Hello family!! This will probably be a pretty quick email
today, got a lot to do, but it was a great week!! It rained like every day this
week, but the weather is really nice today. But it was a great week. All of our
hard work last week paid off for this week, and we were able to find 6 new
investigators, it was great! Hence the subject line, haha.
Tuesday: We went on exchanges. I was with the district
leader in his area... it was a rough day. It rained and we basically just hung
out at members houses all day, it was rough. I learned a lot though, especially
about what I want to be as a missionary, and what I don't want to be, haha. I'm
not gonna rant though. He is a good person.
Wednesday: So Wednesday, I was really hyped to go do some
work and just like knock doors, which was weird cuz knocking doors isn't my
favorite thing, but it was a great day! We had an awesome lesson with a family
we met last week, the Patterson's. We taught the restoration to their whole
family, and it was really great!!! We're gonna go back and see them the week
after this, and they're way cool. Part member family. Also, Wednesday night, we
taught the restoration to a Hmong guy, which was really cool. We've only taught
it like 3 times in Hmong so far, so it was really cool. Hopefully he will read
the book of Mormon.
Thursday: We did some more good work Thursday, nothing too
noteworthy... Had a good dinner with Tong and Lee though.
Friday was mostly just weekly planning, and then we helped
an old white guy who goes to the Hmong ward take some stuff to the dump. Also, we went and tried to see some Hmong less actives, but didn't have much success.
Saturday was pretty awesome. On Monday night, we met a new Hmong guy named Nom Choj Vaj, and he told us to come back Saturday morning, so
we did, expecting like him and his wife and his like daughter or someone and we
would teach them a lesson... They were having a birthday party for his wife,
and he has 9 kids and all of them and their families were there, and we came in
and he just had us sit down, and we're just surrounded by all these Hmong people,
so it was like"ok cool, finding" and we just were talking to all of
them and turns out they were sponsored by a Mormon family when they came over,
and Nom and his wife were baptized, and a lot of his kids, but they aren't
active anymore. We talked to Nom Choj's wife, and she said she really believed
in God and was wanting to come back to church, but her husband reverted back to
old culture so that was hard, but they said we could come back next week, so
stoked for that. Also, they had an entire whole pig they had roasted, and it
was pretty good. They literally gave us so much food though. It was crazy.
Also, we helped a less active named Julie. We saw her out mowing her lawn, so
we stopped and did it for her, even though we were in proselyting clothes. It
was fun. Also, we had dinner with the Xiong family. It was awesome! They made
such good food. Then about 8:30 that night, I got a call from President Ward
informing me that I will be training. Crazy day.. I'm super stoked to train
though. The guy is actually Hmong, not just a white guy learning Hmong. So that
will be awesome. I'm pretty nervous though.
Sunday we found out what was happening with transfers. Elder Gunsay is going to Oroville, and he will be with the other new elder, and Elder Mcdonald is going to Chico, and we are getting a few new sisters in our
district. Sister Eppich is leaving which is sad cuz she has been here since i
got here. But after church, we studied and then went and saw people that Elder Gunsay
wanted to see before he leaves. It was a great day.
So I'm pretty stoked to be training, and pretty stoked that Elder Bishop is also training. There's only 4 new missionaries, so this is a
pretty neat opportunity. I'm really excited. Feel pretty unprepared and
inadequate, but excited.
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