My Mission to Korea

A LONG WEEK

Time has gone by so slowly this past week. Missionary work is not happening very much in my area right now. But we did have cool miracles this past week. First, we went street boarding down from an all-girls school and I was holding our giant, orange Mormon.org poster. A old man stop and started talking with my companion. Behind the man a high school student stopped and was peering over the old man to look at the board. So I stepped off the stair I was standing on and went around the man to talk with the girl. She told me she loves English and how she watches Ugly Betty and Scrubs. Her English name is Elliot.

I introduced to her our 30/30 program and set up an appointment for later that week, Saturday. She told me and my companion how she was so excited and didn't want to leave. (excited about speaking English with foreigners). She was cool and my companion met her Saturday with Sister Jung. I went to splits to another area that day. Apparently the lesson went well and we will meet her again this Saturday.

While I talked to Elliot on the street, Sister Cho got to speak to a crazy old man. She told me afterwards how scary judgement day will be and how she needs to be prepared. He also said Jesus is on the earth today preaching and the twelve tribes of Israel have gathered and there is a million of them right now. My companion, though fluent in Korean, told him sorry I am American-Korean and can't understand. So he left. It's great that he was sharing his beliefs, but the problem is with those kind of people, is they try to prove your religion wrong and they never let you speak. Our church never tries to degrade others beliefs, we simply want to share ours and invite others to learn if interested. Later that day we also set an appointment with an old man who is really interested. We will meet him today...if we can find a woman. Wish us luck!

For my splits this week I got to serve with my old companion Sister McClellan. It was fun. It was like a normal day being together again. While walking on the road we got 18 contacts. We both realized how much we've improved since we were last together. When we were together, walking and contacting on the street was difficult for us. We'd get like 3 people in an hour. So that was cool to see how we've improved.

Together we just organized her new area's records, like we did together while in HwaGok. They were super bad. And the house was cluttered. We did a lot, but there is so much more to do. Its really sad how missionaries poorly treat the houses they stay in  just because its "temporary". Makes me mad. And so many missionaries don't bother to organize their records. Drives me crazy. The first thing I do coming into a new area is find what needs improvement and do it. I can't stand messy records and cluttered houses. I am my Father's daughter.

This next week will go by fast. Yesterday we had our Stake Picnic, tomorrow district meeting, and Thursday we have a Combined Zone Conference. Three more weeks and this transfer will be over. Goes by so fast! Also, 15 weeks left on my mission. So weird!!!