Fake Bike Accident and the Elders go Nuts!!

May 9: Today was a pretty normal missionary day. We were able to go on splits with members and teach more people so that was fun!

May 10: Today we taught a ton of people. It was just lesson after lesson after lesson and it was super busy! That is good though because it means we are being good missionaries! We also were able to go visit one of our investigators in the hospital. Not the most fun thing to do but she recovered and was able to come to church on Sunday!

      Also, today one of our investigators taught us something cool! If you put a shiny silver coin in a hard-boiled egg and tie it to yourself and leave it for a few days the coin turns black and that means it sucked evil spirits and sickness out of your body! Cool huh! (picture below)

May 11: Today I got offered Weed!! People are so generous when they are high! Today we were on exchanges so I was able to bike around like a super Mormon all day! Way fun! The best part is when you are biking and people driving by and roll down their window and start yelling insults at you! It’s really funny hahaha. Also, this happened...

hahaha don't worry those are missionaries and they didn't hit me. The picture is just funny

May 12: So, there is a man whose mom we visit because she is a member. He works at some food place and so he gets to take nuts home from work. He gave us some of the extra nuts. We weighed them...

Pecans- 2.5lbs

Almonds- 20lbs

Pistachios- 26lbs -15 with shells and 11 pre-shelled! 

May 13: Today was a roller coaster! We went to a wedding and a funeral. Then after that we went and talked to our investigator who is getting baptized this Saturday! So, happy to sad to happy to super tired hahaha. Missionaries are always tired. We work so hard hahaha.

May 14: Today church was amazing! Mother’s Day is always good! We also had 6 investigators come to church total! Way cool! The Lord has been blessing us to meet awesome people all the time! It's amazing! 

Love y'all and hope everything is going great wherever you are!

-Elder Yskes

FaceTime on Mother's Day and Helping with Dishes on Mother's Day

Dinner with the Ensigns

May 2: So, today we were driving by some investigators apartments and looked over and the apartment complex across the street was being fumigated! The entire thing! crazy!

May 3: Car Crash! So, we went into a recent converts house, taught them a lesson and when we came out to our car it looked like this! Crazy! Other than that, it was a good day though! 

May 4: Today we went to the body shop to get estimates and found some investigators that are about a half hour away so we will have some driving to do in the coming weeks! Our investigators are super cool though!

May 5: Break in! So, we ate dinner with the Assistants at the Ensigns house today! Their daughter served with my brother in Italy! After dinner, we had to grab some stuff from the assistant’s house but they were on exchanges and didn't have a key so we broke in! We found an open window on the roof and realized we had a truck so we had a good idea! The pictures tell the story!

Me and Elder Quinn picking up Elder Bishop! 

 Dinner with the Ensigns

May 6: Real break in! So today we found out one of the Hmong men who we know is super sketchy broke into our 70-year-old investigators house, punched her, and trashed her house because one of her friends owed him money! Needless to say, she is going to testify in court against him next week!

May 7: Today we had Stake Conference! Our mission president spoke so that was super cool! We also went way out into the middle of nowhere to meet some people that live in the upstairs of a shack! (probably about 50 square feet) A member took us out there to meet them and it was a super good lesson! This week was super fun!

-Elder Yskes

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Ward BLITZ, 5 New Investigators and Tulip Time

April 24: We were talking to someone and he was showing us his garden and talking about how beautiful it is! Hmong people are great gardeners.

April 25: Today we went on a ward BLITZ. Members of the Ward all came together for a meeting to talk about less active members of the Ward but instead of talking about them, we split up into groups of two and visited all of them! Way cool!

April 26: Today we were able to meet two new investigators so that was fun!

April 27: So today we met a woman who used to be a practicing Shamen. A year ago, she converted to Christianity. She converted her Shamen alter into basically a Jesus alter. Kind of crazy hahaha.

April 28: Today we were able to meet with our investigators Susan and Ntsum (Translated to sound similar to 'You'). They are two super awesome investigators who are so fun to visit. Ntsum showed me a Hmong tie she began to sew for me! Way cool! It isn’t done yet so I don’t have any pictures but it looks really cool!

April 29: Today we helped some members move. It was way fun to help out. We were also able to hit our weekly goal of 5 new investigators!

April 30: Church was way fun today! A lot of our investigators had schedule conflicts that prevented them from being able to come but we still had one come! So that was good! Also, we were able to attend the Baptism of two investigators for the other two Elders in our ward. It was way fun!

It was a good week!

-Elder Yskes

Picture one: Wild chickens on the side of the road

Picture two: Looking in a member’s house and saw a pretty cool picture. It was them at Tulip Time! Apparently, they want last year! Crazy! The picture was from 1995 though!

Picture three: Mountains in the distance at an investigators house that lives a million miles away