March 31, 2013

So the past couple of weeks have been pretty good for us here in
Suwon. My companion is still awesome and still really funny which
makes doing missionary work a whole ton easier. Right now though it's
a really busy time in Korea with University starting and stuff like
that so we've been having trouble meeting some of our regular
investigators recently. We haven't met my favorite man Choi Sung Yong
in over a month! But luckily we are going to visit his restaurant
tomorrow and catch up which I'm excited about. We're still playing
baseball in the morning with our ward and it's going ok, we're able to
get investigators out which is awesome, the thing that sucks is that
our ward members don't come out......Last week we had 2 come out which
was a complete failure, they all say that they are busy, but just no
one makes time for activities. I know if they wanted to they could
come out, just a lot of them don't see the purpose in gathering
together as an Elder's Quorum which makes me sad. But it's ok,
hopefully this week we'll be able to get some members out and play
some baseball! So transfers were last week as well, but nothing
changed with me and my companion so I don't have a ton to write about
it. This will be my 5th transfer in this area and hopefully my last.
Don't get me wrong, I love me ward, the problem is is that if I stay
another transfer I will most likely finish my mission in the new Seoul
South mission because our stake will be part of the Seoul South
mission as of July 1st. So I just have my fingers crossed that this
will be my last one here because I want to finish my mission in the
Daejeon mission. So let's just hope I get transferred in 6 weeks! This
week looks kind of exciting for us, we get to go to Daejeon for some
training program thing. That's pretty much all that's going
on here, hopefully we'll start picking stuff up soon!

March 17, 2013

So this past week was a pretty busy week for us, our investigators
were finally able to meet with us which was really good. The past
couple of weeks it's been weird because we haven't been able to meet
our investigators are regularly as in the past, so we weren't as busy
as we had been in the past, but this week everything worked out and we
were able to meet with them. They are all doing pretty good, we have
one ivnestigator named Jang Deok Hwan and he's pretty awesome. He's in
his 60s and is a psychologist and also knows the bible well. He's
reading the Book of Mormon right now and he's reading it in really in
depth because he wants to know what our church believes. He even
traced footnotes back to the bible! It was really cool to see how in
depth he is reading. He obviously still doesn't have a testimony or
anything like that, but we're hoping that he keeps progressing.
Another fun thing that happened last week was we played baseball with
our investigators and members on Saturday morning. We've been doing it
for a few weeks and this past week's turnout was definitely the best
that we had seen. We finally had enough to have full teams which was
fun. We had a couple investigators out and they brought their friends
so it was awesome to see them mingle with our members and get to know
them a little bit. We're hoping that they can keep coming out every
week and get closer to the members and hopefully establish some
friendships.

March 3, 2013

So last week was pretty good for me here in Suwon. My old companion Elder Wedam switched rooms and is now serving with the other Elder in my area, and I picked up my greenie on Thursday last week. His name is Kang Ju Yur and he is super funny. He's 20 years old and was actually called to serve in the New Jersey mission, but because of school he was allowed to start early here in the Daejeon mission, then in May if he gets a visa in time he will go to the MTC and then out to New Jersey. So he literally started his mission last Sunday and has now been serving for about a week. He's really awesome though, he's studying to become a pilot and he's really good at soccer so last week we played soccer with some members up in Suji and they loved us because he could play really well. We got invited to play with them again so we'll probably go up there this week again. We're looking forward to good things in our area though, today I got a call unexpectedly from a Choi Sang Seop (the drunk man that accepted a baptismal date about  2 months ago) saying that he wanted us to visit him again so we're going to probably visit him tomorrow and see what we can do to help him out. Our investigators are good too, like always none of them have made a commitment to be baptized yet, but we'll get them soon haha. Right now in our ward we're focusing on working with our members and getting close to them so last Saturday we went out and played some baseball which was pretty fun. I suck at baseball and so did everyone else there so we all had a pretty good time. This next week is looking pretty busy for us as well so we're looking forward to it for sure!