A NEW MISSION PRESIDENT

Friday we met our new Mission President, President Christensen. He is from Salt Lake City Utah and was a surgeon at the LDS Hospital. He started out the conference speaking Korean. He still is pretty good after at least 30 years. Also, his wife took Korean at the MTC and also bore her testimony in Korean her testimony. She did awesome. Reminded me when I was a greenie and could barely speak the language. I have come so far.

It was fun meeting them. First impressions, Mission President seems more serious and focused, but still nice and friendly. And Sister Christensen, spunky. She poked fun at her husband a lot when introducing herself. Excited to get to serve with them, but sad I don't have a long time to get to know them. They seem fun.

On Saturday we had lunch with a member from Mongolia. She taught us how to make Mongolia dumplings. You roll out the dough and then fill it with seasoned lamb meat. I loved it. But my companion had a hard time eating it. She said she prayed the whole time that she'd be able to eat it. I just laughed because now she knows what every missionary goes through trying Korean Food for the first time; its hard. The taste is different and super spicy, but the more you eat and get use to the taste, you begin to love it and crave it. ㅋㅋㅋ

After meeting her we had English class, and then after English class we rushed to an appointment with a high school student, but she didn't show. Later her mom called and told us to never call. Usually, I would be frustrated after such a conversation, but I wasn't. It was just disappointing because the Student confirmed with us to meet, she really did have interest, but her mom just prevented it from happening. Which is fine, because she is just protecting her daughter. And most people when they think of church, don't have impression. Hopefully later she will meet the missionaries again.

Also, our investigator, Kim InHwa who will be getting baptized in three weeks came to church! Yeah! She is progressing. She is having hard times lately and during our lesson Saturday we were able to testify to her how she can overcome all these things through relying on God. And just shared some scriptures about comfort. It was an unplanned lesson, but the Spirit was there directing it. It always amazing me how well I can speak Korean in Lessons. I feel fluent in those moments. The words just roll out of my mouth. The Lord really does bless his missionaries with gift of tongues when He needs it to count. Cool. So grateful for those experiences to really see the Spirit working through me. Lets you know you are doing the right thing as a missionary.

AN UNEXPECTED MIRACLE

This past week has been extremely busy. This past week we have been preparing for our English presentation that happened Saturday. Between me and Sister Cho, we made all the animals, signs, and with the help of the Bishop and Elders, the TV set. The whole project of making props got really big and I feel bad to say it took away from doing missionary work. But lesson learned for us and the English coordinators. We all realized, even though the presentation went really well, that it was too big and time consuming. So next time it will be a smaller scale.

All who came to the presentation really enjoyed it. The theme of the presentation was "Watching TV". So each presentation was a TV show. For our class we did a Barney and Friends like TV show, but the Korean version. I played BoMi Onee, the host of the TV Show. It was fun. Even though rehearsal and practice was crazy, the kids did great when it was the real thing and the parents loved it.

After the presentation of the older kids and the High School students, we had shops set up and gave people fake money. Then everyone had to speak English to us in order to get food. The presentation looked legit and was done very professionally. So much fun to do, but I am glad that stress is gone and I can just focus on missionary work.

After the presentation we went to go meet our investigator Kim InHwa. We've only met her a couple times before. But she came to our ward picnic and to church once. She hasn't been able to meet us for the past two weeks, but Saturday night she could. We planned on going to a free concert together but when we got to her house she told us she was too tired to go. We both we very disappointed, but the Lord had other plans that need to get accomplished.

Instead we talked with in her at her house and taught her the second lesson. She understood it all very well and agreed to get baptized on July 21st! She kind of said "yes" in passing, so Sister Cho asked again and she said "Yes, give me my calendar" and wrote it down. It was so miraculous. It truly was a Spirit led lesson. That morning we had no time to role play before the lesson, but I just opened my mouth and everything came out of me so fluently. Gift of Tongues! So awesome and NEEDED! It was a great lesson. So we are super excited considering me and my companion have been struggling with finding investigators for two transfers. It was an unexpected miracle. It is so important to realize how everything happens on the Lords time and not our own.