안녕하세요~!
This will probably be a bit shorter of an email; not because there's no time, but because I don't have a whole lot to write about. ;o;
Fairly normal week last week, except we had trouble will plans falling through. We had one day where we had a plan set, and then two backup plans in case the first one didn't work, and all three of them fell through (we were going to help Sister 정여훈 move, and if that didn't work we were going to meet the branch president, and if THAT didn't work, we had planned on meeting 전충식 but...). So that day was hard, but sometimes it happens. We managed to make it through, haha.
So exciting news about our English class - the sister missionaries were able to make time and come over to teach with us, so English class was really crazy. We had a ton of missionaries, we had new people show up, we split the class in 3, so we had a lot of talking going on... it was good!
Now, there's a problem, and Elder 허정헹 and I have talked a lot about it. Really basically, the main purpose of our English class is to find investigators. If people aren't interested, then we teach English as a service, but since we've got a lot of new contacts, we want as many as possible to become investigators. So the problem is, most of our contacts are women, which make them really, really hard to meet. And the sister missionaries are pretty busy, and can't come to 서귀포 often (it takes like an hour, hour and a half by bus, so it's pretty far. And expensive). Even if we have a ton of people coming to English class, we need to help them become investigators, and that process is a bit difficult. We'll keep talking about it though, and come up with a solution.
Brother 김경봉 came to church yesterday! (He's the guy that comes to English class, and talks for unreasonably long periods of time. He's a nice guy though, just kind of hard to deal with when we teach English) We didn't invite him or anything, he just showed up (I think first time since I've been in 서귀포), payed tithing, attended sacrament meeting, and then left directly afterwards.
Hopefully, we can keep in touch with him, and he'll start coming to church more often, but he's kind of hard to read.
Brother 김경봉's English is kind of funny - I was talking with him on the phone the other day, trying to see if we can't meet him this week. He told me to call him today, but he didn't say it as a request or a command, just as a statement. He said "You will call me on Monday." He says a lot of things like that, that are understandable, just a little strange. I think he told me that he watched a lot of movies to study English, so maybe that's why... (I think he also said that he watched Ocean's Eleven several times a week for like a year to study English. It's a good movie, but I don't really see it as a stellar teacher of English.)
If you have any questions, please email them my way so I have something to write about when I have nothing to write about. Thank you!
Love,
- Elder Luke
Notes:
정여훈: Jeong Yeohun, a lady who is the friend of a member, and who has come to church a couple of times. Andrew first mentioned her on January 20. He hasn't said much about her recently, but apparently they are still in touch.
전충식: Jeon Chungsik, the man they've been working with for several months now.
허정헹: Heo Jeongheng, Andrew's companion. I wonder if in Korean they tend to call people by their full names; Andrew always writes out people's full names rather than just saying, say, "Elder 허."
서귀포: Seogwipo, the city Andrew is in.
김경봉: Kim Kyeongbong, the talkative member of the English class who learned to speak by watching "Ocean's 11."
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