Hello!
I think we've gotten through monsoon season. I was asking around--people said it lasts 2-3 weeks. It hasn't rained since a huge storm that hit right as we were walking home last week. We got off the subway--though in this area it's above ground. We were at the station and had a few minutes before we needed to head back to our apartment, so wanted to talk to people there--but hardly could, it was so loud! There was lighting and thunder clapping, but mostly just the sound of rain pounding on the roof made it so we couldn't hear people we were trying to talk to, and they couldn't hear us. We left the station--kind of took a deep breath before going out in the rain. The umbrella hardly did any good--there was standing water on the sidewalks that we had to slosh through, my dress got wet at the bottom and wicked water until it was mostly all wet; as we were walking somehow even my hair got wet.
But it hasn't rained since then.
The woman we met in the elevator two weeks called us up suddenly last Friday. We had asked her to read the Book of Mormon. She was reading it Friday afternoon, and thought it was strange, and couldn't understand it, so she called us and told us she didn't want to meet us anymore. We went up to the 19th floor one more time and said goodbye. It was kind of like a breakup.
We've had a few other parting-of-ways lately.
But we're finding people, too. The whole process just keeps going. We met a grandmother, Lee Hyun Sook, her daughter, and granddaughter for the first time this week. The grandmother has some friends who are members of the Church, and wanted to do the English program with her granddaughter. We met on Sunday and introduced ourselves, talked some about the program and introduced our gospel message. We met again on Tuesday--with the grandmother, her granddaughter, Ji min, and grandson, Bom (they're cousins). Bom is staying with them for the six-week school vacation. His mother recently died of cancer. He and Ji min are the same age (9 American age), have the same glasses. We practiced English together, and they--and their grandmother--all know a lot.
At one point, Bom asked his grandmother in Korean: "How do you say 'past' in English?" She told him, and then he said, "I am happy past." "Because of his mother," Lee Hyun Sook said. It broke my heart! The whole family attends church and knows a lot about spiritual, church things. We were telling about how Joseph Smith was confused about how there were so many churches and religions, so he prayed to know which one to join, and Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him to answer his prayer. When Ji min heard that, she said wait, God is a spirit, not a body. I showed her Genesis 1:25-26, talking about how we were created in God's image...and was amazed about how I was showing that, explaining that to a 9-year-old. At the beginning of the lesson, when I asked who God was, Bom (also 9) said "Jesus is his only begotten son." Ji min said the closing prayer for the lesson, and did so beautifully. They are truely part of a wonderful family and are being raised so well. I was grateful for that example.
I love you all, I hope you have a wonderful week.
--Carrie
I think we've gotten through monsoon season. I was asking around--people said it lasts 2-3 weeks. It hasn't rained since a huge storm that hit right as we were walking home last week. We got off the subway--though in this area it's above ground. We were at the station and had a few minutes before we needed to head back to our apartment, so wanted to talk to people there--but hardly could, it was so loud! There was lighting and thunder clapping, but mostly just the sound of rain pounding on the roof made it so we couldn't hear people we were trying to talk to, and they couldn't hear us. We left the station--kind of took a deep breath before going out in the rain. The umbrella hardly did any good--there was standing water on the sidewalks that we had to slosh through, my dress got wet at the bottom and wicked water until it was mostly all wet; as we were walking somehow even my hair got wet.
But it hasn't rained since then.
The woman we met in the elevator two weeks called us up suddenly last Friday. We had asked her to read the Book of Mormon. She was reading it Friday afternoon, and thought it was strange, and couldn't understand it, so she called us and told us she didn't want to meet us anymore. We went up to the 19th floor one more time and said goodbye. It was kind of like a breakup.
We've had a few other parting-of-ways lately.
But we're finding people, too. The whole process just keeps going. We met a grandmother, Lee Hyun Sook, her daughter, and granddaughter for the first time this week. The grandmother has some friends who are members of the Church, and wanted to do the English program with her granddaughter. We met on Sunday and introduced ourselves, talked some about the program and introduced our gospel message. We met again on Tuesday--with the grandmother, her granddaughter, Ji min, and grandson, Bom (they're cousins). Bom is staying with them for the six-week school vacation. His mother recently died of cancer. He and Ji min are the same age (9 American age), have the same glasses. We practiced English together, and they--and their grandmother--all know a lot.
At one point, Bom asked his grandmother in Korean: "How do you say 'past' in English?" She told him, and then he said, "I am happy past." "Because of his mother," Lee Hyun Sook said. It broke my heart! The whole family attends church and knows a lot about spiritual, church things. We were telling about how Joseph Smith was confused about how there were so many churches and religions, so he prayed to know which one to join, and Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him to answer his prayer. When Ji min heard that, she said wait, God is a spirit, not a body. I showed her Genesis 1:25-26, talking about how we were created in God's image...and was amazed about how I was showing that, explaining that to a 9-year-old. At the beginning of the lesson, when I asked who God was, Bom (also 9) said "Jesus is his only begotten son." Ji min said the closing prayer for the lesson, and did so beautifully. They are truely part of a wonderful family and are being raised so well. I was grateful for that example.
I love you all, I hope you have a wonderful week.
--Carrie
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