January 4,
2016
Happy New Year everyone! I hope it was a good one and that you are all
off to a good start. The end of the year
went great and we were busy and meeting new people, but after New Year, well,
it was super slow and we spent most of our time talking to difficult people on
the street. Even when we just try to ask
people for directions they reject us!
Like what the heck? Anyways, we
met a super great new guy named Kim Yooshin who could be super golden,
possibly. He contacted us to learn
English. He said he came to find God
while doing his mandatory military service and is now faithfully attending his
church but said that recently the feeling he gets has been getting weaker. As long as his church’s people don’t convince
him to stop meeting us, he could have some potential.
We were also able to meet that guy who
came to the Christmas party and he’s been taught everything! But he has a bit of a mental issue and his
parents oppose the church, so we’ll see what happens. His name’s Park Jonghoon. The best part of the week was Debby! This awesome Nigerian lady. I talked with her like a week and a half ago
on a bus and told her a bit about the Book of Mormon and got her number. We were able to meet her at just this bus
stop and gave her an English copy which she accepted really well. And then we helped her and her husband move a
fridge into their house. The husband
lived in Spain for 15 years and was pretty misinformed about the church, but we
told him we’d bring him a Spanish Book of Mormon. It should be fun!
All our other investigators are either
the same or are kind of avoiding us, so there’s not much else to talk about
with that. But we did get sucked into having
a lesson only about the Fall, that was no fun.
Speaking of no fun, here’s a
story. In Korean culture, food and
etiquette is everything. You have to eat
things right, and eat A LOT! And never
ever leave any rice (because Korea used to be super poor so people remember
when it was scarce). Well, our bishop
decided to take us to a buffet and made sure we ate a lot, and then for dinner
that day this old couple had us over (we usually don’t have meal appointments),
and they destroyed us! They made us all
eat 3 overflowing bowls of rice. I was
so full on my last one that I gagged each time I put some in my mouth. It was just impossible, so I couldn’t eat it
all, and they might’ve been a little offended, but it was better than throwing
up!
We’re starting a new transfer and
hoping to have lots of success! I found
a quote from Pres. Hinckley I like. “If
you do your best, it will all work out.
Put your trust in God…The Lord will not forsake us.”
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