October 28, 2012

So this past week I transferred from Jeonju to Suwon, the area I was
serving in last winter, and needless to say I was very sad to leave
Jeonju. I said goodbye to the members and ate dinner with my recent
convert Brother Kang. For the first time ever he didn't feed us
something gross so it was so awesome! We went to a famous meat
restaurant and it was really good. It was pig meat instead of dog meat
so I was so relieved. It was still sad to leave him behind, but I know
that he will continue to do great as a member of the church. Things
here in Suwon are going good though. We had a Halloween party on
Saturday and it was really fun to see members from the Shingal ward
(where I served last year) at the party as well. We were able to pick
up a new investigator last week and he seems to have some potential.
The members in Shinpung (my new ward) are really good, they are a bit
older but they are all really solid and want to help with missionary
work. This Saturday we are going with our members to give away Book of
Mormons at a park so we're excited to do that with them. Right now
we're just focusing on finding some new investigators because we don't
have very many, but we're hoping to pick up some more this next week!

October 21, 2012

So today we got transfer calls and I'm leaving Jeonju unfortunately. I'm being transferred up to Suwon, the area I was in last winter. Last year I served in Suwon Stake in Singal ward, and this time I will be serving in Shinpeung ward. I'm really looking forward to the opportunity, I will be serving with an Elder named Elder Bricco, he has been in Korea for a few months and will be starting his 3rd transfer with me and I'm looking forward to it. This week I'll be spending time saying goodbye to members here in Jeonju which will be sad, but I've moved so much that it's not too much of a deal.

October 14, 2012

This past week was a spiritually uplifting week for us thanks to a wonderful broadcast of general conference. General conference is always a special time for us as missionaries because we are able to take a break from missionary work and receive tons of spiritual guidance. We had a couple of our investigators come out to the Sunday morning session of conference and we weren't with them during the broadcast because we were watching it in English, but I think that they liked it. They do have problems sleeping during sacrament meeting, so I'm hoping that they didn't just sleep, but who knows, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. This past week I hit 1 year in country which is pretty hard to comprehend, it seems as if it was just a few short months ago I was coming to country, now I'm walked these streets for a year. The weather is getting colder as well which kind of sucks, it's back to suit weather for us which I'm excited about because I won't sweat after walking outside for a few short minutes. Most of our investigators were pretty busy this past week due to other plans so we weren't able to meet with some of them, but all in all they are doing pretty good I guess. 

October 2, 2012

This past week for us was a pretty decent week for us here in Jeonju Korea, we didn't have too many appointments with investigators, but we were able to keep busy. On Monday we had family home evening at the church with our recent convert Brother Kang and a couple of the other ward members and our investigator came out too which was great to see. On Thursday we did some service for a member out in the countryside that we've been working with for a while now, he's less active so we try to help him out as much as possible. Anyways the main highlight of last week was that there was a national holiday called Chuseok, which is pretty much Korean Thanksgiving. It was from Saturday to Monday, the actual holiday being on Sunday. Because of Chuseok missionary work last week was pretty slow because a lot of people go to their hometowns during Chuseok so the streets were pretty much empty and all our investigators were with their family. On Saturday we went hiking with another less active member and his friend which was pretty fun, we got fed all 3 days of Chuseok which was also pretty awesome. Brother Kang brought his wife and daughter out to church which was way awesome, his wife is super busy with work so it was the first time that I had ever met her. She seemed to like the whole experience and she's so happy with the man that her husband has become since becoming a member of our church. He is still progressing well and all he wants is his family to feel the same happiness that he has experienced which is really special to see.