7th day Adventists Lessons

Hello everyone!

This week went by just as fast as the past 52!

SN hasn't been able to meet much, we met once to talk about the Word of Wisdom, and some commandments. He wants to get baptized, but I don't think he understands why. We talked a lot about prayer and finding what God's will is through prayer and scripture study. We'll follow up as soon as we can with him on that.

JDG hasn't answered the phone, we'll drop him. It's too bad, he was so close to baptism.
Pastor JJJ met with us and we talked a lot about prayer. He hasn't been praying about the book of Mormon, so we committed him to find out for himself, through prayer. He was a little hesitant, I think because of the responsibility of his job, but he said he'd do it.

J and S met with us and referred their friend to us, but he only has English interest for now. And they didn't come to church, so we'll meet with them this week and see what's going on.

We met HYN, ADY, with a member, but it was a little awkward, she was much older than him. I didn't realize it would make that big of a difference. He liked the plan of salvation, but not as much as I thought he would. He has a small 18 month old daughter. But I guess he has other needs we need to find. He's still really nice, he texts us every once in a while and says how nice we are and if we ever need dental surgery, he'll help us out. ㅋㅋ

We got a referral from other missionaries, a guy named JSN. He is good at English, and wants to attend church, but it turns out it's because his girlfriend's dad is a pastor, and he doesn't like that his daughter's boyfriend doesn't go to church. But he found our missionaries and started learning. So this is a good opportunity to introduce him to the message.

HBL is a baptist guy we met, and he is a hardcore baptist, but he hesitantly accepted a book of Mormon. We taught a good first lesson, and he really likes us, so I think he trusts us well. He's busy with college, but he'll make time this weekend to meet with us. He's my age, which immediately makes us friends.

DOC didn't meet with us, he canceled his appointment and didn't come to church. He really likes us and church, but being 65 years old, he just kinda does what he wants. But he was reading the book of Mormon, so hopefully he keeps reading.

There is a group of 7th day Adventists that the 이문 elders met, and they invited us to come too. The other elders couldn't come, but Elder Smith and I prepared a really good lesson. The 7th day Adventist people sent us a list of questions and discussion topics, so they gave us 15 minutes to present, then they talked about their beliefs for 15 minutes, then the next 30 ish minutes was Q and A for us. They asked a lot of good questions. Some were prepared, laminated with a number on the back, like, 'who has question number 6'? But then after that they started asking more heartfelt questions. They really drilled into the BOM, but naturally, they base everything off the bible. It's hard for someone, who has believed in one book for so long, to have someone come along with not a lot of credentials and say, 'well, God told me that there's more.' How can you trust him? We finished it with the topic of prayer. You don't have to take our word or even Joseph Smith's words. Read the Book of Mormon. If it fills you with love, helps you come closer to Christ, and improves your life, you can know it's good, not to mention receiving direct revelation from the Creator. Our Father. It is easier for them to trust God then us. At the end they thanked us and said that if there are more of God's words, they need to accept it. So they'll find out of the BOM is God's word.  That was fun, because it was all in English! They're all from the Philippines or American. It was nice to be able to speak English, but I like Korean more.

An old guy, JGJ, 74, came to English class, and we invited him to sacrament meeting the next day. He came and we taught him with a member. He went to church a long time ago, but not anymore, he was busy. But he wants to go again, and likes church. We taught him about the book of Mormon and he liked it, but he was naturally a little shy to pray at the end. It's been a while since he's prayed.
We went to the bishop's house and on the way home on the subway, we said hello to a kid about 17 years old. He really liked us and said he had time to meet right now. He has English interest but when we told him our main purpose is teaching about our church, he said it was okay. He asked a lot of good questions. We'll meet with him again this week. It was so cool to see a miracle like that, where he wanted to meet right away. Just at those times where you think nothing is going to happen and you're a little down on yourself, you can see these miracles, directly from heaven.

I love you all! Until next week,

안영하십시오!

Elder Franchina

Thanks for the Korean, by the way;)