Korea is the absolute best

Hello everyone!

I thought I'd start off with something fun this week. As I mentioned before, English is the language that all Korean students have to learn in school. Most people can't speak it very well, but regardless, things with English writing on them are pretty popular here. Lots of shop names, shopping bags, notebooks, etc. have English writing. However, most of the time it is pretty apparent that it was not a native speaker that wrote it, some of the words used or the grammar patterns are a dead giveaway. But one thing that is almost always right is the spelling. However, this week, we stumbled on an exception to that trend...

Because of course you have doors that are fixed, and then you have doors that you can fush and pull...

Anyways, all is going well here in Incheon! We're starting to meet with more people that we can teach, which is definitely progress. And we meet lots of great people on the streets, even those with rather dynamic personalities. This week, we met a man while walking that may or may not have been drunk, but we walked with him and had a good conversation, and he was very grateful to us for coming to do missionary work in his country. In fact, he was so grateful that he decided that he would treat us to some food from a vendor on the street. So we went in the little booth, and he told us to just eat to our heart's content. After we ate a few snacks, we told him thank you and that it was plenty, but he kept insisting that we eat more. And he was a lot older than us, so we kind of have to do what he says, but then it caused him and the person and the worker to get in to a small argument, because he kept trying to make us eat more after he had already paid. His excuse was that we don't speak Korean so we don't know anything (as we were speaking to him in Korean), but luckily we were able to convince him that we were done eating before things escalated too much. And we even gave him a Book of Mormon before we parted ways.

Besides that, there isn't much to report for this week, other than that Korea is the absolute best. We don't meet a lot of people that want to learn about our church, but everyone is so nice, and the members of our church are some of the greatest people I've ever met. And as far as learning a language goes, that really has been the biggest source of motivation for me. Wanting to be able to connect with these people without the barrier of language has helped push me more than anything else, and I can't wait to be able to do that better. This is the true church of Jesus Christ, and I am more aware of that now than I have ever been as I share that simple truth.

Have a great week!^^

-Elder Bigelow