Monday, August 28, 2017

MIRACLE WEEK

This week has been a week full of miracles, let me explain...
The first miracle:
This week we decided to go and heart attack some of our member's doors.  So we went to their apartment complex and to get into their building you need a code.  Well we didn't have a code and it was pouring down rain and we didn't have an umbrella so we couldn't exactly sit and wait for someone to come home and walk in.  So we said a prayer and then we had the idea to go downstairs to the parking lot and try and find a way in through there.  And when we went downstairs, the door that we needed to go up to her house was wide open while all the other doors were locked.  Then we went and to do another member's and we had the same problem, so we prayed again went downstairs and someone was walking into the exact door that we needed to heart attack our members it was such a miracle.
The second miracle
Our ward mission leader took us out to a restaurant to eat dinner and while I was up grabbing food one of the staff ran up to me super excited to see me.  It took me a second to realize who she was.  I had met this girl on the bus over three times and I have met her while we were out talking to people over three times.  And this girl and I got along so well, but I could never get her number to meet again because she is in high school in the year where they take all of their tests and she is too busy to meet.  But there she was again before me, I truly thought a lot about her and I lost hope that I would ever see her again.  After talking to her for a while she gave me her number and she wants to meet with us again.  I am so so excited about that!
The third miracle
We were walking to a member's house this Sunday to go and have dinner with them.  And we started talking to this lady right in front of our member's house and while we were talking to her she invited us into her house to have some fruit and we called out members and they told us that it was okay if we were late and we went to this ladies house and started talking with her.  It was really cool she started telling us about her son.  He moved to America and bought a bike and he biked across all of America through Mexico and then down to Spain by himself, and he wrote a book about it.  And I was asking her if she was nervous about him while he was on this adventure and she said yes.  So I asked her how she got through it.  And she said prayer and reading her bible.  So then I started talking to her about prayer and how with our belief in God we are able to receive so much strength and now she wants us to come back again and meet with her again.  So we are super excited about that.
The Fourth Miracle
Our investigator is still getting baptized!!!!!  We taught her twice this week and it went super good and she still wants to get baptized and so I still think that is the biggest miracle.
This week has been a REALLY GOOD WEEK and I am so grateful for the Lord and for him answering my prayers.  I think something I have found on my mission is that the Lord will provide a way for you to do his work.  It doesn't matter the challenges that you have, if it's no people in your area, a bad companion, you're hurt, or something else.  That as long as you have faith and are trying, he will help you!  Sometimes it is not in the timing that you want, but it always is always worth the wait!
love you all
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Monday, August 21, 2017

COOKIES!

This week has been super fun.  We had a huge activity with 2 of our investigators, a recent convert and the youth in our branch and it was super fun!  We taught them home to make american cookies and we had a like a cookie making competition.  We were also able to get a lesson in with our two investigators with some of the youth there and we taught them the plan of salvation.  And it was a really cool lesson.  It was so cool to hear the youth's testimonies and having them share them with our investigators, it was a really cool experience.  And one of our investigators has her baptismal date and were just trying to get her ready for baptism!!!!  So we're super excited!!!!!  And we're just trying to get as prepared as we can!

Also one day we were doing language study in the church and our mission president and his wife walked in.  They were doing interviews with some people and they came to the church and they did surprise inspections of our house.  Luckily our house was super clean so we were fine, but our elders got there closets emptied and the mission president sat on the ground of their bedroom showing them how to fold there garments ahhahaa

We also had exchanges this week and I was able to go to a new area for a couple of days and it was super fun.  We did a lot of street contacting and it was a super fun time.

No too much happened this week, but we found a volleyball net in out church so we are going to play volleyball today so I am super excited about that!

사랑해요~
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it's been raining a lot this week



me and 춘란 the girl who is getting baptized

My companion broke an egg by squeezing it  with her hand it got all over us. 


I drew a minions plan of salvation for our lessons

Monday, August 14, 2017

BAPTISM DATE!!!!

This week has been a really good week!!  We gave one of our investigators a baptism date and it went amazing!!  We're planning for her to get baptized on August 26.  Her mom is a less active and she is from china and she doesn't speak the best Korean and we don't know if she understands everything we say.  But she is wanting to get baptized and keeps wanting to meet with us.  She is coming to all of our activities and keeping all of our commitments and so if everything works out we will have a baptism soon!!

We also had another appointment with one of our investigators and it was a really good appointment. I met her on the bus a couple of weeks ago and we started doing the 30 30 program with her. Where we teach her 30mins of English and 30mins of the gospel.  She doesn't have any religion and we're teaching her about Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father for the first time.  We taught her the restoration this week and the spirit was so strong and it was a really cool experience.  We all didn't know what to do after the lesson because we all didn't want to leave because of the spirit that was in the room.  So we're really excited to see how the next few weeks go!

We also went and did service at a soup kitchen this week with the Elders and it was really fun.  It's pretty much just us serving food to grandmas and grandpas and us getting told were pretty, so it's always a fun experience.
Thats about it have a good week!
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Monday, August 7, 2017

CRAZY!!!

This week has been interesting....
We have an investigator that we met on the street a few weeks ago.  Okay let me start from the beginning.... so my first transfer in 울산(ulsan) I noticed this girl on a couple of our bus rides because she would sit super straight in her seat and she just looked super uncomfortable.  Sidenote, the Elders had a stalker that they met on the road that followed them for a couple of hours and looked possessed and was chasing them all over the town until they could lose her and they were really scared of her.  So a couple of weeks ago we were outside walking home and we noticed the girl from the bus and started to talk to her and she was nice so we got her number and told her we would meet her later.  But somehow we lost her number and we couldn't find it so we couldn't call her.  But then we met her again on the street and got her number again and set up a meeting.  But every time we have met her I have a weird feeling, not a bad feeling and my companion doesn't feel anything so we thought it was okay to keep meeting her.  And we have met with her one other time and it went good and she wanted to learn English so we had her come to our English class.  Well she came to our English class and the Elders started freaking out because she was the girl that was stalking them a couple of weeks ago!!!!!  It was so weird.  And she started acting so weird in English class she would only sit there and not talk to us and her eyes would roll in the back of her head and she would just stare at the Elders pointing at them and mumbling weird words, it was so creepy.  We were all freaked out, but if I started talking to her she would go back to normal, but if I stopped talking to her she would go to her weird self, it was so creepy and she was just talking to herself and it was like she was possessed because some times she would just ignore us all or start laughing.  But we had a member there who is a little off and she started talking to her at the end and they became super good friends and now were having a lesson with her and the member this week and it will be interesting..... will see how it goes but we are thinking she might have Schizophrenia...

We also have a new investigator from China!  She is so cute!  So it's really cool her mom is from North Korea and she escaped to China, where she got married to a Chinese man and then had her, and then she got divorced.  Moved to Australia learned English and then moved to Korea where she got refuge citizenship.  And then her daughter came to Korea to live with her!  It was super cool hearing her story so now were teaching her daughter and we are super excited!!

We also have been going around with the Elders and visiting members houses and singing to them and sharing a scriptures with them and leaving and it has been really fun!  We have gotten such a better relationship with the members and it it has been really fun!

I am also staying in my area for another transfer with my same companion and it's going to be super fun!
love you all
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