My Mission to Korea

ANOTHER TRANSFER ALMOST DONE

There is one week left in the transfer! I hope to stay in this area with my companion. We don't want to leave each other! On the way to the Community Center to email today, a grandma stopped us and smacked my stomach and told me I need to lose weight. Its hard to be offended when they are smiling. They really say it with such concern in their voice...but it still makes me feel FAT! As we walked away she smacked my butt and told us to work hard. せ せ せ

This week has been soooooooo busy. First Monday we went to the zoo and I got to hold a snake and best of all a BABY LEOPARD. He was so cute. Then, Wednesday we had our ward picnic. But the day before, the Elders decided to make 200 cookies for our members. And gave us some of the work. The only problem was I also had to prepare lunch for our Thursday Zone Meeting. I had to prepare food for 12 people, and I decided to try and make kimchi for the first time.

So from 10am to 11pm on Tuesday we were running around. At 10am I made cookie dough so the Elders could cook some, because we wouldn't have time that day to do it. At 11am we got ingredients for our Thursday lunch. Then we ate lunch. Then at 12:30pm we went and did a lesson with our eternal investigator Je InSheer. After six years of being taught we determined from that lesson, she is still not ready and needs to be dropped. It was good because we both agreed that is what needed to be done.

Then after teaching her we had to go travel 30 minutes to another area for an appointment at 2pm. We are trying to regular meet this part-member, less-active family. Their little girl HeeJean really likes us and was super outgoing this time. The first time we met she was so shy and didn't really talk. But that was not the problem this time. It was fun. And we just taught her about prayer and families being blessed by the gospel. She still is not officially an investigator, but we hope we can just establish a regular meeting schedule and continue to build a relationship with this family. So exciting.

Then we went back towards the church and tried to visit a less active, but the daughter wasn't home. We wanted to invite her to the ward picnic, but the mom, who is also less active gave us a referral! Then we headed back to the church for an appointment at 5pm. It was our first time meeting her, the Elders had met her on the street last week.

After that we went and ordered a pizza and while it was being cooked did street contacting. After that we had to buy some extra baking ingredients and then went home. Once home Sister Cho made cookies and I made Water Kimchi. In between all the cooking we did records. We ended up not making it to bed till 11pm, because my kimchi took longer then expected. That was just Tuesday!

Then Wednesday we met our investigator we had just miraculously found on the street last Saturday, in the morning and together went to the ward picnic. The picnic was so much fun. Had a water-gun fight, played dodgeball, kickball and ate meat. It was a perfect day and our investigator really enjoyed it.

After getting back home we were too tired to go outside. So we stayed inside doing phone calls, organization and updating records. And all in between that, I boiled Potatoes.

On Thursday morning I just cooked and finished preparing lunch. It was a lot of work but the end result was good. I made a main dish of chicken and a side dish of spicy potatoes, cucumber salad and water kimchi. Then for dessert we had bought ice cream. It was a cheap meal.

Only $4 per person. When I told the Elders I made the Kimchi, Elder Choi said "No you did not make that kimchi. Don't lie to me." But I did and my companion loves to tell Korean that on the street because they are so shocked. And I must say for my first time it came out great! And everyone loved it. There were no left-overs! It was a success.

Because of how busy the beginning of our week was we didn't have a lot of time to do proselyting. So By Friday we were 40 contacts behind and if you add the daily goal to that, it is 60. But Friday we had very little time to do proselyting again, only 25 minutes. But miraculously within that amount of time we contacted 33 people and by the end of the day we reached 41. And then Saturday we were able to reach 40 within a very short amount of time. It was a huge blessing, because then we weren't worried about how low our contacting numbers were and we were able to reach our week's goal despite how busy we were. It was all thanks to God's helping hand that we were able to do that. And when we contacted people it didn't drag, but went quickly and was fun. Huge blessing.

This past week has felt like two weeks! We saw so many miracles and received many tender mercies from the Lord. Also, our investigator who went to the picnic also came to church! So exciting!