Each Night When She Was Dreaming...

     Dear Fam-

   Sounds like things have been going well and I'm glad to hear you all got to go to the Ogden Temple thing. That must have been a neat experience having the fam there. Each time I go to the temple I am reminded how awesome it is that families and friends are eternal. That is one of the thoughts that has given me the desire to serve these people is to help them be with families forever. Tanner, good luck on your interview and that is crazy that Misa gets back in two weeks. I remember walking upstairs when she saw the announcement that she could go, seems like yesterday. Also I know your busy this week, but if you have any advice on how to motivate other missionaries when they can't quite seem to put their whole heart into the work, that would be great. Also dad and JW if you have any that would be sweet. (Not for Elder Hardy, he is an all star.)

    This week we had an amazing experience with P. She is the mom of three members in the ward and until a few months ago was completely against the church and everything it stood for. Elder Hardy and I went to teach her twice this past week and saw many miracles. She had been really sick lately and asked us to give her a priesthood blessing. We explained to her that the blessing was somewhat conditional on her faith as well and after a few more minutes we gave her the blessing. I haven't given to many priesthood blessings on my mission in Hmong but every single time I do, the Lord puts words in my mouth that I swear I have never even heard in my life and I don't even know what they mean but when that happens I feel the Spirit so strong. Anyways at the end of the blessing we all sat there in silence for a moment, and then P started to cry. So everyone just waited until she was done and then we asked her what was on her mind. She told us that after the blessing she simply just knew that everything was going to be ok and that she knew God was real. Fast forward a few days to our next lesson and she told us something that blew my mind. She told us that each night as she was dreaming, myself and Elder Hardy would come and teach her more about Jesus Christ and how His gospel could help her. (In my head I'm thinking two things, #1 hopefully the dream version of myself and Elder Hardy aren't teaching false doctrine, #2 Turns out you actually could do missionary work in your sleep.) She has progressed so much this past week and just gave up coffee on her own. She and her son are planning to be baptized on October 18th. Can't wait.

     Hope all of you continue to do well and have fun before the winter season comes. Love yall.

Global Warming... Don't Think So

So yeah this week I will be writing today and yall wont get an email on saturday. And the reason for that is because on Monday which is our P-Day it will be a high of -18. Thats right a high of -18. Our mission president told us that we are not allowed to go outside at all because apparently it is suppose to get under -40 with the wind chill at night. Global Warming... Dont think so. Im not sure if any of the tree huggers have ever been to Minnesota because it's literally so cold here that if you hug a tree, it just snaps.

     But besides the cold everything is going really well this week. One of the favorite people that I have met on my mission so far is a younger girl that we have been teaching for about three weeks now. She lives with her grandma and her aunt and her mom and dad have basically abandoned her. She told us that since she has been coming to church with us, she feels like she is happy for the first time in her life. I wanted to tell you all the story of her first prayer. As my companion and I sat in her basement with one of the young single adults we invited her to pray with us and at first she was pretty scared. The YSA with us told her if she wanted she could write out her prayer and say it out loud so that it would be a little less scary.(Way good idea) She said she would do it and this is basically what she said in her prayer, "Heavenly Father, thanks for my boots, thanks for my house, please tell me if I'm a child of God, in Jesus' name amen." When she closed her prayer that was one of the strongest times that I have felt the Spirit. This little girl had so much hard times and so much trials in her life but when she finished that prayer her face lit up like San-D! on the 4th of July. It was the coolest experience. She told us that she used to be scared every night because she thought her parents might come back and now she says she feels like God is her dad. SOCOOL! She also is quite the missionary. She has been teaching her grandma, her aunt, and all her younger cousins about the things we teach her and the things she learns at church. I think God has truly prepared this girl and he really put her in our path.

      So update for the less active and his investigator wife that came to church with us last week. We had a lesson with them a few days ago and we taught them the word of wisdom. We werent sure if they had problems with it or not but we felt like they might. At the end of the lesson we asked them if there was anything in their house that would keep them from living the word of wisdom and the mom said hold on a second. She walked out of the room, came back in, handed us all of her tea and said I promise I'll never touch it again. That was a really fun lesson. I love how as a missionary you can walk into someones house and tell them to stop doing something that they have been doing everyday since they were a little kid and they promise you that they will stop for life. The Spirit really is so amazing and it can change people's hearts so quickly.

     My companion and I have been doing really well and have seen many miracles this week. One of the things that I have realized is that God speaks to the Hmong people through their dreams. We had a lady tell us that she had a dream that she was sitting in a dark room and she felt really sad. She said that she couldn't see anything and she didn't know where to go. Then in her dream to young men dressed in white showed up at her door and the whole room lit up. We had another young girl who said that she had a dream where she was standing in between two roads and one of them one super dark and dirty and had really tall grass so she couldn't really see to far down the road. the other road was crystal clear and bright and she could see far ahead of her. She had that dream three days before we found her and she said she feels like this church is the clear road. God really does work in mysterious way to bring about the salvation of this people and I think it is so cool as a missionary to get to be a part of it. Love you all and I hope you have a super duper alliooper looptie luper jumpin week. (Only JW will get that reference)

                                    Love Elder Muaj Zoo

P.S. Mom please tell Grandma Carolyn that she is the bomb.com. Also tell Grammy that I hope her carmelitas will be in heaven because they really are the greatest thing ever.