Week 2

Hey everyone!

Another week in Korea! This week was very similar to last week. Me and
my companion traveled all over the city to try and find less actives
or lost members but a lot of them were not home or were busy. On
tuesday we tried to visit some other members that are less active or
lost. We tried to visit this man named kim tay hune so we took the
subway bus and walked for all about 40 min to his cell phone store
because we tried his house before but he didn't answer. once we got
there he wasnt there... another worker said that he is on vacation so
we will try next week to come back. after that, we went back to "the
Hill" and walked up the huge hill to the less actives house.
Apparently she never answers her door and my companion has tried so
many times to visit her house with other companions but she never is
home or doesn't answer. so we got to her house and she actually
answered the door! she said she was very busy and sick so we jsut gave
her a small bottle of orange juice and left. haha she answered! My
companion couldn't stop laughing because hes tried so many times
before! haha I think we will try to visit her again sometime. These
are the small miracles that we see each day! haha wednesday I
practiced teaching with my companion and he gave me some good tips on
how to say things better and helped me a lot. He knows so much about
the gospel! After practicing teaching we tried a new area of less
active members and this time the environment was worse than "the Hill"
haha it was just as steep but it was way longer and more hot outside.
So we made the climb up the massive hill and through neighborhoods to
find this one house. We found it but there was no answer when we
knocked... There was mail sticking out of her mailbox so we checked it
and there were 2 different people living there now. she moved! gah!
haha so we had to go back down and then we asked some people if they
knew where she lived. They told us a different house up the same hill
so we went back up the hill! and to a different house but she wasn't
there... that was tough haha we left that area and took a bus back to
our area. We went to visit a sort-of less active up a different hill.
There are a ton of hills in korea aren't there? yes, yes there are.
haha it was a long walk up the hill and we found his apartment
complex. We asked the front person which room he was staying in but he
checked the list and he didn't live there anymore! That was a rough
day. so much walking and didn't get to meet with anyone. My feet were
about to fall off after that day. thursday we tried to go to a
beach/water park area to prostelyte but all the families there didn't
want to listen while they were having fun. after that we had a branch
activity and ate cold noodles in some kind of fish soup. It was
actually really good! and we also had fresh salmon sashimi and
watermelons. One of the members wanted to arm wrestle so we did. He
won! haha he's so funny too. Later that day we called a former
investigator and she said she would meet with us!
So friday we had zone meeting and we talked about how to use english
class effectively and the balance of fun and business we need to have.
It was good, I saw a bunch of other elders from my MTC district and
got to talk to them. Later that day we met with the former
investigator sister Doe Ji Hyon ( sorry I dont know how to romanize
Korean haha) We taught her about hope faith and charity. I was able to
teach in english because she is studying english as her major. My
first official lesson! In english! haha It went really well she said
that she always loves meeting with the missionaries because she feels
a good feeling. We invited her to read the book of mormon everyday but
she said she doesn't make comittments that she probably wont keep so
she said no. She said she believes in God if you ask him for things
but nothing beyond that so she doesnt want to get baptized or be a
part of this religion. I dont have much more time but the rest of the
week went like usual!

-elder carter