My Mission to Korea

FOLLOWING IMPRESSIONS

This week has been rather difficult. School started agian in Korea after a long break, so all but three of our investigators canceled on us this past week. Hopefully, this week schedules will be figured out and we will be back into a routine soon. Me and my compaion have had alot of proseltying time. But our numbers don't show how much we've actually done. We have been trying new things to improve our proselyting and are slowly improving on those things we've been focusing on.

Regardless of the slow week, we have three progressing investigators.

O Jung Hee came to church yesterday for the second time. We teach english and gospel with her and her daughter. Last week she came to sacrament meeting and the baptism. She enyjoyed it and really liked yesterdays sacrament meeting too. She clapped at the end of the last talk! LOL. Not loudly, just quietly to hersefl. So cute.

Earlier in the week, on Thursday, she invited us to her house for the first time. She fed us dinner and we talked with her for two hours about missionary work and asked about how she felt about getting baptized. She said she is not ready right now, but sees herself getting baptized in the future. Super exciting. She really enjoys gospel time and our church. Yeah!

Then Sunday Sister McClellan called to confirm an appointment later that day, but they canceled because of a Birthday party. About an hour later, we get a phone call from the person who cancled asking "Are you coming?" My companion had called the wrong person! We are not even sure who she had called. Thankfully, they were only a 5 minuted walk away.

We meet these two sisters, Na Ray and Na Kyung. They are 18 and 16 years old. We teach english and gospel with them. For an hour we did english and played BS. They loved the game and were really good at it.

Then we started gospel time and had such a good lesson. It was definatly directed by the Spirit. Which was a huge blessing becasue on Sunday's we don't have time to practice and plan well for our investigators.

It was cool, because we when first came in they told us they read the Book of Mormon introduction page. This is so awesome, because they don't feel like english sucks. They really want to know about our message. In the beginning of the lesson they asked us questions they had about the introduction. They said they didn't understand well, but they understood alot. It just hard to read the korean Book of Mormon because they use alot of chinese characters and they just don't know what the word means. I think it is harder then english.

Their questions lead right into the lesson on the restoration. In the lesson I taught the great apostasy and did the demonstration with the pyramid of cups representing the church of Jesus christ. Then you push a bottom cup that represents Priesthood and it all falls down. While I taught this I had the impresssion to share the scripture that says "One Faith, One God, One Baptism." They totally understood the scripture and realized how a restoration of Christ Church was needed.

We related the story of Joseph Smith and both liked it.

We talked about how they could know if this message is true or not and taught them how they can know. We explained the feelings of the Holy Ghost and Na kyung said she feels the Holy Ghost every night when she prays. Yeah! Then towards the end of the lesson I got the impression to invite them to baptism. The impression was clear. I thought "I have to ask them." There was no doubt and God gave me the courage to ask.

This was only the second time meeting them. I gave them a soft baptismal comittment; "If you found out this message to be true will you get baptized?" They said "yes." And then we invited them to come to church next week. The younger one seemed especially excited about it. So I hope they will come!

After the lesson my companion shared how she two got the impression to ask about baptism. The Spirit truly was guiding that lesson. And after teaching them I thought about how those who are ready to hear this message will understand, no matter how horrible the korean, and will want to hear more. So cool. The highlight of the week.