitments. Turns out he delivered pizza to them once, but then when his shift ended brought them another pizza for free, and talked with them, she even tried to hook him up with her cousin. So suffice it to say, they knew each other.
Later we met this girl named Pakou Khang, apparently she lived in Willimantic CT, and even went to a Mormon church with her brother there...HHAAhahah! Connections, I used to live in CT! So pretty cool, haven't met anyone from CT in a while and definitely not someone who lived so close.
Spiritual thought of the week: we were wondering why it always seemed that our investigators prayers were so strong. Through study and prayer we found that basically we need to be more sincere when we pray. Alma 39:11 says when they see your actions, can they believe your words? And we realized that basically everything our investigators know about the church, are things we teach them, both through our words and our actions. And if those words and actions seem insincere or careless, they notice, and it makes it harder for them to believe our words.
So this week we've been focusing on sincere prayer and really trying to bring the spirit. The day we started to do that three lessons in a row people were like, 'wow, the room feels lighter', or 'I just feel so much more peaceful or happy'. And I was like dang...we should've been doing this the whole time. I invite all of you to have more sincere prayers and really think about and mean everything you say.
Elder Hwj Chim
This first and second picture was this fairy tale like house there were squirrels running around and birds and everything about it was like, dang, I bet there's a dwarf in there, or something The third is this weird peachy tasting orange texture fruit, and then those spiky fruits are different, but they were all super good. Some food from the Christmas party. My adoptive mom singing a Hmong song. Lastly, us meeting Santa with some people who are going to be new investigators
Haha, honestly I haven't even had time to eat all the food you sent out before, I just don't have a lot of time, but I do carry them around as snacks. So I don't even know what I want for Christmas...real converts maybe? I found this super fairytale house while tracting. It was like normal house, normal house, WHAT THE HECK? Then back to normal, there's like a line in the front yards of leaves where the normal people rake, but this guy just lets it go. So that was cool. Have a great week, I love you guys.
Elder Lauj
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