Chicken Feet Soup..🐓

Our family was out of town this week, sorry this update is later than normal, I am catching up on everything!

Hello! We changed our P-Day this week so we could go to the temple today. The temple is such an amazing place!

We had another good week! One of my favorite things that happened this week was with a fairly new investigator, Poe Wah. We knocked into her a couple weeks ago and taught her and her mom a simple lesson about prophets, then when we went back we taught them about the restoration. We invited them to church and they told us they already go to a church, and with our limited Karen, we didn't really know how to respond to that so we didn't say much. But this past week when we went back, it was just Poe Wah. We taught her about the 5 parts of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Faith, Repentance, Baptism, the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End. Something during this lesson clicked and Poe Wah's face lit up. At the end of the lesson I bore my testimony about how because of the restoration of the gospel, only our church has the Priesthood, which means our church is the only true church in the world. I told her that because we believe this, we want her to be able to come to church and feel the difference at our church. She got a big smile and said, "I really want to go. I just need the address of the church." So of course we gave it to her, and guess who came to church! Poe Wah and she brought one of her friends that we've been teaching as well! 

Another really cool thing that happened this week was with Sue and Eh Hser. They are the 14 and 17 year old sisters who are super solid. If you remember, Eh Hser volunteers at a hospital every Sunday so she's only been able to come to church one week. We prayed a lot to know what to teach them, and we felt like we needed to commit Eh Hser to asking her boss to change her volunteer time so she could go to church. So we planned a lesson about why we follow God's commandments and how we get blessed from following them, then we told her how much we love and God loves her, and because of that, we want her to be able to receive all the blessings she can, and we invited her to ask her boss to change her time, and she said yes! She said once school starts in a couple weeks she will be able to ask her boss! She was so happy and saw the importance of this commitment. At the end of the lesson she said, "Wait I have one more thing to say. I really liked the lesson today. Thank you." We are so happy! We were so nervous to ask her to change because we didn't know how she would react, but the spirit definitely helped us plan for exactly what she needed!

Thank you all for the love and support you give me! Love you all!

Our district at the temple! (I think it's Elder Brklacich, Williams, Evans, Foutz? and Brooklyn and Sister Hicks)

Chicken feet soup we had to eat at a Ba Ywa. Not my favorite thing I've had to eat! 

Her companion Sister Hicks mentioned in her letter this week that it actually wasn't as bad as you think it would be. Just a little crunchy! A Ba Ywa is a big Karen get together, usually to celebrate a birthday or something with lots of Karen food. Sister Hicks said to think of it as a Family Home Evening.

Sister Ching and I got to go on exchanges together last week! So fun!

Brooklyn sent us a picture of a fruit she tried and said it is really good. Rambutan is a fruit native to Southeast Asia covered in leathery skin that looks spikey. The name means "hairs". After you peel it the flesh inside is sweet and mildly acidic, similar to a grape. Brooklyn said it's really good!

Brooklyn and her recent Hmong market purchase. Can you tell what's different about her?

Teaching with Sister Ching

I hope Brooklyn doesn't mind that I added this picture, but I think it's really interesting. Elder Nelson (third from the left) who she served with, is home now and sent her this picture of some of his friends. Elder Woodland (second from the left) was a Karen Elder that just went home. They were both best friends before their missions and both ended up serving in Minnesota!

I asked her if she got a chance to see the Eclipse. She said they didn't even worry about it and asked when the next one would be! haha She also mentioned she hasn't been feeling as well lately and I told her it's probably the lack of sleep, exercise and eating right, along with a little stress worrying about the language. Hopefully she will feel better soon!  Sure love her and hope she has a wonderful BIRTHDAY this week!!!