Week 100

Hello Everyone!  I think this is week 100, I may have gotten off somewhere along the way but still a big milestone nonetheless~

This week was highlighted by transfers, Elder Luce said his goodbyes to Gimpo, including the members of our children's English class:

Then on Wednesday, I met my new companion Elder Barnes! He is from Boise Idaho and went to college for a couple years before coming on his mission a few months ago, so we are the same age. He's really cool, he likes learning Korean and also knows some Japanese and Finnish, and is also really good at the Rubik's cube. I think it'll be a fun transfer! This is a picture of us eating at Korea's "in-n-out" imitation (Elder Barnes is the blonde one) (fun fact: there has been a blonde missionary serving in this area for 2 years consecutively)

Other things for this week:

-귀환: The Elders that were in the MTC above me are now back at home, including my MTC companion Elder Young and my mission 형brother (because we had the same trainer) Elder 이종혁 

-TY: Fruit flies are everywhere in Korea during the summer, and we had a fair number in our house, we woke up one morning to find that a spider had set up a web in a corner of our house and began to catch fruit flies. So naturally, we named him Ty and allowed him to stay because he is helping quite a bit

-We have been very busy this week teaching, many of the people we are meeting are beginning to show a lot of progress! One person even read the entirety of 1st Nephi in a week~ WE met with 조진용(Jo JinYong), and invited him to be baptized when he felt like the message we are sharing is true. He said "Yeah, I think that would be good. I am already starting to see that there is something different and special about this church". We are working towards having a combined baptismal service towards the end of August with 3 or four people in our ward, I'll keep you updated!

I think that's all for this week, we are having a great time here in the heat, the only respite from the heat is the occasional localized downpour(which is perfectly timed so that we get soaked on our way to church and have to ask the other missionaries to bring an extra pair of socks..), but I couldn't be happier here.

Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Bigelow

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