This week has been very good, and yesterday (Sunday) was one of my favorite Sundays of my mission.
We started of by giving a priesthood blessing of comfort and counsel to one of the sisters in our ward. She is American and wanted a blessing in English, so my companion Elder Curtis did it and did a wonderful job.
After that, we had Fast and Testimony meeting, which is the church meeting we have once a month where members of the congregation can come up and share their testimony, or what they know to be true.
(Side story: We did a play about finding Jesus for our ward Christmas party and for the New Friends Party the next week, the people who saw it all liked it and we have continued to see the effects of it recently. The day after we did the play the second time, one of the members of our ward invited us over for dinner. When we got there, she said "I've been meaning to invite you missionaries over for a long time, but I've been so busy with the move. But I saw your play last night and thought "Wow, those missionaries worked so hard and did a good job on that play, I better feed them some dinner" Pretty cool huh?)
Anyways, the stake president is a member of our ward and he happened to be there today, so he got up and bore his testimony, and he talked about our play in his testimony! There is a part in the play where the mission president calls and tells the missionary that he will be transferred (assigned to serve in a different area), and the missionary asks, "okay, when are transfers?" to which the Mission president responds "now", and the new missionary is thrust on to the stage. So as the stake president spoke, he said that when he saw that part of the play, it really made him think- He thought "if the Lord calls me to move or act now, will I be ready to heed his call?" and proceeded to share a great testimony about that subject. And all of the missionaries were beaming because our play even made it into testimony meeting :)
After church ended, we met with 임정희 (Im Jeong Hee), a woman who was baptized right before I moved to Suji. So we have been teaching her the recent convert lessons since then, (she got a pretty bad burn on her leg so hasn't been able to come to church for the past few weeks, but ) we taught the last of the lessons yesterday. She really has a powerful testimony of the truth of this church and has been able to see a lot of blessings that have come from being a member of this church. Towards the end of the lesson, one member of the stake presidency came in and helped teach the remainder of the lesson, and I asked him at the end if he would pray to end the lesson. He asked 임정희s if there was anything specific that she wanted him to pray for. She began to cry and asked if he would pray that she would be able to go through this difficult world together instead of alone. Her husband still has not decided to join the church, and although she has found lots of joy through the gospel, it is still hard when a family member or spouse does not choose to join. There are lots of situations like this in Korea especially, so I really want to be able to help the best I can.
After that we met 이정수 (Lee Jeong Su), we haven't been able to meet him in a month or so because he has been on a trip, but we met him yesterday with another one of the Young Men in the ward(who is waiting for a mission call). 이정수b shared with us that he had come to know in the past month that God existed. He was trying to get into a very prestigious high school, and he passed the written test but then had to do an interview. They called his name and he walked up to the door of the interview room. He took a deep breath, and then hesitated for a second. At that moment, the first snow of the year began to fall outside of the window. And at that moment, he said he could feel that God was watching over him and helping him through it all. So we were able to have a good discussion about the role and the promptings of the Holy Ghost.
Anyways, missionary work is the best and I hope you all have a great week!
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