Hi lovely mother!
Okay so I read your email then it disappeared so I'm replying based off of memory.
The one in Joanna's pictures is Tsemeng, President Lee's son.
President Lee is a perfect BML because he speaks Hmong, Thai, Laotian, and English. So he covers all but Cambodian and Mien. Which we have none of, yet.
My ponderize scripture is 1 Nephi 13:37
Talk about a wonderful sabbath day.. We had 60 people show up! We filled up the whole relief society room. We had 15 investigators there too! We are hopefully moving into the chapel soon. We have had ridiculous high attendance lately; the highest in the branch's
history! The Lord is hastening his work.
Miracles... There was a huge one this week. It is a long story. I will
take time to type it out because it is wonderful!
One day we were tracting in a trailer park. Me and Elder Vang always collect loose change when we see it. We saw a quarter on the ground. After stopping to pick it up, we decided to just go knock on that door. While walking up we saw a quarter on their porch and we picked it up. We went over and knocked and it was a a very young married couple (Younger then me!!). Their parents were shaman, but they said they believed in God and they had some questions. We sat down the them for about two hours and talked then talked about the restoration and Book of Mormon. They were excited. While leaving there was a quarter in that same spot where we picked one up early. It was a bread trail to their house. Not only did we find some amazing investigators but also $.75!
We tried to get in contact with them and we couldn't. The house we saw them at wasn't theirs. We got their number and we called and no one picked up. One day while tracting we felt an overwhelming urge to go to that house. We went and knocked on that house and they were there!
They were church shopping and they visited a lot of different
churches. They didn't like any of them. They started meeting a
Jehovah's Witness and they just didn't feel it was right. That night the wife had a dream with us in it and something told them to go to that house at 2. So when we showed up at 2 they knew this was the right church.
So they came to church this week. They called us and asked where we met again and times and they said they and their sisters would go. This is where it gets really whacky. They show up to church yesterday. Bao (the girl he mentioned last week) did too. They saw each other after sacrament because we got them together to show them where to go. Turns out that family were her cousins and her cousin in law... Neither had a clue we were teaching each other,
neither did we, but it really shows that the Lord knows his work more then us!
They all have an insane amount of fellowshippers. Everyone took them in. We didn't commit the family to baptism, they committed themselves along with the ward encouraging them to join. All on the family's first day. We are going to help them through this with President Lee and President Lampert. Then we just need to find them a date when they are all available! And teach them the lessons.
Along with that, Bao committed herself to baptism on October 29th! We brought her to a baptism and she felt the spirit so strong (btw baptism #7 happened on Saturday! It was a part member family). It was awesome.
Funny story too! We were talking to Bao after church asking
when we can meet with her. We asked if Wednesday at 5 works, she responded, "Not really, I have to go to Young Women's night." My heart swelled up with joy! It was so awesome. She is a stud.
Funnier story. That family, the two youngest have very interesting names. The first one is Yauxej, which in English is Joseph. The youngest is YuTha, which is pronounced "Utah." Their shaman parents had no clue.
We have another baptism this Saturday... We are dunking 6 people! The Hmong branch is killing it right now! Soon we will be a ward!
Hope you have a good week!
Elder Frey
Not sure what these building are or if he's just showing us the snow.
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