Good morning!
This week we had some cool things happen. Little steps of progress that we’re super grateful for! My favorite one was with Mae Paw’s family. I love Mae Paw to death. We have built such a strong relationship with her over the past year that I’ve been here and I’m sooo grateful for her. I have felt that a big reason why I needed to come here, is for Mae Paw. Mae Paw is the only member in her family, but 3 of her little sisters come to church with her every week. If you remember Sher Paw, she is the one that we are praying will be able to get baptized on March 24th. Sher Paw is one of Mae Paw’s little sisters. Over the past year that I’ve been here, Mae Paw’s dad has never come to church and her mom came probably twice, up until a few weeks ago. She has now come a couple more times since we all started praying for Sher Paw. We think this is a huge step for them! Her mom said she wants to come to church more, but it’s hard to take care of their rowdy two year old. Even though their dad still has never been to church, since we started praying every single day for Sher Paw, our relationship with him has completely changed. Before he would see us and say hi, and then just go into his room. Now when we go over, he talks to us and asks us for help with things. Yesterday, Mae Paw even called us and said her dad wanted to cook dinner for us! Karen people don’t usually have family meals. They usually all eat whenever they want at separate times unless it’s a special occasion. Yesterday when we went over, they had cleared off their table, which I’m pretty sure is never used for eating at since they eat on the floor, and set it all up for us. Little steps, but steps of progress for sure. We’ve been talking to Mae Paw about talking to her dad more about church and yesterday she told us that he might come to church next week! We really hope he does! I know God is helping answer our prayers. Prayer is so powerful! Keep Mae Paw’s family in your prayers. They are such a sweet family.
Sister Hicks’ birthday was on Valentines Day! It was a good day! We taught some good people! One of them is Eh Lin and his wife Thay Paw Paw. They have two cute little boys. One is about 2 and the other is just a month old! So cute and tiny! Eh Lin was taught in the past, but wasn’t progressing so the missionaries stopped teaching him. Months ago, Sister Hicks and I found him in the area book and taught him once, but when we tried going back, things just didn’t work out for some reason. I don’t even remember why. But a couple of weeks ago, he called us and asked us to come teach him again. We’ve taught him the past two weeks and the whole family has come to church the last two weeks as well. He’s really cool and very attentive in our lessons. We hope that now is the right time for him and he will start progressing!
This week we had some cool things happen. Little steps of progress that we’re super grateful for! My favorite one was with Mae Paw’s family. I love Mae Paw to death. We have built such a strong relationship with her over the past year that I’ve been here and I’m sooo grateful for her. I have felt that a big reason why I needed to come here, is for Mae Paw. Mae Paw is the only member in her family, but 3 of her little sisters come to church with her every week. If you remember Sher Paw, she is the one that we are praying will be able to get baptized on March 24th. Sher Paw is one of Mae Paw’s little sisters. Over the past year that I’ve been here, Mae Paw’s dad has never come to church and her mom came probably twice, up until a few weeks ago. She has now come a couple more times since we all started praying for Sher Paw. We think this is a huge step for them! Her mom said she wants to come to church more, but it’s hard to take care of their rowdy two year old. Even though their dad still has never been to church, since we started praying every single day for Sher Paw, our relationship with him has completely changed. Before he would see us and say hi, and then just go into his room. Now when we go over, he talks to us and asks us for help with things. Yesterday, Mae Paw even called us and said her dad wanted to cook dinner for us! Karen people don’t usually have family meals. They usually all eat whenever they want at separate times unless it’s a special occasion. Yesterday when we went over, they had cleared off their table, which I’m pretty sure is never used for eating at since they eat on the floor, and set it all up for us. Little steps, but steps of progress for sure. We’ve been talking to Mae Paw about talking to her dad more about church and yesterday she told us that he might come to church next week! We really hope he does! I know God is helping answer our prayers. Prayer is so powerful! Keep Mae Paw’s family in your prayers. They are such a sweet family.
Sister Hicks’ birthday was on Valentines Day! It was a good day! We taught some good people! One of them is Eh Lin and his wife Thay Paw Paw. They have two cute little boys. One is about 2 and the other is just a month old! So cute and tiny! Eh Lin was taught in the past, but wasn’t progressing so the missionaries stopped teaching him. Months ago, Sister Hicks and I found him in the area book and taught him once, but when we tried going back, things just didn’t work out for some reason. I don’t even remember why. But a couple of weeks ago, he called us and asked us to come teach him again. We’ve taught him the past two weeks and the whole family has come to church the last two weeks as well. He’s really cool and very attentive in our lessons. We hope that now is the right time for him and he will start progressing!
Well, this week Karenland will have some more changes. Elder Williams, who has been in this area for the last 18 months, will be going down to Albert Lea to serve with Elder Evans who left this area last transfer. Also, Sister Hicks and I will be getting a new companion! We don’t really know much about her yet, but we’re excited! It will be weird having another companion after it just being us together for the last 8 months. haha
Dinner at Mae Paw’s!
Sher Paw gave us cute little Valentine's presents.
Elder Brklacich, Williams, Foutz, Standage, Elder & Sister Hurley, Brooklyn, Sis. Hicks, Sister and President Barney
(Elder Williams is getting transferred to Albert Lea and the Hurley's are leaving next week)
Moo Eh Wah took us out for pho!
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