안녕하세요!
Nothing too much this week, so a few stories...
Like I wrote last week, we were really, really sick, and so weren't able to fast (we figured we needed a little food in us, along with water). So we decided to fast last Sunday to make up for it. Anyways, we went to church, did our normal stuff, and we planning at home when we got a phone call from one of our members. He asked if we were by the church, which we were, and then said his wife was going to come to the church and give us "something." Some 20 minutes later, we met her, and she gave us steaks!
Apparently, her husband thought we looked really tired and a little weak at church, so he bought us meat. I don't think we're going to be able to tell him that we were actually fine, just hungry. :D
We met with Brother 전충식 with our branch president, and that, uh, didn't work so well. We met with our branch president (he's a stonecutter, which is pretty sweet), and explained what we wanted to teach about. Fast forward a few minutes, and he kind of um, hijacked our lesson. He talked for like 40 minutes, and we couldn't get a chance to stop him, so that lesson was badly derailed. He talked about the iron rod, tower of babel, word of wisdom, food storage, everything.
Ugh, that was hard to sit through. We need to explain things better next time...
And finally, I want to talk about James Bond.
James Bond is a member in our branch, and he has some mental problem, I'm not really sure what it is. Like, he seems to understand pretty well, but conversation doesn't progress any more than what we did that day. In any case, he really, really, really likes foreigners, and so he sometimes hangs out like in front of our house. We've had several times where we had to run away from him, because you can't like visit people with a stranger hanging out right behind you. Basically, he bothers us a lot.
I think he spends most of his time in busy areas, trying to talk to any foreigner that passes by.
We were in the middle of a lesson on Tuesday (at our church, with Brother 전충식), and there was a knock at the door. I opened the door to find James Bond standing there. I was going to tell him to wait while we do the lesson, but he said he brought a friend. And indeed, he did!
He had met someone on the street, and invited him to come to church. The man's name is Jerome, and he's from Sri Lanka. He said he didn't know where James Bond was taking him, haha.
But we talked with Jerome for a bit, and he says he's interested in learning more English (he speaks really good Korean and English), and that if he has time, he'll try to drop by. He's met with the missionaries before as well!
Member referrals are really hard to get, but we were really surprised to get one from James Bond of all people. We haven't met with Jerome yet, but we're trying to set something up.
Oh, and we haven't met with Sister 정여훈 again yet - she showed up to church, but didn't have time afterwords a lesson, which was too bad.
And, our district meetings are in Jeju city, maybe 50 minutes by bus.
I hope you are all doing well in the US!
Love,
-Elder Luke
Notes:
안녕하세요: Annyeonghaseyo, the standard Korean greeting.
전충식: Jeon Chungsik, the investigator they've been working with for several weeks.
정여훈: Jeong Yeohun, a lady who is a friend of a member and has come to church a time or two. Andrew met her for the first time on January 20. Previously he spelled her family name 장 (Jang).
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