Hello!
We had SPM (once a month is too often) again, so that ate up a ton of our time for the week. Elder Boome really hates staying inside and doing stuff like that, so it was a little hard for him I think. We've talked a lot about how we can make it more efficient and kind of less of a burden on us, but we're not really coming up with many good ideas.
We visited a couple of district meetings this week - Zone Leaders are supposed to go around and visit everyone at least once a transfer, so we got to go around and meet everyone in our zone. There's a lot of young foregin missionaries it seems!
We had planned to do our music class this Friday but things didn't work out (and we had to go down to Busan for a meeting...!) so we moved it to this week. We have like 5-6 members that say they're interested in coming, and I think the sisters got 2 referalls for the class, so it's kind of way bigger than we thought it would be. It's kind of a lot a of pressure on Elder Boome since he's the only one that plays guitar (and he says he's not that good, but I think that's just him being humble), so we'll have to prepare really well, especially since this week will be the big kickoff.
In other news, 이예진s (Sis. I Yejin) show up to church, and we got to teach a lesson with her! We thought that her and her brother weren't going to show up to church, but then just Sister 이예지 showed up late. I think her brother went on vacation somewhere, or was out hanging out with his friends. We met with 이예진s after church, and the lesson.... well, it was kind of awkward, haha. Our ward mission leader was there (he's pretty good friends with her now), and he kind of was leading things, and we didn't practice or really plan too much together, and Elder Boome and I really weren't on the same page (we actually prepared a lot for the lesson, but we didn't have a ton of time for the lesson since we had to be somewhere, so he was teaching little bit faster than I wanted to, and so I was probably teaching too slow for his liking. We had agreed to teach a little bit faster then our original plan, but we didn't talk about how fast...).
Well, the lesson actually turned out pretty good I think - it was a first lesson as well, so I don't think 이예진s knew what was going to happen, so think she was nervous as well. It was just somewhat awkward to start, but the lesson, by the end, was good.
We had planned to ask her to say the closing prayer for the lesson, but our ward mission leader felt that she would have been uncomfortable with it; so I was wrapping up the lesson and trying to get to the point to ask her to pray, when our ward mission leader interrupted me and said "Oh, I think Elder Luke should say the closing prayer!" So I did, and he told me later what was going on. I was pretty confused, haha, but I think it just means that our ward mission leader is trying really hard to think about our investigator and what would be best for her. It's been a long time since I've taught an actual lesson...
We met with one of the B-team investigators several times, but he wasn't super interested in the gospel I think. He was a 20 year old kid who was pretty good at English, and was interested in religion in a kind of philosophical way. So we talked about our church a bit, and he really like what we believe, but I don't think he was looking to convert at all. We met with him twice, talked about dropping him, but then it turns out that he's going up to Seoul to study, so I gues we're done with him. I guess, if nothing else, he really likes our missionaries and thinks really good things about our church, so maybe he'll have another chance to actually learn about our church.
So we now have real investigators that are coming out to church, so things have improved a lot since I've been here. President Barrow recently taught us to focus on the most important things (namely, missionary work, especially meeting and teaching investigators), so Elder Boome and I will be trying our best to really think about the other housekeeping/administrative stuff that we do, and do our best to limit our time spent on that (SPM is kind of the biggest of our time sinks...).
The first week of the transfer was really good with visiting members, this last week was a bit slow with SPM and other meetings, and it looks like this week will be a good week for us to do more "normal" missionary work. We really want to find investigators, and we've got some people with potential, so we'll be doing a lot of finding and probably member visits as well. And then next week is 설날 (Seolnal = Korean New Year), which is a big Korean holiday, so next week might be slow as well; so this week is our chance!
Hm..... I think that's about it for the week. We've got Zone Conference coming up next week, and Elder Boome and I need to prepare a teaching practice session, so we'll be studying and thinking a lot about that. The Zone Conference will be on Monday, so I'll probably end up emailing Tuesday, just as a heads-up.
Thank you for your letters and everything!
Until next week!
- Elder Luke
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