First things first, the Red Sox won the world series! Woot woot!! Too bad i'm on a mission and couldn't watch a single game... thanks for the updates throughout the week though.
This week was pretty good though. Update on Pang: So we went
and saw him on Tuesday (which was also E. Peterson's birthday), and we talked to
him and he told us the important thing he needed to talk about... At first, I thought he was wanting the church to give him money. I was struggling to
understand what he was saying. Basically right now, he has some pretty tough
circumstances, no car or anything, so he was wanting help from us, and I thought
he was wanting money from the church... so that was kind of depressing. We were
like "well, we can't just give you money, but we can help you get
blessings from God." We established our purpose after that, and he did
say that he wanted to learn, so that was good. We taught the first few
principles of the first lesson. Meanless to say, we were a little deflated cuz
we thought he was just wanting money from us... but its okay, the rest of the day
was good. We got milkshakes for Elder Peterson's birthday, and it was a fun day.
The next day we went back to see Pang, and he clarified
things. He wants our help applying for like financial aid from the government.
So of course, we can help him out with that! We also gave him a large print
Book of Mormon, which was good. So he still is pretty promising, hopefully we
will be able to help him. Then we saw him again another time and read the Book
of Mormon with him... he can only read English, but it's really confusing for
him, so we take it slow and end up reading a lot of the Hmong to him. Then on
Sunday, stake conference, we got a member to take him down to Gridley, and then
we translated all of stake conference for him. It was awesome! Some good
talks... I think. I don't really remember what they actually spoke about. Sometimes that happens when I translate, haha. But yeah, he is progressing, so
that is good! Still not on date for baptism. When we first saw him, he was kind
of like leaning towards on his birthday.. which is in February, so we will
see.
Other stuff, on Tuesday, we taught Chee up in Washington.
That was good, she is doing well. She has a whole lot of faith. We taught the
law of tithing, then on Thursday, taught about a lot of other principles to
prepare her, and then went back over the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. We
left her with the commitment to pray about the truthfulness of the Book of
Mormon... the only problem is that she can't read. So we like testified about
it and were like "we know you can't read, but will you ask God if its
true?" She answered and was basically like "you guys are God's
missionaries, if you guys know it's true, then I believe it's a good book and
it's true." Not that we want people to believe stuff just because we say
it, but it was cool to see that she believed that based on our testimony. Also, Tuesday, Elder Hanks came with Elder Peterson and I for the day. It was interesting
being in a trio.
Wednesday, we were on exchanges, Elder Richins came here. It
was a fun day, and we were able to do some good work. Got some good pictures
too. Also invited a lot of people to the branch Halloween party on Friday.
Friday, we went down to Gridley for interviews with Pres.
Ward. It was pretty fun. I always enjoy talking with him. He has a lot of good
wisdom. We talked a lot about how I can continue to learn Hmong. That's kind of
my goal right now, is to speak Hmong like a Hmong person instead of a white
person, haha. Also, for the first time, he asked my opinion on the Hmong work
and Hmong elders. Basically told me that a new Hmong elder is coming out, and
went through everyone and asked if I thought they would do good training and if
they could. It's gonna be interesting to see what will happen next transfer...
cuz we only have 3 elders who can train. Elder Vang, me, and Elder Kelsey. He also complimented me a lot on
training, so I appreciated that, haha. The Halloween party Friday night was fun. We ran the dartboard and people popped balloons with candy in them.
Saturday we weekly planned and whatnot, visited some people,
nothing too noteworthy. Sunday was good cuz we had stake conference and
PRESIDENT WARD WORE THE TIE THAT ELDER MACDONALD AND I MADE FOR HIM!!! I was so
excited, haha. Also, it was cool seeing that one lady who is Jake Owens mom.
Also, I'm excited for Halloween, even though we're not doing anything special for
it... might go get a pizza from Papa Murphy's though, haha. Thanks in advance for
the Halloween package. I don't need anything else, doing well!
As far as spiritual stuff goes, I've been studying D&C a
lot, and I love all of the promises given to missionaries and other people in
there. Also, i recently read section 40 something, I don't remember, but it
talked about signs of the 2nd coming and all these bad things that will happen,
but basically said to not worry if we put our trust in God. I liked that a lot.
So don't worry! Trust God. He knows better than we do!
I love you guys! Glad
everyone's doing well!
Love, Elder Muaj Koob
Elder Richins likes to flex a lot so we took some good pictures.
Gotta knock all those doors, haha, even if the house is burned
down...
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