Baptism

April 17: We went farming again today! It was super fun! then we had our weekly missionary meeting.

April 18: This morning we sung at a Hmong funeral. We sang “Nearer my God to Thee” in Hmong. It was super fun!

April 19: Today we had lunch with former Elder Biggs who came back into town to visit. It was pretty fun! Then we went on exchanges for the day so I was with Elder Hinckley. It was cool to be able and go back and teach some of the people I used to teach. 

April 20: Today was a pretty normal missionary day. Our investigator was interviewed in preparation for their baptism tomorrow, so that was exciting! 

April 21: Today our investigator Ntxawm was baptized! We are super excited for her! It was an amazing experience! 

April 22: Today Ntxawm received the Gift of the Holy Ghost! It was a good day at church. After church, we had a couple really good visits with some members of the church that come and some that don't. Overall a really good week! 

Here are some pictures from the Baptism!

-Elder Yskes

Armed with Smartphones!!

April 10th: This morning we went farming. It was really fun. We helped plant lemongrass  After that we went and taught some lessons. We then went over to the church and had a barbecue so that was pretty fun!

April 11th: Today was pretty crazy! We got our smartphones so now we can have better communication with those were teaching and have access to Facebook. It is pretty weird being back in the real world but we will figure it out.

April 12th: Today was a pretty normal missionary day. Went around trying to teach people and ended up having a really good lesson with a family. When we left the dad was just watching random Mormon Messages so that was cool!

April 13th: Today was really good! We were able to get a couple members out teaching with us so we had some really good lessons. One with an investigator, and one with a less active family.

April 14th: Today was a really busy day. We started off doing some landscaping at our Bishop’s house and then went to a party and met a whole bunch of family members of one of the members in our ward. They challenged us to basketball but we won so it was good! We ended the night visiting someone who lives way out in the middle of nowhere. They had just shot two pigs and we went to go look at them. It was right next to a chicken fighting ring! It was pretty sweet! Hahaha 

April 15th:  Church was really good tonight. Some of the people we are teaching came so that was really cool. After church, we went to the hospital and gave the daughter of one of the families we are teaching a blessing. It was really good. After dinner, an investigator family invited us over for a BBQ. Then we ended the night teaching our Recent Convert. It was really good! It is exciting to see the progress of people. 

Took a couple selfies of some of our friends and of service. Also, one of Elder Israelsen kissing a frog at the Children's hospital. 

-Elder Yskes

11,400 Eggrolls!!!

April 3: Had a couple lessons today then had our MCM meeting.

April 4: Contacted some cool people today. Had a lesson as well so that was good. 

April 5: We went door knocking today. It was pretty fun! We met some cool people and not as many wackos as normal so that was good! After that we visited some members and a couple people I used to teach. It was good! 

April 6: Had a couple more lessons with some people who will probably come out to church this week. Also helped cut vegetables in preparation for the Eggroll fundraiser the youth group will be doing tomorrow. When we were cutting onions, they brought in pizza and after the prayer on the food every single person in the room was crying because it hurt to close your eyes after cutting the onions. It was pretty funny! 

April 7: Today we had our annual Eggroll fundraiser! We made 11,400 Eggrolls!!! It was insane! It was super fun too! It was raining so we had like 10 pop up canopies covering the deep fryers so they wouldn't explode hahaha. Pretty funny! 

April 8: Church today was good! Had a good turn out and saw a couple people who moved about 8 or 9 months ago so that was cool! They came back to visit. It is pretty crazy that I have been in the same ward for this long but hey it is fun! 

Hope y'all have a good week! 

-Elder Yskes