Christmas Miracles

December 26, 2016

Well that was awkward.  Skyped the fam this week. Cried. Pretty embarrassing if I say so myself. Crying is the worst, why does the spirit got to work like that?

Real quick
This week we got a flat tire, apparently we ran over nails. Whoops. Tried to get the tire off but the bolts were too tight. A nice guy named Greg stopped by to help us. He was missing a piece of his power tools so he went to buy it. In the meantime we put the wrench on the bolts and jumped on it to loosen them enough to fix it. Then Greg came back and helped tighten the bolts after we got the spare on. Had a nice conversation with him and shared a BOM, it was Christmas Eve after all.

We got a bag of rice for Christmas, it was much needed. We basically eat rice with everything and we had just run out.
It actually got warm outside, like 38 degrees, felt like summer after -20, unfortunately that meant the snow melted enough to freeze over on the roads the next morning. Driving out of the garage and around the corner we felt like professional drivers drifting with the back swinging out behind us before getting straight and driving on. It was crazy,  but we're safe so it's cool.

Sandy got baptized on Christmas! She's so awesome. Even though she wasn't a member yet she's already been out teaching with us, visiting recent converts and less actives too. She bore her testimony at her baptism and it was so spiritual, she was like before the gospel I honestly had no emotions, I was a robot. But now I feel home, and I feel love and this means the world to me,I can't even explain how it feels. Yeahhhhh! That's right!

We made ginger bread houses with an investigator and their family. Well they made gingerbread houses, we made a ginger bread temple and then proceeded to teach a lesson on the temple, hahaha you thought we were just playing around!

Met with some less actives who reminisced on when they went to the temple and allegedly "gobbled up some holy water" apparently in the baptismal font one of the girls had swallowed a bunch of water because she didn't cover her nose. She was scared she would get in trouble for drinking it. Man Hmong people are funny.

For Christmas we went to a few members houses. My family sent me a deer John. My own family! Dang. It's actually this deer you put in the bathroom and it's motioned sensored and says things when it senses you. Creepy. Also now I think I have enough socks to last a lifetime.

Thanks everyone, I'm grateful for everything you do. Until next week
Hwj Chim lauj

Found this section in the bookstore. False advertising at it again,
these are most definitely not church approved.
Found da twist master, unfortunately I did not get my #manetamed
because it wasn't opened otherwise you know I would've.
Made some homemade spice sauce, definitely spicy.
The beloved gingerbread temple
A funny looking Hmong video
When the missionaries went caroling to a senior home
Two nails stuck in our tire
Sandy at her baptism

Note: having trouble uploading the photos--will check back at a later date...