Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Transfer 13, week 5 (January 12, 2014)



안녕하세요~ (Annyeonghaseyo)!
 
I thought last week that once this week was over, we'd be done being busy, but I was wrong. We rechecked our transfer plans (so for the remaining two weeks) and we'll be pretty much as busy as we can get... so stay tuned~!
 
I guess I'll start with the huge miracle for the week...
 
Earlier this week, we got a phone call from one Brother 이재달 (I Jaedal), a member in 김해 (Gimhae), down in Busan. He had a referall for us - I'm not sure exactly what it is, but he referred to us a sister who's cousin or brother or something is a member of the church, and he told us that she was interested. So we (well, Elder 박 (Bak)...) gave her a call, and she said that she was interested in meeting with us, and also asked about when our church meetings were. So we told her, set up an appointment to meet, and were super excited.
 
Come Sunday, she called us again, saying that she wanted to come to church! So we gave her more specific directions, and she showed up with her daughter and son. They stayed the whole three hours (I believe they were going to leave early, but some members convinced them to stay until the end), and the members did a good job of being friendly without being pushy - oh, it was great! Elder 박 (Bak) and I couldn't talk with them too much unfortunately, but everything worked out really really well.
 
And on top of that, we got a phone call from her today (her name is Sister 이영숙 (I Yeongsuk), and she said that church was really good, and that she wants us to contact her children to invite them back to church!
 
So, we're working on that, we've got an appointment with her this Tuesday, and things are looking pretty good. It's really exciting.
 
So that's the big news for this week!
 
Other than that, we had Zone Training Meeting, and things ran pretty smoothly. We were able to keep it right at around 2 hours long, and I think the other missionaries really liked the shorter meeting (they usually run 2.5-3 hours long). I guess we had a slight problem with the younger missionaries not really understanding what was going on (the 부산 (Busan) mission, by rule, does all it's official meetings in Korean, so it's pretty hard for foreign missionaries...), and so we need to think about that some, but things seemed to go pretty good otherwise.
 
We had SPM this week as well; but nothing too special there. It was pretty average, haha.
 
Other than that, we had interviews with President Barrow this week - it was good. He said not too worry too much about doing Zone Leader stuff and to keep doing my best.
 
We went to 동화사 (Donghwasa), a famousish Buddhist temple here in 대구 (Daegu) today with our bishop. To be honest it wasn't toooooo special (well, it was really far away more than anything else...), but here are some pictures.

The first picture is from last p-day - we did a two-district ice skating thing. The other missionaries have more pictures (of the actual skating) so I'll send them your way once I get them.
 
Thank you~!

Love,
- Elder Luke


Note:
You can read a bit about Donghwasa on Wikipedia here.


Enjoy! Have a great week!







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