Hello
family!
Missionary time has
picked up and I realized that:
1. This week went by super-fast and
2. My mission
has gone super-fast (come April 4th I will have been on a mission for a year)
AND I STILL FEEL LIKE I DON'T KNOW KOREAN ばば
Any-who...
I shall recap this
week in an exciting manner.
So
on Monday for P-day we had to go up to the north tippity top of the
mission, and get my greenie's foreigner card. And while we were up
there we saw A TON of soldiers just chilling at a Mickey Ds (we were
enjoying a healthy lunch there) and we ran into a member who said that one day
he will get us dinner!! WHOOO! Also after meeting him, I and my greenie got a
smart idea to see if we could get on the base. Elder Roberson's father
is military so it could happen. But to make long story short some things didn't work out and we called the military missionary couple and they came
and helped us out. We wanted to get some good ol American food but we can’t
buy stuff on Mondays in the base. So the awesome military couple
bought us Taco Bell!! It was yummy and awesome! I enjoyed every minute of it.
But yeah that was fun.
Then
on Tuesday my companion and I taught English class and at
the end I had to give the Gospel message all by myself and....everyone
understood! And to make things more intense the bishop and his family
were there, so no pressure. My
companion enjoyed teaching English because he could
actually do some teaching. And everything worked out!
Then on Wednesday
we had a surprise call from our visiting home teaching coordinator
and he reminded us to go visit a member that is 74 years old and in a hospital
1 hour away by train. At first we thought we were going to visit him
on Thursday but I’m glad he called to remind us. So we had time to
get to his hospital and visit him. He referred some of the people that are
in the same room as him and we talked and introduced ourselves, then all the
people he referred us too were in a lot of pain and needed sleep, so we
ended up talking to our member and we found out that he has been in a whole
bunch of different hospitals for 5 years and it’s been hard for him to go to
church, and that he is really really lonely. So Elder
Roberson and I decided to do the good ol' American "shut in"
program, I will talk more on that when Sunday approaches.
On Thursday we
went on exchanges with zone leaders. I stayed in my area and Elder Gillis came
over and Elder Roberson left to join an Elder Coats in ZLs area. It was an
interesting exchange because when I thought I was doing really well
in Korean Elder Gillis came in and I felt like a child again (with
speaking). Gillis and I had to crack down on two of our investigators "So Gang Ook" and "Lee Sir Gee" they were referred by a member and
we found out that member is telling them not to get baptized or keep their
commitments or come to church. OUR MEMBER!! So we are going to crack down on
him today. We can’t be having this at all. But on a better note
on that same day we had gators throwing themselves at us. A random guy, me, and Elder Gillis trying to find a house. The random guy told us, "I have nothing to do today I
will help you". We walked all the way across town looking for inactive
members and then after that we invited him to our English class, The
whole time he was trying to speak English to us, to help
him improve ^^ That night we had English class and he came!! WHOOO!
Super cool.
Then Saturday rolled
around and the entire day we did a rummage sale with the ward! We sold kids’
books and food. We had one of our investigators "Lee Gwag Jae", a 40
year old man, show up and get to know the members. He is so awesome! He hasn't had time to meet with us BUT, he came to church twice and to the sale! We need
to teach him fast like!
Then on Sunday, it was
fast Sunday for us because we had stake conference last week. So some
members where kinda...just yeah, I’ll talk more about that later. Anyway, we
had 4 investigators come to church WHOOOO!!! And one has a baptismal
date for the 24 of this month so I need to do all I can for that. But
yeah the member who is being a pill and his two friends came to church and they
left after the second hour its kinda getting...just yeah. So after that whole
thing kinda made me mad. Then after church ended as I was saying good bye to our investigators my ward
mission leader told me (in a ticked off tone) to get our
ward correlation meeting started. So I had to briefly say
goodbye to everyone and then run and see if we had any bread left so I could
take some to our member who lives an hour away. But alas I was too late all the
young men ate it (due to the fast Sunday) and so I had to run into the
correlation meeting and get things started; we were running out of time
because we had to go visit our old member. So I quickly explained
what was going on and where we needed help and then my ward mission leader
asked me where we needed help and then chewed me out for having a meeting and
not knowing where we need help. I kind of got a little mad ばば so I kindly told him
that we needed help with finding fellow-shippers and with our
member that's holding back our investigators. He must have sensed I
was stressed because he kinda cooled down. But we had to bounce early and
he didn't seem too happy about that either, which again angered
me. So we left, got some bread and a bottle of water and made our one
hour trek to the hospital. As we got there we introduced our selves
again to some new people and we blessed and passed the sacrament. It was elder Roberson’s
first time and he did well. Then afterwords our member broke it down and
said that next time we meet he wants us to give him a blessing, He said his
heart is at 30% heart rate and he might not be alive for much longer...he told
us he is going to die soon. And for his dying wish, he looked at
Roberson and told him to "LEARN KOREAN” he promised him a lot of
things in Korean that I surprisingly understood and that
Elder Roberson kinda understood too. It was a really
heart wrenching and spiritual moment, and before we left he told us
that the most powerful thing we have is our testimony. I asked him to
share his and he said one sentence and got uninterrupted by
someone entering the room. But I could just feel his power; it was so strong in
the faith. His last moments on earth and he is referring people and remembering
the Lord. So after that we had a lot of things to think about.
After that, we had to
book it too a members house for a dinner appointment, and man was it
good!!! The food was Amazing! We build really good relationship and helped him
with some ideas about his son who will be going on a mission
in April and He asked us to help him haul some bricks up some stairs
on Saturday! We are super stoked!
Man this was a packed
week I hope you all enjoyed reading because it was hard to write. HAHA
I love you all! Keep
the faith
And may the force be
with you.
