 |
| Converting Korea, one puppy at a time |
mes rainy, but mostly perfect weather for riding BIKES!!!! That's right. We're one of the only areas that have bikes. It's perfect. Just warm enough to be happy, but when you ride, the breeze feels incredible. Yay for Sokcho! : )
This week has been a week of miracles.
So
first, on Monday after emails, we climbed Soraksan, one of the largest
mountains in Korea. It was fantastic.
 |
| Our hiking group |
On Wednesday, we met with the Cookie Guy, and he introduced us to three
ladies in his English class. They were all so nice, and want to take us
out for 삼겹살 later, a three layered meat buffet where you cook the meat
on your table and put it with condiments in a leaf of lettuce. Needless
to say, delish. Right after we met with them, we met with our district
leader for district meeting, and went to a buffet after. Yum.
Right
after that we went to an appointment. Some lady called us and said she
wants us to practice English with her 15 year old daughter. We went over
there, and it was her and her dad there. Her dad is a manager at eMart,
and he had a delicious array of Japanese sushi and soup for us. We were
already stuffed, but we ate ALL of the sushi. It was so good. They both
speak really good English, and the daughter wants to bring all of her
friends over to learn more English too, so she might refer up to 6
people to us. Exciting! The father doesn't have a religion, and the
daughter isn't sure either, and I think the first lesson went pretty
well. So there's 3 referrals and 2 new investigators in one day. Wow.
Thursday rolls around and we figured we'd make calls out of the old
investigator book for about an hour towards the end of the night. We
were able to set up 3 new appointments! The people are so nice. : )
 |
| Jordan & Elder Greghori |
Friday comes too fast, and we do weekly planning. We planned to meet
with the Cookie Guy that night and teach him the second lesson. His
family lives in another city for now, and he has 3 children and one due
in October. He's crazy about his family. Perfect for the Plan of
Salvation lesson. We spent over an hour planning the lesson, and it went
absolutely perfectly. He is looking to find out what's out there, and
he has a hard time believing what he can't see, but he's willing to try
what we ask him, and he absolutely loves the concept of eternal
families. He's an amazing guy, and handsome too! : ) We really love him.
Plus, he gave us some cookies when we taught him. How can you not love
him?
We hit Saturday running and we prepared really well for our English
Class that we hold every week. Only to find out......no one showed up.
That's okay though! It's testing season in school and it was raining a
little so people didn't want to travel. So we biked over to a lady's
house who we called the other day to introduce ourselves and do some
English. She speaks English pretty well, and her daughter visited Oregon
so she's really good. So we met with her, her 15 year old daughter, and
their 22 year old cousin. It was really nice getting to know them.
 | |
| This looks like a yummy homemade tortilla! |
Right as we were getting ready to leave, she asks if we want to stay for dinner. Well sure! So she takes us out for 삼겹살, the delicious three layered meat. Oh goodness, it was so good. Needless to say, it was a great night. And on our way to meet her, we were riding our bikes, and the weather was awesome, so we were so cheery and saying "hi" to everyone, and someone replies back, 'Hey man, wassup?' so obviously we stop and ask HOW in the WORLD he learned English so well. He grew up in Canada, but his family is Korean, and he's here for about 3 months. He thinks we're so cool and wants to come to church the next day! So awesome. This has been a week of miracles.
Yesterday, Sunday, was a great meeting. The topic was the
resurrection, and we heard some good talks. But none of our
investigators came to church, so that was a little sad, but nothing can
dampen our spirits! So after church we did some clerk work, went out
and found some really nice people.
This next week we hope to meet with all of our
investigators, even though they're piling up and it's getting
overwhelming, but we want to help them progress and hopefully they will
accept the gospel and come unto Christ!!
The blossom trees are getting more green, but Sokcho
is still beautiful! I love it here. And having bikes makes it 10 times
better. Even people vacationing here from Seoul tell us that this is one
of the best places to be in Korea. : )
I love you all and hope to hear from you soon!
-Elder Franchina
Excellent! Thank you. :)
ReplyDelete