Hello Everyone! This week was great! The work is really moving forward in Coomi! We also had some really silly little adventures this week. I'll tell y'all about that, but first I'll update you on our people!
Jung Borahm is doing great! We prayed so hard for her this week and we found out that the reason why she wants to get baptized later is because her teacher will be coming back to Korea in September or October and she wants her teacher to be able to come to her baptism. But she is totally cool with meeting with us still to prepare. We taught the Plan of Salvation and she loved it. She pointed to the 해의왕국 (Celestial Kingdom) on my Plan Of Salvation puzzle and said "I want to go there. Let's go together!" It was so cute! I told her that we would do all we could to help us all get there together. She is so cute. She was also so excited to read the story of Nephi this week. She said that she's read every night. She also finally prayed at the end of the lesson. She is so great! She has also been coming to church every single week for about 2 months now. I just love her! I hope that no matter where I transfer next, I will be able to go to her baptism!
We taught Nam Gyunghoei this week and it didn't go as well as we thought, We testified very boldly to her of the Book of Mormon, it's truthfulness, and how we can learn about what the purpose of life from it and then invited her to read Moroni's promise and pray about it's truth. We boldly testified that if she read and prayed she would undeniably get an answer. She was so excited when we told her that we have the key to life's purpose and it's the Book of Mormon. Her eyes just lit up when she got the book, but then she opened it and read Moroni's promise and the spirit just left because she had the hardest time understanding the language (I'm not the biggest fan of the current translation of the BOM in Korean. It is SOOO hard for Koreans to understand...like harder than the BOM is for Americans...and they all just give up the second they open it). She just seemed so disconcerted and I think she felt that we were like "Hey! Here's the answer to the questions of your soul. Oops, what? You can't understand it? That's too bad. Looks like you'll never know!" But she still wants to keep meeting. I think the testimonies we wrote in the front of the Book of Mormon really softened her heart a lot. I think she has a lot of questions deep down and I'm not going to lie, I was pretty dang bold in telling her that she would find happiness through this gospel in that testimony I wrote! Please pray for her! I don't want her to close off to the message!
We also got to go out to dinner with the wife of a less active member and her darling 12 year old less-active daughter who we meet with after school every Tuesday. We talked and shared "For the Strength of Youth" because she is so worried about her daughter. We also testified to her about the Word of Wisdom. She really loved the message and I think her heart is beginning to soften slowly but surely. Pray for her that her heart will be softened to the idea of believing in God and making time to attend church.
We also were able to meet with Shim Sungjin (the recent convert we are teaching) with a sister in our ward who just got home from the Seoul Mission on Monday. We were able to help her so much and the spirit was so strong! Member present lessons are the best! Volunteer yourselves to teach with the missionaries! They will love you forever!
Okay, now to all of the fun shenanigans!
This week we worked really, really hard to stay outside jundoing at every opportunity even though it is getting SO hot outside. The other day we were jundoing and it was so hard. Nobody was listening and it was impossible to get contacts. I think God knew we needed a pick-me-up because as we were walking down the street we saw this old guy (maybe in his 60s, so not senile yet) walk straight into a 5ft tall, unmistakable pile of dirt in the middle of the sidewalk near a construction site as if the dirt pile wasn't even there. I have know idea how he didn't see it, but it was sooo funny. He just stiffly walked straight into it, sat there for a second then started to get up and shake the dirt out of his shoes when the construction workers all ran over to see if he was okay. Hahaha. I really think you probably had to be there to understand how funny it was. But Sister Workman and I have been laughing about it for days.
We also decided to make cookies on P-day and then deliver them to all of the people in our villa, but this is Korea and nobody gets off of work/to their house until late at night, so we knocked on all of the doors and ended up just taping the cookies to the door with a pass along card and a little note. The neighbors loved it! We heard one girl come in the other night when we were in bed and she and her friends were freaking out and taking pictures! ㅎㅎ I love little acts of kindness. BUT there was one guy who WAS home and we knocked on the door and he answered the door wearing nothing but his Hawaiian print tighty-whiteys and a matching wife-beater (#only in Korea)...ahahahah. I just turned bright red, handed him the cookies and the pass-along card and ran away without saying anything! AHaha. Definitely one of the more awkward moments of my mission.
Oh, you've gotta love missionary work.
Anyway, this week was really great and I really learned a lesson about God answering prayers. I really tried to humble myself and ask God for help, especially with my self-consciousness about the language and he really blessed me with the gift of tongues a little extra this week. I was able to feel that as we taught lessons and suddenly things I didn't know how to say before were so easy to say and teaching the gospel by the spirit wasn't so hard even though it's not in my native language. I think that God is seeing that my desire to learn the language so I can share the gospel is pure and He's helping me make up the difference. I am so thankful for all of the blessings I'm seeing!
사랑해요!!
"I you love"
Sister Johns
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