Hello everyone! This is week 104, which would be the last week of my mission had I not gone home for surgery last year, But I can say that I am truly grateful for my "bonus round" extra 6 weeks.
Yesterday I said goodbye to my companion from the MTC, Elder Santana. He will leave next week, leaving me as the oldest (in time since starting the mission) missionary in our mission.
Other things for this week:
-Thumbs: If you look at my right thumb in the picture, you can see the sad little thumb brace I am wearing. I hurt my thumb a month or so ago but it couldn't seem to heal enough before getting hurt again, so I'm trying to protect it for a little bit~
-Broadcast: We had the special opportunity in all of Korea to watch a broadcast just for Korea. Several General Authorities, including the General Primary President and Elder David A. Bednar did a broadcast from Salt Lake for all the members in Korea, it made us all feel special~ They taught us about the importance of putting God first in our lives, and also principles that can help us raise families in righteousness, super good!
-Bucheon: For that broadcast, we had to go to a church building about an hour away from our home. The broadcast ended at 12, but we had to attend another meeting there at 5 pm and we figured that it wouldn't be worth going home at all, so we spent the whole day there, and did a big stickerboarding activity with several other missionaries. The meeting we went to at 5 was a training meeting for teaching children's English classes. We teach for free as a service, but we want to make sure that the people we teach are actually benefited from our service and that they can maintain a positive view of our church as well, so we learned ways to be better teachers.
-Interviews: Usually when we have our interviews with our mission President, we just do it and leave, but this time we met as a district (10 missionaries) for a few hours, and those who were not being interviewed talked with Sister Turner. We did some fun group activities, and she taught us about how we can become one with our companion. We are focusing on becoming one as a mission and being able to follow the Lord's will, but it is something that has to start in the companionship before it can spread to the mission. Loving others is good~
-Sandwiches: The person that was planning to get baptized this week did not end up doing so, but we are still teaching a lot and having great experiences. One happened several days ago as we met with Brother Yoo. He has been meeting with us for a while, and loves the Book of Mormon. He said "If everyone just lived according to the words of the scriptures, tis world would have no problems!". On the other hand though, he struggles a little bit with prayer. We asked him if we had been praying, he told us no, and I was a little disheartened at first. But then he said "can we talk about prayer today? I want to be able to pray well, but I just never really know what to say. Can you give me some advice about prayer?" So, we taught him about the principle of the "prayer sandwich", because it does not matter what goes on the inside of a sandwich as long as there is a piece of bread on each end. In a similar manner, as long as we address God to begin and end in the name of Jesus Christ, what goes in between is up to the individual. He loved the metaphor and left determined to make his own prayer sandwich~
That is it for this week, have a good one!
Love,
Elder Bigelow
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