July 15, 2012

This week was really good for us here in Jeonju. The first half of the
week kind of went by really slowly because we didn't have any
appointments or anything like that, but it really picked up towards
the end of the week. We ran into a older guy on the street with a huge
asian beard (thin enough to see his chin skin still, but it goes down
to his chest area) on Wednesday and he was really nice. We explained
who we are and what we are doing, gave him a copy of the Book of
Mormon, and set an appointment to meet him on Friday. Anyways, when we
met him 2 days later he had already read up to 1 Nephi 18! He had
decided to read the Book of Mormon that day so he read for 2 hours
before our appointment and read 18 chapters. He said that it was
really interesting and he loves the story (who wouldn't right?).
Anyways, he told us that he had been thinking a lot about God the day
we first met him so it was really a miracle that we stopped and talked
a little about our church. Anyways, we invited him to be baptized and
he accepted a baptismal date for the 19th of next month and he kind of
self invited himself to church as well which was awesome. We picked
him up on Sunday with a member and he greeted us outside his apartment
Book of Mormon and Bible in hand wearing a suit! He seemed to like all
the meeting although church was really weird this week. We sung weird
hymns (one's I've never sung before) and in Gospel Principles they
talked about Eternal Marriage and how we can become like Gods with our
wives (really deep for somebody who's coming for the first time). He
accepted it pretty well which was a huge miracle because if he accepts
some of the deeper doctrines he will have no trouble accepting the
simple parts of the gospel. We also saw another miracle in one of our
investigators calling us again after spending 2 weeks in a psych ward.
He suffers from paranoia schizophrenia (sounds a lot worse than it
actually is) but he said that he's all cured now (we hope). He was
completely normal before though, he understood everything well but he
was just paranoid about certain things all the time because he would
always watch CNN. Anyways, when I first came to this area he told us
he was going to "Italy" aka Pysch Ward, and that he'd be back in 2
weeks. We weren't sure if he would meet with us after that, but he
called us yesterday and we set up another time to meet with him so
we're really excited for that!