This week was very successful I'd like to think. So earlier this week we met with a less active and talked to him about the important things in life like the gospel and families. He seemed to take it well but he is always working and doesn't want to meet with us for very long. We usually have just been stopping by his cell phone store and talking with him if hes not busy so he doesn't have a ton of time. We might try to teach him the restoration this week. He's really cool and is always so nice to us! But we will see if we can help him come back... The members in our branch have been very generous to us this week providing home cooked meals and a lot of socks! haha I dont know why but weve gotten maybe 5 or 6 pairs of socks from members haha they aren't bad socks actually.. They are all so awesome! We met again with a recent convert member brother Yi In Hang. Talked about how God gives us trials and challenges for our benefit and we can learn from them. Through our faith we can overcome them and become stronger. I actually taught most of it this time and it was cool, at that moment the gift of tongues was given to me, i believe! I can't really remember what exactly I said, but he said that my words touched him and then he said some stuff I couldnt understand and my companion talked to him. But it was cool! The gift of tongues is real! I knew that I was supposed to lead the lesson so I had to pray really hard that it would go well and I could say the things that I wanted to and it worked! Faith is a beautiful thing my friends! He is doing very well so far, he still is very active in the church and he blesses the sacrament every week. Hopefully he continues on this path and doesn't fall away.
Later in the week, we were able to have english conversation class with Julie and her husband Mr. Woo. Vicky was not able to come this week. We shared a short article from the Liahona titled "The Lord never shouted at me". It was a really good article. It is about a mother who is very worried for her son because he started to do a lot of bad things like drugs, lying, and alcohol. She would always get mad at him for doing those things and they argued a lot. Then she prayed and asked god to help her son. She trusted the Lord that He could help her son. In the end, the son and mother's relationship became better because God helped him. Julie is sort of in the same situation. Her son is very disobedient and is very crazy. She has tried a lot of different things to help him but none have really worked. When we were sharing this message, she seemed to get a little bit emotional and tried to hold all her emotions in. We talked to her about God and if we trust in him, everything will work out. We gave her a copy of the Liahona in Korean and when she accepted it, her hand was shaking a little bit. After we talked, she still said that she didn't believe in god and that the mother just tried something new and it worked. But me and elder Jeong think that our message touched her heart. We saw a change in her eyes. But she still doesn't want to believe. I don't know why! We think that deep down, she might believe in God and wants to believe in God, but her husband, and also her sister Vicky don't believe in God so its a tough situation. But I think that she will progress more next week. We saw something change!
So yesterday I gave a talk about tithing in Korean. My companion translated my english talk into Korean. Usually when I give talks, they are in english and my companion translates it to korean, but this week i gave the talk in korean. It was not that good haha even for me, I thought that I pronounced things wrong and it was very choppy. After Sacrament meeting, a lot of people came up to me and told me my korean is very good! haha but they are just being nice. I asked my companion if he could understand any of it, and he said "maybe a little" haha it wasn't too good... the 2nd counselor in our branch is really funny and he always tries to talk to me in english. He came up to me and said, "Wow, Carter's Korean...NUMBER 1!" haha he is hilarious! Last night, we contacted a guy named Mr. Shalizard. He is from Pakistan and wanted to meet with us. He speaks very little english , and also very little korean so it was hard to talk to him. His korean is better than his english, but even when my companion talked with him, i could understand it. I don't think he is too interested in our gospel, he said he just wants to make new friends. Maybe at church he can make friends? haha we will meet him again this week.
The work is slowly progressing here in Goejeong! Ive seen the hand o;f the lord in my mission area a lot this week. People seem more friendly and the people we are meeting with are very slowly progressing! Next week will be another good one!
-Elder Carter
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