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| Me in front of the Church |
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am wearing green in honor of this holiday! But Korea does not celbrate
it. They do however celebrate White day on March 14 and it is bigger
than Valentine's day because that is the day when the boys buy the girls
stuff. So they just celebrate Valentines day a month late.
Anyways onto this week. So we have been really stuggling with
getting the ward involved in missionary work and our investigators and
it has been stressing Sister Stradling out alot. We went over to a
member of our ward's house this week and she made us feel so much better!
She talked to us about how our ward has developed a bad habit of not
being very including and not really hepling the missionaries at all.
Apparently I am in the hardest ward in the mission with regards to
missionary work. But our member told us we are doing a great job and to
keep up the good work. Which we really needed to hear.
We also had a really cool edxperience this week! So we were going
to go visit a member but we didn't have a ton of time so we decided
instead to go talk to people in a park because it's starting to get warmer
so people are out more. So we see someone we met on a bus and we go and
talk to her and the people around her. Sister Stradling strats teaching
the plan of salvation to a guy who doesn't really seem that interested
but we gave him our number anyways and walked away. Then we randomly
decide to go to McDonalds for dinner which was weird because we don't
really like McDonalds but Kaleb had asked me if there was a McDonalds
here so we went so we could take pictrure to prove it. Anyways so we are
eating and this guy we met calls us and asks us where we are because he
wants to talk to us more. We tell him McDonalds and he comes and we had
a 45 min conversation with him about the Book Of Mormon. It was a
really cool experience. Totally lead by the spirit the whole time. Yay
for missionaries!
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| Our church is HUGE! |
On saturday we had a relief society activity where we had a slide
show for something about the Relief Society (I dont know what because I
don't speak korean) then we played games. There was an introduction game
where we all sat in two cirlces facing each other and introduced
ourselves to a person for about a min then switched. Most stressful time
of my life. But i understood most of what people were saying to me and I
could reply in broken Korean that they could understand! So that was
exciting. We also played another game that I think will make you guys
laugh. So there were these little pretzel like stick things that they
gave out then we had to turn to the people we were sitting across from
and eat it lady and the tramp style (one person eating each end) and the
person who had the smallest amount of stick left wins. Yes this was a
relief society thing so it was all women. Welcome to Korea. Definetly
would never do an activity like that in the states. But it was a fun
activity and I felt like it got us closer to the relief society.
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| A member had us over and we played with her pets. Yes it is a mouse. |
Also on Saturday we got two new investigators! They were a refferal
from a less active. It's a mom, Ann, and her son (who i don't reemember
the name of) Ann is just really interested in English right now but her
son seemed interested in the gospel so we'll see how that goes.
Also at church yesterday we had a girl we had never met before come
for relief society. The Elders told us a girl was coming as relief
society was about to start so that was a nice surprise. We don't really
know anything about her yet but we are hoping to meet with her this
week.
Well that's my life. Hope all is well on the other side of the world! I love you all and youre in my prayers.
- Sister Collyer 콜리여 자매 (kol-lee-yeo ja- mae)
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