May 13, 2012

This week was a pretty fun week for us in Mokpo. Neither of us were going anywhere so we didn't have to worry about packing or anything like that this week which was great. On Tuesday we had a combined district meeting in Gwangju. It is always fun to have combined district meetings because we are able to see other missionaries in the zone. Other than that this week was kind of slow for us, we met with our investigator named Sun a couple times which was really fun. We are getting to know him better and he is opening up more to us which has been really cool to see. We taught him about the Plan of Salvation last week with a large emphasis on the atonement and it went really well. We also went out to Gwangju again on Saturday for a Stake Choir tournament thing. It was fun, our choir wasn't really all that good, but it was still fun to go with our ward. This Saturday we will also be having a mission tour which is kind of exciting, the whole southern part of our mission will be meeting together and we will meet with Don R. Clarke of the Seventy. It will be my first mission tour and I'm looking forward to it. 

April 29, 2012

This week was an awesome week for us. We found a new investigator named Sun (that is his English name, we still don't know his Korean name). He has all sorts of questions about our church and has a genuine desire to learn. My companion met him on the bus a couple of weeks ago and began talking to him. He is really good at English and teaches English down here in Mokpo. He is an alcoholic, but really wants to stop drinking so we're trying to help him through it. He has been looking all over the internet about our church and we just answer all his questions and concerns and he seems to be understanding more now. He asked us how we can believe that Joseph Smith truly did restore the church and not make any of it up and we responded that it is through the Book of Mormon that we know these things. We had a great lesson on the Book of Mormon being convincing evidence that the true church was restored to the earth because if the Book of Mormon is true (and it is) then all other aspects of our church must be true. We gave him a copy and we hope he begins to read out of it. We also had 3 baptisms this week which was so special for the family. The mom used to hate churches, but through the example of the members here in Mokpo gained a desire to learn about our church and she recognized it as truth so she was baptized with her two sons. I had the privilege to baptize her two sons and it was a lot different because I've never done it before. I've always been on the receiving end so to baptize someone was a really special experience, especially when you say the baptismal prayer in Korean! We're excited for their further progression in the church and we're hoping that the ward will fellowship them well.

April 22, 2012

This week was a pretty good one for us here in Mokpo. We unfortunately had to move our investigator's baptismal date to next Sunday 4/29 because the mother had to go up to Seoul this past Saturday. They'll have their interview tomorrow and with no unforeseen complications they'll be baptized on Sunday. They are such an awesome family, it's a mother and her two sons and they've really progressed since first meeting the missionaries. We also saw some other success with a young man named Kim Ta Bin. He is 14 years old and we met him on the street last week and were able to get his phone number so we called him and met him and we were able to set a baptismal date with him for the 27th of May. We're kind of concerned though because he hasn't been responding to calls recently so we think his parents saw the Book of Mormon that we gave him and told him not to meet with us anymore. We're hoping for the best right now though.