Hello everyone. So the MTC is still good. It's hard to
believe that I've already been out for three weeks. I'm learning so much though,
so it's awesome. Also, I decided I'm only going to do a group email once every two
weeks or like once a month or something. Don't worry though, I'll still send the
important things.
So the past two weeks we heard from M. Russell Ballard and
Neil. L. Andersen. They both gave great talks, but on completely different
things; E. Ballard spoke about locking our hearts and not flirting, while E.
Andersen spoke about the importance and significance of prayer. It's so awesome
to hear from apostles.
The schedule has pretty much been the same over the past two
weeks. I'm learning a lot, but Hmong is crazy hard. Like I know that there's no
way I could learn it on my own. There will be times when I'm sitting in class
and I'll understand phrases the teacher says or I'll be teaching and the phrase
I want to say will just come to me. The Gift of Tongues is so real, I have a
strong belief of that.
***So the Open house at the MTC is still going on. I've seen
a few people I know, but for the most part we just feel like animals at the zoo, haha. It's great though. I enjoy interacting with people who aren't
missionaries. Cool story though, on Saturday my family came through the tour.
The MTC president sent out an email reminding everyone that they weren't
supposed to set up meetings or anything. So I didn't ask what time my family
was going through, and I didn't really look for them. I hadn't seen them all
day, and so it was about 7:00 at night, and my district and I were all walking out
to the field for exercise time. On the way to the field, there's a small
portion of the tour that the missionaries cross through; it is literally such a
small spot in comparison with the whole tour, and the only place where we would
see any tour patrons on our way to the field. Well, lo and behold, my family
just happened to be right where we had to walk through! It was so awesome to
see them all again and talk to them. I learned that God will bless us and allow
miracles to happen if we are obedient to His rules and commandments.
Anyway, the plague is going around. The other districts in
our zone call it the Hmong plague. It started out about two weeks ago with
Elder Wayment getting sick with the common cold, and then that hit about half
the district pretty hard. I got that like three days ago, but I'm doing better
now. But that's not what the problem has been. Elder Tayler has a different
strain of the plague. He has a viral throat infection that has kept getting worse. He can't really fight it, all he can do it hope and pray and take pain
meds. We were finally able to give him a blessing two nights ago, but his
condition is still getting worse. Yesterday, he woke up and could barely drink
water, but by the end of the day he could eat a tiny bit of food. Then, Elder
Tarone, who has had a sore throat for the last five days, got a checkup. Turns out, he has the same thing. So that sucks. But sometimes it's also a good thing,
cuz it means I can go on splits with other healthy companionship's. But the
schedule has been really whack lately cuz all Elder Tayler can really do it just
stay in bed, so I'm trying to get him to sleep as much as possible. I guess he
can get out of bed and do stuff too, he just doesn't have very much energy, haha.
Kuv paub hais tias Vajtswv yog peb Leej Txiv Saum Ntuj Ceeb
Tsheej, thiab Nws hlub sawv daws. Kuv paub hais tias Yexus Khetos yog Vajtswv
Leej Tub. Kuv hlub txoj moo, thiab kuv ris txiaj ua tus tub txib. (That's a
short testimony in Hmong. It's not much but it's the best I got, haha)
Sincerely,
Elder Muaj Koob (which I found out means to have a reputation.
I don't know if that's a good thing or not, hahaha)
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