The Perfect Baptism

The whole group with our ward mission leader.

Well not technically. The kids were a little loud. No one knew where the primary music was when they had to sing. When the missionaries were singing the pianist was missing some pages and Elder Jeong took a few times to get the baptismal prayer right but the spirit was so present that it made up for all of the imperfections. It was really humbling to get to stand by Sister Oh's side at the font when she walked into the water. And seeing how happy she was when she watched her son and husband get baptized is something I will never forget.

Me and Sister Son with Sister Oh

 

It was the most interesting baptismal service I have ever been to and I don't think that I will ever go to one like it again. So we had the regular baptism where people share testimony and they get baptized but then after we all went up to the fourth floor where the gym is and we had something we called Baptism night. We picked three families to present musical numbers and the missionaries did one. Then in between the musical numbers we had trivia questions about baptism like who baptized Christ and from who and when did Joseph Smith get the authority to baptize. Then we handed out pens to people who got the right answer. It was kinda a little loud and more like a party but it was great. Brother Park, Sister Ohs husband's, sister was there. Apparently she is the one who contacted our Relief society president to ask her to bring the missionaries to her brothers family. She and her whole family are members down in Gwang-Ju and they gave them gifts and bore testimony. It was precious. Anyways. it was the most interesting baptismal service I have ever been to but I loved it.

 

The family in white :)

That's pretty much all that happened this week. We did other little things like make bracelets with the YW. Oh and the other sisters we live with's ward did a mini MTC that we were a part of. It was pretty much just doing role plays like we did in the MTC so that was fun. It was interesting: there were two groups and Sister Son was a pretend investigator that they had to teach and with the first group the spirit was really strong and really present but then with the second group they just kept asking questions that weren't focused like what her major was and the absence of the spirit was really apparent. Moral of the story: teach with the spirit!

 

Missionaries in my Ward

We also went back to the Buddhist temple with the stake president. He is one of the sweetest men I have ever met. I love him. We had fun :)

We decided to do Kung Fu Panda poses because it looked like it was from Kung Fu panda haha

Us in the little stream by the temple.

 

This is how big bugs are in Korea. Our Stake President was brave enough to pick it up.

 

That's my week! first baptism! Yay!

 

I hope all is well at home! i love and miss you all! and i hope your birthday was great dad!

- Sister Collyer 콜리여 자매 (kol-lee-yeo ja-mae)