Well this week was full of adventures! The work is really moving forward in Coomi. I've never had so many investigators in my entire mission!! We are currently meeting with three people and two families! The only problem is that every single one of them except for Jung Borahm is an English interest investigator. All of you people serving in areas of the world where you don't teach English, just count your blessings!
Anyway...
We'll start with the big miracle. This transfer we were setting district goals and I said that I think every team in our district can baptize one person this transfer. We all decided to make that a goal and as the weeks have gone on I have felt really discouraged and a little stupid for encouraging everyone to set that goal and then not even be close to keeping it myself. So this fast Sunday I just fasted for the wellbeing of our investigator and that we could see a baptism before the end of the transfer. We visited some really awesome members last night and we talked about how we can get Jung Borahm to get baptized a little quicker and we made a plan for her teacher to skype in and watch the baptism that way. We were going to also see if our bishop could help get the teacher's contact information. But then this morning I was on my hand and knees scrubbing our floor (because mops aren't a big thing here) when we got a call from a random number. It was the teacher in America!! She told us that Borahm's little brother and sister are getting baptized in America on July 23rd (the day before transfers!!) and she wants to skype Borahm and the parents in to watch the baptism. We decided that it would be a great idea for Borahm to get baptized in Korea at the same time that her siblings are getting baptized in America and we can all be part of it together over Skype. Please pray that everything works out! I would love to be able to see Borahm get baptized!! I have been praying for that every morning and night for two transfers now!
Other than that, we just started meeting with people out the wazoo this week! All of them are just interested in english and it is really frustrating because they are just using us and it is so annoying to be manipulated!! But we started meeting with a new family and for the first time in my mission we are able to meet with a mom, dad, and their two kids all together. Their interest is in English, but they are very humble and you can tell that they love each other. Sister Workman and I had a really good feeling about them after meeting with them the first time, Please pray that they will be prepared to accept the gospel and be baptized!
Nam Gyung Hoei is going really good. We shared a message with her on faith and we put a cute little succulent in a mug and covered it in "dirt" made of crushed up Oreo. We asked her to eat it and she got all freaked out when Sister Workman shoved a big handful of "dirt" into her mouth. Then Gung Hoei tried some and she realized that it was just cookie and really loved the analogy. Especially because she is teaching her students at school about plants during science time. We talked about growing faith and we said that actions like faith and scripture study made it grow. She loved that so much. She said that she had a warm feeling in her heart. We asked if she had ever had a feeling like that before and she said "not in a long time because I am not happy." We told her that when she prays and grows her faith she can feel that warm, happy feeling any time and she said that it was because it is the spirit and the spirit comes when we make good decisions like keeping the commandments, praying, etc. We told her that the plant can be her "faith plant" and every time she waters it, it will remind her to water her faith as well. She said that she would pray. We promised that if she prayed the spirit would be with her and she would be happy. I'm pretty sure she was crying a little during the lesson and the spirit was just so strong. Please pray for her and pray that she will pray and progress toward baptism! She's got a long way to go, but I think we are finally seeing some progression.
Okay, now the boiled stomach story!
After Pday on Monday, we went on exchanges and I went to Gyungsan with Sister Amende. We were out jundoing and there were all of these grandmas sitting out on this stoop eating and we said hi. Sister Amende asked what they were eating which is basically code for "can I try some?" in Korean culture. Well, I knew exactly what they were eating and I did NOT want to eat it. But of course, in their cute Korean grandmaness they wanted to share and they fed it to us strait off of their chopstick. And this is no intestine sausage that is kind of tasty. This is literally a straight up stomach boiled, cut up and dipped in salt. I have eaten a whole heck of a lot of weird things in my life and especially on my mission, but I have never had anything more disgusting in my mouth in all of my life!!! I had to spit it out into my hand while they weren't looking. Sister Amende and I ran off laughing and spitting as we went! Sister Amende is from New Zealand and words that are swears in America are just words with no bad meaning in New Zealand so Sister Amende just yells "Oh my Gosh!!! This tastes and smells like @ss!!" I laughed soo hard! She is so funny!!! We ran to the nearest convenience store, washed out our mouths with like 6 bottles of water and then ate 2 ice cream sandwiches each because it was the most gosh-awful taste that has ever been in my mouth. Sister Amende could not have been more right. It really did taste like bum!!! HAhahahaa!!
Well, that's all I've got for you now kids! Have a great week!
사랑해요!!
"I you love"
여한들 자매
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