Hmong adventures!

So this week was super fun! We started the week just like normal with P-day activities, except we were able to play outside because it was finally warm enough!! So that was super fun to get outside and I even got to kick a soccer ball around for like the first time on grass in way too long!! So then Tuesday was one of the craziest days of my entire mission!! So the Appleton Hmong elders are in our district, so we were on exchanges with them, and so I was trying to understand the Hmong that was going on with no success, but I was given a Hmong Name!! So basically all the old Hmong grandmas give missionaries names that they would be in Hmong. My name is Tub Seng Vaj. You pronounce it like "Tou Seng Vang" It is a weird language so don't ask me how all that works, but most of the time the name means something. Well my name is weird, and none of the Hmong elders know what it means. So that is pretty goofy. But then after that, in the same day we were visiting a returning less active Hmong guy, and afterwards my companion goes and talks to his mom for a minute in the kitchen and she apparently invited us to eat. To this day I have no idea what I ate.... but I know it was the most disgusting thing I have ever put in my mouth.... It literally tasted like garbage. But I gagged it down, literally... so that was an adventure!! Super fun times! Then Wednesday was a little more Hmong work, but not nearly as much of an adventure, and Thursday was a normal missionary day. Then on Friday we had exchanges with our Zone Leaders, and so I was in a Spanish area!! We were able to teach a couple of really cool people, luckily they spoke English as well, so I could actually understand what they were saying! And then on Saturday we had a baptism in the Neenah ward, it was actually 3 of them that got baptized!! We got to go to that so it was pretty fun! And then right after that I got to do a baptismal interview for a kid that is getting baptized this coming week! Lots of success here in the Appleton area this month!


Here is a bit of a spiritual message for ya:

At the baptism on Saturday the speaker that talked about the Holy Ghost shared this and I really liked it. So she compared the Holy Ghost to tracking your steps. So before you have the gift of the Holy Ghost you can feel the influence and that is like having your phone track your steps. But sometimes you don't have that with you. So she then compared the gift of the holy ghost to having a fitness watch on that would help you to always have the steps counted as long as you strap the watch on! So we need to always "strap" the holy ghost on in our lives! I love the gift of the Holy Ghost, and I love that we have the opportunity to receive it in our lives because of Jesus Christ!

Hope you all have a great week!

Elder Reynolds