Best Week of My Life

     Alright so to start this letter I have a couple shoutouts to my homeys. First to The Utes for takin down supposedly 5th ranked stanford in the game of the century. 2nd to my main man the Chan-meister for starting his mission papers. I'm so proud of you and God just got a great missionary so I know that He's smiling right now to. Shout out to Brandy for pulling one of the greatest Gracie pranks yet with the whole October 2nd move. That was great I laughed so hard. Shoutout to my Pops for being a stud and my mom for being perfect. Shoutout to Sam Hoole in Cali cuz I like him

      So anyways this week has been by far the best week of my life. I if you all have been praying for me like ten times more or what but this week has gone so well. One thing that was really cool was that finally two of our fake investigators got baptized. I know that it's fake but I have never felt the Spirit like I did when they told us that they were willing to be baptized. Something else that I never really thought about before my mission but I now realize happens quite a bit is priesthood blessings. I have had the chance to give a couple of them while at the MTC and it is awesome. Neither of my blessings were very impressive but I could feel the Spirit guiding my words it was really cool. The first was an Elder who was feeling homesick in my district and after that day he hasn't even talked to me about home once.(Which I think is a good thing.) The second was a sister who was really sick and then she hurt her ribs or something like that and asked for a blessing. I just blessed her that her sickness and her injury would not slow down her work and that she would have a good nights rest and the next day she said she still hurt but she felt good and was ready for class so that was pretty awesome.

     My companion is an amazing guy and a really hard worker and were pretty much best friends. He really has so much courage and I look up to him a ton. He's like a brother to me We do so well together and I have come to love him so much.

     
     Last night was one of the coolest nights of my life. We had a devotional by ELDER DALLIN H. OAKS!!!!!! It was so amazing. When he walked into the room the Spirit testified to me so powerfully that he is truly a man of God. It was super weird to hear him talk in conference though because he wasn't as serious and he even threw in a couple of jokes. He talked a lot about how on your mission you will learn the mission language naturally and you will come to know that the doctrines of the gospel are true but one thing that you will never learn unless you put forth all your effort is learning how to love. It was really good for our district to hear and we've been working really hard to serve and become friends with others in the MTC. One thing that I've noticed on my mission is that when you serve other people you grow 100000000000 X faster than when you serve yourself. So that's something that I've been working on this last week and it's been awesome to see how the language comes faster when I help other Elders learn it and I know more about the doctrine when I try and help other Elders plan their lesson.

    
 The language is going really well and I finally feel like I can comfortably teach a lesson to an investigator without having to think to much about what I want to say. But I'm sure that will change the first day that I'm in Minnesota. The hard thing is understanding people when they speak fast because one word can mean so many different things depending on what tone you use. I guess it could mean eight things if you want to be exact. But yeah I love Hmong and the Hmong people. Something that will definitely be difficult is breaking the barrier of their religion because it is quite a bit different than ours. It's actually really sad because they do animal sacrifice and torture their bodies and stuff like that so that they can talk to Spirits. I guess it's just their way of trying to grow closer to God with the truths that they have.  We actually heard this funny story from our teacher about a female shaman in Minnesota. After she received the gift of the Holy Ghost she came up to my teacher and said, "I really like this Spirit, it's a lot nicer than the other ones and I don't even have to kill a chicken to talk to it." I laughed so hard. I can't wait to help them feel the Spirit the right way and to bring them to a knowledge of the gospel.Learning about the darkness that they are stuck in and how blessed they will be when they have the truth has given me so much motivation to go and serve them.

      And it's kind of crazy but that's only three weeks from now. In fact we get our travel plans next week sometime and I'm so excited. I love the MTC and I've grown so much here but I feel like my family is in Minnesota and I can't wait to meet them. I hope all of you are super-dee-duper back home and having a grand ole time. I hope youre having fun in Cali and dad don't tell Tanner the cheats for the Toy Story ride because I don't want him to beat my high score. And tell Marianne and Devin congrats from me.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  -Love Es Daws Huaj Vam\

P.S. Mom could you send this part to Lexi

SISTER GOFF how are you. I hope that you're being a boss on your mission. JK I know you are. And that's so funny that you ran into Sam Hoole. Tell him hi for me and tell him that I think that he's a stud. Also the language is going so well. I am still in the MTC but I head out in three weeks. You gotta send me some investigator stories. But yeah im doing really well and Im sure you are too since youre my couzzz and what not. Love you tons and I'll see you soon

Elder Huaj Vam (that's my Hmong name)