I don't know about the weather over in America, but this week was pretty moderate here. It's still a little chilly, but no snow this week.
This week was really great, I've been really excited to tell everyone about it.
First, Wednesday was transfers. I'm staying in MokDong for the next 6 weeks at least with Elder Johnson, but we did get a new sister in our district. Her name is Sister Robinson, and she started her mission 6 weeks before I did so she's also pretty new. Both of the sisters are awesome, and we're looking forward to some normality in the missionaries serving in MokDong. I think I mentioned this before, but our bishop speaks extremely fast. So seeing a new missionary come to the ward and not understand anything he says was somewhat comforting, because it means I'm not the only one..
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| New Mokdong district (Thanks for the turkey glasses mom) |
We met lots of interesting people this week, starting with Brother Hong, the 90 year old man that I think I mentioned before. He's running for President soon, and he promised me any political position I want once he's elected (besides chief of police, because another missionary already called that one). So I might just become the next Secretary of the Treasury of Korea, I'll keep you posted though.
We also met a semi-professional rapper here who met with the missionaries a really long time ago. He has music available to buy and sings at clubs and everything, so he is the real deal. We met him in his studio, it was really cool and he is a great guy. So we're going to try to keep meeting with him.
We had an amazing experience yesterday that I wanted to share as well:
One of the families in MokDong ward has three kids, and one of the daughters doesn't get along well with her parents. So we found out that on Thursday, she never came home, and by Sunday afternoon they still had not seen her. So the family was very worried, and so were we. So after church, we were doing our studies, and planned to visit people later that night. My companion and I talked, and we decided that we should visit the family with the missing daughter and give them the card that someone wrote for them, instead of doing our studies then. And I was thinking about their missing daughter, and how devastating that would be to the parents, especially in a city of more than 10 million people. But some part of me, I don't know if it was a feeling or a prayer in my heart, but some part of me knew we were going to find her. So my companion and I waited to get on the bus that would take us to the family's house, and sure enough, in a city of 10 million people, the family's missing daughter walked right up to the same bus stop. So we talked to her, gave her the cards, and helped convince her to go home to her family. And she did, she got on the bus bound for her home. It was such an amazing experience, and it taught an amazing lesson about following feelings that we have, even if we do not immediately recognize them as a prompting from the Holy Ghost.
I also wanted to share a scripture this week, because it is one I have truly come to understand as a missionary.
Matthew 6: 25-34
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life,what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat,and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field,which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
This scripture talks about how we shouldn't worry too much about the mundane things of life, because God will take care of those. And serving as a missionary this week, I truly understood what it meant. We worked hard this week, and never worried about what we would eat or how we would be clothed. But those things still came. We haven't bought anything at the grocery store in at least 2 weeks. Both members and nonmembers alike gave us fruit, meat, and tons of full meals. And someone that we used to teach even gave us socks as a Christmas present. This week, this passage of scripture was fulfilled exactly as we did the Lord's work.
Being a missionary is the greatest, and I get to be a missionary!
Have a great week!
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