My birthday has been
absolutely wonderful. The Mission president's wife Sister Shin called
this morning and told my companion to buy me ice cream. He didn't, but
the experience in the morning was worth way more than ice cream. We
traveled to a place called Boo-Yah...haha well it's more like Boo-yㅓ but
English doesn't really have that sound, so I like to call it Boo-Yah!
Anyways we went and played a little bit of frisbee by a river with
awesome Korean temples across the river. It was great!
This past week went by quickly, but went by very
well. We worked hard in the finding department and found an investigator
from Maryland that had just arrived in our town to teach English. She
doesn't know much Korean, so we have been teaching her in
English...which helps me to remember the importance of communication.
She isn't really looking for religion, but she is try to live and find
out who she is. We'll see what happens, we clearly provided her with an
opportunity and a testimony of what this Gospel has done for us in this
life.
We met with the English investigator at church this
past week. He has definitely changed since his hospital experience. He
now believes in God. Which is amazing, he seems happier and he always
talks about "our church". However, he is still undergoing treatment and
so is uncomfortable with coming to church. Also, he thinks he has God
all figured out--that there isn't any more to learn. He believes now,
and he thinks he's done. So, we'll have to work with that. He's great
though, I am am very confident in his progression once we can meet more
regularly.
Other than that we have built up some potential from
street contacts. We met a couple of people who had never met
missionaries before and somehow their numbers were already in our
phone...and we talked to someone who attended the Baptist church for a
solid hour (walking around-he followed us because he wanted to talk and
we were following him because we wanted to talk, and we ended up at a
random dead end...haha) about religion, and he definitely saw the need
for a Restoration. He was so interesting. He told us exactly what the
Spirit feels like, could recognize it, and agreed with the words that I
have had investigators tell me it feels like in lessons. We gave him a
Book of Mormon and got his phone number, so hopefully we can work with
him in the future.
The Korean situation is very bad as far as anti is
concerned. The churches in Korea have a declared list of their version
of "cult" (although it is less a seclusive meaning and more of a
doctrinal difference meaning in Korea) churches that all of the pastors
tell their congregations to be aware of. The internet is also really
bad. I had a twenty minute phone call once with someone who went
straight to the internet and from that point the conversation was over.
But, people are still searching for truth, even if they don't know where
to look. And, once they find it, then they know.
This week went by really well! Thank you soooo much
for the package. Cinnamon rolls taste like manna in Korea! I will
happily eat my peanut butter and jelly(so sweet!) and the crackers as
well! Thank you so much. But, as usual, the best part were the cards and
the talk that you sent. That talk was perfect. Elder Scott gives
different versions of that same talk and highlights different aspects of
it, (1998 and 2010 General Conference, and 2011 BYU Commencement, and
probably more). The cards and the talk really helped me! Thank you so
much!
I have one request. There's a Talk by Elder Bouche
(I think) that is famous among missionaries (He gave it in the 1980s or
1970s and not in General Conference) Is there a way that you can email
the talk to me? Also on my computer there's a file that has a whole
bunch of quotes...I think it's called "Quotes" if you could send
those...that would be great!
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