December 19, 2016
Well. Interesting week indeed.
Went on exchanges Saturday with the Spanish speaking zone leader. Thank heavens I took Spanish for 2 years, so instead of understanding ABSOLUTELY nothing, I understood ALMOST absolutely nothing, shoutout to LHS and my great Spanish teacher who got fired, because she was so bad. She even showed us a step by step video of how to make cocaine...if you ever need my skills you know where I am. I digress, the exchange was nice and while I couldn't understand all the words that were said, i could feel the spirit.
The next day my normal companion got emergency transferred to an English area because one of the elders there is going home for shoulder replacement surgery...this elder is 18 and needs a new shoulder...scary stuff. So elder vang is gone, now my companion is elder vang ( native Hmong names are so creative am I right?) he'sgreat.
In teaching this week, we had a few awesome experiences. There was a street that we had felt impressed to go finding on a few weeks in a row, but never got the chance, because we were so busy, we finally did and it turns out there are 2 Hmong families who have definitely been prepared to receive the gospel.
Our date set for the 24 didn't come to church and so hasn't met the 3 week attendance requirement. She texted
us saying, hey I can't make it today I have some family matters that came up, since I didn't make the 3 week rule, can I be baptized on Christmas after church. Well she can, and is being baptized next Sunday. Just a blessing and really cool to see how much her faith has grown, to the point where she knows what she needs to do, and wants to do it as soon as possible.
Some funny things that happened this week. We saw a Hmong lady well tracting, but every 10 minutes or so during the lesson she'd just get up and walk out, then come back a little later. Turns out she was making a giant pot of moonshine in the garage, like the whole get up and everything and she was making sure everything was going smoothly. So that was pretty funny.
We tried to make a snowman. Unfortunately it is too cold, so the snow is super dry and can't be packed. It got down
to -22 degrees the other day so not many people were in church. One of our favorite less active families is moving. We're sad because they haven't started coming back to church yet, but they did get robbed two times in the last week, and the daughters car just died, she tried to sell it, apparently it's worth only $25, I thought that was hilarious. She ended up donating it to a charity.
And lastly a little miracle, one of our date sets was busy so we couldn't teach them, but we went over anyways, we could only stay for 5 minutes because after that she needed to go. But, miraculously her thing got canceled and so
we got to teach her a lesson. Tender mercies.
One of our recent converts had her father pass away, so went to the funeral for a little bit with some members from our ward which really cheered her up. While there one of the members convinced me I should go to Laos after my mission during Christmas break in college. That's when the weather is perfect, when the Hmong people are having their New Years parties, everything is even cheaper, and there's lots of food. He also said its cultural law that you don't touch or mess with
white people or you can get in big trouble. So I'd be pretty safe, plus I can speak Hmong alright, hopefully better after my mission, but basically it would be an awesome experience. He said living there for two weeks you wouldn't spend more than $700 the only expensive thing is the airplane tickets. We tried to make a snowman here but the snow is too dry and powdery, so we poured a bunch of water in the snow, which helped a little, but we could only make a tiny little dude.
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