안녕하세요 (Annyeonghaseyo)!
Like no time to type this week either... I'm really sorry!
So first week as Zone Leader is over! We were super busy this week (actually I think Zone Leaders are super busy all the time, but it's not with normal missionary activities). We had what's called "SPM" or "Stake Presidency Meeting" where we have to report on how all the missionaries in our zone are doing. So we spend my first few days on the phone with other missionaires, asking them about how their investigators, recent converts, ward missionaries and english class are doing. Then we threw all that information into a document so that we could present it to the stake president at the meeting.
Then we had exchanges with 안동 (Andong) (famous city in Korea for having a lot of tradition Korean culture type stuff), which is ridiculously far (took us 2+ hours to get there from our house which is another 2ish hours from the mission home, and then we had to come all the way back), and so we spend a lot of time towards the end of the week on a bus.
But SPM is over now, so we should be able to follow a more normal schedule. Zone Leaders also have to do a lot of planning, so we have a few more exchanges (my companion says he usually does them once a week) to plan, as well as our Zone Meeting, and then a few things to organize for a stake meeting that's coming up. Aaah!
Luckily, my companion, Elder 박재훈 (Bak Jaehun), is a really experienced Zone Leader - I think this is his fifth transfer doing Zone Leader, so he knows what he's doing really well. I'm grateful I get the change to work with him this transfer and learn and try and figure out what it is I need to do!
A lot of what we do is worry about people. We spend a lot of time thinking about the different missionaries in our zone, how to help them be better missionaries, trying to figure out how they're getting along with their companions. It's a different kind of missionary work (we help missionaries more than investigators), but it's still really really important.
As far as the area goes, I don't think we have any really strong investigators. There was a person who was baptized a few weeks before I got to 상인 (Sangin) who then got in a car accident and was not able to recieve the gift of the Holy Ghost. He's slowly getting better. But other than that, we don't have any serious investigators.
The 상안 (Sangin) ward is pretty big. 71 people showed up (a lot of those were children though; at least, a lot lot more than live in 광안 (Gwangan)!). There's a fair number of families as well, so the ward seems pretty strong. Don't really have much to say about that...
I think that's about it for today - I know it was short, but we really just spend our time this week with SPM, planning, and exchanges with 안동 (Andong)! I'll try to write more next week!
Love you all!
- Elder Luke
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