Whoa! I am a Missionary!

January 2, 2017

Well this week was cool.
All the Hmong people tab tom hu plig, they're calling in spirits to their house for the new year so we can't go into their homes, unless they're Christian, and don't believe in that anymore.

 I got a new companion on Wednesday for transfers. He is the first non native Hmong companion I've had. But he grew up with Hmong people in his school. His name is elder lucero, he's hilarious. In his apartment before he came here he was growing potatoes and pine trees. He is super funny.  I got some sweet Hmong ties from a member and elder lucero knows how to make them, so I might try to make one myself.

We found a ton of new people this week, which is super awesome, now every hour of every day we have like 2 or 3 people to see. One cool story is that we were biking, and we went to bike up this hill, but both our bike chains broke at the same exact time in the same spot and we couldn't move. In my head I was like 'oh wow what a coincidence, this is like something that happens to missionaries when there are people to find or when they're about to see a miracle'. Then I was like
oooOOOOoooOoOoOohhhhHhHhHh!! Boy, I AM a missionary! So we parked our bikes and looked around, and lo and behold we found a Hmong family right next to where our bikes broke. They didn't let us in, because it was a little late, but then we went onwards, and met a family where the husband had literally just gotten home from the airport ,and was about
to walk out the door, and we caught them at the perfect time. We've already been back and will return again this week. They're super cool and want to learn more, so miracles were indeed seen. 

Ate a ton of Hmong food this week. That family we found with perfect timing fed us some legit pho, there was like whole octopuses and pig intestines and the whole Shibang.

This week we got a whole less active family to come to church together, sometimes the oldest son will come, sometimes just the parents, but this week all of them came and they brought their cousin, and their 9 year old son who hasn't been baptized. Their family is hilarious, always asking where the food is at. After sacrament they came up and said elder Hwj Chim, where is all the food? Sorry guys we just have bread and water....not much else happened this week, so
until next time
Elder Hwj Chim


We tried to walk on the ice near our apartment but while on it there was this huge crack, and we quickly shimmied off the ice, if you listen closely you can hear it. This companion is elder vang, before we had changes.
Some SUPER sour fruit I forgot the name of
Some frog legs and rice, and some eggs made with that super sour fruit
Octopus pho
Chicken feet
Note: photo technical difficulties--stay tunes ...