June 10, 2012

This week was a kind of slower one for us. We had a lot of meal appointments with our members which was really good. On Monday we ate with our Bishop's wife because the Bishop was still at work and we gave them Step 1 of our member-missionary work program. The program is supposed to help show members how they can do missionary work in small ways and we're hoping to see some success out of it with our ward members. On Tuesday we ate dinner with one of our less-active members who loves missionaries. His name is Kim Seung Nam and he was baptized maybe 6 years ago. Anyways, we ate with him on Tuesday and Wednesday which was really good, we were able to share a message with him and we're hoping that he starts coming out to church soon. We've been meeting with another semi-less active guy named Kim Jong Chur and he is reall funny. He's 60 and he lived in New York for 10 years during the 80's so we occasionally visit him and speak English with him. He came out to church this Sunday though which was really awesome. We visited a couple of our investigators as well who have been in the hospital (the one from North Korea who's son has brain problems) and they were happy to see us. Her Husband (super less active member) to be (they didn't get married this week because her son has to stay in the hospital so it was cancelled) told us that we needed to baptize them while we were still here so that was reassuring to hear. We also have been continuously meeting with our alcoholic investigator and he's kind of on pause mode right now so we're figuring out a way to get him going again.

June 3, 2012

This past week was pretty hectic for us, we were in and out of hospitals all week visiting one of our members who started crapping blood because of stress at work. He had surgery this past week and now he's finally home which is good. He speaks English with an Irish accent because he learned from his Irish room mate up in Seoul, so it's fun to speak English with him. The other person we visited this week was one of our new investigators who has had so many trials in their lives. The son is 12 but ever since he was 4 he has been in and out of hospitals because there is something wrong with his brain which makes all functions of his life kind of slow motion. The mom has cancer right now and is traveling back and forth from Seoul each week for treatments. They are originally from North Korea, they then emigrated to China where they spent 8 years. They really wanted to go to the U.S. for healthcare, but they couldn't because it was like a 2 year wait so they opted to come to South Korea instead where they are now receiving medical care. She is dating a less active member of ours right now and we met them on the street last week while proselyting. She and him are actually getting married this weekend at our church building so we'll be having a service for them. They are really sweet and I can't help but feel sorry for them because of all their hardships, but I know that the gospel will make them happier so we're excited to begin teaching them.