Bishop Causse

Hello everyone!

Well, Spring has come to Korea! Things are starting to warm up, this week we went out most of the days with just a suit on, which surprisingly feels so comfortable after wearing a giant coat all winter.

Last week I mentioned that a man who may have been slightly drunk treated us to some snacks from a street vendor... This week we ended up eating a full meal with a man that we just met who may have also been a little drunk. We were waiting for someone we were supposed to meet one evening, and another man came up and started trying to speak to us in English, like a lot of people do. His English was pretty limited though, so the mode of conversation quickly turned into Korean. My companion had to take a phone call, so I was talking to him for a while, and he invited us to go sit down and eat dinner with him (which is surprisingly common here). I told him we couldn't because we were meeting someone in a few minutes, but at that moment my companion got off the phone with the person we were supposed to meet with, who ended up cancelling. So he said that it would be fine if we went to dinner with him. So, we sat down for a nice meal with him, and invited him to learn about the gospel with us. We're not sure what will come of it, but he may end up wanting to learn English with us later, which would be great.

Also this week, I met the presiding Bishop of our church... My companion and I went to the church to make a quick copy before a lesson we were having. So we walked into our church building to find Bishop Causse and several other members of the quorum of the Seventy in our church building. They were touring the building and seeing how it was working out, so they actually asked us a few questions about how the building was working out for church members and others that we meet with, we definitely had quite the unique experience this week.

Some other good news for this week is that the work is starting to really pick up here. We are getting much more busy, and we are starting to be able to meet with lots of really good people. It definitely took a lot of patience and a lot of faith, but the work we have been doing is starting to produce some real results, which makes missionary work much more fun. We are teaching someone who is trying to receive an answer or communication from God, so this week we taught a lesson about being patient and trusting the Lord's timing, because his plan is always bigger than our own. And because we're teaching that principle to other people, it is something I am really trying to internalize, especially when it seems like results are few and far between. But regardless of results, I'm super happy to be here in Korea, and even happier to be doing the Lord's work here.

Have a great week!