Say 'Hmong People' backwards and What Do You Get?

Janyuary 16, 2017

Well not too much happened this week. Just learned more about Hmong
culture and how literally everything has connections back to Israel
and customs they had. Also when the 10 tribes left they went up to
north countries and the Hmong people came from up north then went to
Mongolia and then to Laos. They have the blue eye blond hair gene and
tall gene still. They are also the only Asian religion to believe in a
god...and they say stuff backwards like blue shirt is shirt blue, and
if you say Hmong people backwards it's xeeb hmoob which sounds
veeeeery similar to Simeon....hmmm just food for thought.

We had some great spiritual lessons and will be inviting 7 people to
get baptized this week, definitely people that have been prepared by
Heavenly Father to hear his message.

Also gift of tongues is super cool, like talking to a woman who had a
dream very similar to lehis of the tree of life and I could actually
understand what she was saying. She's not a member and hasn't heard of
this church and when she heard a man in the Book of Mormon had a dream
like her, she was like hold on I'm gettin ma glasses, I need to read
this ASAP!

In other news our district focus is on recording all members (recent,
old, active, and not) conversion stories. It's helped get a few people
back to church by helping them remember why they joined the church in
the first place. This week we recorded a few more which were all
awesome and as a result had several less actives in church this Sunday
who are preparing to return to the temple.

It's 28 degrees out today which is weird ,and also super hot, short and
t shirt weather for sure.

Hmong are super family oriented ,and so either the entire family,
extended too, is home; or nobody is. This week we found one where all
the wives were together while the guys ice fished. So we taught a
lesson to 9 people, we split up and my companion and I taught 2
separate lessons, one in English and mine, in hmong. That happened 3
or 4 times this week, so, super cool I guess

Elder Hwj Chim