Week 23

hello everyone!

 

happy new year, hope it was good for you all! This past week wasn't too special for new years, we didn't really do anything out of the ordinary. In the morning, we went with some of our youth up a big mountain to see the sun rise for the first of 2014 but it didn't work out too well! haha we finally got up on top of the mountain around 8 in the morning and the sun wasn't up yet. it was blocked by another big mountain and we would've had to wait for another hour or so just to see the sun so everyone wanted to leave haha so we didn't see the sunrise, we just hiked a little bit. Then we had breakfast at a members house which was like kimchi and mandu soup! probably the best mandu i've had in korea actually. then later that day we had a youth activity, the youth were at the church all day and we played soccer, ping pong, and card games with them. some of our investigators came and we all played together. the day after new years day was really good though! we randomly called this guy we met before and he said we could meet with him! his name is daniel, we talked with him a little bit before. weve tried calling him but the last too times he didnt answer. haha funny story, so when i called him i asked him what he was doing and he said very seriously, "Im making a poop" after i asked again what he was doing, he said the same thing haha my companion and i started laughing and he just said "why you laugh? why you laugh?" but then he started laughing too so it was all good! haha we met with him later, just talked to him about whatever, and then he told me he went to Seoul a few weeks ago to go to a prayer service. he apparently goes to one of the biggest churches in the world, i think its a christian church. So we talked to him about god and about prayer. he said that he should pray more and read his scriptures more so we invited him to do just that and promised him blessings! I feel like we get along very well with him, but before he left, we prayed and then he said that he has been praying for friends like shadrach, meeshack, and abednago and he finally found them! Us! haha kind of a shocking comment, but if thats the case, then we should be able to meet with him much more often! such a cool miracle! on sunday, we met with one of our investigators friends dong hyun. we watched the restoration video and talked to him about the book of mormon. he actually prayed at the end of our lesson and it was really good! The Zone leaders were actually suposed to teach him but they got busy so we got to teach him. He said he would read the book of mormon everyday and pray! and then sunday night we were with our other investigators and just talked with them for a little bit. really good week!

 

-elder carter