My Mission to Korea

A BAPTISM AND A DRUNK MAN

Yesterday we had a baptism for a girl named Lee Ah Rhan. SHe is 18 years old. Her friend was baptized a year ago, but quickly went inactive because it was her senior school of high school. And in korea that means you go to school at 6am and don't come home till midnight. Its a really stressful year and they never have time for much. Her friend's name is Son Gee Won. Well Gee Won came to church and invited Ah Rhan to come along. That was in December and since then she has never missed a Sunday. My Companion, Sister McCellan and Sister Paul started teaching her December 20th, 2011. They taught her twice, until I came in and replaced Sister Paul. Within two weeks we taught Ah Rhan the remaining lessons and got her ready for baptism on January 15th 2012. The second time she met with the missionaries, they watched The Testaments with her and at the end of movie she asked "When do I get baptized?" She was golden!

Her baptism was wonderful, her mom was able to come and our mission president was unexpectedly there. We sand alond with the elders "Teach me to walk in the Light." And Ah Rhan's friend Gee Won shared her testimony. It was so good. She talked about how she wasn't able to come to church and how she forgot alot, but because of Ah Rhan, her faith has been renuined. Really sweet testimony, she started crying. Since they are great friends I think they will help each other stay strong in the church. Afterwards, we ate Costco muffins, bananas and Caprisans. For Ah Rhan we bought her a skirt, she didn't own one, and a picture of Christ from the Plan of Salvation Pamphlet. It was kind of a joke because when we showed her that picture the first thing she said was "He is sexy." She was embarassed when she found out it was Christ. Overall, such a wonderful baptism!!!

Now for another exciting drunk/crazy man story. Love my new area. So we are stopped in the subway station as I am looking for my subway card. As I am looking this man comes out of no where up to Sister McCellan and says "Hi" in Korean to her. He ask where are you going, she tells him, and he suggest that we go together. Shortly after I found my card and quickly scanned into to the subway with Mccellan right behind me. This old man is tailing us and telling her and me that we are beautiful and just won't leave us alone, even though we are ignoring him. A subway is stopped, I just jump on not knowing if it is the right one. Sister Mccellan gets on as the doors are closing and so does this man who then gets stuck in the door. The whole train gasp. We just stand there staring at him not knowing what to do, and the people on the train stare at him to us, to him again. He doesn't seem very concerned because he casual ask a korean if this train went to a certian station. The doors open again and slowly steps off the train as the doors close again, but he manages to pull his body out. Good to know God watches over you and gets the crazy's stuck in doors so you can run away.

Then while street boarding shortly after the drunk man we had a lady riding a bike with a kid hit one of our street boards. Thankfully her and her kid were fine, but she destroyed out street board statnd. Pinched the leg off and parts were just falling off as we put it away. Sad thing it I didn't give her our card!

 

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      Sister Hill