Dear family!!
Wow another week has gone by how crazy is that!!!! Time is flying by I can't believe it. Well today marks the day I have officially been out 5 months now time is going by to fast for me I think.... I don't know about you guys but it has gone by really fast for me!!
This week has been good. I had exchanges with my district leader, he goes home in like 2 and a half weeks crazy! but it was a great exchange. I went to Minneapolis with him it was really cool! There are allot of cool people in Minneapolis I met so many green hmong people there... so those of you who don't know what green Hmong is, it is a different dialect of hmong which I will have to learn sometime, but right now I'm learning white hmong and then there is green Hmong, its kinda like Spanish and Portuguese so like the people that are green hmong can understand what we are saying to them but I can't hardly understand anything they say to me so it's a little different but it sounds really cool!!
Well I just sent home allot of pictures... it is getting really green here. We have had so much rain in the past 3 days. We have had 4.25 inches of rain, in fact so much rain it makes it really hard cause we get soaking wet and then no one wants to let us in because we are so wet.. ha ha.
This week we got my Cinco de Mayo package and man that was really cool and funny ha ha!! we had some fun with it!! There are some pictures from it! We recorded it to but I can't send a video through the email so you'll have to wait till I send my memory card home!! but this week we met this family. They have been here for 7 years. I think? It was me and Elder Mearns, we started speaking hmong to them and they were so shocked that we could speak it and everyone in there family was standing at the door listening to us cause they were amazed that two white guys could speak it..
Thank you all for the letters they really mean allot to me and have helped me with all your advice!!
MAN I CAN'T BELIEVE GARE BEAR IS BAPTIZED NOW!! I so wish I could have been there! I got his baptism invitation he looks really fly ha ha!! I miss the Dunns allot and their kids they mean allot to me!! I especially miss little kyle he is the cutest thing in the world!!
Anyway.... the exchanges went well and I have learned allot from it Elder Lo is a really great missionary and has a powerful testimony!! allot of the missionaries that are going home pretty soon are all going to BYU in the fall so look out for them.... there will be Elder Lo (Samuel Lo and Elder Mearns) but this week we taught the family that we baptized a month or so ago and he was telling us stories of back in Laos they are really crazy stories. He is such a great man and how the lord has prepared him is absolutely insane! short story about him is when he was over there he fought in the civil war back in Laos and he told us that there were so many dead bodies in the streets of the cities and that they had to plow them with tractors because there wasn't enough dirt to bury them! He said he was sometimes the only one that was still alive in his group!! He was put in a prisoner of war camp there and there were 500 people there with him. They opened the gates of it and told them they were free but they all started running and they started shooting and killed all 500 of them except him and the two men he was holding hands with. It is really crazy how he didn't die and how the Lord has prepared him to do his work..
That's about it for my week. I love you all and wish you all a good week!
Love always,
DRENCHED!!
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