Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Week 55
not a ton of time today but the first week with my new companion was definitely interesting. we have very different personalities so its actually been a little tough socially. as far as the work, we are doing good, just living normal life is a little bit hard. maybe i would consider him one of my harder companions but he just wants to work hard so thats one good thing. he also wants to learn and be a better missionary so he asks a lot of questions. as for this week though we were finally able to get a hold of brother kim jin hoon and we will meet with him tomorrow! he seems very excited to meet with us and we are also excited to see him again and help him. we also tried to find some young investigators so we went and played basketball with a bunch of people and got there numbers. by next year there will only be 1 young man about 13 years old, so we need to find some more soon! we also did some less active finding and english class as always, pretty normal week. hope you have a good time with tiff clay and hana! love you!
Week 54
ahhh... sorry i didnt email yesterday, my companion got transferred so we had to take the 3 hour bus ride to busan again to have transfer meeting and then come back. so pday is today again. we dont have a ton of pday time today but this week was pretty decent. for some reason our investigators (again) didnt answer our phone calls. we called multiple times a day to kim jin hoon and lee sang hoon but they didnt pick up so we couldnt meet them... we did meet a new investigator who just talked continuously about the bible and had kind of a "smart" look on his face when we talked about the book of mormon. but since it was elder ha's last week in andong we were able to meet with some members. i think ive said this before, but the members here are so humble and faithful members. we always have wonderful time with them! my new companion is elder Seo who is the same transfer as elder Ha, they were in the mtc together. before his mission he loved watching japanese animation, literally spent all his time on that... haha so this transfer should be fun. ill let you know more next week! love you both!
Monday, August 4, 2014
Week 52, 53
hello everyone,
so first of all sorry i didnt send an email last week, it was a little crazy. so our branch mission leader said he wanted to take us out to tour andong for pday so we did. he just drove all around and we saw a bunch of cool stuff. he said we would be back around 3 but literally got back 5 minutes before p day finished so i couldnt do anything.. sorry! anyway, our investigator Brother Lee chan goo was able to get baptized! my companion baptized him in a river since we dont have a baptismal font, it was really cool to see that. and he was able to get the holy ghost this week and he is continuing to do very well! we were also able to meet with our other investigator brother lee sang hoon and read the book of mormon together. He doesnt have a lot of interest but we are trying to help him know that the book of mormon is true. he still doesnt know why we need the book of mormon if we have the bible. but the thing is, he doesnt read it when we invite him to, he doesnt act. so we decided to read it together. we read about ammon and king lamoni. i always knew the story of ammon but it was nice to review it and show brother lee. this story is really relatable to missionary work. the sons of mosiah were sent by th;e lord to preach the word to the lamanites. ammon trusts in the lord and goes to live among king lamoni and his people. we only shared up until ammon cut off t;he arms of the wicked men in alma chapter 17. I really enjoyed the preparation ammon took and his trust in the lord. verse 3 said that they prayed and fasted and were filled with the spirit of prophecy and revelation, teaching with power and authority. verse 11 is a promise from god. he tells them to go forth with patience and they will be made instruments in the lords hands. and ammon did just that. he was taken prisoner and humbled himself, wanting to be a servant of king lamoni. he worked hard and continued to remember what the lord had told him. when the other servants were afraid of the wicked men trying to scatter the herd, ammon remembered the promise and became an instrument of the lord. just reading this reminded me of how much we need to work hard and remember to trust in the lord in our afflictions. in verse 38 its really cool, 38" Now six of them had fallen by the sling, but he slew none save it were their leader with his sword; and he smote off as many of their arms as were lifted against him, and they were not a few." me and my companion elder ha are really trying hard to trust in the lord and just work hard like ammon. i know as we do, our success will come later. we had a busy week and our other investigators werent able to meet but we will continue to pray for them and their convertion. thank you everyone! love you all!
-elder carter
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