Hey family! I'm still alive. This past week was actually
pretty eventful and went by really quick. It honestly doesn't seem like I've been
here for 4 weeks. Anyway, so last Tuesday devotional we heard from Elder Whitney T. Clayton, and he gave such a good talk. I loved it, it really
strengthened my testimony of the leaders of the church. Then Wednesday-Saturday
pretty much everything was the same, nothing too crazy happened. Just everyday
life of a missionary. Saw Kaydo on Thursday though, that was awesome. He seems
to be doing well, except he's got a crazy rash/hives thing going on since he got
here. I feel bad for him.
So anyway, about half of our zone leaves next Tuesday. 2
Vietnamese districts and 2 Thai districts. They've been here ever since we got
here and were our only friends for a long time, so its going to be kind of sad.
But with them leaving, we needed new zone leaders, so who other than my
roommates, Elder Hinckley and Israelson!!! So that has been awesome! Lots of
work for them, but nice benefits for me and Elder Tayler, hahahaha. So that
happened this last Sunday, and then we'll probably get a new district leader
this Sunday. Change is about to hit us pretty hard.
Yesterday was a great birthday!!! We just had a normal
schedule, but it was a great birthday. And it was Elder Israelson's birthday too, which
was actually super fun. I really liked sharing a birthday with him. It was like
I had someone else to celebrate with. It was awesome. To celebrate, we got up
early and worked out, and then I had chocolate milk for every meal. The food
was actually pretty good, except dinner was Subway... and then they ran out and
we had to have the MTC sandwiches. But other than that, it was an awesome day.
And don't worry, thanks to you guys I didn't starve!!! Thanks so much for the
package for my birthday!!! That was super kind of all of you, I really loved it! And the watch is super awesome. I'm stoked about that!!! So yeah, pretty much the
whole day was normal, except everyone told us happy birthday and the teacher
and class sang us happy birthday. Hopefully a video will be on the way. But
then during what should have been language study time we took the first 30
minutes and opened presents. Elder Tayler's mom got both of us packages, which
was super kind. Lots of food, and two frozen Cafe Rio burritos. In the mail. I
decided I'd give mine to Elder Tayler. He likes Cafe Rio way more than I do, haha, but it was still super nice of her.
Then after all the classes we came back to the room and had
a party.
We made balloon animals, and Elder Israelson got a chess
board, so some people played chess, and we jammed out to the EFY playlist. It
was a great birthday. I don't feel 19 yet though.
Everyone is getting a lot better friends, but still lots of
sickness. Elder Tayler is better now though, and I got feeling better, and
hopefully I wont catch the virus, but like 4 other people in our district got
it, just not as bad. Everyone is on the mend now i think though, which is good,
cuz tons of people have missed class and church and stuff.
I'll think of more stuff to send later, but right now were
about to go play volleyball, so when i think of more stuff ill send it. Love
you all so much!!
Love,
Elder Muaj Koob
The
teachers are all good, we have 3. Brother Gardner is going to BYU right now,
and he's probably my least favorite of the three teachers because he only speaks
in Hmong and its hard to understand what he's saying sometimes. Brother Ferguson
is our other teacher. I really like him. He just got back from his mission in
Milwaukee like a month and a half ago, so he knows what's up. Then Brother Lee,
who's Korean, is probably my favorite teacher. He's really animated and uses lots
of English so that we understand and actually learn things. All the teachers
act like investigators once a day and we teach them as if they are real
investigators, so that's fun. We plan lessons and stuff. It's hard though, cuz
its not real life, they're just acting. And they aren't really receptive and they
play hard roles, but its getting better. Also, on Saturday we did TRC for the
first time. We taught two girls living here who were from Fresno who spoke Hmong. I was kinda nervous but they actually spoke a lot of English to us so that was
nice. Then the other people we taught were a couple of one native speaker and a
guy who learned on his mission. That was fun, but I realized that I really don't now that much Hmong. i just want to teach people in English so that they will
understand me, and from what I hear a lot of Hmong people we will teach in
English. But its still important for me to improve my Hmong skills.
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