Red in a Sea of Black

Missionary work is going great over here. Even though we had almost all of our investigators drop in the past week, that just frees up our time to find more!

This week I went on exchanges with Elder Killpack, who's from, guess it, Draper. Lives on the other side of Fort Street, I guess. Corner Canyon stake? He's the greatest missionary ever. He's only been here for about 8 months, but he's taught me so much. He's so fun, and we got a lot of work done in the 24 hours we had together. This past week was good, we got a lot of return appointments from street contacting and found some people that might be interested, and we've started an even bigger project: Saving 삼청. 

So a brief history on our ward (Shin-dang). It used to be 3 wards, and they thought, 'oh, if we combine 3 wards, it'll be big and huge and everyone will be stronger members, and it'll be just like the utah wards.' But little did they realize that because some people's houses were too far away, many became inactive, and we were left with a slightly larger-than-average ward of about 70 members that were mostly all new members and inexperienced. No one knew what to do. So there are binders and BINDERS full of member records that are less active, inactive, and impossible to find. But all 14 of us missionaries in this ward think we can do something, so we're going through all of the records to find each and every person if they haven't moved or died, and we're going to resurrect the other two wards back to inactivity. The only thing is.....we don't really know how to do less active work. But we'll follow the Lord's plan and do what we need to. 

I can't believe I only have 6 months left, it feels like I should have a year left or more. I should be better at Korean by now :P 

But this time is precious and I can't waste it. 

The Lord's work moves on swift and powerful, and I'm honored to be a part of it. 

Elder Franchina