February 15, 2015

I really like serving with Sis Erickson, she's super fun and we get along well. :P SO yay!
This week was pretty good, though most of our appointments got cancelled. heh. But we did meet with this one less active member 2 times this week and she is doing suuuuper well. We study the Book of Mormon together, and she always has these really good questions and understands really well and such. Man, if we only had an investigator like her :P haha.

 

Today was SUPER cool! We planned a special P-Day because the previous ones have been mostly chilling around. So we have an Ulsan tour book thing, and decided to go to this Buddhist Temple complex about 1 hour away, and even though it was raining a bit, it was SOOO COOOL!!! For the first time on my mission, I really felt like I was in Asia. I loved it, and took lots of pictures. It was so colorful and pretty :) Totally worth it.

 

On Wednesday, we had a Zone Conference which lasted from 10:00-4:00, but it was reallllly good. We talked a lot about how to feel and follow the Spirit, as well as prayer and scripture study, and gratitude. One thing I liked was the mission president was giving a talk and saying how the Lord knows our needs and desires of our hearts better than we do, and so he posed the question, "so what should our desire be?" Thinking about that, I was thinking that it is important to desire to do the Lord's will, because if we are willing to follow, He will lead us to the BEST thing, which is a lot better than anything I could wish for myself :P haha. 

 

After the Zone Conference, we went on exchanges. I stayed in Shinjeong with Sister Koyle, who is a transfer newer than I am. It was really fun, and we had a cool experience on the bus. We were talking with this lady who is Presbyterian, and she was really interested in us, so she asked US for our phone number :P haha, that usually doesn't happen :P So we were pretty excited about that, and hopefully we'll be able to meet her later. This coming week is going to be aweful for appointments, because it is Solar (aka. the Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year), so everyone will be very busy... It's a huge holiday, probably about as big as Christmas to Americans. So we have a lot of little projects that we will work on because there is nothing else we can do :P 

 

Anyways. We met with that one investigator (KimSunHwa) who has interesting views about spirits and ghosts and used to be an exorcist, and with a member. And it was interesting... haha. The member ended up showing her a picture of the temple, and Kimsunhwa went off on WHY there is an angel Moroni on top of the temple. Haha, it was so funny. But that sidetracked her for a long time and she wouldn't let it go :P 

 

This weekend at church was District Conference at church, so that was pretty fun.

Weird story for this week: we handed some fliers out for our English class, and yesterday a guy contacted us back about it, saying he was interested in coming to class. Which was cool. Until he called us EIGHT TIMES from the time of 10:30-11:00pm. We can't answer the phone after 10:20, but seriously, calling anyone that late at night is no bueno.  He apparently called the Elders too, but just once. Whatevs.