Halloween Party

Oct 17: Today was a good day. Got to go teach some people. Went on a split with some of the Young Men. It was fun.

Oct 18: Today was another awesome day. Taught people and did other missionary stuff. 

Oct 19: Today we had interviews with our Mission President. They were good. Afterwards we taught some more people.

Oct 20: Today we went out and invited a ton of people to the Halloween party tomorrow. We invited a ton of people and then set up the decorations.

Oct 21: Today was a super long day! We ran a 5K this morning. The church put on a 5K to help support Prescription Drug Abuse awareness. We also had the Church Halloween party today. A TON of people came out. It was super good to see a ton of people who have never been to church before and those who haven't come in a long time make it out for the party. It was way cool.

Oct 22: I almost fell asleep translating during church today hahaha. I was wiped out from yesterday and the program was in all English because of some guest speakers. So, I had to talk for 40 minutes non-stop at one point translating. It is tiring hahaha. It is always fun to translate though! 

Have a Great Week everyone! 

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-Elder Yskes

A New Companion - Elder Hinckley

Tues - today we had transfers. I will be with Elder Austin until our companions fly into Fresno. Elder Austin is super fun. We took a selfie with some recent converts. We are cool.

Wed - Today we were able to go to the Temple! Whenever missionaries are companions with missionaries who come straight from the missionary training center, we get to go to the Temple! It was awesome! 

Thurs - Today I met my New Companion! Elder Hinckley! He is super cool! He is from Cleveland Ohio. The other New Hmong Elder is from Chicago. Mid-west pride! 

Fri - Today Elder Hinckley got adopted into a Hmong Clan. He is a Vang! 

Sat - Today we met a super crazy guy. He said he was God and then threw $10 at us. We gave him a picture of Jesus Christ. He thanked us and said if it was a picture of Satan he would poop on it. He told us he had handed out $5000 but it was okay because Jesus would provide. He also said no one could knock down Jesus but that he could knock down Satan and he would NEVER get up. He also tried speaking some Hmong. He claimed to speak 84 languages because he is God. He also said he has Asperger's because he ate at Burger King too much. He also told us not to tell anyone he is God because he spent 48 of the last 50 days in a mental institution. As we were walking away he said "I am a million times more powerful than you! I bet you didn't know that!" I was like nope and then he said screaming and very angrily "AND I AM A BILLION TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN SATAN!!! I AM AN ANGRY GOD!!! And a loving god (with a smile). He then put $20 on the car and said if someone else needed it more they would take it. Someone else needed it more. hahaha. Crazy people. 

Sun - Today was another awesome day on the mission. Love Sundays!

- Elder Yskes

Selfie

Our New Missionaries

Jose's Baptism

So, I forgot my journal and I don't remember what happened this week. It will work out though!

Wed: Elder Bagley and I didn't have a dinner appointment so we ate dinner at this doughnut Chinese food hamburger burrito place in the middle of the ghetto. It was super fun!

Fri: Today we drove by the Temple while visiting people. It is always super beautiful!

Sun: Today Jose got baptized! So did an 8 year old named Pao. It was super awesome. We have been working with Jose for a long time. He has been wanting to get baptized but was waiting on his parent's permission. After a lot of prayer, he was able to get permission and be baptized! It was awesome!!

Elder Bagley is going home and Elder Ellestad and my area is being split so we will both be getting a new companion on Thursday! It will be awesome!

Have a great week everyone! ​​​​​​​​

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-Elder Yskes

A Crayfish in Fresno???

Sep 26: Today we wanton an exchange with the assistants. It was fun. Also, one of our investigators finally got permission to be baptized after a month of prayers. It was awesome!

Sep 27: Today was crazy. We had so much stuff to do that we were driving around like crazy trying to get to everything. We saw a wild crayfish in the middle of Fresno. Pretty weird because Fresno is a desert with no water but hey, I'm not going to tell the crayfish that.

Sep 28: Today we had a super awesome dinner with some recent converts. We also taught a bunch of cool people!

Sep 29: Today I got to spend the day in an English area because of companion switch ups. It was super fun! Met a ton of awesome people!

Sep 30: General conference was awesome! Today we were able to listen to Prophets and Apostles teach us for 6 hours. It was super awesome!

Oct 1: Today we watched 4 more hours of amazing guidance to the whole church. Sadly, one of the Apostles passed away today but he will continue his post-mortal ministry in the spirit world! Death isn't the end! Today we also had some super awesome lessons. One member gave me an aloe plant. Pretty cool. An old Hmong guy told us we could marry his Grand-daughters so we could be his Son-in-laws. We explained to him how we can't do that as missionaries but at least we know he thinks we are cool! hahaha. Hmong people are awesome.

Have a great week everyone!

Elder Yskes