Forever Hmong

Or Maybe not. We are getting a set of Hmong Missionaries, so I will not be covering the Hmong branch henceforth. I left it better than I found it so it's all good.

This week Elder Gray left to Fresno on Monday to be an assistant. I joined up with Elder Chadwin Wright and Elder Woodmansee for the week. It was super fun, and fairly productive.

On Monday we had the Last Zone Meeting ever in the California Fresno Mission. We trained on being bold in inviting others to be baptized, and in finding. We also talked about not falling in despair.

After that I said goodbye to Elder Gray and went to Brother Fife's house for Hmong Family Home evening while Elder Wright and Woodmansee used the truck.

I was picked up the Hamptons and we taught Gracie. She is a super solid recent convert.

On Tuesday we 

On Wednesday I went on a team up with Brother Atkinson. he dropped me off at President Smith's house. Then Brother Smith took me to the church and I went off with Brother Lavato and we taught Sister Cannon and Eva's family.
I set a new personal record for investigators at Sacrament meeting this week with 8. We had Eva and her family, Olga, Keith, and Jim. Kenny and Benny came to the Hmong Branch.

Keith is doing pretty well. He currently is looking for a place to live, and he wants to turn his life around by making things right with God. He has come to church twice in a row, and reads the Book of Mormon every day. he also prays every day and keeps any other commitment that we give him. he has a baptism date for later in June.

Being in a tripanionship is really fun because if we all feel pushed to perform.

Brother Alonzo (Lacey's dad) gave us two fancy ties this week, but since their are three of us we made a ping pong tournament to see who got them. I got a nice red one with second place.

On Friday we left Elder Woodmansee in Merced and Elder Wright and I drove down to Fresno to get the mail. Afterwards we ate Egg rolls with Sister Balls and Sister Troseth, May, Fey and Benny and Kenny at Fey Saelee's house. They are super smart and super cool, but still haven't gotten the green light to be baptized. After all of the egg rolls and banana rolls we went and ate dinner in Atwater with Aiya Le and her family.

On Saturday we went to Planada to try and visit all of the less active members. We were walking outside of an apartment complex when a lady called out to us and asked us if we wanted some water. We got some and she told us we could come back in a minute and get some cake. We did. Later in our Planada trip we went to the outskirts of the city of Legrand and found a lady named Alma and her Husband Christian. Alma actually came to church last week, but she is not a member. We taught them and they gave us some really good spaghetti. Spaghetti is usually not very good as a missionary, but theirs was really good. Alma and Christian lives with her Sister who is a member.

Then we ate Dinner with Chou and his mother that mostly just speaks Hmong. We had a nice leaf (maybe beet leaves?) in water drink, and the chicken that a women that just had a baby has to eat for 30 days. The mom kept telling us to "eat too much" and get "more power." It motivated me to eat more green vegetables and chicken.

With a tripanionship we had a "literal boatload " of great and sometimes crazy experiences.

I worked a lot on planning specifically for each investigator family. There were a few times where it really worked for them.

Stake Correlation was really good. It was the last one with President Clark.

Olga is doing well. She succesfully quit coffee for a week. She set a baptismal date for July 1st. She will be out of town before then.

Love,

Elder Keeley