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Hello all~
This week was crazy busy, stuffed full of miracles.
In the past 2 weeks we have found 7 new investigators.
One guy I really like, Mr 전 is 20, and really wants to learn about
Christ. We gave him a card a few weeks ago, but since we talk to
hundreds of people a week, when we met with him, I didn't recognize him.
He called us back and said to meet on Saturday.
He's so eager. He bought a Bible just to study it with us, and when we
offered him our Book of Mormon for free, he was exceedingly grateful. He
came to church and read the entire intro of the BOM, including the
testimony of the 3, 8, and Joseph Smith. He loves our message!
Anyway, first, the adventures of the week.
Monday
was good, we just went to the bathhouse to relax. At FHE XXXXX came, and
he was trying to be witty with one of our members who's from America,
and they just went back and forth for about 10 minutes, it was
hilarious. The sisters lost it, they started laughing so hard, but FHE
was great, we all learned about prophets.
Tuesday. We skipped lunch to meet with Pastor XXXXX and his wife. We
taught them the Plan of Salvation, and they really liked it. They loved
the scriptures in the Bible about baptisms for the dead, and the
scriptures that talk about the pre earth life and postmortal existence.
Some things were kind of new to them. They did have a question about
eternal families, because in Matt 22:30,
Christ says there's no marriage in heaven. So we kind of traded
scriptures, and went home to study them later. I looked at it and
realized that it's talking about being married of the world, as
clarified in the same parable in Luke, and we need the saving ordinance
of sealings in the temple, revealed to Joseph Smith towards the end of
D&C.
Then we went a little out of our area to meet a guy we met on
the street last week. Pretty sure he's a mob boss. He took us to the
abandoned level of a warehouse and it was empty except for a few people
drinking coffee on the cement floor, and then his all glass office with a
giant Korean flag and a desk. But he was so nice and loved to talk, but
just didn't have that much interest. But we can meet with him again if
we want. We might drop by again sometime. On the way home we met a
really nice guy on the subway and gave out a few Book of Mormons. We met
with XXXXX, and he's still smoking, but will really try. I don't know if
he has a lot of faith in himself. But I know he can do it if he commits
himself. If he stops smoking, he'll get his answer and will be baptized.
Wednesday
I woke up after a dream where I became AP. Nightmare. So I solved my
problems by making nachos for lunch (thank you Costco!). We visited some
members, who turned out to be the first Korean Senior couple
missionaries ever! They served in the Philippines Milan temple. They're
so nice!
Thursday
we had follow up training for the trainers and trainees, which was fun.
We reviewed a lot about talking to people on the street.
Friday
we met the guy that spoke to me on the bus. He's really nice, and
brought two friends to meet us! They're really nice, and one friend
lived in Provo for 2 years and went to high school, then went to Oregon
for 2 years for college. He knows a little about our church and has
quite a few Mormon friends, of course. They're really nice, and we all
get along well.
Saturday
we went to the temple right after lunch, and were able to do
confirmations and baptisms for the dead. I was able to do it in Korean,
which was a cool experience. It was a large stake activity, so there
were a lot of people! After that we hurried back to church to meet Mr 전,
who I already explained about. He's awesome.
Sunday
was incredible. We sang a song in sacrament, but changed the song that
morning, so only had about 20 minutes to practice, but it still turned
out okay, and right after that, Mr 전 showed up! He wasn't feeling well
due to a kidney problem, but he still came and stayed all 3 hours! Right
after sacrament XXXXX and another new investigator showed up. This guy,
Mr XXXXX, is about 60, and we met him on the street a few weeks ago. He
thought he'd try going to our church a few times. It was so fun to see
all of them at church!
We didn't have much time for personal study or
language study, so we planned to do that at night. So at around 7:30
we're doing language study, and I really felt like we should go out and
talk to people on the street. Best language study, right? So we went
out, and not 20 seconds after we walked out, we met this guy holding
those long rubber chickens that squeak. He came up to us and said,
'HELLO! LEMME BUY YOU A DRINK!' He lives right by our house and
sometimes sees us leave, but never met us. So he bought us some juice
and we talked for over a half hour. He was so nice, and wants to buy us
lunch on Tuesday. He loves fish, and showed us lots of pictures of his
fish tank. I thought of you, dad, and told him that you have a pretty
cool fish tank.
Now we have around 11 investigators, and it's stressful to try to
juggle them all, but we get help from both sides of the veil! Things are
really picking up. We have transfer calls at the end of the month (this
transfer was a long 9 weeks for some reason), so I don't know what's
going to happen! All I do know is that we're getting 2 new elders next
transfer, so we'll have 4 elders in our ward. That'll be fun!
I love the work, and even though it's extraordinarily stressful, it's extraordinarily blissful.
Love you all!
Elder Franchina
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