MIRACLES

JUNE 4, 2018

Hey family! Glad you guys are all doing well! This past week was awesome!!! We had a lot of good stuff happen. It I had to summarize this past week, I would probably say a lot of meetings and service and not a lot of proselyting. But that is ok, cuz we still tried to use our time as best we could. 

Tuesday, we were able to help the Martinez family again, it was good. Mostly just helped with their house. After that, we were super busy with studies. You may have seen our advertisements for the Hmong reading class, and we had it for the first time last Tuesday. It went well! We had 2 families from the branch there, and it was honestly such a fun time! The kids were super into it. We had some good competitions, and it was tons of fun. The video we put on Facebook got like close to 2k views, and we have had a ton of support from the branch, so we're hoping that there will be more people tomorrow, hopefully some nonmembers too!

Wednesday was zone conference! It was a good one too, focused on member missionary work. Pres. Ward had a ton of good stuff about it, and lots of good advice for what to do right after we get transferred too. So like, if I got transferred next week, I wouldn't be mad about it i guess, cuz he gave us a ton of good advice about how to start off on the right foot.

Thursday, we implemented that training! Called both ward mission leaders and set up to meet with the bishop and branch president. Also had district meeting, which was fun. Basically talked about the same stuff again. Highlight though, we got to go teach a part of seminary!!! It was awesome, even though they started at 6:30 in the  morning, haha. We talked about how to gain an answer to the Book of Mormon, and I really felt the Spirit as we were talking. Man, it was awesome. Some of the kids were like basically asleep, but that's ok. Hopefully we touched some of their hearts.

Friday, we finally met with our ward mission leader!!! He was called 3 weeks ago, this was the first contact we had with him. It was really good. He is a really busy guy, and is really old and animated, Bishop Capps. Good guy though, passionate about the work. It will be good. He took us to a Mexican restaurant in Wheatland too. It was really good. After that, we pretty much just weekly planned and then studied Hmong and what not. Also had a bomb dinner with the Neves family. I love them so much. She is soooooo good at making food. Like holy cow. And she sent us home with like 10 different kinds of fruit, cuz she was like "I'm worried you guys live in California and you haven't had any fruit yet cuz California produces all the fruit but its too expensive." So shout out to Sister Neves. She also did the food for zone conference, best zone conference lunch yet. Also, the Hmong elders got to eat with Pres. Ward. It was pretty fun. good guy.

Saturday was probably the highlight of the week. We had a lesson with the Xiong family, and Kang came too. Kang is probably the most missionary minded, awesome member in the Hmong branch; she's just amazing. Her husband isn't a member though because his dad forbids him to be baptized. So it's really tough for her, and her husband doesn't really come to church or anything, but she is just so strong. So anyway, we have this lesson, and Elder Vang and I had prayed before and were really feeling like we should talk about baptism with them, even though Phengs dad doesn't want him to be baptized. Pheng was basically saying like he gives the rest of his family permission to be baptized, but that he would just wait until his dad passes away, and then Kang stepped in. We had been speaking in English the whole lesson, but then she switched to Hmong and bore the most powerful testimony. One of the few times that I've strongly felt the Spirit in Hmong. She bore testimony that if he asks God, that he will tell him what to do, and he just has to have the courage to do it, even if that means disobeying his father and being baptized. Man, it was amazing. I love Kang, and I love the Xiong family so much. Really powerful experience. 

Sunday was awesome too, the Xiong family came to church, so we decided just to go to the Hmong branch. There was a baby blessing in the branch, and tons of people came!! Last week, we had like 20 people, and this week we filled up the whole middle rows of the chapel, and people were sitting on the side benches too. It was a nightmare for translating, because we had like 40 people needing translation and only 6 sets of working translation. And we gave some to the 3 old niam tais (grandmas) who only speak Hmong, but then they gave theirs up to the people who speak English, but then the baby blessing was in English and they didn't understand it... but that's ok. Still could understand through the Spirit hopefully. But we had like 7 investigators come to church.. Which was a miracle because we had had nobody come to church the past 3 weeks. 

I've been focused a lot lately on following the Spirit, and it has been really good to feel the Spirit more in my life, or at least to try harder to recognize it. 

My invitation for you guys is to ponder what your baptism MEANS to you. That was what we focused on during zone conference. Not what happened, but what it means to you today. Pretty deep question.

Love you guys! Have a great week! Choose the right!

Elder Muaj Koob

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I seriously love Camp Far West. It's a part of the Wheatland ward that is like fields and has a few mountains, about like 5 or 10 minutes to the east of Wheatland, and it is just so beautiful. I would totally live there someday, even though most of the people who live there like have a bunch of animals and tons of chores and what not.