This Is How We Do Missionary Work

This is how we do missionary work

On the sign:
How does god talk to me?
What is after this life?
What's the purpose of life?
Why does god let bad things happen to good people?

 

 

This week was incredible. We saw so many miracles. 

 

We met a 27 year old lady, JYG, on the street 4 different times, in four different parts of Seoul. Twice at places by our home, once in a different city by the temple, and once we were walking across a bridge, and a car drives by while she sticks her head out the window and yells, 'Changnonim!' (Elders). So she called us up and asked to meet. She doesn't believe in coincidences. We met with an RM in our ward that served in Tokyo, and the lesson went really well. She's really interested, and liked the member, and asked to meet again later this coming week. 

Preparing for Buddah's Birthday

We met with JOE from Nigeria again, and he's doing well. He knows the bible better than anyone, which is good when we talk about some doctrine, but when we talked about baptism he said he doesn't need it twice. We focused a lot on prayer, so if he receives an answer to his prayer, we're certain he'll get baptized. But while we met with him, I felt like I learned so much more about the Bible. Everything we said about anything, he could relate to a story. 'You know, that's why in Jeramiah, he said....' etc. He's great, and has a passion for his faith. 

 

Preparing for Buddah's Birthday

We met a new guy this week. Last week while we were waiting for the bus to go to church, we saw JOE (mentioned above), walking with a friend. His friend was so nice, gave us a bite of his fried chicken, and asked where our church was so he could come. His name is KEN and he's also from Nigeria. He couldn't make it to an appt this last week, but he showed up to church! We taught him the first lesson with the ward mission leader, and the spirit was really strong. I knew we had to ask him to be baptized. We asked him to prepare for the 18th of May, just two weeks from yesterday, giving him 3 weeks to come to church and prepare. His only concern was like JOE, being baptized twice, but Elder Harrison and I took things slowly, and explained authority from Acts 19, where people had to get baptized twice. I asked him again if he would be baptized. He immediately looked up after reading and said, 'I will, by the grace of God.' Meaning he'll get baptized because the grace of God has helped him know this is what he should do. I know it's such a short time, but he's prepared. Right after introducing the Book of Mormon, he said, 'this has to be true, it just makes sense.' It makes sense that God would talk to all nations, at all times, not just one at one time. Just as expected, this and other miracles happened on fast Sunday. It's always on fast Sundays that you see great miracles. 

Dr HNG is good, we finally met him again, and really worked hard on helping him understand that if he believes the Book of Mormon is true, then that means this is the restored church of God. He's taking a 4 year bible course, like seminary, but it's only once a week or so, and he says once he's done with that this December, he'll know enough to be baptized. But we encouraged him to set a goal for next month. 

We haven't been able to meet our other investigators yet though, but we're working on them.

We have started working with other less actives now. One is a guy that my MTC teacher baptized, and we were finally able to meet him yesterday! He came back to 신당 for school vacation, and came to church! It was great to meet him, and we'll get lunch on Tuesday to talk more. I was so excited to meet him, we heard so much about him at the MTC.

Please pray for KEN , and tell me of your missionary experiences back home!

Love you all, and look forward to talking next week!

Elder Franchina