Week 9

Hello Everyone,

 

This week was great! No other real way to describe it. Last week was a tough week for whatever reason but God really has taken good care of me. He has blessed me so much throughout my whole mission, I can feel that so much. This week we met with NONE of our investigators. But still a great week. Because last week was Korean Thanksgiving, every takes off work and visits their family. The week after Korean Thanksgiving is usually very busy. My Companion told me that every has to work extra hard the week after to make up for their time off. We had appointments and meetings planned with Vicky, Julie, Mr. Yu, but they canceled because they were busy. We stopped by Brother Yi's house, the recent convert, but he was very busy as well and couldn't meet this week. Brother Kim dae hyun was also busy when we stopped by (which was twice). So... we weren't able to meet with any investigators this week, we just tried to find new investigators and walked the streets talking to people. We were able to find this guy in a wheelchair outside the Hospital with a broken leg. We talked to him for a bit about who we are and he said he loves americans. haha I think he tried to speak english to me but I couldnt understand. I just heard him say "Korea" a few times. Before we left I gave him a Book of Mormon and started to tell him about it. He held it in his hands and said "Hana-neem" which means God. He seemed really interested in it! We got his number and tried to visit him last night but he said he was very tired and couldn't meet with us! Gah! We will try again this week! I went on exchanges this week with elder Campbell. We went to his area called Suejeong. We met with a less active and talked about the importance of the book of Mormon. He seemed to know a lot about the gospel but he just doesn't think coming to church is important. I'm not sure if he went to church yesterday or not, but I hope so! After we met with him we met a new investigator. He is about 40 years old. I can't remember his name but his story is pretty crazy. When he was younger, he killed 2 people at 2 different times and spent some time in jail. (I'm not sure why he didn't spend life in jail) but his mind is very messed up now and he just wants to be a better person now. He is going to the hospital to help him with his mental trouble but it was still a little weird meeting with him knowing that he killed to people before (sorry mom haha). When we met with him, we just talked about the Book of Mormon and also the bible. He was that nicest guy ever!! I told Elder Campbell that he seemed like he could be a stake president or something. They all have the same features: gray and black mixed hair, very fit, and a little bit short. He had all of them! That guy was sweet. After that we tried to find a less active but had the wrong address. We knocked and this catholic guy came out. He actually talked with us for awhile! We talked for probably an hour. Well, I just listened and talked for about 10 minutes haha I tought him about the restoration and I think Elder campbell will meet with him again next week! yesterday we went to the hospital to visit the guy in the wheelchair but that was when he said he was tired and didn't want to meet. We stopped by a less active's room in the same hospital. He fed us hospital food which was not very good but we were very thankful for that! After we ate, he had a very cool experience to share. His mother is in the same hospital and she is very sick. One night he prayed very hard, said he had tears rolling down his face, that she would be ok and he had a very good feeling come over him that she would be ok. The next day he checked on her, and things were looking very good with his mother! He told us how much he loved God and hopefully that will spark his interest in coming back to church! He needs to stay in the hospital for another 4 weeks so if I get transfered, I wont be able to see him at church! dang! He had the missionaries before us come and visit with him and they asked him something very inspiring: "Are you rich?" I really can't remember why they asked him that but he thought about the question and thought about it like spiritually rich instead of money rich. That question really made him think about how "rich" he is and how rich he wants to be. He said that that question had made him more humble and he wants to become more spiritually rich. Some other things were said in Korean, but I don't know. It was just a cool experience with him! I learned a lot this week, we weren't able to meet with our usual investigators, but it was a great week! Love you all.

 

-Elder Carter

P.S.

We ate at a restaurant that served Pork spine soup. Its basically like ribs in a soup. really good! they just throw in 3 big bones with spine and rib meat and you tear it off into the soup. it was spicy and is probably one of my favorite things ive eaten here. only $6 too!