Hey Family!!!! This past week was a good one; well, most
weeks as a missionary are good. But lots of exciting stuff! hopefully this
email will make sense, it might just be all over the place.
But, we had an awesome lesson with a guy named Ntxoov Oos,
or his English name is Keith. He read like 4 chapters out of the Book of Mormon
and read the entire testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith pamphlet!! We had an
awesome discussion with him this past week. Then on Friday, we had interviews
with President Ward, and he only asked one question, and that was who I felt
like was going to be baptized in the next 8 weeks... so I answered that this
guy would, and he told us to like make a huge plan for his baptism and what has
to happen, so we did, even though we've only had like 2 good lessons with him
so far, haha. But exciting stuff! So that was on Thursday we met with him, and
then later that day we had an awesome lesson with this real cool guy named
John's sister, who is less-active. John is way cool, he will like go out with
us once a week and drive us around and come to like a few lessons with us, I love him. He got back from his mission to Minnesota a year ago. But while he
was gone, his sister went inactive, and he wanted us to go and be straight up
and bold with her, so we did, and it was actually a pretty awesome lesson!! Being
bold pays off. He said a few days later they were still talking about our
lesson, haha. So that was cool.
Other stuff, Tuesdays district meeting went well I think. I
always don't really know what to do, but it seems to go alright every time.
Wednesday wasn't the best day, but that's ok. Friday we weekly planned. Saturday
we finished weekly planning and then went to work teaching people. Nothing
really comes to mind at the moment, but it was a good day. Sunday was church,
the branch was really small.. like 25 people. It was really sad. The branch has
so many less actives, and the numbers have been decreasing gradually and
steadily for a long while now. It's pretty sad. The members are kinda getting
worried, and so a lot of what we're trying to do too is just visit and help the
members... cuz they really need it. Saturday we had an awesome lunch with the
Chue family. I love them so much. They were the only family that showed up for
the weekly Hmong class. So that was sad, but it was still fun ... played some good
bingo. Then Sunday, we had a miracle when we had like an hour cuz an appointment
fell through. We hadn't found any new investigators all week, and then we tried
a former investigator and her and her son were interested again!! So that was a
miracle.
In my studies, I've been studying a lot about Jesus Christ,
specifically from Jesus the Christ. Read a lot of the parables this past week,
and the one that stuck out is called the parable of the seed growing secretly.
If you're not too familiar with that one, that's ok cuz it's not one of the more
well known ones. Basically what happens is that the sower sows a seed, then
leaves for a while, the seed grows, then he comes back for the harvest. The
moral of the story was that the man couldn't control whether or not this seed
grew; even if like he watered it and weeded, or if, as the book put it, Paul
the apostle tended it and Apollos watered it. They still can't control how and
if it grows- that's up to God. I loved that analogy. In many ways, I'm the
sower, trying to spread the good news of the gospel with everyone... yet I
can't control other people, whether or not they will grow their faith; I can do
things to help, but ultimately it is up to them and God. It was really
reassuring. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that the teachings and
parables He taught apply to our lives.
I love you guys!! Thanks for all of the support!!
Love,
Elder Muaj Koob
So this is like a sticky rice patty things. You just cook it on the stove and eat it with like honey or syrup. It's wrapped in banana leaves, and it's way good. A member gave us a ton of them. Made for a good lunch today, haha.
This morning we had a bunch of maggots coming out of our carpet.
Missionaries in other countries and parts of the U.S. always get pics of the cool stuff around them and like all this beautiful scenery or city scape, so I decided to get a picture of Oroville... very natural beauty, haha.
But on the real though, there are a few good looking places
around here, haha.
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