Week 18

Hey everyone,

 

Ya this week was sweet! We got transfer calls on thrusdays and I am leaving my area this time! I will be going to a place called Gupo a little more north of my area. So I had to say goodbye to everyone in our branch on sunday and it was tough! I love those people so much. I can't really speak with many of them but I've always felt the love they have for other people. On Saturday we were able to meet with Vicky, Julie, and Mr. Yu again. Since this was our last time meeting together they ordered chicken for us to eat! haha it was delicous as always. We talked about America for awhile and they had some questions about some english phrases. After we talked about that, we both just shared our testimonies and told them how much we have come to love them. we told them that we pray for them individually every single day and they really appreciated that. They said they actually have felt closer to god as we met so that was a good sign. Before we finished I invited Julie to pray but she wouldn't do it... dang it haha I asked probably 5 times and just waited but she wouldn't pray. I told her that if I prayed first she could pray after, but she still wouldn't do it, so I just prayed... Gah! Then we invited them to come to Ahn Yay Jin's baptism the next day but vicky and mr. yu were busy and julie just flat out said no, she wasn't busy but wouldn't come to the baptism. So tough! Elder Kim's new companion elder jackson, is from my mtc district and he is the best! I know he will be able to help Vicky julie and mr yu out! Then on Sunday I gave my goodbye speech with President and Sister Gilbert up on the stand! so scary... but it was good and then we had the baptism after!! I was able to baptize her but it didn't go perfectly! so the clerk turned on the water and just left it on through out priesthood meeting and sunday school. when we went back to check on it, the water was super hot! When I got in, i thought it was actually a little bit uncomfortable. Ahn Yay Jin was already scared of water because she doesn't know how to swim and was afraid of something happening. I guess she's had a bad experience of almost drowning before in her life. So I baptized her the first time, and she was kind of resisting going under so she didn't go all the way under. The second time I did it some hair wasnt tied all the back and didn't go under so we had to do it again! after the second time, she just put her hands over he face and started to cry for some reason! I felt horrible!! I dont know why she cried but it was not good! then after me and the sisters calmed her down, we did it a third time and she went all the way under! When I was changing in the bathroom, maybe 5 or 10 min after the baptism, I was in my garments and i could see steam coming from them! thats how hot the water was! But, after we dried off and changed, she was smiling and happy she was baptized! so overall, it was pretty successful! But I still felt really bad! Now today I met my new companion elder Day from Lehi, Utah. He will show me his family pictures tonight, but he said he has family that might live in Kensington?? He said he knows lindsay and brown, and also he played basketball at our park in Kensington. Is there a Gardner family that moved in our ward maybe a year or two ago? someone let me know! super weird... he described our park perfectly haha but I think this transfer will be good, I'm living in a 4 man house with the 2 zone leaders, who are Korean, so hopefully I can learn a lot! pretty good week last week!

 

-Elder carter

Baptism - Sister Jin

With members

With Mr. Yu, Julie, and Vicky