Hello!
I don't think I wrote about it last week, but we've got a ward meeting in 상인 (Sangin) coming up this next Saturday, so we've been pretty busy getting things put together for that. Like pretty much every other meeting I've helped prepare, I feel like things are really rushed, but I think it'll all end all right.
So the 상인 (Sangin) ward has kind of a history of doing "missionary meetings" - I'm not sure 100% what they did (did I talk about this when we Skyped?), but it seems like they had these meetings every several months, and they talked about member missionary work, and practiced teaching lessons together, went outside and tried to give out Book of Mormons, had testimony meetings and firesides and things. But since they did these kind of meetings for a such a long time, everyone kind of hated them and in the end, not very many people were showing up (I heard that the last ward mission leader would sometimes do them monthly).
So anyways, our ward mission leader changed somewhat recently, and he wants to make a member missionary work-oriented meeting. So he's trying to kind of rebrand these meetings as much more fun and not just really heavy missionary-focused meetings, so that's what we've been planning for the past few months or so.
We're calling it the "winter festival" meeting, since we all decided together that if the word "missionary" goes into the name of the meeting, nobody will want to come (it used to be called the "missionary festival". And because of that, our ward mission leader (his name is Brother 박영 (Bak Yeong)) wants to tie it all together by putting a "Frozen" theme (Brother 박영 (Bak Yeong) kind of planned the meeting super over the top, and he wanted us to all wear Frozen costumes (which probably wouldn't have worked out super well in the first place....) but it tuns out that such costumes are super expensive) on the meeting. We'll see how that goes, but we've got to decorate, organize the actual meeting, plan activities, the whole nine yards... actually, we have lots of ideas, just nothing is really set in place yet.
We've got really good ideas actually; we'll be doing it in two parts, with the first half being the more serious "missionary" part, which we'll do for like an hour, and then activities and dessert, which will be like another hour.
To be honest, it kind of seems like Elder 박 (Bak) and Elder 허 (Heo) are in charge of the main part of the meeting, and Elder Maccarthy and I are in charge of the much-less important decorating, but whatever. We'll just do the best we can, and it'll have to be enough...
So yeah!
Any free time we have this week will go directly towards preparing, practicing, shopping, decorating, and just in general setting up for this "winter festival."
Other than that, we've got like 5 appointments with members set up this week for Elder 박 (Bak) and Elder 허 (Heo), since they're both going home in a week. So that'll keep us pretty busy for the entire week.
We met with Sister 이영숙 (I Yeongsuk) (referral we got last week) and her daughter and son this week; the lesson went pretty well. She had a lot of questions about our church; not really doctrinal questions, but just questions about the things she saw when she came. We planned on kind of just going light and try and see if we couldn't meet regularly, but Elder 박 (Bak) decided it would be best to teach about the Restoration, so we did that in addition.
At the end of the lesson, we asked if we could continue to meet to keep learning about our church, but Sister 이영숙 (I Yeongsuk) was really hesitant, and just said "I don't know" in the end. I guess we didn't explain well enough about what our purpose is and why she needs to keep meeting with us.
They seemed pretty interested during the lesson though, and we were able to talk a lot with them which was good. Oh, and they didn't come to church this week, so I'm not sure what's going on with them. We'll have to give them a call and see what's up it seems.
So we're a little bit disappointed; we had hoped that they would come back to church, and continue meeting with us. I guess we'll just have to keep an eye on things and see where things go.
We got to teach a lesson this week though, to an investigator, so I can't complain too much! And we're pretty busy as well, so life is good in 상인 (Sangin)!
Here's a few pictures; I finally got them from Elder 박 (Bak), and I should be able to get some from Elder 허 (Heo) soon as well.
Have a great week!
Love,
- Elder Luke
Actually, looking at the pictures I got, a lot of them are similar to ones I already have (like of when we went to 동화사 (Donghwasa), the Buddhist temple), so I'll just send this last one and call it good for today!
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