My Mission to Korea

TRIAL OF FAITH

Well transfer calls are tonight. I think I will be staying with my companion. Things are going great between us. She is awesome and so much fun. Our area however has been struggling. Only three investigators and possible down to two by the end of this week. Plus people have been so rude and mean to us on the streets. It hurts.

I was talking to this lady while she waited to cross the street, it started off casual, then as we crossed the street I transitioned it into gospel. half-way across the road, the suddenly stops. I walk a couple steps past her, then she turns so that she is on the other side of the cross walk. It was so mean! So that was so discouraging. And the days following we had many other experiences with people just talking with mean tones in their voices and just being rude. I understand how people aren't interested in our message. But its not hard to turn us down nicely.

Then on top of mean people we had an investigator drop us. She is from Vietnam, a mail-order bride and was introduced to us to start learning English. We've only met her twice. We called to see if she could meet us Friday and my companion was talking and she said "Why are you calling?" Then my companion ask, "This isn't Ming is it?" The lady replied "no" this is here family and she can't meet with you. She was so dumb. She tried to pretend to be Ming who has the worst accent when speaking Korean. And really, I am positive Ming would have liked to meet again. But she's sadly she is controlled by her family, like most other Korean woman. So sad. Just is frustrating, because her family probably thinks our church is bad. Like so many people are told by their preacher. So dumb. Really is frustrating when that happens because we are good people and we BELIEVE in GOD. Anyways, so that was sad that we lost our investigator Ming. :( So basically...its been ruff here, but we just keep on working hard. I know God will bless us. Just got to endure and continue to be diligent.