Hello!
We kind of had a crazy week; we were actually a little bit less busy than we had thought - we wanted to teach and meet with 예진 (Yejin) and 진산 (Jinsan) a lot, but they were busy and so we couldn't. That was a little bit disappointing to be honest; we had planned to meet both of them twice but ended up not being able to meet at all. Their baptismal date is still set for the 29th though, and that's what we're shooting for. We still have to teach both of them more lessons.
We managed to schedule appointments for both of them, so we'll finish off the lessons and have the baptismal interview on this Saturday, then have the baptismal service on that Sunday. It's a little bit tight, but we don't have a lot of options at this point. Hopefully all goes well and they get baptized on the 29th without any problems.
It's been a little bit stressful - I just wish that we could have met this week and gotten everything taught and taken care of so we didn't have to play it so close. If they by some chance have something come up in the interview, we'd have to cancel the service that's already planned for the next day. Not a huge deal really, just kind of awkward.
Actually, we don't have a ton of time to email today, so this might be super short...
We also had Zone Training Meeting this week, and everything went really well. The people we asked to help present the material all prepared well, and did everything better than we expected. People participated well, and I like to think everyone learned a lot.
We talked about the "Standards of Excellence" for our mission, which are basically high goals set by the leaders of the mission to give us something to work towards, "expand our vision" if you will. They just say "We as leaders of this mission believe that if you work really hard, you should be able to do so much in so much an amount of time." So recently, our mission president has been focusing on that, and has changed some of the numbers, so we talked about that (the number changed was number of lessons taught in a week). We explained the change, and then had a discussion time all together about different ideas on how we might achieve the goal. People participated well in the discussion, had good ideas, and we actually had a few missionaries tell us that they learned a lot and have some new things that they want to try out, so I guess it all was a success. Actually, we called everyone involved in the meeting and asked how things were going the night before the Zone Training Meeting, and everyone was kind of like "Um, we've got a few more things to wrap up and think about..." (including us) so we were worried, but it was a relief to see that the meeting ended doing well. I think we've got another Zone Training Meeting this transfer though, so we'll be busy.
Alrighty I think that's all I have time for....! Thank you so much for everything! Hope to report on the baptismal service next week!!!!
Love,
- Elder Luke
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