The first person I have baptized

I Hello everyone! 

The weather has started to cool off slowly here, good news for the missionaries!

This week, against all odds, our ward had a baptism! The sisters have been meeting her for several months, she has a mental handicap and has wanted to get baptized for a while, and she showed that she understood the importance of baptism and so she was able to get baptized! I had the privilege I of baptizing her. She was the first person I have baptized, and interestingly enough, it happened exactly 12 years from the day I was baptized at 8 years old~

We are looking forward to several more baptisms in our ward soon, some may have to be postponed, but we will keep praying that they happen!

Other things for this week:

-SYL: This week I challenged the 10 missionaries in our district to SYL (speak your (mission) language) as much as possible for the entire 7 days. Some of them may or may not have hated me by the end, but regardless we witnessed a lot of growth that came from it~

-Missionary Disease: This week as I was studying my Korean grammar book, it gave an example sentence that was something along the line of, "she is so meticulous that she plans every single day in intervals of 30 minutes, is that not considered a disease?" I read it and thought "wait that's what I and all other missionaries do..." I guess if it's a disease, it's a pretty good one.

-Korean mistake of the week: This one makes it pretty high on the charts I think. We were meeting with someone and talking about the 10 commandments, because we believe that the 10 commandments still apply to us today. We took turns reading the commandments, and when it came to "Obey thy father and mother", it was my companion's turn. As he read, he made a very minor mistake in pronunciation. Instead of saying the word "gong gyeong", which means "to honor", he accidentally said "gong gyeok". Normally small mistakes like this wouldn't make too much of a difference, but the word that he did say means "to attack or assault", so he told the person we were teaching that we are supposed to attack our parents... We fixed the mistake, but made sure to laugh a lot first~

I think that is it for this week, have a good one everyone! I'll try to put some pictures at the bottom..

-Elder Bigelow

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