Hello!!!!!
So we had Zone Conference yesterday and so p-day got moved to Tuesday. I should email again Monday next week (not that you need me to tell you, but I didn't know how to start this letter off......).
Anyways, Zone Conference was really good; it was a 6.5 hour megamonster meeting (an hour for lunch was included, but still), but I was able to learn a lot. The AP's and President Barrow plan and carry out the meeting, so unlike Zone Training Meetings, we were able to sit down, listen, and actually learn rather than just run around (there still was a fair bit of running around, but less than normal, haha). The main topic was about receiving revelation, so we learned about prayer and scripture study, how the Spirit works, and also about how we can help investigators to recieve revelation. Kind of the main thing I took away was to try and have more faith when I pray, and try to improve my prayers. It seems like I always decide to work on something like that, and then I kind of falter, only to go to some meeting like this, and feel inspired to try harder again. :)
We had to do a teaching practice session, and haha, honestly, it didn't go as well as we had hoped. We did a lot of planning for it, and we had a lot of high hopes for what our missionaries would learn and take away, but I don't know if people learned exactly what we wanted them to. Part of the problem, I think, is that we have a lot of younger missionaries in our zone, and they didn't understand our Korean very well. That's not really something we have a ton of control over, but it was a little bit too bad that we couldn't convey exactly what we wanted to the missionaries. But the the other parts of Zone Conference went well (and it's not that the teaching practice went bad, it's just that it wasn't exactly everything we had planned for), so the meeting was a success.
Other than that, our big news is that we had a member-present lesson with 이예진s (Sis. I Yejin) and 이진산b (Bro. I Jinsan), and it went super well!
We met them with 황동옥s (Sis. Hwang Dongok), who is the Stake Relief Society president, and also the Gospel Principles teacher. She's possibly one of the nicest, best teachers I've ever seen - she teaches really comfortably, and really converstationally. It's hard to say, but she puts everyone at ease when she teaches I think. Both 이예진s and 이진산b have come to Gospel Principles, and they both really respect 황동옥s - they say that one of the big reasons they come to church is to meet with her.
We actually only had 20 minutes to do the lesson, and we had planned for a much longer lesson, so we went in without anything prepared. But as soon as we start, Sister 황 takes charge and while we didn't teach a lesson-lesson together, she (황s did like 90% of the talking, but like in a really good way) invited them to meet with us next week to set a baptismal date for early March, bore her testimony of the blessings of the gospel especially of eternal families, and then commited both of them to meet with us every week after church to take the lessons. Elder Boome said that that was possibly the best lesson he had every been in as a missionary, haha. It went really well, and it seems that both 이예진s and 이진산b have a lot of interest in coming to church and learning about the church.
They said that they've been to different churches before, and all they did was sit down and listen to the minister or preacher or whoever, and they really like the idea of meeting with missionaries (and of continuing to come to Gospel Principles) and learning together instead of just listening to a sermon. Long story short, Elder Boome and I have pretty high hopes for them after this lesson, and it seems pretty sure they'll be baptized sooner or later.
We also had a couple of people call us up kind of randomly saying that they wanted to meet, and so I think we might be able to meet a few more people to start teaching lessons to his week.
Oh, except it's 설날 (Seolnal = Korean New Year) this week, which is a huuuuge Korean holiday, so people probably won't really want to meet that much. We did, however, get invited by 3-4 different members to have a meal this week ("Elders, what are you doing for 설날?" "Oh, you know. Nothing special." "Nothing special!? Come to our house Friday and we'll have lunch together."), so I think that'll keep up busy! :)
We kind of got bogged down with a lot of planning last week, and so we hope that we'll be able to visit members, meet people, and kind of start working in 상인 (Sangin) again (I say this every week, haha).
This week was really good; hope you all had a great week as well!
Love,
- Elder Luke
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