December 25 Merry Christmas!

(Hmong)

Peb muaj ib lub cib fim zoo hnub Christmas no thiab txhua txhua Christmas xav txog Yexus Khetos  thiab nws lub neej. Yexus yeej hlub peb thiab nws pub rau peb txoj kev cia siab, txoj kev thaj yeeb nyab xeeb, txoj kev nplij siab, thiab txoj kev zoo siab. Hauv John, tshooj peb, nqe kaum rau, hais tias:

"Rau qhov Vajtswv hlub neeg ntiaj teb kawg li, nws thiaj li txib nws tib leeg tub los rau hauv ntiaj teb, tus uas ntseeg nws leej tub, tus ntawg yuav tsis tau kev ploj kev tuag tias sis nws yuav tau txoj sia ntev mus ib txhis." (John 3:16)

Kuv paub hais tias Yexus Khetos muaj txoj sia thiab hlub peb heev. Thiab kuv paub hais tias Yexus Khetos Lub Koom Txoos Ntawm Tsoom Haiv Neeg Ntseeg Hauv Hnub Nyoog Kawg muaj tseeb. Thiab kuv ua tub txib tsaug thiab ua Vajtswv txoj hauj lwm tsaug. Kuv hlub nej thiab kuv xav kom nej muaj ib hnub Christmas zoo. Sib ntsib dua no nawb!

(English)

We have a great opportunity this Christmas and every Christmas to think about Jesus Christ and his life. Jesus Christ truly loves us and gives us so much hope, peace, comfort, and happiness. In John chapter 3 verse 16 it says:

"For God so loved the world, that he sent his only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

I know that Jesus Christ lives and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is true. I am grateful to be a missionary and grateful to do God's work. I love you guys and hope you guys have a great Christmas. Bye!

Dec 18 Busy Week!

Nyob Zoo!

This was a really good week - lots of great stuff happened this week.  We did exchanges so I went to Sun Prairie which was fun.  I got to eat sushi for the first time in 4 months and that was really good.  I finally figured out how to pronounce the letter D in Hmong so that’s pretty awesome!

This week so much happened.  To start the week, we had a lesson with Kelly and we brought one of the members named Sister Chang with us.  The members here are really awesome at loving the people and sharing their testimonies and they have a desire for others to come unto Christ.  After the lesson, she invited Kelly and us to come over the next day to eat.  So the next day, we went to her house and we got to help make the food.  We made some eggrolls which a lot of fun and really good.

This week we finally were able to have a lesson with Naly - you may remember she is Kelly’s daughter. It was really awesome because we have really really really wanting to meet with her and her family for a long time.  She lives outside of our area a little bit, but we got permission to go see her.  It was 17 miles there and 17 miles back, so it’s really far.  That day, we drove all the way down there.  She said to meet her there at 6:00, so got there about 5:55 and she texted us and said she wouldn’t be there until 7:00because she was still closing up her flower shop.  So Elder Vang and I didn’t have anything to do because we had just used a lot of miles and we only have a certain amount of miles we can use each month.  We couldn’t go back and tract so we just sat in the car and talked about life.  Life before the mission, the mission life, and after the mission life.  It was fun to just talk to each other and I realized as we were talking that I’m really grateful to be out here as a missionary.  It made me really reflect on my life and got me thinking about going to college and life after the mission and I’m totally not ready for that, so I’m grateful for having a little break and just being a missionary and doing something for someone else.

We were able to meet with her family at 7:00 and we had a really good lesson.  She said she really wanted to come to church, and the next day her whole family ended up coming to church.  And it was a crazy day at church for Elder Vang and me.  it was crazy and stressful because we had Kelly come, Naly and her husband, Tou, and their 4 kids, and also another investigator who is friends with Naly came with her 3 kids.  So we ended up have a ton of people there and it was stressful helping them all get where they needed to be.  It was hectic and stressful, but at the same time, it was good.  It’s crazy to think how much you can grow to love and care for the people you serve.  4 months ago, I didn’t even know these people, but now I have such a great love for them and care about them so much.

I’ll end my email with a challenge for this Christmas week. If you do not know this story, I encourage you to watch the Bible Video “Christ and the Rich Young Ruler.”  In this story, we learn of a man who comes to Jesus to see what he needs to do to make it to heaven. Christ tells him to follow the commandments. The young ruler tells him he has been doing that ever since he has been little. He then asks Jesus what he lacks? Jesus says he needs to sell all his things, give it to the poor and come follow Christ. 

A lot of us are similar to this young ruler, but we have the one thing that is blocking our paths. It may not be money like in this story, but we all have things that we can improve on in our lives so that we can get the greatest blessing which is eternal life. What is better than living with your family forever? It could be many different things - for example, our time. Time is the most precious gift we have because we can't get it back. So for Christmas, I encourage you all to give Christ a little bit of your time as a gift to him for all that he has done for you.  When you do that, you will get an even greater appreciation for him, a greater appreciation of what he did for us, and become closer to him. 

Thanks for all you guys do. Love you guys and enjoy the Christmas season. 

Mathew 16:25-26

25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Love, 

Elder Tshwj Xeeb

Photos: (1) We helped an older couple last name Hieloshime set up their Christmas tree (2-3) making egg rolls with Kelly at the Chang's  (4)"After you prepare a 1 hour lesson for your investigator and then they cancel on you 5 mins later"  (5) sushi

Dec 11 - Ice and McDonalds

Nyob zoo!

It was a great week except for the fact that it has been super cold and snowing. It has been good though because I have been able to see Elder Vang slip on the ice like 100 times haha. This past week was honestly quite amazing. A lot of great things are happening here in Madison, Hmong including, and a Christmas card coming out soon :) We have a lot of great potentials and investigators. We also found a new investigator named Ntxawg. When we first found him we didn't really think much of him because he goes to a Baptist church and we thought he was going to just bible bash us the whole time. But actually he has been progressing really well. Everything we teach, he is very open to and he always says, “That makes a lot of sense.” We have given him a Book of Mormon and taught him the first 2 lessons. We are excited to see what happens with him. 

This week also we won the award for the cleanest car in the zone. It basically is an award to motivate people to clean the cars haha, and we won. We set a companionship goal that we wanted to win the award (mostly because you get a McDonald's gift card if you win). So the day before we cleaned our car really good and put some air fresheners in the car. It was all worth the cleaning because now we have the Golden license plate to show off on our car and also the McDonald's gift card. The cool thing though is a few days later, we ended up going to McDonald's for lunch really quick before one of our appointments. After we were done we went outside and saw a couple of kids just sitting in the snow. It was really cold outside and we were confused why they were sitting outside in the cold all by themselves. Elder Vang went up and started talking to them. We found out that the oldest boy, Deyizon, a 6th grader and his little sister, Kamariah, a 4th grader just left their home and started walking to their aunt’s house in the cold by themselves in a busy area. While they were walking, the sister got a headache and started crying, so they had been sitting there ever since. After talking to them, we took them inside, bought them their little Happy Meal and toy, and called the parents. Even though we didn't teach them anything, we left a good memory for them about missionaries and our church. You could tell the mom was appreciative and so were the kids. So hopefully in the future when missionaries knock on their door, they can remember this experience and have an open heart because of this.

This week we also had our ward Christmas party combined with the YSA ward so the campus Elders were there too, which was fun.  We invited a ton of people, but none of them were able to come. It was still a great time with all the members of our ward though. We ate some food and sang a lot of Christmas songs. One of the members, Chakong Lee, bought Elder Vang and I Christmas ties. So the three of us all wore our Christmas ties to the Christmas party. 

This past week, Elder Vang and I were thinking a lot about the Christmas season and the true meaning of Christmas. We shared a message with a less active family and showed them a video called "Jesus is Scourged and Crucified.” It is one of the Bible videos that the church put out and is on lds.org, youtube, and the lds app. After we were done watching it, we asked them all 

“What does Jesus Christ Mean To You Personally?”  It was really cool to see all their different answers and after the lesson was over one of the kids texted us and said he really appreciated the message and said he was going to share with some of his friends “What Jesus Christ Means to Him.” 

This week, I was able to ponder on this question too. As I was thinking about this, it reminded me of a story that I heard called “The Interview.”  Basically it is about 2 friends. After they both die the 2 friends go to heaven. The first friend goes in a room and is interviewed. The interviewee asked him one question. “Who is Jesus Christ to you?” He answered with some great answers like “He is my Savior, he atoned for my sins, and he died on the cross for me.” The interviewee says, “Great what else?” He then says, “He was a great teacher, he is the son of God” and other similar answers like these. After the interview is done, the next friend comes in to be interviewed. Right when he gets into the room he gets on his knees and starts crying and says, “Jesus Christ, My Lord, My Savior.” 

It got me thinking - after I die and go to be judged by Jesus Christ, will I recognize him? He is not going to be wearing a name badge like we do as missionaries. So this past week I have been just pondering that question “Who is Jesus Christ to me Personally?” If any of you have any spare time this week, I recommend watching that Bible video and then just ponder on “Who is Jesus Christ to you?” for 5 mins or so.

That is all for this week. Hope you guys have a great week.

Love Elder Tshwj Xeeb

Pictures: (1) Elder Vang slips and falls again, (2) Christmas Card Preview, (3) Picture with Chakong Lee, (4) Christmas party with the Campus Elders, (5) Wisconsin Christmas Lights, and (6) Deyizon and Kamariah.

Dec 4 - It's Finally December

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So it is finally December, Christmas time, and everyone is putting up their Christmas lights so you can totally feel the Christmas spirit.  We got a Christmas tree (like you wanted Mom) and since we didn’t have any decorations, we had to put on random stuff that we had around the house. so we have a picture of Jesus, a Book of Mormon, we have a bow and arrow, some Pokemon cards, a spoon, a hat, Meet the Mormons 2, pokeballs - so those are our decorations.  It is kind of weird because even though it is December, the weather the last 2 weeks has been between 45 and 55 degrees, it’s been really nice. Today it is 57 degrees which is crazy because it is December.  It makes no sense. 

Transfers were last week, and we got Sister Missionaries.  Everyone likes the Sisters better than us, so… no one feeds us anymore so pretty much all we eat is cereal and PB and J’s.  But it’s all good.

To start the week, Elder Vang and I are both doing really good and I feel like we are very productive and working really hard.  This week we were really busy.  We didn’t have a lot of time to do everything we wanted, so we didn’t get everything done that we had planned. But we did the best we could. We have been working on a tracting book, so we have been using our dinner hour to work on that. Also, at the beginning of the week, we got a call from the Green Bay Hmong Elders and there was a request for us to go give a blessing to someone who is in the hospital.  So we went and did that.  I don’t remember her name, but she is a non-member and she has cancer.  She is not looking good and it looks like she will not make it.  What I thought was cool about it is, Elder Vang gave her the blessing and in the blessing, he wanted to say “You will be healed” but he kept trying to say it and he kept trying, but - he couldn’t say it.  It just shows that no matter what we want, God has a plan and God’s plan may not be for her to be healed but for her to move onto the next life. It was kind of sad that he couldn’t say that so it makes it seem like she won’t live, but it is cool to show that Priesthood blessings are true and it’s all coming from God what he wants to say to you.  And Elder Vang gave me permission to say that, he told me that after so that’s cool.

Also this week, we got to meet with Andrew and Kaozong to do their first recent convert lesson.  We taught them the restoration again and we just focused a lot on God’s love for them, God’s plan for them, the priesthood, callings in the church and just how to move forward and keep building their testimony.  Also, we made Korean barbecue with them. And that was a lot of fun and good.

We also had another lesson this week with Kelly.   We found out that she used to be a famous Hmong singer so she showed us all her CD’s and stuff which was really cool.  We have taught her all the lessons so this was more of a review.  We talked about Joseph Smith, Christ’s atonement, and baptism - so it was kind of a review of the first 3 lessons. We wanted to invite her to baptism and Elder Vang told me to do it.  So I did it in my broken Hmong, but I got the point across.  She said that she’s not ready yet, but she wants to get baptized when she feels like the time is right and when she’s ready and when she has learned more.  She wants to learn more so that’s good too.  And she also wants her family to come too, so she’s already doing missionary work inviting all her family to come to church with her.  This week, she brought her 7-year-old granddaughter named Sophia with her.  She’s come to church 3 weeks in a row pretty much on her own, not really because of us asking her, but because of her desire to come.

To end, I’ll just talk about “Light the World.” Because it’s Christmas time, it’s important to remember the true meaning of Christmas.  “Light the World” does a good job of doing that.  It also gives us an opportunity to learn more about Christ’s life and also to light the world and show our light and be an example to others.  So I challenge all of you to do “Light the World.”  It takes probably less than 5 minutes a day to look it up and participate.  It’s good for us and it’s also good to help us remember what the true meaning of Christmas is.  So everyone this week - Show your light to the world.

Have a great week,

Elder Tshwj Xeeb

Pictures: (1) Our Christmas tree (2) Kelly and Karol at the lesson with a few of the albums she has made.  Karol is a recent convert and we ate Thanksgiving at her home (3) Korean BBQ with Kaozong and family (4) Christmas jelly from my mom.  It is so good.

Additional Pictures this week

More Korean BBQ

Still no football for me

November 27: Two trainees on our own

Nyob zoo,

This week on Tuesday we dropped Elder Lewis off and we said our goodbyes so he’s at his house now doing whatever he’s doing.  This is the first week of the two trainees taking over an area.  The funny thing is Elder Vang was made a trainer so I’m getting trained by a trainee.  I was made the designated driver and I’ll just say - I’m the worst driver ever now since I haven’t driven in 4 months.  It was honestly like starting over.  Scary!  I really do not like the Wisconsin roads at all.  It’s like driving a bowl of spaghetti - the roads are so random and don’t make any sense at all.  It was very different without Elder Lewis. We were used to following his lead which was nice, but now we have to plan out our whole days, and we don't really know too many people or the area too well.  So it is different, but it is good too.

This week was super super busy.  It was the busiest week by far that we’ve had.  It was an interesting time for us to be on our own and doing our own thing.  This week we had Thanksgiving and Hmong New Years.  So 3 days out of the week, no one wanted to meet with us because they were celebrating Thanksgiving and Hmong New Years. On Thanksgiving, we went to a member’s house named Karol Smith.  She is super awesome. She is a recent convert of a few months and her grandson got baptized a couple months ago too.  We ate the classic Thanksgiving food. Turkey, potatoes, ham, stuffing, pumpkin pie, etc. The rest of the day was just a regular day so we went tracting all day which sucked because I didn't want to go for obvious reasons. As well no one really wanted to talk to us. But we went anyway. And we met some cool people so it was all good.  

Hmong New Years was on Friday and Saturday.  We went to that for a few hours both days.  Basically, it’s a huge get together with all the Hmong people in the Madison area.  So this was the Madison Hmong New year.  They have a Hmong New Year for all the cities like Wausau, Appleton, Green Bay, Sheboygan, etc.  There were a ton of people there, probably around 4000 Hmong people that came and celebrated the New Year.  There are lots of booths that sell clothes and food.  and they have some stages that people can do dances and sing, stuff like that.  They have a model - kind of like a beauty pageant as well.  All the Hmong people dressed up in their Hmong clothes and they were really really cool Hmong clothes.  The Hmong New Years was pretty fun, but also pretty weird because I was the only white dude there; there were so many Asian people.  

This week because of Thanksgiving and Hmong New Years, no one would meet with us so we didn’t have much to do, but it was ok.  Everyone said after Thanksgiving and Hmong New Years, they’ll meet with us, so we’re going to take everyone up on that.  This week we’re going to have a lot of people to meet up with, so that will be good.

Also this week, Andrew and Kaozong received the Holy Ghost at church. We were really worried they were not going to come because they both got sick over the weekend and they were acting like they were not going to come. But they came for the whole Sacrament meeting which was good but went home after that. 

Also when Elder Lewis was still here, he had some former investigators he wanted us to meet.  They had been pretty busy and the whole time he was still here with us, we’d go stop by and they were never home.  But Me and Elder Vang were able to run into both of them which is kind of crazy since we weren’t able to run into them for seven weeks with Elder Lewis.  But we ran into both of them and we got an appointment with both of them next week, so we’ll see how that goes.

I’ll just end by saying that I'm doing good.  I’m having a lot of fun.  The mission is keeping us busy and we’re working hard.  If anyone has any questions, shoot me an email and I’ll try and answer them.

Have a great week.

Elder Tshwj

The top 5 photos are from Madison Hmong New Years

Our investigator, Kelly

Thanksgiving

My new name name badge. I got it a couple weeks ago. It has my updated Hmong name and as well 
the Tub Txib part which basically means mail messenger (closest thing to missionary I guess.  I wear t
he Hmong one when I am with Hmong people and the English when I am with English speaking people.

November 20: My Investigators

Nyob zoo,

This was our last week with Elder Lewis.  He goes home to California on Tuesday so then it will just be two trainees going at it, me and Elder Vang.  This week, Elder Lewis taught us literally everything he could about being a missionary, about taking over an area, and missionary work.  He taught us all the tips and tricks of how to be a missionary.  

This week we also had transfers.  Obviously I’m still staying in Madison with Elder Vang, and it’s going to "fun" with two little trainees running around, not knowing what to do; not knowing the area.  Usually, when missionaries come out, they get trained for 12 weeks and then they can go somewhere else and usually they are with an older missionary.  Elder Vang and I have been trained for 7 weeks and we are stuck together.  It’s going to be interesting.

This email I’m going to talk about our investigators that we are working with.  People have been wanting me to do that.

So I’ll start with a lady named Kawm.   Elder Lewis taught her a few times before I got to Wisconsin, so we’ve been teaching her the whole time I’ve been here.  She has a really strong faith in God.  She’s come to church a couple of times.  She knows that the church is true, but she has been going to another church for over 20 years, so it’s hard for her to make the transition to our church when all her friends and family go to her other church.  So we are just taking time with her to build her faith, and helping her to know why and how our church will help her.  She is in her mid 50’s and is a sweet, nice old lady.  She said she will be baptized, but it will be in the future when she is more comfortable making the transition from her church to our church.

Our next investigator is Kelly.  She is also in her mid 50’s and she is the one that we went and helped at her farm a couple of times.  We found her through her sister.  My second week here, we went tracting in an area, and we met her sister. She let us in, but she wasn’t really interested.  She told us that her sister was interested and she gave us her address, so that’s how we found her.  We’ve taught her three times.  The problem that we’ve had with her was that she didn’t have a lot of time with her farming, and she needed to get it all done.  That’s why we went and helped her so that she’d have more time.  Since we helped her and she’s finished, she has a lot more time to meet with us.  We were able to meet with her again yesterday.  She also came to church yesterday and she really loved it.  She stayed the whole time and stayed for our baptism (I’ll share about this in a bit) so she stayed for almost 5 hours and that was her first time going to our church.  That’s pretty awesome for her to stay the whole time.  And she honestly really loved it.  She was telling us after how much she liked it and she wants to come again next week.  She’s going to tell one of her different sisters to come with her next week so that’s pretty awesome.  

One quick story about Kelly that was pretty funny this week…So all the Hmong people here think I am so tall and it is really funny, even though I am just an average sized white person.  Hmong people are all really short.  When we were eating with Kelly this week, she was just going off on how tall I am and she thinks it is so crazy and she always makes fun of herself compared to my size. It is really funny.  At the end she asked me how tall I was.  And she guessed I was 6’7”  I must really seem tall to her.

Our next investigators are Naly and her husband, Tou.  They own a flower shop and Elder Lewis met them before we got here.  Every P day we go to their flower shop and talk to them for a little bit.  We never taught them anything about the gospel - we just went and said hi.  A couple of weeks ago, Elder Lewis and Elder Vang went to their house for a birthday party and were able to have a conversation about our church and their church and our beliefs and their beliefs.  I wasn’t able to go because I was on splits.  So this week, because of their conversation, we decided to give them a Book of Mormon and talk about faith because that was the topic from the birthday party.  Since she owns a flower shop, we talked about Alma 32, which compares faith to a little seed.  And we read the last two verses from Alma 32 which says 

42 And because of your diligence and your faith and your patience with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in you, behold, by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet above all that is sweet, and which is white above all that is white, yea, and pure above all that is pure; and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst.

43 Then, my brethren, ye shall reap the rewards of your faith, and your diligence, and patience, and long-suffering, waiting for the tree to bring forth fruit unto you

We read that to her and it was really cool because she started to get really emotional and you could tell that she was really grateful.  She told us, “I’m really grateful for you guys coming and talking to me today.  This was something I really needed to hear.  God knew I needed to hear that.”  One interesting thing that we did not know until just a little bit ago, is Naly is Kelly’s daughter.  When we were teaching Kelly one time, we made the connection that they are related.  Pretty neat.

Our last two investigators, who are no longer investigators are Andrew and Kauzong. They were baptized yesterday.  Elder Lewis has been teaching them the entire time he has been in Madison, and previous Elders have worked with them too. So they have been investigators for over a year.  One of the main reasons they decided to get baptized is because they had a daughter who passed away about a year ago when she was about a week old.  That's kind of the reason they decided to get baptized.  They are super awesome.  Elder Lewis said they are the first adults to be baptized in Madison in the past 6 years so that was pretty cool to be a part of their baptism.  It was pretty awesome.

To end my email I just want to give a tribute to Elder Lewis. I am going to miss him a lot. He has been an awesome companion, friend, and trainer, especially in prepping me and Elder Vang in taking over the area.  I am grateful for all the things that you were able to teach me and grateful for you always pushing me to become a better person and missionary. I will miss you for sure, but you will have tons of fun at home and college. Love you Man.

Hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving this week.

Love,

Elder Tshwj Xeeb

Elder Lewis's last time at the Thai Gardens

Last of the trio

Andrew Yang and Kaozong Thao were baptized finally after a year plus!! Elder Lucas got to come from Waukesha for the baptism. We had a great turnout from the ward to support them.  They were baptized by Andrew's cousins, Joseph and Adam (the two standing behind) 

The Family

Dinner w Kelly! She's the one in the very center, on the left is her daughter Naly, one of our other investigators 

Surprise package from Aunt Lisa from San Fran

First Snow

Dinner at a Thai restaurant with member Tina Manavong

November 13: A week of Gratitude

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This week we spent some time preparing for the turkey bowl coming up next week.  On Saturday morning, we played some football with all the young men.  It was 9:00 in the morning so it was really cold.  It was fun though to play football again and get to know the young men a little better.  This week we also went to a member’s house and they were watching football on the TV.  And it was HARD to not watch the football game.

This week is Elder Lewis’s last full week.  One of the members threw a going away party for him at their home.  There were a ton of members who came, and it was really cool to see all the members who came to show their appreciation for all he did to help the ward and the Hmong members while he served in Madison.  He served in this area almost a year, so he was here a long time.

We also went to help home teach a Hmong family whose name is Txoov Xob.  We went because we needed to help translate for them.  While I was translating, it was really cool because I realized how much I know and how much I was able to do.  It was REALLY cool for me.  I also realized how much I don’t know and need to still study and continue to improve.  After we were done, the guy I was translating for said something really neat to me.  Elder Lewis had to translate, but he said, “God called you to be a Hmong missionary because he knew if you were an English speaking missionary, it would be too easy for you.  God knew that being a Hmong missionary would be hard for you, but through patience and diligence, you’ll be able to learn it.”  And then he complimented me and encouraged me to continue to work hard and be diligent with my studies because if I do this, one day I will be really good.  I thought it was really cool to hear him say this, even though he said it in Hmong, and Elder Lewis had to translate, it was really neat for me.

With Thanksgiving coming up, one thing I have been focusing on this week is Gratitude!  One thing I have been doing, and a lot of times we all do this, and that is to focus on the negative things.  It is really easy to look at the things that are hard, look at the things that are not going our way, and we take for granted all the things we have and the things that are going our way.  This week I tried really hard to be more positive and more grateful for what I have.  So…

I am super grateful for my companions.  I am really sad to see Elder Lewis leaving.  He has been a really good example to me and Elder Vang because he always pushes us and he puts us in those awkward situations to help us grow  - even though we are not comfortable in those uncomfortable situations, it helps us to grow.  He is always pushing us to help us become better. I’ve become really good friends with Elder Lewis in the last month.  

I am grateful for Elder Vang too.  He has been an awesome companion.  Knowing him for 2 months in the MTC and 1 month in the field, we have become really good friends.  I am grateful for him pushing me too and helping me to improve and be a better missionary.

I am also really grateful for the Book of Mormon and for the opportunity I have to read it every day.  One thing I thought would be cool is to have a little challenge with everyone who reads this email from now until Thanksgiving.  So the challenge is to read the Book of Mormon every single day until Thanksgiving.  It’s a pretty easy challenge, but one that a lot of people don’t do.  But I promise if you all do so, it will help you in your life.  It will help you to be more happy, make things feel more peaceful, and will help with answers you may need.  The Book of Mormon really does relate to our lives and it really can help us.  I’ve seen that in the last few months as I’ve studied it more diligently.  And you will all receive blessings from our Heavenly Father for doing it.  I hope you will all join me in this challenge.

Have a great week!

Love, 

Elder Tshwj Xeeb

Elder Lewis going away party

Farming with Kelly again

Tracting

Simple but classic Hmong food

All the cereal that my mom would never buy

Our "pet" squirrel that is getting so fat because we keep feeding it

No football for me

Getting ready for turkey bowl next week

Extra Pictures for the week

Cat we found at our apartment

Splits this week

Boiled Quail egg

The greatest invention of all time