CHINESE NEW YEAR

Hey Mother!!!

I am glad that it is warming up for you! The weather in Korea isn't as bad as I thought or had heard that it is. It has been in the 50s for the last little bit, which is a nice refresher not to have to wear our winter coats. Chinese New Year was wonderful, we went over to a member's house and had breakfast and then played a traditional Korean game, which I actually received as a gift from the Christmas party that we had (white elephant). The game is really fun. We will have to play as a family when we get back. Anyways, then we also had dinner with another member at night which was really delicious!

This week was great with our investigators.

First, our hospital investigator continues to progress slowly to come to Christ. My companion got sick yesterday and so when we visited our investigator said that he would pray for him. He's wonderful and we love going over and teaching him in the hospital. Apparently all of the nurses know about the American missionaries that come and teach English in the hospital (they all know us). He's doing well. He really does believe which is great! He gets out of the hospital on tomorrow.

The family that didn't get the divorce is doing well. We went to visit the son this past week and I caught sight of the Book of Mormon on the table. I asked him if he had read it and he said that he had read the first 12 pages of it that day! It was wonderful to talk to him about it. We also invited him to church but he procrastinated all of his homework until the end of the break and so he was too busy to come.

Other than that because of the Chinese New Year there was not much opportunity to meet or to find new investigators. Koreans literally shut down for three days and everyone goes to their hometown for the 3 days. No place was open. But, this week we are looking forward to a lot more opportunities to meet people and to help them progress in the Gospel and come to Christ!

My thought for this week is the very first sentence of the Chapter heading of Moroni 7: "An invitation to enter into the rest of the Lord" (orsomething along those lines). That's a pretty great description of the chapter. It's an amazing chapter to read!

I love you so much!!! I hope that this week goes more smoothly than the last one! I am praying for you! I love you!