Nyob zoo family. Glad everyone is good and that BYU won. Hopefully they will have a great year out while I'm out here. They should totally be blessed for my service. Anyway, this past week was pretty good. Actually had some cool things happen. For the past few weeks, we've posted all 0's for numbers, but this past week we set a goal in faith of 3 new people, and we ended up finding 3 people!!! (more on that later) and had 1 person come to church! Still don't really have anyone progressing towards baptism, but that's ok I guess...
But anyway, we took a lot of pictures this week, so I'm
going to just explain the pictures. I made stir-fry for Elder Peterson one
night. Also, made some bomb breakfast sandwiches. Also, 2 nights ago, I really
wanted some pancakes, and we didn't have any pancake mix, so I made my own out
of flour and some other stuff... I'll send the video later, but they actually
tasted pretty good. The fruit is a little weird exotic fruit that Sister Chue
gave us last night. They had a fireside for the youth about serving missions,
so we came late because we wanted dinner. They were doing BBQ after. 
The next picture is me and Elder Richins. I love this elder.
He is new this transfer, so I'm his first district leader, and we went on
exchanges this past Thursday. He is super funny. But anyway, he came over to the Hmong area, and we set some daily goals, pictured below. Well, we hadn't found
a legit Hmong new person in like 2 months.. but we made the goal anyway. Had a
good lesson that morning, then we helped Shue with his house again. After that,
we went to the church cuz we were going to have a lesson there at 2:00 through Facebook with our friends up in Washington... however, it fell through, and
there was this homeless Hmong guy just chilling under the shade tree at the
church (homeless people love the church here), so we went and talked to him.
First thing he said was he was thirsty, wondered if we had any money... I hate
giving money to homeless people, so we asked him what his favorite drink was
and we would get him it. He said beer.... so we got him 2 Gatorades, came back
and gave it to him then started talking to him about church, and after 1 minute
of that conversation he got up and said "I gotta go" and then just
started walking down the road... got conned out of 3 bucks by Pang, the
homeless Hmong man... so that was funny. 
BUT, after that we had some time to find. I did my best to
teach Elder Richins Hmong, and he was super excited to go finding. It started
out pretty rough, a few rejections, and it was hard to find some of the houses,
but we were just having a good time. It was getting close to 6, and we had
money for dinner, so we could just go eat whenever. I asked Elder Richins if he
wanted to go eat, but he said no, we should keep going a little longer, and we
did, and we tried some more points on google maps, didn't find anyone, but then
we kept walking a little further and E. Richins noticed these Hmong guys out
back of a house, so we went up and talked to them, and then after a 30 minute
conversation with one of the guys about the Bible, we left him with a Book of
Mormon and a return appointment. Txuj ci tseem ceeb. We had a bowl of Pho to
celebrate that night, and then took a picture that we hit our goals. Also, our
apartment has a machete because the streets of Oroville ain't safe anymore.
The other picture is Elder Peem Tsheej in between that shed
and Shue's house. We spent like 6 hours this week painting primer on the
outside of his house. Lots of good service this week that led to 2 referrals!
They didn't really pan out, but that's ok. We got that member trust.
Other way cool stuff, last Monday we had an awesome lesson
with this old niam tais. We knocked on her door and she was home, let us in,
and we had a great talk about God and she was another one of the new people we
found. So that was pretty awesome. I actually think she has some potential. But
that was another miracle for the week.
Ok, one other kind of cool thing happened. So last week we
went to Pres. Chue's daughters homecoming party. Backstory: Pres. Chue's
profession is an English teacher. He teaches English to people as a 2nd
language, and he invited his whole class to come to this party. Story: We show
up and there is this Chinese guy named Richard who doesn't know English very
well that came. Pres. Chue introduced us to him, and then we ended up
translating for him and he followed us around the whole time. Well, at the end
of the party, I felt like "hey, we gotta invite this guy to church, even
though its gonna be in Hmong." So I did, but he said he had work, but said
he would change his work schedule so he could come next week. Totally forgot
about him... and then he showed up to church yesterday! It was awesome, even
though everything was in Hmong. We think were gonna try referring him over to
the English elders, but it was pretty funny and awesome that he came.
Also, I've been spending like all of my personal study time
reading the Book of Mormon in Hmong. I cranked through the Isaiah chapters this
week... and those are hard to understand in English, so like... lets just say, I didn't get a whole lot out of it, haha. But the more I've been reading it, the
more I've come to realize that the Book of Mormon is just so true. I wish all
the Hmong people would read it. For elder's quorum today, there were 3 people
there other than us 2, and we studied the Book of Mormon in Hmong (this is like
the first time my whole mission we've studied the Book of Mormon in Hmong for
church) and so we flipped open to 1 Nephi chapter 1 and read the introduction
and then read the entire first chapter and talked about what the word Christ in
Hmong means. So like... the Hmong people don't study the Book of Mormon like at
all (don't put this in the group email mom, I love the Hmong people), partly
because it's hard to read in Hmong, the translation is word for word so its hard
sometimes. But I know it's true, even though it's hard for them to read. So READ
THE BOOK OF MORMON EVERYDAY!!
I love you guys. Have a great week.
Elder Muaj Koob
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