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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
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| More Korean BBQ |
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| Still no football for me |
