Hey family! I hit 7 months a few days ago, so that's pretty cool. This past week was really great though!
Last Tuesday was a pretty good day. We did a lot of finding
and contacting, nothing too crazy though. We had dinner with Michael and
Jasmine though, which was way nice because they are pretty tight on money.
Also, she made a homemade cheesecake and we stopped going no sugar! So
it's been nice to have treats again I guess, haha. I'll probably get fat now but
it will be fun. Also, we went on exchanges with the zone leaders!! So that was
awesome, cuz we didn't get to last transfer. I was with Elder Moon, and he is a
really awesome missionary! That was for all day Wednesday. I took over the area
and Elder Moon was with me, and we had district meeting and then a few lessons
and some time to find. I really learned a lot from Elder Moon's example. He's
been out 18 months now and is a great missionary! Also, I got to drive the
truck! First time I had driven in almost 7 months, it was so much fun!! Nothing
too crazy happened Wednesday, mostly just typical missionary work. We did have
dinner with the branch president though, and his wife made some bomb pho. I ate
way too much though. That's a big thing with Hmong people, they really like it
when you eat a lot.
So then on Thursday, we did some service for a less active
lady named Julie, who actually came to church this week!!! But anyways, we took
her old sofa to the dump, and then took a picture because it's not everyday you
go to the dump. We then decided to do some finding in Marysville, which we
don't normally do, but we met 2 new Hmong people!!! One of them said we can
come back. She said she had just turned away from Old Culture, so that's awesome! Hoping good stuff will happen with that! Had dinner with Tong and Lee, they
sign up every other Thursday night, and they make such good Hmong food. Anyways,
not really too much to report from a lot of these days, but there was some cool
stuff this week.
Friday, we weekly planned and then ended up doing some free
moving for someone. She wasn't interested in the gospel but needed help, so we
helped her with that. Then we finished weekly planning, and it just took so
long. Most of the day was just planning. But this week should be awesome and
filled with the Spirit!! We had dinner with a Hmong couple in the branch, and
they made Mexican food, which was a surprise but it was good. After dinner, they
told us stories about Laos and it was cool to listen, even though I didn't
understand that much.
Saturday, we had planned to have a bunch of lessons and lots
of time to find. It was going to be great. We tried a less active lady right in
the morning who we had never really been able to meet before, and when we went
over she was really having a rough morning and needed help so we ended up just
changing clothes and helping her for a little bit. We like built this makeshift
pen thing for her horses because it had been raining so much and they needed to
be in the barn. After that, we didn't have nearly as much time as we had
planned for, but it was ok. We made it work. Originally, we didn't have a dinner,
so we ate at this Mexican place in downtown Olivehurst and it was actually way
good. They served so much food so we were pretty much just going to skip
dinner. We had a good lesson with Juan Yaguaca and his family after that. The
Spanish sisters came and taught the Plan of Salvation to Juan's wife cuz she
only speaks Spanish, and it went really well! Unfortunately, Juan works a lot,
so he can't come to church much. After that, we had a bomb lesson with the
Xiong's. We taught them how to do family home evening, and then did a fun
activity and brought the cookies you sent me like a month ago mom, haha. They
were still good! But it was lots of fun, and then they came to church the next
day too! After that, we decided to go see a less active Hmong lady we hadn't
seen in a really long time, the one who gave us Hmong ties for Christmas! So we
go and have a lesson and are about to leave and she asks us who we are having
dinner with and we say just at home by ourselves and she proceeds to feed us
literally like the biggest servings possible of everything they had for dinner.
It was awesome, but I was still full from lunch. Like picture one of those
huge, oval Dixie plates filled with rice and a bunch of meat and chicken. It
was really good, just so much food. I literally prayed to have the room to eat
all of it. Luckily the carrot cake had walnuts though so I didn't have to eat
that. Funny story, so on the English dinner calendar we write no walnuts for
obvious reasons, but on the Hmong dinner calendar, we don't worry about it.
Well, Friday night, they brought out some banana muffins and they looked really
good so I was about 2 bites into it when I began to get suspicious... sure
enough, it had walnuts in it. They grow so many walnuts here that all the
people in California love to put them in like everything. Meanless to say, I
took an allergy pill and was fine, but I learned my lesson.
Sunday was an awesome day! As a missionary, I am always so
worn out by Sunday that I always look forward to taking the sacrament. It truly
does give me the energy I need to keep going and doing the work. But anyway, we
weren't gonna have any investigators come to the Wheatland ward because just
nobody could make it and then Michael got sick so Jasmine and him couldn't make
it, and we were just gonna have nobody come. It's been a long time since we
sat by ourselves... Well, miracles do happen. You guys probably don't remember,
but about a month ago (Jan. 30th) to be exact, we were walking out of our
apartment and about to get into our truck to hit the day, when this lady drives
by, stops and asks us if we are church people. We answered yes, and she proceeded
to explain all of her problems with her divorce and alcohol and whatnot, and
seemed really sincere and wanted to change and have God in her life. We were
stoked! We gave her a card with our number and she drove off, and we hadn't
heard from her since... until yesterday. SHE JUST SHOWED UP AT CHURCH!!!!! She
had wrecked her car a few weeks before and so she biked to church and just
walked in and came and used the bathroom and some guy came up to us and was all
like "non-member spotted" and so we waited to ambush her as she came
out of the bathroom and it was the same girl we had given the card to!! Her
name is Maribell, and she came and we sat by her and she had a great experience
at church. She even knows a family in the ward... which this family
actually just lost a son in a tragic head on motorcycle collision, so that was
very sad. It was a great testimony meeting though, I almost cried. But we got
her address and we're gonna go see her this week and MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!!!! THE
DAY OF MIRACLES HASN'T CEASED!!! So that was way cool. She remembered us and
the card we gave her. And despite us not thinking we would have anyone come to
church, lot's of people came and it was great.
That's my week.. it's hard to summarize it in a few long
paragraphs, so if you've got any questions, hit me. I should be free for the next
like 3 hours. We're just home. Love you guys so much, keep choosing the right!!!
Love,
Elder Muaj Koob
Putting the Panini Press to good use
Our friends, the Eyre's went home, and I'm super sad. They're
awesome.
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