Hey family!


Ok so I wasn't able to send an email last week because I ran out of time on my library card. Luckily, this new email service saves drafts every so often so it saved most of it:

Thanks for all the support and future cookies (hint hint). Thanks for the 20 bucks Dad, we're going to red lobster for one of the GB English Elders lastP-day.

This week was packed full of good exercise, fun, and I suppose a little missionary work. Sorry, I don't have a lot of time today, we have to go move the rest of the stuff out of our old apartment today.

Monday we went to Shawano (North of Oneida) to go help the Elders there tap trees. It was pretty fun, but exhausting. Turns out for every 30 gallons of sap you get 1 of syrup.

Tuesday we had exchanges with the Shawano Elders, so I stayed up there for the day. Its pretty much like Oneida, lots of open fields, but with more trees. It was a nice break from GB.

Wed we did some service at the food pantry. Found a new potential investigator! named Micheal and his wife (haven't met yet). He said they had been going to a lot of different churches, but haven't found the right one yet. Well, they're about to. We also spent a couple hours raking this part member family's yard. It was really fun, we even got the kids to help us. They said we were the coolest missionaries ever. (pictures included).

Thurs we spent 7 hours helping this family whose house burned down repanel their floor and some other stuff. It was a long day. Sat. we went to the Chicago Temple with the stake, which was awesome.

Ok now for this last week. It was a really busy week. We got 4 new investigators; 3 in one family (Michael, Shannon, and Heather) and then a Hmong lady named Mei Thao. I met Michael at the food pantry we do service at. He said he and his wife had been searching for a church and hadn't found the right one yet. He asked where ours was and if he could come. Can you say 'prepared'? So the ward mission leader and I went over to their house on splits night and taught them the 1st lesson. It went really well and they said they wanted to learn more. Mei Thao is a lady living in the apartment complex next to us. She is really interested in learning and said she would like to join our church some day. We're hoping that means in 4 weeks :)


We started doing service at a railroad museum last thurs. Already we found 2 new potential investigators. One Catholic lady who said she wants to find a new church and the head of the musuem who apparently used to be taught by missionaries. I'll get some pics this week, its a pretty neat place.

As for Easter, it was awesome. There were some really great talks this conference we can't wait to share with our investigators. As for the Easter candy, don't worry about it Mom, I'm not starving here. This one Hmong family did have us over for dinner and an easter egg hunt though. We had turkey and rice and this pork stuff, it was really good (but not as good as your cooking of course)


Yes I know Elder Lester; he's in the other Green Bay district. Hes a really funny guy. I didn't know they had Hmong volleyball down there, but we have our own here every Friday. It goes pretty well, and we get a couple of invites and lessons each time.


Thanks so much for the email Abby and Matthew! I like the new and improved update. Congratulations on reading your first chapter book Abby, you're way smarter then me already.

I actually do remember the tomb. I can only remember about a few scenes from living in Tel Aviv; that huge wooden playground, the tomb, the wailing wall, the golden dome thingy, being slung over your shoulder as blood was pouring out of my nose (fence incident) and that's about it.

Sorry again for not getting that email out last week. I sent those pictures from before and some new ones, hope they get to you.

Have a great week!

(These photos are of Alex and "Grandma Moua", who embroidered this tie for him.  The second photo is Alex trying to mug the "traditional Hmong serious" photo face.  Looks like he's about to laugh if you ask me. :)

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