Hello~!
Oh, Elder 박 (Bak) and I are super excited for this next week; it's pretty much the first week this transfer where we don't have any kind of major meeting or thing to plan for, which means we get to have a pretty much normal week! Things have been working out really well, and we've got quite a few appointments (mostly with members, a few with some less active-type people), so we're going to be busy (especially compared to what we've been doing recently).
Let's see... so this last week, our big meetings were SPM and MLCM. SPM is the Stake Presidency Meeting (which I wrote about last time), and we spent most of the first half of the week preparing for that; so calling people and organizing all the information into a document. The meeting itself is pretty easy; the Stake President looks over our files and basically asks questions or suggestions based on what he sees. We don't actually do much; we just have to be ready to answer questions about investigators if he has any. Basically what happened at that meeting is that that stake president asked us to help missionaries to try and visit with members more, andt also told us that the one branch in our zone not doing a Christmas party needed to make one. We'll talk to the zone leaders about missionaries visiting members, and we already made the called needed about the Christmas party, so everything's pretty much in order from that meeting.
We also had MLCM, which is a meeting where all the zone leaders and sister training leaders gather in 부산 (Busan) to have a meeting about concerns and focuses for the upcoming month. We talked alot about leadership and planning and goal-setting, and also about the "He is the Gift" missionary project/initiative (no idea what it's actually called). Have you seen the video yet? It's kind of a big social media push, but the church made a Christmast video about the birth of Christ, and I'm pretty sure it's a big worldwide push to try and use the video to find investigators. The church produced a bunch of pass-along cards with a QR code linking to the video, and we're supposed to pass them out during the holiday season. Our mission printed 29,000 cards, which is pretty insane. Looking at the paper we got regarding the "He is the Gift" video, we're each supposed to get like 15 cards a day to pass out; the AP's said 500 per team for the entire mission. Honestly, that's kind of hard to do, especially for busy teams (which we aren't.......), and on top of all that, we haven't recieved the cards yet (the project kickoff strarted on the 28th of November I believe, so it's been some 10 days since we were supposed to get the cards and pass them out)! So we're going to have to work super hard to try and pass out the cards - like maybe 20 a day?
So hopefully things are running a little bit more smoothly over in the US and you've gotten that card from the missionaries and have seen the video and are sharing it with your friends and stuff. How are things in the US? It it as big of a deal as the MLCM made it out to be?
So that's kind of the main things that went on this week; it just takes a couple of meetings and preparation for said meetings to fill up our schedule and keep us busy!
Something fun though - a member invited us over for lunch (she owns a restaraunt) and so we and the B team headed over to meet with them. We though we were just going to eat together and share a message, but it turns out that they were making 김치 (kimchi) and for some reason didn't tell us. Actually, I have no idea if we were called to help make the kimchi or not, but one way or another, we were roped into making kimchi (not that we didn't want to, but we probably would have worn less nice clothes had we had known). So I'll send a few pictures of that.
Most of the work was done for us; they had a mountain of cabbage and a bathtub full of red sauce ready for us. One person kind of cleaned the cabbage and took off bad leaves, and the rest of us slathered said cabbage with the red sauce (I'm not sure exactly what it is - I think it's mostly hot peppers with some other sliced vegtables and maybe some seafood). I was on the slathering team, and so I had kind of a tray in front of me, and one of the members poured a huge spoonful of red stuff on my tray, and I would then take the cabbage and put the sauce all over it (with my gloved hands, no other special tools), making sure to get it between all the leaves and stuff. Then when it was done, put it in a bucket, and got another head of cabbage. It was pretty simple, and we finished in about an hour.
It's actually my first time in my time in Korea making kimchi, so now I can say that I feel that my mission is complete, haha.
I think the members want us to visit like every week, so we'll probably end up going over to help out with odd jobs like that - making kimchi, doing dishes, cooking, etc. We don't have anything down for sure, but one of the members was reminicisng about the days when the missionaries visited every week and did random stuff for him, so we'll see how that goes...
Alrighty, as always, it's kind of short, but that's pretty much what went down this week! Thank you so much for your letters and love and prayers! Until next week!
Love,
- Elder Luke
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