SIX WEEKS LEFT

I have only 52 days left on my mission! Its so surreal. This Thursday I am helping my Mission President's wife cook for 35 people, the returning missionaries and their families. So it will be weird to see missionaries meeting their families for the first time in two years.

Aah. I get nervous thinking about returning home. The other day when I was talking to people on the street, I thought "Whoa, soon I will be one of those normal people." It was a weird moment.

This past week we picked up a new investigator! So that was super awesome. Then Saturday night our old investigator who went to Kieristan for three months, called us and wanted to see us. So we met her Sunday, she brought us back some souvenirs! It was fun to catch back up with her. We hope to continue to meet her and help her progress towards baptism. Before she left she was our most progressing investigator. Yeah!

Also, Wednesday we had a special zone testimony meeting. Everyone bore their testimony about the Savior. It was really cool to hear every one's testimony. Then Thursday, we had a special District meeting. We made Navajo tacos. It was so Delicious, and played Phase 10 while we watched the Testaments. Our District leader also shared a spiritual thought. It was so fun.  Sorry, I don't have much to write. Can't remember the details of this past weeks. Its just gone by so quickly.

Me and Sister Christensen making food for all the returning missionaries and their families.

Sister Cho on the bus with all her stuff on transfer day.

SIX WEEKS LEFT

I have only 52 days left on my mission! Its so surreal. This Thursday I am helping my Mission President's wife cook for 35 people; the returning missionaries and their families. So it will be weird to see missionaries meeting their families for the first time in two years.
 

Aah. I get nervous thinking about returning home. The other day when I was talking to people on the street, I thought "Whoa, soon I will be one of those normal people." It was a weird moment.

This past week we picked up a new investigator! So that was super awesome. Then Saturday night our old investigator who went to Kieristan for three months, called us and wanted to see us. So we met her Sunday, she brought us back some souvenirs! It was fun to catch back up with her. We hope to continue to meet her and help her progress towards baptism. Before she left she was our most progressing investigator. Yeah!

Also, Wednesday we had a special Zone testimony meeting. Everyone bore their testimony about the Savior. It was really cool to hear every one's testimony. Then Thursday, we had a special District meeting. We made Navajo tacos. It was so Delicious, and played Phase 10 while we watched the Testaments. Our District leader also shared a spiritual thought. It was so fun.  Sorry, I don't have much to write. Can't remember the details of this past weeks. Its just gone by so quickly.

50 CENT MIRACLE

Thursday we went street boarding at a cross-walk near a market. The sidewalks are really small on either side of the street, but there is always pedestrian traffic. So its a perfect place to contact people. Thursday we both felt impressed to go there. As we proselyted I carried a lime-green "MORMON.ORG" sign. Normally when we proselyte there I stand up against a bread shop wall with the sign, but that day the sun was so intense I had to cross to the other side after 10 minutes. The sun was scorching my skin and burning my eyes. The other side of the street was shaded but is more crowded. Therefore, more difficult to hold our board without being in the way of people. There are two fruit stands, and a Lady selling yogurt already there on the narrow sidewalk. But I manage to nestle myself against the wall and out of people's way.

Shortly after standing there Sister Cho comes over to me and tells me "I think I am going to go to the other side.

"Why?" I responded

"Well, I tried to make small conversation with the yogurt lady and she didn't respond to my question and just gave me a mean look."

About two months before there was a lady who called us a cult and told the yogurt lady all about it. So we think that's the reason for the mean face. But I told Sister Cho, who cares about what the woman thinks. Who cares if she is bothered by us being there, its too hot to be on the other side. So we continued as normal.

Then a grandma who had just bought yogurt from the yogurt lady comes over to me and says with a huge smile on her face "Korea is fun, isn't it." "Yes" I responded. She then gives me one of her drinkable yogurts. 30 seconds later Sister Cho comes over from across the street and the yogurt lady seeing that I was the only one to receive a yogurt, felt bad that Sister Cho didn't get one. So she then unexpectedly gives Sister Cho a yogurt.

So after contacting people for an hour we decided to get ice cream close by. Sister Cho ask "Should we buy the yogurt lady some ice cream?" "Yes!" I responded, having had the same impression. Outside we gave her ice cream then waited behind her for the light to change.

During that time she came over and started talking to us. She asked us how our church started. We answered her question and explained to her we are not paid and serve for 18 months. It was a good conversation. And amazing to see her perception of us change within one hour. Who knew it would only take 50 cents.

 *힐 자매*

Sister Hill

PATIENCE

Sad news, our investigator Kim InHwa is no longer on date to be baptized. Last Monday she called us to go eat, but it was P-Day and I was grocery shopping and making kimchi to prepare for our zone meeting lunch on Wednesday. Apparently Sunday we said we could, but that was defiantly a miscommunication. And in the end she felt really sad. So we were worried we had unintentionally offended her, but thankful Friday she answered our phone call. Sounded happy and said she'd see us at church. But on Sunday she didn't come, nor did she answer our texts or phone calls. When we prayed Sunday night on what to do, we just got the impression to cool it for awhile, so that is what we will do with her. Sad, because we would have loved to have a baptism this month, but it has got to be on the Lord's time and not ours. So we just need more patience.

Sunday was a busy day. The two wards combined because a Seventy came to visit. His name is Choi Yoon Hwan. He served as a bishop in one of the wards here. It is where he raised his family. Fun to see him and during his talk make references to personal experiences with the members here. He shard one about Miss Ju dating her now husband. She now has three daughters, two are in college.The wards I am serving in have literally grown up together. I really like how close knit the wards are here. I only wish I could have understood what he and his wife talked about, but they both talked so fast. But Sister Cho gave me a good summary of it.

This past couple weeks I have really gained a witness that bishops and those called into position really are called of God. I can't give you the details of the situation, but our Bishop has untangled a really sticky situation. As a third person I was able to watch him work under the influence of the Spirit. Everything worked our perfectly. We really do need to trust in those who have stewardship over us. The Lord gives them inspiration to help and guide us. And as we follow that counsel given, it will all work out, because it's God's counsel to us. I know the Leaders of the Church are called of God and act under the influence of the Spirit.