December 14, 2014
I just got the news that I will be
staying here in Daejeon, now as a cosenior! Woohoo! I’m super happy to stay
being things seem to be picking up here lately. We found a new investigator
last Monday, her name is garam kim, and she is a student at the local university
and a wrestler. haha she seems super prepared with good experiences with god
and reading the bible, and kinda searching from church to church. we're hoping
for the best!!
There’s a guy we’ve been meeting
with almost every night for the past transfer and before that. His name is
yoonshig lee, and is about 70 years old. I haven’t talked much about him because
there just isn’t much progress. I feel sooo bad for him. He has a wife, kids,
and grandkids, but no idea where any of them are. He has 8 siblings, but no
contact with them either. He really has no one in his life besides us. He does
the exact same thing every single day, and is super lonely. We’ve been frustrated
with him and his refusal to pray or progress, but a meeting this week changed
our thoughts. He kinda opened up a bit more with us. Right before we left, he said
he had a bad nervous feeling and needed some alcohol. He has some problem he won’t
tell us about that really troubles him. I asked if there was anything outside
of alcohol that he could do, but that’s when he told us how he has absolutely
no one in his life. It was heart breaking! I always saw him as a tough,
hardened man, but the vulnerability in his eyes at that moment was piercing. I
know that this gospel and church is exactly what he needs, but he just won’t
accept that that’s even a possibility. It’s so hard! I want to help so bad, but
there’s only so much I can do without them taking steps.
We got some more free food on the
road again! This guy that used to live in Utah took us out to get this other
super expensive meat. He is a science professor, and says that he just can’t accept
the way that Christ was born. It’s so hard to help these people when they are
so stuck in their ways at time, but we're always sharing and inviting and
giving people a good view about missionaries.
Things are going well, and we're
meting this golden guy later today. He was a former investigator, received all
the lessons, and had a baptismal date, but for some reason not really know, got
dropped. We finally scheduled an appointment and hopefully he will be our present
to Christ for Christmas!!
Enjoy the holidays and remember the
true meaning!!!
Elder Anderson
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