Hey, so this week was great! Same schedule as normal pretty
much. Just studying tons and trying to improve my Hmong skills, haha. It's hard
though, still fun though.
So last Tuesday, we heard from Elder Oaks at the devotional
and it was awesome!! He talked a lot about things that are specific to
missionaries, but one thing he talked about that applies to everyone is the
resurrection. He talked about the importance of the resurrection and how it
gives us so much hope for a life after this life. One interesting perspective
he shared was that temples are literally huge buildings of faith in the
afterlife. They are physical symbols of our faith in the plan of salvation,
which is awesome!
In other news, the BYU game was heard from the MTC, and
there was some rivalry, but we still lost. So sad. Got a fun picture though.
Here's a cool story though: So we teach 2 lessons for TRC to real members who speak Hmong. The first person we taught, we taught
about charity and we shared Mosiah 7:45, 47, and 48. Then we talked about them,
but like our Hmong was really bad but we kinda got the point across. I had been
kinda feeling down cuz our lessons with our investigators (teachers) hadn't been
going very well. So after the lesson, the TRC guy asked if he could speak English and then told us how we were doing great and how we really brought the
spirit and how he could tell that we were going to be good missionaries.
That was awesome, but not the best part.
When we taught the next guy, we kinda had planned to just
say the same stuff and share the same scriptures, but then i had the thought to
share vs 46 and 47 instead of the other two. I don't know why, but I did and so we read
them and the verse I wanted to focus on was 47, because it talks about what
charity is. But after we read them, the mej zeej had a question about verse 46
and I was like "great Elder McArthur, you really screwed that up"
especially cuz we cant really understand when people ask questions. Hmong is
freaking hard, but he was wondering why it said "without charity, you are
nothing" and kinda what that meant. So I tried to testify to him that
with charity, God can make us into something and it really shows the importance
of charity. Then I testified to him that God will answer his question if he
asked and studied the scriptures. We ended with a prayer, walked out, and Elder Tayler hadn't really said anything all lesson. I had kinda just taken over, and the whole lesson was just trying to answer his question. So we walked out and Elder Tayler was like "dang, you were speaking great, I couldn't even
really follow the conversation." I still wasn't feeling too great about it
though, other than it had given us a good opportunity to testify. They leave us
reviews after though, and he thanked us for being so sincere and taking so much
time to answer his question. He shared that the verse translated a little
differently than the English BoM, but he thought it was really what he needed
to hear, and he thanked us for ministering to him. So that was awesome! Our Hmong still sucked, and we taught a lesson yesterday that was just horrible,
but we were able to help someone when it actually counted, and that was such a
cool experience!
My testimony is really growing a lot here! I'm loving it. Thanks for all the support! hope you are all doing well!! love you!
Love,
Elder Muaj Koob
BYU game day vs. Utah
Companion Swag
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