This week has been great! It's warming up quite a bit here, so luckily we can wear just a white shirt from today onward, no more sweating in a suit coat :)
Also this week, all the cherry blossoms bloomed, so the world just became 10x more beautiful. They are only in bloom for about a week or two, I think the name in Japanese(sakura) is a lot more famous, but they are called 벗꽃(beot-kkot) here in Korea.
This weekend, we got to watch General Conference, our church's biannual worldwide broadcast, which was super good! The missionaries sat in a different room and watched it in English, which I was fortunate for, because watching 10 hours of straight Korean that I can't understand very well would have been a challenge. I'm not sure if I had a favorite speaker, but I enjoyed the multiple talks that taught about humility, and especially about being both a perfect leader AND a perfect follower, just like Jesus Christ. This weekend, I was just especially grateful that this church is led by a living prophet today just as in times of old, and the fact that he will never lead us astray from the will of God.
As far as the work goes, all is well here in Incheon! We weren't able to meet a lot of people this week, but everyone in our area is doing well and we're teaching lots of great people. Unfortunately, this week in Incheon will be my last...
We got transfer calls this weekend, and I will be moving on Wednesday to 곡반정(gok-ban-jeong). It is in the city of 수원(Su-won) which is the southernmost part of our mission. I can't seem to stay in one city for very long, but I get to see lots of different parts of Korea which is cool. THe area I'll be in has a lot more countryside, as opposed to Incheon or Seoul which are all city.
I'll be serving with Elder Karlson, who only has six weeks left on his mission. I was also assigned to serve as Zone Leader while I'm there. The 115 or so missionaries in our mission are divided into 6 different "Zones," which helps with organization and distribution of missionaries. So for each zone, there is two Zone Leaders who help train, serve, evaluate, and watch over the missionaries. Usually it is a more experienced missionary called to do so, but I'm going as still a pretty new missionary. I've been a little apprehensive about my ability to help these missionaries that have been doing this for 3x as long as me, but I have faith that the Lord wants me to serve there for some reason that I don't quite know yet, so there I will go. I'll let you all know how it goes next week, wish me luck!
Have a great week!
-Elder Bigelow
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