As of August 26th, I started my mission 2 years ago, and I am happy to announce that I will spend my last 6 weeks in Gimpo. We received transfer calls, I will continue to serve with Elder Barnes, and only one missionary will be leaving Gimpo ward, Sister Woo
She is the first Sister missionary from Hong Kong to serve in Korea (99% of people think she is Korean when they first see her), and we took a final picture with our most diligent intermediate English class students, both of whom we are also learning a little bit about our church.
Other things this week:
-Double baptism!: The other Elders in our ward have been teaching two boys and this week they were both baptized! It has been almost a year since the last baptism in the ward, so having 3 this month was really great.
-Zone 전도: We had a zone proselyting activity in our area this week, so around 20 missionaries all came to Gimpo, switched companions, then split up and shared the joy of the gospel! And of course, we ended with a zone dinner at my favorite restaurant~
-Drills: Some of you may have heard about increased caution with regards to the activity of North Korea. Nothing is going on, but our church makes the safety of its missionaries a high priority, so our mission president got special permission to do a "drill" of sorts. If things do seem to escalate, the missionaries will meet at our headquarters in Seoul, so we woke up to a text on Friday morning that said "This is a drill, grab your 72-hour kits and be at the mission headquarters by 10 am" Since we are one of the farthest away from the headquarters, we had to leave as fast as we could, but we made it~ There we just got more training on what the actions we are to take in different situations are, then we finished by watching a slideshow... It turned out to be pretty fun!
That's it for me this week, we are getting lots of rain here but I know there is some bad flooding in parts of the US, stay safe everyone!
Love,
Elder Bigelow
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