Oct. 31, 2011

Last week was a good week for missionary work and for Elder Farrell and I. Last P-day we went hiking all day and it kind of sucked because we were super tired all throughout this past week. We were expecting a little hill because that's what Korean people call hiking. It's really funny because they get decked out in Northface clothing gear and have hiking boots and walking poles and all they are doing is walking up a paved road that is just slightly going up hill. Anyways, that's what we were expecting and our potential investigator, Birdman, takes us on this extremely steep 8 mile hike. We were just so dead afterwards and it kind of threw off last week, but we still did see so many wonderful things. Anyways, we didn't have time to buy groceries or anything like that so we were going to HomePlus (Korea's Walmart) and we get a call from a former investigator who we hadn't met yet and he was like I want to meet you guys, when is the soonest time we can meet? We immediately got on the bus and went to the church and met him there and the dood has so much potential. He's 20 years old and the only reason why he stopped meeting us in the first place was because his dad hates our church and told him not to meet us, but now that he's in college he wants to meet with us so we are super stoked. We met him twice last week and gave him a BoM and he seems super interested so we're super stoked. We're trying to build a relationship between him and some of our ward members so he has some incentive to go to church. We also met another investigator on Wednesday named Kim Sang Gyo and he is pretty awesome as well. Him and I get along really well and he seems interested in the gospel which is good. We also met with our favorite investigator U Wan Te and he just shocked us with how much he wants to know about this gospel. We invited him to Friday night basketball and afterwards we talked with him for a little bit about his Book of Mormon reading and he said that he had read everything we asked him to read and he had so many good questions. We asked him to read 2 Nephi 31 and in verse 1 it says something like Nephi couldn't write everything down that he wanted or something like that and U Wan Te was like "Why couldn't Nephi continue writing in the Book of Mormon?" It took us back because we had never really thought about it that much but we just explained that sometimes they can't write down everything God reveals to them because God tells them not to and that because he was about to die that he didn't have too much more time to write in the Book of Mormon. He is awesome though, he said his first prayer with us and we hope that he gets baptized because it will help our other investigator, I Je Hun, get baptized because the two of them are really good friends and I Je Hun isn't as interested as U Wan Te. That's pretty much the main cool events that happened this week though, we had a crazy halloween party that was super fun, we had a spook alley and we made some kids cry so I considered it a success. I was at the end and I popped out of a door and would scare people, it was super fun.