Jan. 2, 2012

Transfer calls were today and fortunately, I'm not going anywhere and neither is my companion, so we're both pretty happy about that. This past week we didn't have a lot of chances to meet with our investigators due to scheduling conflicts, but 2 came out to Church on Sunday which was really good. The lesson was on baptism as well and our investigators are starting to understand more the importance of baptism which is really good. We also picked up a new investigator this past week, he was a referral from a previous investigator and right now he is investigating a couple of churches. He and his wife are actually U.S. Citizens and speak pretty good English because they lived in LA for around 20 or so years (I think), but he expressed a lot of interest. It was kind of weird though because after we gave him a brief outline of the gospel, he was like "I want to introduce something to you guys as well." We were a little puzzled, but agreed to listen and he comes out with this toothbrush and toothpaste and starts talking about it (he works for a cosmetics/soap/beauty care company) and he was like trying to sell us on his toothpaste and toothbrush and the whole time I was just thinking "Why on earth would I ever use this stuff? Korean dental hygiene is horrible!" But we agreed to try it out (I still haven't) and report to him. That was pretty funny though. Another cool thing was we went and cleaned the Church building on Saturday and afterwards we went out to the ocean to eat seafood. The ward had a lot of money to spend and since it was the last day of the year they needed to spend it, so they wanted to eat fresh sea food so we drove 1 and a half hours to the coast, spent 2 hours eating, then came back. My companion hates seafood as well so that was pretty funny. They had all sorts of things there, they had raw octopus, fish, oysters, and clams and other things. It was all really good. The octopus was just barely killed and cut up so when they brought it out the tentacles and stuff were moving and sometimes the tentacles would get stuck to the chopsticks because of the suction cup things. It was awesome and tasted really good. My companion hated it though.