Nyob zoo,
At the beginning of the week, Elder Vang and I said our goodbyes to all the people in Sheboygan. On Wednesday we went to transfer point and I drove up to Wausau and got my new companion, Elder Tarone. It’s kind of funny because at the MTC, when I was waiting in line to get my stuff, he was the very first person I met. Then we ended up being together in the MTC and now we are together in Wausau. It’s been a long time since we’ve been together, so we are excited. He is a fun and cool kid. He’s way better at Hmong than me haha. He is literally a genius. We are trying to do a lot of SYL together which is "Speak Your Language" so basically speaking in Hmong to each other rather than English because it is a lot easier to speak in English, but when we push ourselves we will see a lot of growth. We have been doing a little bit of this over the last few days and it has been really fun. It is like speaking in a secret language because no one can understand us except the Hmong people. For example, we were eating at Mcdonalds after one of the sessions of conference, and Elder Tarone says to me in Hmong, "The Hmong girl behind the counter is pretty cute." And all the people in Mcdonalds had no idea what we were talking about haha. We are going to continue to work on doing SYL more and more. Our goal is that by the end of this transfer, we will only speak in Hmong So shout out to Elder Tarone!
So April 1st - on Easter we look out the window and guess what? It was snowing!!! It is a lot colder here in Wausau since we are super far up North. It is supposed to snow a couple more times this week too :(
We also got our Easter baskets and it said, “Do not open until Easter” and… We opened it right when we got it. We couldn't wait, We were too excited!! haha.
The Wausau ward only has one active Hmong member. The ward used to be pretty big a couple years ago, but members moved or passed away. So we have a lot of work that can be done and we have high hopes. This area is the hardest area for Hmong work in Wisconsin because it has not had a Hmong baptism since 2016, but we are going to do our best to help the area out. We won't be having any baptisms any time soon unless some crazy miracles happen. This area is more of a long-term area at the moment... So our Motto for the transfer is "We may not baptize this transfer, but we are going to learn Hmong."
These past few days have been really fun, but also super busy. We didn't have a lot of time to do actual missionary work because we watched 10 hours of General Conference, but I loved General Conference. It was awesome. There were so many great talks. My favorites were Brian K. Taylor's talk about how everyone is a child of God, Dieter F. Uchtdorf's talk about Easter, and Russell M. Nelson's talk about personal revelation. Also the opportunity to sustain a prophet - that was such a cool experience and the spirit that I felt. It was the first time that I can remember in my life doing that. I thought that was super cool and also to see right away how he has received revelation on how Jesus Christ's church can be improved. It was overall a super cool experience.
Hope you all have a great week
