Called To Serve: Hello family

Hey everyone well this week was really good..

The baptism went well! it was such a cool experience, the talks were so awesome and overall just a great baptismal service! The branch had two baptisms that day, the young girl me and Elder Angeles were teaching and another girl that Elder Lor and Elder Moss were teaching. It was a great day in the branch.. its growing fast! I hope by the time I leave it will be a ward! Oh and Mai....her whole family came so that was good and I hope a spiritual experience for them. We are hoping to start teaching them. It was a really cool thing because one of the older ladies in the branch saw mai's mom and I guess they grew up together in Laos and they are just barely seeing each other again! It was awesome. So we have good fellowship for them.... now they just need to accept our message! :)

On Saturday as well was the branch Easter activity which went really well. There were allot of people and we missionaries got to hide all the eggs which was kinda fun!! It was a great day and a very interesting day, because that day we had to bike everywhere and we were on our way home and we were about 4 miles out and my bike tire popped and so we had to walk the next four miles which took us forever!! We got home really late so we let the District Leader know... but we were sure tired after that and it was night time in North Minneapolis which isn't the safest place to be! ha ha it's really ghetto! but a great experience!

It is getting close to the end of the transfer only like 2 more week so we are all trying to figure out what is going to happen at transfers.We will be getting 2 more missionaries in May and also a native hmong Elder who is currently serving in the Wisconsin mission. He is getting a mission transferred to Minneapolis because we have no natives.. Elder Lor goes home in less than 9 weeks which is sad! He has been around my whole mission and it's just crazy how fast time goes by!

I love to hear how everyone is doing especially Hunter and Markel! It sounds like they love it and it has been a crazy start for the both of them! I fell like I have only been gone for 6 month but I got a little over six months left! I don't know where my two years went ha ha! but it has been the best time of my life!! I have grown so much and I don't know what I would do without my mission!

I read a talk about BECOMING and it was really great. Pres. Clements says that we obtain the attributes to be successful in life only on our missions. We BECOME who God wants us to be when we humble ourselves to God and do his will not our own.. the best quote I have heard was by Pres. Clements and I have really felt it on my mission it says: "The greatest change is of the human heart" and as I have seen other people have a change of heart I am just over come with joy and happiness.. and it's the same as I see myself change and become that person who God is wanting me to be!!

The other day we were riding our bike way down in deep North Minneapolis and I went to stop and talk to an African American guy and he was like "white boy you better keep on riding or I'm gonna have to knock you right of that bike" and I was like whoa whoa whoa now I'm just trying to spread some love man and why you haten on me like that." It was funny! He calmed down and I gave him a mormon.org card.. We have had some great experiences here!

So we also found a dead squirrel and we were going to take it to an old hmong guys house so that he could cook it for us ha ha but we didn't have time. We got some pictures though! hope you enjoy!!