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| In front of our Appartment |
It was a pretty good week over here on the other side of the
Pacific! Minus the whole we didn't meet with any of our investigators.
Hopefully this week will be better with that.
But we did get new investigators! We actually had a really cool
experience this week. Our relief Society president called us and told us
there was a family whose daughter had been baptized and they were
curious about the church. So she set up an appointment with them then
invited us. She set us THE WHOLE APPOINTMENT! THAT NEVER HAPPENS! Then
we get there and it was like a dream lesson. The women we were teaching
and her husband got to know us and the relief society president a little
bit then asked our RS pres why there were so many churches on this
earth. So our RSP(relief society pres) turns to us and says "I believe
these girls can answer that question" so we went though the whole first
lesson and tried to answer her questions as best we could then our RSP
would expound on and clarify our answers. The whole time her husband was
just soaking the whole lesson up. We gave them Book of Mormons and my
copy that I had with me had been ruined because of the rain and we gave
it to the husband but said that we would get him a better one when we
came back but he clutched it to his chest and said it was perfect. Then
our RSP set up another appointment with them for this week with her
again. Seriously the best lesson ever. The spirt was so strong. And
after (they live right outside a hospital where a few of our older members live)
our RSP asked if we wanted to visit the members there with her. OF
COURSE WE DID! That was on Wednesday. Just a really good day all
together.
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| Right after Sister Marsden and i got out of the bathhouse. It was both of our first times. I have never felt so clean in my life. |
We also met with this woman named Debbie. She has been coming to English class for a few weeks now and she's a sweetheart and hilarious.
Her English is fantastic. after class she wanted to give us a ride home
but we told her that we didn't go home until 9 (it was 8) then she said
she would wait for us so we asked her if she wanted to learn a little
bit more about our church. And she said yes. So we took her into a
different room and asked her how she learned about our church.
Apparently when she was 10 her parents invited the missionaries into her
house. She said she doesnt remember what they taught but she has always
thought missionaries were kind, loving people. Then we asked her if she
wanted to learn more about our church and she said yes! God is
answering our prayers for new investigators!
And our ward is finally realizing they need to jump on the
missionary work band wagon! For months our ward has though that
missionary work was dead in Jeon Ju. If that was true why are there 6
missionaries here?? Anyways I guess a few transfers ago the bishop
straight up told the elders that to prove missionary work isn't dead here
they needed a baptism. Well that happened yesterday! Finally! it has
been almost a year. And in sacrament meeting the bishop talked all about
how the members of the work need to start helping the missionaries out
and get missionary work moving again! So exciting! And the bishop has
such a better relationship with us (the sisters) now. Yesterday we sang Joseph Smiths First Prayer to the tune of Come Thou Fount in sacrament
with the elders and it was beautiful and during the baptism Elder Smith
and Elder Park sang A Childs Prayer and after the baptism everyone was
commenting on how good elder smiths voice is (which it is) and the
bishop said "yeah and the sisters have a really good voice too" yay for
finally being more than just flowers!
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| Eel Soup! |
And now for a funny story. So after the baptism the guy who got baptized wanted to take us out to eat to celebrate. We told him that we
don't go places to eat where people are working on Sunday. Then he told
us he already paid for the food. So all the missionaries and some of the
ward members went to this restaurant on Sunday and ate ground up eel
soup. Elder Bigler said "just think of it as eating after church with
the members! We're just not at the church..." but the soup actually wasn't
to bad. I was terrified to eat it but the more I ate the more bearable
it got.
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| We finished it! |
So it was a pretty good week. And spring is coming! Its getting warmer! so thats exciting
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- Sister Collyer 콜리여 자매 (kol-lee-yeo ja- mae)
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