Hello family!! Thanks for all of the emails and love sent my
way this past week, love you guys!! Looks like Grandma's 90th birthday party was
a good time. Sad I missed it, haha. But this past week was AWESOME!!!! Like
seriously, it was a great week, we had some awesome stuff happen.
Tuesday: So Tuesday, an old lady in the ward needed us to
fill up some gas cans for her, and she lives clear out in camp far west, which
is like diamond ranch area if you're in St. George, like it's just the middle of
nowhere. But it's super beautiful. So anyway, we went out there, picked up all the
gas cans. I felt like I was back at the RV park just filling up gas cans, haha.
We were filling them all up, but then the very last one had a hole in it, so
gas just starting going everywhere, and our truck was already full of gas so we
had no place to put it so we ended up just giving it to the people next to us...
kinda sketchy, but it's all good. Then we had a lesson with Michael and Jasmine,
and we taught about the commandments and obedience to set up for the big
commandments like word of wisdom and law of chastity and what not. It was a good
lesson.
Wednesday: We had district meeting. There are 2 new people
in the district. So now, since the day I arrived, every single person is new
except Elder Gunsay and one spanish sister, Hermana Eppich. Everyone else in
the zone is new too, so I feel like a veteran even though I haven't been out
that long, haha. After district meeting, we went back and taught Michael and
Jasmine again because they were free and we need to crank through these lessons
for them to get baptized. We
taught them the Word of Wisdom... we were scared for this lesson because we
knew that Michael liked to drink. But we taught it and everything went well. Michael said he would not drink, but Jasmine apparently drinks tea... we did
not see that coming. Like who actually drinks tea?!?! But anyway, she committed
to live the word of wisdom too, which was awesome, and Elder Gunsay and I
committed to not eat sugar until after their baptism to kinda be supporting
them too! So it's been fun not eating sugar. Actually, it gives us an excuse to not
have desserts for dinner appointments which is nice, haha. Kinda bad timing
right close to Valentines day, I guess, but hey, living the word of wisdom can
be really hard for some people. Also, ate at In N Out Wednesday night because we
were finding up in Yuba. OH ALSO, forgot to say, but Michael made the decision
that he wants to be baptized with Jasmine too!!! So that was a miracle!! And he wants me
to baptize him too, so that will be fun, haha.
Thursday:
Thursday we helped Tim do some service around the house again. It was fun. He
and his wife went to the stake Valentine's day dance, so that's a step in the
right direction! He's still not open to the church, but he likes us a lot more
now so that's good. After that, we had another lesson with Michael and Jasmine,
because they usually just sit at home and don't really do anything haha. This
time, we taught the law of chastity, which was easy because they just out of
the blue decided to get married last like October, so that was nice. However,
Jasmine has a potty mouth.. so swearing was a fun subject to cover, but she is
working on it, and it is not something that can stop her from being baptized,
so that's good. Also, had a good lesson with Dalton, the kid who we baptized
first week in the mission. He's doing good. He did just break his arm and have
ear surgery though... but he's doing good, haha.
Friday: So Friday we had a lesson with Mai and Pheng. So that's their names, or if I say
Maiv and Pheej it's the same people, just spelled in Hmong but pronounced the
same. Their last name is Xyooj, but the English spelling is Xiong. So anyway,
we thought that Mai's brother, SP (who we taught the past 2 weeks) would be
there, so we prepared to teach the plan of salvation to him, but he wasn't
there... we ended up just teaching about tithing without any preparation, but
it was still a great lesson!! They are like so prepared for baptism. I just keep
praying that something will work out. After that, we pretty much ended up just
weekly planning for the day, and then going to Panda express for dinner with an
old lady in the ward. She's like our grandma. Her name is Sis. Femling and she
is so nice. We ate out a lot this week.
Saturday: Today
was a good day. So Kennith and Carissa, Mai and Pheng's kids, are never able to
be there for lessons because of school, so we made a video lesson and sent it
to them, so that was pretty fun. I'll see if I can send the video, I probably
won't be able to tho... then we went and tried to find people... it was kinda
rough, like we spent an hour in the nicer part of town, and literally nobody
talked to us. The best was when I said "hi, how are you, we're missionaries" and then boom they slammed the door just like that. People don't know what they
are missing out on.
Sunday: Sunday
was great!! Jasmine and Michael came to church and really liked it! So that was
cool. Jasmine didn't really like Relief Society, but that's ok, we're just taking
it one step at a time. Then we hurried up to the Hmong branch, and got there
after the last hour had ended, but made it just in time to see the Xiong
family. They went to church too!! Then, this was a miracle, there was a
random family from Fresno who came and brought their son who lives here, and
the son is not a member, so we hit our goal of 7 people to sacrament!! This was
the first week ever in the my whole mission we hit all of our goals in one
week. We have just really seen a lot of miracles lately! Also, at the end of my
training, beginning of last transfer, Elder Gunsay and I made a prayerful goal
for the upcoming 2 transfers to baptize 5 people. With Allison last week and Jasmine and Michael this month, we just need 2 more people before the end of
March. So we decided to fast on Sunday so that we might be able to find 2 new
people who could enter into the covenant of baptism and we would hit our goal
before Elder Gunsay leaves the area. So we're really hoping and have faith that
we will see miracles this week!! It should be another great week!!
As far as
studies go, this past week I studied the allegory of the olive tree in
Jacob 5, man it is just so good. Like it's about missionary work too, and it
got me so pumped to do missionary work. I've been trying to have more love for
others too, and as I've been studying charity, I've realized it is literally the
most important thing to have... if we don't have charity, nothing else matters.
Granted, charity encompasses pretty much all other attributes, but still. So I've been trying to love others more, just like everyone regardless of what they
do, and the Lord gave me a great chance to develop charity this past week. I
was working out in the morning this past week, and I was running in place I think,
and it was early, but I didn't think I was being very loud, and the guy in the
downstairs apartment starts banging on the roof!! At first, I was super mad 1)
because he always blasts his music late at night and it literally shakes our
apartment and 2) because he didn't even come talk to us, just banged on the
roof. But after thinking about it more, I changed what I was doing and decided
to just let it go and forgive him. So my challenge for you guys this week is to
try a little harder to be nicer to mom and dad, or to not be angry if some guy
cuts you off, or to be a little more patient with the kids... you get the
point. I promise you guys that as you love each other more that everything will
go better!!
Sorry for the
super long email, but there's a reason why I only send a long email to the
family, haha.
Love you
guys!
Love,
Elder Muaj Koob
Also, we hit
all our goals
And I didn't
have that many pictures, so here's a pic of my as I type this.
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