안녕하세요 (Annyeonghaseyo)!
We kind of had a crazy this week - there was a lot of things that kind of got switched around, and we couldn't do everything like we had planned. P-day being on Tuesday didn't help either, haha.
Kind of the main thing for this week is our lessons with 이예진s (Sis. I Yeojin) and 이진산b (Bro. I Jinsan) of course!
We met (or tried to) meet them both twice this week - again, their baptismal date is coming up (got switched to either 28th or 29th) and we've got a fair amount of the lessons left. So we met 이예진s and taught her most of the commandments, and she understood and accepted things pretty well. We asked her to read parts of the "For the Strength of Youth," and she ended up reading all of it because she was bored of studying for school. So when we had the lesson, she understood a lot, and we were kind of able to just review most of the material. Oh, and we taught with our sisters missionaries, and they ended up talking a lot about modesty - it's kind of hard in Korea (especially for women). I think she still has a few concerns about that, but I believe they're mostly resolved now. And then Sister 이예진 had some questions about the Word of Wisdom - basically "What should I do if my friends want to go out to drink?" and so we talked about that as well.
We met them both Saturday, and their schedule didn't work out, so we met with 이진산b separately. That actually turned out to be a pretty good idea - with the first three lessons, there's a lot of doctrine, and it's pretty easy to accept, but lesson 4 had the commandments, which is where most people have concerns. He had more concerns about the Word of Wisdom than 이예진s, so it was good to meet him alone and address those concerns with him. We watched the Mormon Message "Leave the Party," (which you can see here) and we think he really liked it. He is still a little bit hestitant and agreed to commit the Word of Wisdom because "I'm still young and don't have any problems with it now."
We had Stake Conference on Sunday, and we had planned to meet them again, but that didn't really work out super well. 진산 doesn't respond well to our texts, and so I don't think he knew that we wanted to teach him. What ended up happening is that the sisters met with 이예진s with Sister 황동옥 and reviewed the baptismal interview questions, and then 이진산b disappeared right after church to go study, and we weren't able to teach him.
The sisters said that the lesson went really well though; she was able to answer all of the questions, and they resolved the concerns as they came up. I guess she was a little bit more comfortable with just women as well - they asked her to pray at the end, and she said "Good, it wouldn't be awkward because there's no boys around." I'm not sure what that means, but we miiiiight have to just give her over to the sisters and have them teach her until the baptism, haha. Oh, and they said she was more open in talking about some of her concerns about her brother (she's worried that his friends aren't that good, and that he's started to go down "wrong roads" or whatever; she wants church to help him because a better person basically), so that's really good too. Sister 이예진 is pretty much ready for baptism I think! She just needs like 1-2 more lessons, and I think she'll be able to be baptized with no problem.
We're now one lesson behind with 이진산b, so that's a bit of a problem, but we've still got plenty of time to catch him up and prepare him for baptism, so we're not too worried. If he doesn't show up to church or something though, it's kind of be a big problem, haha.
So overall, they're both doing really well, and I think the 28th/29th (our ward mission leader changed the date, and we're not 100% sure when he said it was haha) will be a really good baptismal date for them, and we think they'll be able to be more than ready by then. We're excited!
That's our main news; the rest of the week was spent in meetings and planning and stuff. Again, we've got Zone Meeting this next Wednsday, and that's taken longer than we thought to figure out. But that'll all be over until the next Zone Meeting in like 3 weeks. Oh well, we got to do what we got to do, right?
Elder Boome's got to figure out college stuff, so I'll keep this short for this week. Thank you for everything!
Love,
Elder Luke
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