Nyob zoo fam. Hope you're all doing well. Anyways, this past week was good. It was a pretty weird week, but it was good. I'll tell some of the highlights xwb.
Monday: So we came back and I was feeling so dang tired. Holy cow. I had no desire to leave the apartment after dinner, but we got out
there and did work anyway, so that was good. I'm not here to waste the Lords
time, haha. Also, Oroville 3rd (Elder Richins and Bradfield) apt. has been
leaking water in their bathroom from upstairs, so they stayed with us in our
apt.. it was supposed to be for 3 days xwb, but as I write this they are
sitting in our apt. because the workers still have done nothing on their
apt.... meanless to say, the mission is holding back rent until they get
something done.
Tuesday: We had interviews and that was good. Pres. talked
about living the language. I've tried to live the language, but I am also really
impatient. Like after repeating myself for the 2nd time and having him not
understand, I usually just speak English. And it takes a whole lot longer to
hais lus hmoob xwb, but that's ok, we're working on it. So that was most of Tuesday, had district council, Sister Ward basically took over for me and just
shared a bunch of stories, so that was cool.
Wednesday: So this was by far the weirdest day. Kind of a
scarring day actually. We were going around and we're actually seeing a ton of
people and it was a great day, and then we went to this old Hmong lady's house.
Her son answers the door, she comes up and invites us in. We sit down in the
living room, which is right by the hallway to the bathroom. We're sitting there for
not 30 seconds when her daughter comes out of the bathroom... only she doesn't have a towel or anything. She then proceeds to get a towel from the next room,
then walk right through where we are talking in just a towel (that was not
pulled up anywhere near high enough) and her grandma gets mad at her, tells her
to put clothes on. They go to the other room and this whole time E. Peem Tsheej
and I are just staring at our BoMs and thinking that this was the most awkward
visit of all time. Well, after that, her daughter comes running back out, this
time with pants on, but no shirt... she struggled to put the shirt back on, and
to make it short, we made it a short visit and got out of dodge pretty quick.
Her daughter is like our age. She is pretty mentally handicapped, but she was
like laughing the whole time cuz she could tell we were like super weirded
out... yeah, it was pretty scarring. We just listened to Motab after that and tried
our best to get the spirit back, haha.
Thursday: There's actually a cool story from Thursday. So we
helped Shue with his house again, and then did tons of studies and some work.
We went out with the zone leaders to try to pass one of our people off to them,
but the person wasn't home, so we came back to the apt. to drop them off and
had like 30 minutes till dinner and they were just trying to shoot the breeze
talking to us until 7 when they had dinner but we were like "nope, we've
got Hmong people to find" so we went out there and knocked 2 doors, and
both of them answered and were cool and said we could come back! So that was a
cool testimony builder, yeej txhawb kuv lub zog heev. The first guy said he
hadn't met missionaries, and we asked if we could share a message with him. He
said he was about to leave home to go clubbing in Sacramento. We talked to him
for like a minute or two after that, and then left.
Friday: The rest of the story. So Friday, we helped Shue for
a few more hours, did all our studies, and then it got to dinner and I had a
real craving for Panda Express. So we decided to go there (using the gift card
from you gpa and gma chat, thanks for that) and I just kept feeling like we
needed to go inside, when usually we would hit the drive-thru. We go inside,
and lo and behold, there is the guy who we had met the night before. He sees us
and says "hey, you guys were at my house last night. Now you know where I work too." It was funny. We were able to talk to him for like 30 seconds. He just cooks in the back. We get to the checkout though, and he gives us the
total bill and it was a few dollars cheaper than it should have been. I was a
little confused, but then the guy who rang us up pointed to our newfound friend
and said "employee discount." WE TRACTED INTO THIS GUY YESTERDAY AND
HE HOOKED US UP WITH THE EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT! What a homie!! So basically, I count
that as a good spiritual prompting, and we're going to see him again tonight. We
will see where it goes. Exciting stuff though. Plus I ate my whole entire plate
of Panda using only chopsticks, so that was cool too.
Saturday: The stake put on a carnival down in Gridley, so we
did that in the night. It was pretty fun, didn't have many Hmong members but we
were able to help with all the trash. Also, before that, we did a zone blitz
(which is where the whole zone does work for one companionship) for the YSA,
and E. Peem Tsheej and I got to go out with the Branch President for the YSA
branch and see people. It was interesting talking to him and comparing some of
the struggles of the YSA branch out here compared with dads ward back
home.
Sunday: So Sunday, we ended up teaching gospel doctrine and
then a combined young men and young women's lesson. The 1st counselor and the
gospel doctrine teacher decided to go hunting up in Redding together, and they
usually go for the whole weekend and come back on Monday, so they assigned us
to do all their teaching.. only problem was, they were actually at church! So
they came, and we still just ended up doing all of their teaching for them, haha. It was fun though. The lessons went alright. We taught about the book of Psalms in Hmong. It's tough cuz my comp really doesn't know much so I have to
like teach the whole thing and it's just hard. I was kinda stressed out Sunday
morning, but it's all good.
There's an update on my week. I hope this was one of the more
interesting emails for you guys.. it was definitely one of the more interesting
weeks. I think a lesson I learned is that God will reward us for diligence. Even if
we don't see a reward though from going out to do work, He will still reward
us... just might not be how we think. Another lesson: don't go into any houses
where the shower is running.
Read the Book of Mormon. I love the Book of Mormon so much.
Please read it. I started Mosiah this week, and it was awesome. I love the
first few chapters and just the whole book. I just love the book of Mosiah. It's the best. Anways, have a great week everyone.
Love, Elder Muaj Koob
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