SO this week has been crazy fun! So as you know, yes, I got my kid back Elder Roberson! He is still Elder Roberson but finally his Korean is kicking off, so he can talk with Koreans but he still can’t teach yet. We are going to get him there.
We had a crazy awesome experience with service this week. So Mission President Morrise dropped on us missionaries and said teaching English no longer counts as service. We need to find 3 extra hours to do service... So we found out that us teaching English at a library on Thursday, helping other missionaries on Friday and Saturday with their English classes doesn’t count as service now.. We took the challenge head on! So on the first full day with Elder Roberson we had nothing planned so we went a trackin! On our adventures I turned and looked to the left to see a giant community center on a hill some distance from
us. I told elder Roberson we would go there. So we did, we had a 30 minute walk there, trying to talk with people. When we finally got there, we were greeted by a cheesy magician who was trying to impress a bunch of 8 year olds and their mothers. We walked by him and asked the info desk if we could help with anything. The lady behind the desk not knowing if there was a service opportunity went to the back to
ask. Soon afterwards a man came out asking a few questions about us and told us in order to help we have to take our name tags off. I told him that as missionaries we serve so we won’t do that. He then ran to
the back room to converse more with the folks in the back and then returned with exciting news. He asked if we could work that very night! Elder Roberson and I responded with an immediate "YES". He then said that there was a classical concert that night at the center and they could use us as ticket guys. We agreed! They told us to be there at 6 O'clock. So at 6 we arrived, but on our arrival and much to our surprise they decided to move us to a position more qualified for two very big white guys who speak Korean...HOUSE USHERS!!! They taught us some words we might need to know (like booster seat) and set us out to help out over 400 Korean people find their seats. Absolutely Amazing! Over the course of an hour we had received two numbers, given out our number twice, and talked with over 30 people. We of course didn't even mention at the beginning that we were missionaries, everyone just asked us! Then as the Concert started they said we could stay and watch. We said we would watch maybe 5 minutes and then leave. So one of the workers took us in the back and we chilled with him and taught him about the Word of Wisdom (he tried offering us coffee). Then he got our number because he wants to call us again when they need help! Then right after that the head-han-cho lady came in and the guy we were just talking to relayed everything we said to the lady in more detail. She recognized us and called us by our old name (in Korea our name was changed to a more direct translation but a lot of previous investigators call us by our old name). Then we started talking with her, we got as far as me showing my family pictures! It was a crazy good experience. We look forward to helping them again.
We had a crazy awesome experience with service this week. So Mission President Morrise dropped on us missionaries and said teaching English no longer counts as service. We need to find 3 extra hours to do service... So we found out that us teaching English at a library on Thursday, helping other missionaries on Friday and Saturday with their English classes doesn’t count as service now.. We took the challenge head on! So on the first full day with Elder Roberson we had nothing planned so we went a trackin! On our adventures I turned and looked to the left to see a giant community center on a hill some distance from
us. I told elder Roberson we would go there. So we did, we had a 30 minute walk there, trying to talk with people. When we finally got there, we were greeted by a cheesy magician who was trying to impress a bunch of 8 year olds and their mothers. We walked by him and asked the info desk if we could help with anything. The lady behind the desk not knowing if there was a service opportunity went to the back to
ask. Soon afterwards a man came out asking a few questions about us and told us in order to help we have to take our name tags off. I told him that as missionaries we serve so we won’t do that. He then ran to
the back room to converse more with the folks in the back and then returned with exciting news. He asked if we could work that very night! Elder Roberson and I responded with an immediate "YES". He then said that there was a classical concert that night at the center and they could use us as ticket guys. We agreed! They told us to be there at 6 O'clock. So at 6 we arrived, but on our arrival and much to our surprise they decided to move us to a position more qualified for two very big white guys who speak Korean...HOUSE USHERS!!! They taught us some words we might need to know (like booster seat) and set us out to help out over 400 Korean people find their seats. Absolutely Amazing! Over the course of an hour we had received two numbers, given out our number twice, and talked with over 30 people. We of course didn't even mention at the beginning that we were missionaries, everyone just asked us! Then as the Concert started they said we could stay and watch. We said we would watch maybe 5 minutes and then leave. So one of the workers took us in the back and we chilled with him and taught him about the Word of Wisdom (he tried offering us coffee). Then he got our number because he wants to call us again when they need help! Then right after that the head-han-cho lady came in and the guy we were just talking to relayed everything we said to the lady in more detail. She recognized us and called us by our old name (in Korea our name was changed to a more direct translation but a lot of previous investigators call us by our old name). Then we started talking with her, we got as far as me showing my family pictures! It was a crazy good experience. We look forward to helping them again.
years and we could really see it when we visited him. He was really excited to play his violin for us again...even though this time it wasn't that great we still cheered, then we got his wife to play the cello. They both weren't that good but hey, they play better than me. We got to see Bishop try hard when we had a ward festival on Saturday I had planned a dance but my Zone Leader didn't think it was spiritual so I scraped it and the whole zone sang a hymn. And the Bishop tried hard and little kids came in and played grand piano pieces. It was fun. Then after that on our way home we met a guy who really loves America and likes us. We got his number and set a lunch appointment with him this next Saturday, It should be great!
But yeah sadly I don’t have to much more to talk about, the work is still moving forward and sadly I haven't seen fruits from my labors its ok because others are eating my fruit! Good to know everyone is trying hard to be a missionary these days. The Lords need it now more than ever!
I love you all, Keep the Faith and may the force be with you
August 25, 2013
