Nov. 7, 2011

So this week was a little slow, Elder Farrell was sick for the first part of the week so not too much happened then. My Aunt Linda gave us a referral of a girl who lived in her ward in Albuquerque who is a member, but didn't know where the church was in her area in Korea and my Aunt told me to meet her if she was in our area or refer her to missionaries in her area. Well, as it turns she lives in our area which was really awesome. We met her and she told us up front that she really didn't want to come to church unless her parents (non-members) came to church with her because she doesn't know anyone here which we totally understand because it's hard moving to a new ward by yourself and not know anyone there. I certainly wouldn't want to go to a new ward by myself and not know anyone there. We told her that our ward was really good and filled with a lot of foreigners and that she would love it and that we would be there with her always. That seemed to open her up a little bit to the idea of coming to church. She then told that she would come on Sunday if she could, but unfortunately they celebrated her mom's birthday on Sunday so she wasn't able to come. It was ok though because she said she would come next week. Another cool thing that happened was that we were able to meet our investigator U Won Te with our bishop and he is showing more and more interest in the church. He came with his scriptures marked with questions to ask us and the bishop was able to answer them no problem with his testimony and brief history of the Book of Mormon. Unfortunately he hasn't come to church with us yet because he has been busy, but he sent us a really cool text on Saturday night saying that next week he has to come to church. We were going to invite him to be baptized last lesson, but the bishop kind of took over the lesson (in a good way) so we didn't feel right extending the invitation. We're planning on inviting him this week so hopefully he will want to be baptized. Final cool thing that happened last week was that we got in a bus crash!!! It was insane, we were going out to see the Chungju Elders because Elder Farrell is the District leader and he needed to do the baptismal interview for them. So we are going over this hill and then our bus driver slams on the brakes and then we hit the car in front of us. It really wasn't that insane, but now I can say that I have gotten in an accident on public transportation!