How is everyone doing? Things going good for all of you? I hope so. Things out here have been pretty good full of all sorts of stuff so let me get started so I can get it all done in time. By the way I wasn’t able to write yesterday because of Columbus day. Dumb holiday but that’s ok. And also I won’t be writing until Tuesday next week because I have a temple trip and won’t write until then. I’ll let you know how the temple trip went next week.
Anyways let me start off with a miracle story that happened on Monday it was so awesome! So we were going to visit a investigator/recent convert (there are two of them and their two kids. They are named cogi and pahoua) and we get there and knock but they didn’t answer so we knocked again. Their neighbors were there and they heard us so they opened the door and started talking to us saying that they hadn’t answered the door when they had tried but they were home because we heard them. The neighbors we were talking to were named amber who is 13 and then my man malachi who is 6 just a little older than brayden is actually. So I got to talking with malachi and then pahoua answers (she’s the recent convert) and we see if cogi is there and he’s asleep so we said we’d come back in a little bit. So then amber goes up to pahoua and asks something I didn’t hear since I was playing with malachi but fox heard it and she was asking if they had their food stamps because they had no money but they didn’t. so to make a long story short we gave them some food. The miracle happens with how everything fell into place. It was amazing because just a couple days before. Julia the 12 year old girl we teach. Her mom loves us and gave us a big slab of ribs that we had no idea what to do with and a bunch of fruit as well. That popped into our heads when we were trying to think of how we could help so we got the ribs and some fruit for them. Then 3 weeks ago from Monday we were shopping and they had a huge bag of cereal on sale for 2 bucks so I got one even though I had a ton of cereal but I can’t pass up a good deal like that. I felt like I should get another one but I passed it by. Then when I was buying all my food I felt like I really needed to get one and I didn’t know why so I had the worker ring me up for 2 and I grabbed it on the way out. That’s something else we gave them. It is amazing how the Lord made all of those things work out so perfectly. If we had left a couple minutes later or if pahoua had answered the door when amber had first knocked or if I hadn’t gotten the cereal or we hadn’t gotten the ribs none of this would have worked out. It is amazing how the Lord works.
Then we had two more exchanges this week which were no fun at all but on the second one I had another miracle. I was with a Spanish missionary this time named elder garret and we were in his area so checking out the Spanish people and we went to this area (which was right behind cogi’s apartment complex actually) and we had an appointment but they forgot we were coming. So then we were heading out and there was this boy just standing there and elder garret walked by him and as I was walking by I said “hey. How are you?” then he said he was good and asked if I was a Mormon. So then we got to talking and then garret came over and we decided to teach this kid a lesson. His name was Andrew and he was a STUD! He is 14 and was SO ready! We taught him and he soaked it all up and wanted to go to church! It was so awesome. He may be only 14 but you know what 14 year old boys can do. They can change the world! So that was another miracle.
So those things happened and they were awesome. The work wasn’t very successful in our area with all these exchange fox had to go on but it was a fun week. This past Saturday there was a party for a family we are teaching and they had all sorts of people there! It was awesome! They also had us sing some songs which was ok. I don’t like singing but in Hmong I actually enjoy it. They were church hymns and they went pretty well. The whole party was for the grandparents of the family since the grandpa was really sick and we gave him a blessing. I noticed that out of all the people there were only 4 priesthood holders and me and fox were two of them. The Hmong people really do struggle when it comes to worthy priesthood holders. But after that we ate and it was CRAZY! They had killed a pig for the whole thing and they cooked it and when they brought it out and I saw the ears I couldn’t believe it! It was insane! It tasted really good though. I also made some really good friends too. They were all little kids of course but they were awesome! I also noticed something. When we first got there and were waiting for people to come I was playing with the kids and just goofing off then fox said we needed to go and talk with the older people. I didn’t like that at all I thought it was so boring and the whole time I wanted to be with the little kids. I just love little kids and i have come to the conclusion that I have to go into pediatrics.
Anyways that’s about it for my adventurous week. Pretty crazy huh? Well that can happen on a mission. It seems. No really good stories about food except yesterday I ate some really good fu.
Anyways I just want to say that I’m hanging in there out here in California even though the weather is getting cold and it has been raining all day today but I will survive! I’m a fighter! I also want to say that I love all of you TONS! I miss you much!
Love you!
Elder Eddie Holloway
pictures!
so the pictures are the one's i was going to send last week. they are from the exchange i had where me and elder Bryant had Mexican food from the taco truck. yeah we liked it!
then there are some of my amazing chicken i made! and how i felt about it! it made me STRONG!!!! or as they say in Hmong HWJ CHIM HEEV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah it looks good i know! I'm the greatest!
