15 Jan 2009
Another fast week--that's the best kind! It started out a little hard--in a combined district meeting with a bunch of other missionaries, we talked about setting goals. So Sister Romney and I, during our weekly planning meeting, set goals, by gum. It took us an hour. I maybe cried. We got frustrated with each other. We now, though, have a very lovely paper posted on our wall with some goals for this transfer (6-week period).
Church was good again this week. I really enjoy church. I enjoy talking to the members, and I enjoy recognizing faces. And we had an investigator come to sacrament meeting! We met Sae Woan on the subway--I gave her a flyer about the Book of Mormon. She's "gospel interest only" (the only one right now), so we don't do English practice with her, just teach the gospel lessons.
We met her after church with a member from the ward--Son Ja. Son Ja is one of the first people I met here--Sister Romney visited her apartment maybe my first week. She wears black-rimmed glasses and has a huge smile. The first time I saw her at church, she was wearing a han bok--a traditional Korean dress--and when Sister Romney asked her why, she said there was no reason, just for fun.
When we visited them, her and her husband weren't feeling well, but she sat down at her kitchen table with us and scraped the last of some 유자차--syrupy, lemon herbal tea--out of a jar to give to us. We (mostly her and Sister Romney) talked and I shared a scripture that I love--2 Nephi 2:25 that says, "men are that they might have joy."
I've shared this same scripture with that investigator who came on Sunday, Sae Woan. We did the second lesson with her this week--talking about the Plan of Salvation. She isn't so sure about things like resurrection and judgement--she says she likes life the way it is here, now. She doesn't want it to change. I believe, though, that through the gospel, things just get better and better. "Happy" can become "happier."
We've been doing the second lesson with a lot of people this week. We also try to include the commandments as we go along. Teaching the commandments is scary to me. This week I taught the Word of Wisdom to the women we met on the street and her daughters--the Lee sisters. When we asked them to live it, she just said that well, her daughters already kept it because they were young, but as for her, she liked her coffee. I haven't yet had an experience like the sisters we share an appartment with: an investigator's husband just gave her a brand new expensive cappicino (sp?) maker. She was so excited to show it to the missionaries. They were planning to teach the Word of Wisdom the next day.
The next lesson with her and the Lee sisters, though, went really well. They had all prayed on their own, and they had all read the passage of scripture we asked them to read.
We had other good lessons this week--there isn't time or space to write about them all (which is probably good). We met with a woman who has been meeting with the missionaries for months--Gyoo Ewl. She wants to be baptized, but her husband isn't okay with her attending church. So we meet with her weekly, and she continues to study and pray on her own. Sister Romney and I prepared alot, thinking and praying about things we could do to help her. We ended up encouraging her to keep the commandments she can keep, and continue with the things she can do. There was such a peaceful feeling during the lesson.
We are also meeting with a new family. There are two families (sisters with their husbands and children) living in the same giant apartment. It is fun to see how they live together--they take care of each other's children, they talk and laugh together. We're doing English practice with the two older children, and the daughter told me about how she's dating a boy living in Incheon--they chat online, and he plays games on the computer with her little brother. He's coming to Seoul today. During our gospel lessons, her brother always laughs when we pray. And they give us oranges.
Time to go. I love you all so much!!
--Carrie
Another fast week--that's the best kind! It started out a little hard--in a combined district meeting with a bunch of other missionaries, we talked about setting goals. So Sister Romney and I, during our weekly planning meeting, set goals, by gum. It took us an hour. I maybe cried. We got frustrated with each other. We now, though, have a very lovely paper posted on our wall with some goals for this transfer (6-week period).
Church was good again this week. I really enjoy church. I enjoy talking to the members, and I enjoy recognizing faces. And we had an investigator come to sacrament meeting! We met Sae Woan on the subway--I gave her a flyer about the Book of Mormon. She's "gospel interest only" (the only one right now), so we don't do English practice with her, just teach the gospel lessons.
We met her after church with a member from the ward--Son Ja. Son Ja is one of the first people I met here--Sister Romney visited her apartment maybe my first week. She wears black-rimmed glasses and has a huge smile. The first time I saw her at church, she was wearing a han bok--a traditional Korean dress--and when Sister Romney asked her why, she said there was no reason, just for fun.
When we visited them, her and her husband weren't feeling well, but she sat down at her kitchen table with us and scraped the last of some 유자차--syrupy, lemon herbal tea--out of a jar to give to us. We (mostly her and Sister Romney) talked and I shared a scripture that I love--2 Nephi 2:25 that says, "men are that they might have joy."
I've shared this same scripture with that investigator who came on Sunday, Sae Woan. We did the second lesson with her this week--talking about the Plan of Salvation. She isn't so sure about things like resurrection and judgement--she says she likes life the way it is here, now. She doesn't want it to change. I believe, though, that through the gospel, things just get better and better. "Happy" can become "happier."
We've been doing the second lesson with a lot of people this week. We also try to include the commandments as we go along. Teaching the commandments is scary to me. This week I taught the Word of Wisdom to the women we met on the street and her daughters--the Lee sisters. When we asked them to live it, she just said that well, her daughters already kept it because they were young, but as for her, she liked her coffee. I haven't yet had an experience like the sisters we share an appartment with: an investigator's husband just gave her a brand new expensive cappicino (sp?) maker. She was so excited to show it to the missionaries. They were planning to teach the Word of Wisdom the next day.
The next lesson with her and the Lee sisters, though, went really well. They had all prayed on their own, and they had all read the passage of scripture we asked them to read.
We had other good lessons this week--there isn't time or space to write about them all (which is probably good). We met with a woman who has been meeting with the missionaries for months--Gyoo Ewl. She wants to be baptized, but her husband isn't okay with her attending church. So we meet with her weekly, and she continues to study and pray on her own. Sister Romney and I prepared alot, thinking and praying about things we could do to help her. We ended up encouraging her to keep the commandments she can keep, and continue with the things she can do. There was such a peaceful feeling during the lesson.
We are also meeting with a new family. There are two families (sisters with their husbands and children) living in the same giant apartment. It is fun to see how they live together--they take care of each other's children, they talk and laugh together. We're doing English practice with the two older children, and the daughter told me about how she's dating a boy living in Incheon--they chat online, and he plays games on the computer with her little brother. He's coming to Seoul today. During our gospel lessons, her brother always laughs when we pray. And they give us oranges.
Time to go. I love you all so much!!
--Carrie
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