I Never Thought So Much Could Happen in One Day

Hellooooo!

     So glad to hear that Chandler is still hanging in there and that he is doing his best. I'm sure that all of our prayers are helping him a lot. 

     So we had a crazy week this week and it was super fun. I never thought that so much could happen in one day. It seems like every day more stuff happens than in a whole month back home. But I guess that's bound to happen when you wake up at 630 in the morning as opposed to 2 in the afternoon.

    So I guess some more about my companion first. He is from Milwaukee and he is nineteen years old and is really cool. He has been out on his mission for almost 6 months and is doing great. He tells me that back in Milwaukee he used to be a street racer and I totally believe him because we have yet to be late to one appointment. Actually most of the time were really early. Also he has 11 brothers and sisters and his family came from Thailand in 2004. His family was Shaman but and converted to the LDS church in 2007 after his dad met the missionaries. We have a lot of fun together and he's really funny. Also he teaches me all of the Hmong superstitions so that is pretty fun. One time we were walking down the street and there was a full moon and I pointed to it and apparently in the Hmong culture if you point at the moon someone will cut your ear off. I laughed pretty hard at that one but he was dead serious.

     One cool experience we had this week was when we met a family of four when we were tracting late one night. It was about 730 and we were walking up this street and we were about to turn back and leave but then my companion said we should go all the way to the end. On the last house we knocked on this older man opened the door and said that he already went to church so he said thanks but he already knew God. So we asked him if he would tell him more about his church and he of course let us in(old Hmong guys really like to talk about their church and the war back in Laos.) After a few minutes we started teaching him the restoration and he was really interested. We asked him and his wife if they wanted to be baptized but they said they wanted to learn more before they committed. We have gone back and taught them a couple times and they are reading in the Book of Mormon and praying. They told us they wanted to come to our church last Sunday but their grandma died so they were at her funeral. Hopefully they will come next week but it's looking pretty good.

     Also some more on the Tswv Tuam family. Tswv Tuam is the dad and he is an active member. His wife's name is Mim and is in her twenties. They have two girls around ten or eleven and then a baby that was just born. Also Mim has a sister that is about 13 and she is joining in the lessons as well. They all want to be baptized but they are married the Hmong culture way and not the Mikas way so they have to be legally married before they are baptized. They have been attending a marriage class and are planning to be married mid december so we are looking forward to their family being baptized. That will probably be the best Christmas present I have ever had.

      One funny and also kind of scary story that me and my companion had last night was when we were teaching a lady named Pang. The sister missionaries referred her  to us and so we had never met her before. We were in her house and were teaching the restoration but the lesson wasn't really going anywhere. My companion and I decided it was time to go and so we said a prayer and then started to leave when all of a sudden her husband walked in. They told me that Hmong people were small back in the MTC but obviously they never met this guy. He was only about five and half feet tall but he probably weighed 250 all muscle. He started yelling at us to get out of his house and that he never wanted to see us again. So me and my companion sprint out of his house and jump in our car and drive off. The funny part was that after we left we looked at the referral from the sisters and this is what it said, "Pang is super cool and is really receptive. She is interested in the gospel and really believes in the Restoration. Also her husband is really friendly and has some good questions about the Bible." >:0 Im not sure if the sisters are just the most positive people in the world or if they were just good looking because that guy was not to friendly and Pang did not believe anything we said. My companion laughed pretty hard after we read that and decided that we probably just weren't the best teachers.

     So yeah this past week has been pretty fun and really awesome and things have been going well. Love you all and hope things in Sandy are as good as when I left.

                                                            Elder Muaj Zoo

P.S. The only bad part about Minnesota is that the Panda Express is out of my area.   :'( Other than that it's awesome.