This week was a good one with a bunch, and I mean a bunch, of ups and downs for the area. The beginning of the week started out really well with us finding and teaching some really neat people. I don't know why but for some reason the only people that we seemed to teach this week were the Thai Teh's (fresh from Thailand) people. It was amazing to hear all of there stories about the war back in Laos and the many struggles that they went through to get here. It really brought a new view to me on the 4th of July. Normally on the fourth I would probably wake up in the morning, tell everyone how great America is and then blow a bunch of stuff up. But this year I really was what this country ment to those people who didn't grow up in free country where you don't have to be scared of getting killed just going to the grocery store and buying food. It really just strengthened my belief on how awesome Murica is. So when rules permit, I will again go back to my similar routine of telling everyone how great this country is and blowing stuff up, except I'll probably just tell more people and make the explosions bigger. All in honor of this amazing land.
Elder Moss and I had an experience this past Saturday night that was probably the weirdest and one of the coolest thing that has happened on my mission. As we were walking down the street we saw this huge Hmong lady (she was like 5'8") so we of course had to go talk to her. After talking for a few minutes we found out that she was a less active member from California who my MTC teacher baptized. So crazy. Then she led us into this appartment building that looked like a normal house but right when we walked in their was stairs that go up to a door and their was no windows so it was super weird. The door opens and this super old Hmong guy opens the door and he has glasses that are held up by a rubber band tied around his head and he just opens the door and waves us in not saying anything. Once we walk in through the door it opened up into the huge room with all these beds with sheets in squares covering them. Elder Moss and I walked around and noticed that the beds were full of sick Hmong people. It was pretty much the saddest thing ever. We spent about 45mins going around and talking to them and saying prayers for all of them. It was so great to see them smile and to bring them some hope. That is something I won't ever forget. That is my new goal for this week is to bring hope to everyone that I meet.
Hope all of you are doing well and dad I hope that you get feeling better.
Love Elder Muaj Zoo Vwj
P.S. Murica!
P.P.S. I also went to this crazy Hmong party that they have once a year to celebrate the fourth and there was about 100,000 hmong people there, and three white guys. It was so awesome. I'll send pictures next week.
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