Today is the last full week with my companion Elder Karlson, next week I'll know who I will be serving next. So I'm trying to soak in as much information as I can before he leaves, I have a feeling that no amount of preparation is going to be enough..
Some news for this week:
We had about 4 or 5 people that we were teaching up to this week, but now we currently have zero. We aren't able to teach these people for various reasons, but now we are going to focus on finding a lot more people that we can teach.
I did get to help lots of other missionaries teach this week though. Whether for sickness of other reasons, we exchanged with several other missionaries and I got to meet lots of great people.
Probably the highlight of the week was being able to go to the temple in Seoul. In our church, we build sacred buildings called temples where we perform ordinances, both for those that are living and for those that passed away before they were able to hear the gospel. And this time, I was able to perform those ordinances for some of my distant ancestors, it was truly an amazing experience. Following that, I performed a baptism for the first time in my life. My companion from the missionary training center, Elder Young, and I were able to baptize each other for Koreans that had passed away, also a really special experience.There was actually a mixup so other missionaries actually got baptized for my ancestors, but I got to do the confirmations and I didn't have to change twice so as long as it gets done that's all good. But since I didn't get to do my own, Elder Young and I baptized each other in the font for Korean people, and we even did it in Korean. It was super cool, and even my first time performing the ordinance of baptism. Then we still had time to go to a temple session, it was in Korean and I decided to do it without headphones this time. The movie part of it was actually really easy to understand because I've seen it a bunch but the non movie part was pretty hard. They still have us do the veil part in English, thank goodness.. It was all a really great experience, the veil was thin in the temple last week. Now I just need to find a living Korean to baptize. But now we have 0 investigators, I think the Lord is emptying the bucket before he fills it up..
Following that, all of the missionaries in our area went to a giant park by the Han river where we rode bikes and played sports for a little while, which was a blast-
I don't have a ton of time today, but I hope you all have a great week and that you can notice the blessings from Heavenly Father in your life!
-Elder Bigelow
P.S. Does this building ring a bell? #Avengers2
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