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We Teach, They Baptize

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November 26, 2017 Hello Everyone! This week was a pretty awesome week. This week was the last full week for my trainer before she returns to her home. She has been the hardest worker to the end of her mission! Her mom is so excited for her to come home! Last P-day we were able to go to a Senior couples house and have a little Thanksgiving dinner. It was cool to see some missionaries and talk about what we are grateful for. It was a little different Thanksgiving with the food being unlike the usual. We had to Asian style it. haah This week for family home evening, we had the opportunity to watch 17 miracles. Thankfully it was in English with some Viet Subtitles. It was great to watch the sacrifices people made so we can have the gospel. Very cool! We have a great heritage. To end the week, we were able to have a baptism. Chị. Dương was able to be baptized and it was a very cool experience. We met her at English class and at first she was not interested, but then in our spi...

Members are the Glue

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Letter from 10/29/17 HELLO, This week went by so fast and can't believe I am sending another email. This week was filled with some meetings and some lessons and some funny things and always studying. During the week we have a lot of meetings. We have meetings on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays usually. They are good. We talk a lot about what we can do to improve the missionary work here. Also we talk about the people who we are teaching and who we could teach. We had some lessons this week. We teach a lot of recent converts who have been baptized within the year. We also have to contact a lot of people via phone when they can't meet. So that's fun. Practicing my Vietnamese. Also some funny things that happened. We met these men and child who were from California. They were coming back from something? But we were talking to them and the little boy says to his uncle "why does she look so different" talking about me. Haha So my companion sai...