May 19, 2013

This week was pretty slow for us here in Gongju, but it was still
rewarding. Last week we weren't able to meet with a lot of our
investigators due to scheduling conflicts, but we were able to spend a
lot of time with our members which was really good. On Wednesday we
got a call from one of our members and he asked for our help because
he was closing down his English tutoring place (In Korea they call
them Academies, but they are like tutoring offices? I don't know what
to call it in English). He hardly ever asks for help from the
missionaries so we were really happy for the opportunity to serve him
and talk to him, but at the same time we were really sad because he
had to close his academy and now has to find a new job which really
sucks. He's such a strong member and 2nd counselor in the stake
presidency, but he has a lot of hardships in his life right now so
we're trying our best to help him and his family. On Thursday night
our ward had a campout for Buddha's birthday so even though we
couldn't sleep over we went on both Thursday and Friday and spent the
day with our members. It's been a miracle that we've had so may
opportunities to interact with our members and get to know them. I've
been so happy getting to know the people here and I know that as we
continue working together we'll be able to see a lot of success
together here in Gongju! We have 1 baptismal date right now and she's
an adorable 12 year old girl who's parents are both members and
starting to come back out to church again. She will be baptized next
month so we're realy looking forward to it. Our ward pretty much
consists of 2 families, which is really funny. Everyone is brothers or
sisters or cousins, so it's almost like every week at church they are
having a family reunion or something! Haha, but it's really good, we
love our members and they love us so we're making the best of our
situation!