January 30, 2017
So this week in the chronicles of elder Hutchins
1.monday we went to the Holy Land...or tried to. We wanted to see a
museum in Minneapolis,but they were all closed, except for one called
the Holy Land. It had no picture on the Google maps app or time it was
open so we just went. It was some random guys house...pretty run down
too and it had a midget door in the back...weird. Apparently you need
to make an appointment before hand. This person and his friends dress
up like biblical times and take you on a tour of the house and "bring
the scriptures to life"
We also went to a soap factory which was the only other thing that
didn't specifically say it was closed that day. Aaaaaand it was closed
too. But is also wasn't actually a factor for soap. It was like an art
factory for up and coming artists to make and display their works.
2. We did a service activity called 'feed my starving children'. You
pack up food for children all over the world in struggling areas. We
packed for Haiti and in 2 hours packed 125 boxes each with 36 bags
of food which we had to pack and seal.
3. Got super scared. There was supposed to be 2 new hmong elders
coming in on Wednesday and even though I'm still in training president
asked me to train one...but unfortunately one elder went home. Sad but
he'll be back in April, it also let's me learn a little more in the
meantime. But the one elder who did come is elder Hutchinson and he's
pretty cool as you can tell by the name.
4. The missionary schedule changed, so now we can decide when to do
everything, which is good because hmong people aren't really available
at certain times of the day and this allows us to get to them better.
5. Investigator wise, we left one with a children's book of Mormon and
not only did he read and love that, but he watched the hour long
Joseph Smith restoration movie. When he told us about it he said, "it
was good, but why did they KILL him!? That made me so ANGRY!" Hahaha
yeeeees Nplooj we often wonder that as well...
6. We biked, a ton. One day elder Lucero's bike tires were kinda low
on air so we went to a gas station. Turns out you need to pay for air
out here. We didn't have enough change so we prayed and when we opened
our eyes this woman just walked over and handed us what we needed and
drove away. So we used it....but the hose had a hole in it and we
couldn't fill his tires. Then a Mexican came over and told us where we
could get free air. So we drove over there, but it was not in fact
free. So we set up our bikes on their kickstands for a sec, because an
old granny was calling us. And the wind blew my bike over. I picked it
back up, finished the call and looked over, and I had a FLAT tire. I
have never seen one so flat, I mean flat Stanley has nothing on this
baby. So we had to walk 5 miles to the closest members house, who was
home and took us to get our car when we returned for our bikes we went
tracting and found 3 solid investigators. Also because my bike had a
flat tire, and his were bad we just took them into a shop and found,
that if elder L didn't get his bike fixed soon it would fall apart
with him riding it. Miracles. We see too many, not even gonna talk
about how he got the money to pay to fix his bike a day later.
7. It's been a great week. Crazy if I do say so myself. It's been
reeeeaaal easy to see gods hand in my life this week and for that I am
great full.
Elder Hwj Chim
The Holy Land
My new house
Service
A duck
Flat stanleys cousin
The medicine Granny from last week
Technical difficulties with photos--stay tunes--
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