Just because we're bad at Korean, we're not bad at everything

Hello everyone!

Like I said last week, I switched companions and I will be with Elder Fehoko for the next week or so.

He's really cool, he's from Sandy, Utah and has a full ride scholarship to play football at Stanford when he gets back. He's also really good at basketball and Korean~ We went to volunteer at the school for North Korean and Chinese refugees this week, and North Koreans tend to be pretty short, an average of about 2 inches shorter than South Koreans. So there was a group of middle school students that surrounded him and asked his height, if he could dunk(which he can), and then asked him to try to reach up and touch the ceiling. He did so with ease, and their was an audible gasp followed by a round of applause~

Other things this week:

-We had a special "Night of Music" in our stake, it was put on for people who were baptized recently or who are currently learning about the church, it was to showcase the talents of the missionaries, and I think to show everyone that just because we're bad at Korean, we're not bad at everything :)  I don't have any musical talent but the other people in my house do, so we got together a group and performed a song, you can look at in on my Dropbox~

-A couple weeks ago I talked to a guy at a college in our area, he turned out to be Chinese but spoke English very well and is currently learning Korean. We met up this week again and talked over some delicious Oreo Milkshakes, he brought his friend that was also Chinese, but didn't really speak any English or Korean, so his friend translated for him most of the time, then at the end he said something in Chinese. His friend turned to us and said "he says you guys are awesome"~ I think we will keep meeting them after their trip to China this week, and they said they wanted to come to church!

-Before I joined this team, they were teaching a 16 year old kid, who had decided that he wanted to be baptized, so they had been helping him prepare and I joined in last Monday once I joined this team. He was scheduled to be baptized yesterday, and we even helped him get some baptismal clothes ready, but at the last minute he wasn't able to get permission from his guardian and we had to postpone it. It was sad, but we will do everything we can to help him get baptized this week

-Picture from the Korean activity I mentioned last week

Have a great week everyone! I'll know next week if I'm leaving the area or not~

Love,

Elder Bigelow