My Mission to Korea

FIRST BAPTISM

On July 10, 2011 민다빈 got baptized. She is a wonderful little girl. The Sister Missionaries have been teaching her for a year now, gospel and english. So it's nice for me, who barely knows Korean to be able to speak to her in English. She is really good at it and understands you completely. The ward put together the baptismal events. 분당 ward is full of talented, hardworking people.

After church, at 1pm, we had a reception of  떡 (rice cake)  and 김치 (kimchi). Not sure why we had it at the beginning, but we did. 민다빈's family came. Her two aunts, grandma and grandpa and her father. She has so much support. Then at 1:30 everyone went down to see the main event. Our primary put on an exceptionally musical number. Two of the kids played violin, they like 10 years old and are really good. I was super impressed. We have advanced children in our ward.

Then a counselor in our Bishopric gave a talk, then we sang "I am trying to be like Jesus". That was hard for me. I don't like to sing infront of people, but I did it and I think we sounded descent. The actually baptism was kind of comically. She had to get baptized FIVE TIMES!!! 1st time her hair, 2nd tine her feet, 3rd time her hair, 4th her feet.....then finally, on the fifth try, SUCCESS, baptism by immerision. The children were so cute. When 민다빈 got out of the water they all ran to the bathroom to congradulate her. They were so excited.

After the baptism 민다빈 got a couple presents. A set of scriptures from the ward, a picture of Jesus Christ helping up a little girl from us and a large teddy bear. She had a good day. She had fun. It was such a good day. Oh and in none of the pictures is she similing. For some reason Koreans don't like to smile in pictures, but I promise you she really was happy that day.

Other fabulour news, we found a new famiy, or rather the Dad found us. In English class he came in and then decided to do the 30/30 program with us. So this past Tuesday we went to his house. We met his wife and son. His son is 5 years old. So cute. Loves dinosaurs. He was very shy when we got there, but by the end he was showing us his tai-kwon-do moves. It was a really good first meeting. You could feel the Spirit in their home the entire time. This family is very special. They are a dedicated religious family. I really think the gospel, especially concerning families, will really hit home with them. This past Saturday for English class, we had everyone share good news from their week. He shared how the missionaries came to visit his home. And how is wife and son were very happy. I think they like us. We meet them again tomorrow. I am so excited!