On Tuesday though, we went to a concert! The BYU Wind Symphony has
been touring in Korea, and they came to Busan, and the missionaries were
allowed to go if they brought an investigator with them, so we found
someone who was willing to go with us. Yay! It was really fun, and I
loved it, but the concert started at 8, and ended a bit before 10, but
we got permission to stay out that late. And we got to stay the night in
Busan in the mission home, so that was cool. It was kind of awkward
for our investigator, because she had to ride a bus full of members back
to Ulsan, and she doesn't like meeting people :P But it worked out
okay. And for the first time in 10 months I got to sleep in A BED!!! It
was so comfortable :P I had forgotten :P
Sleeping over in Busan was
really convinient because we had a Zone Conference the next day at 10am.
It was really good! Our topic was about the Sacrament, and it was way
good! I learned so much about it, and I definitely want to try to take
it more seriously. Taking the Sacrament is so awesome, it's a great
blessing we have to kind of recommit and start again for the coming week
to do better and remember Christ more. The morning session of our
conference was actually a hike! So for the first time in my life I
climbed to the top of a mountain! It wasn't a huge mountain, but I was
still excited about that, because, well... KANSAS.
Along the way we
would take a break and someone would give a short talk about the
Sacrament. I loved it! On the way down, me and Sis Hurley and some
elders almost got lost, because we were going down faster than some
others and went down the wrong path... :P But we found it again! We had a
delicious lunch, changed, and had more talks during the afternoon
session. It ended around 4:45, and so any appointments we normally had
on Wednesday had to be cancelled. We didn't get home until around 7
because of the bus time and such.
On Thursday, we had service in the morning, and we had 2
appointments planned, but both cancelled for one reason or the other.
One was on vacation on Jeju (an island), but because of rain, wasn't
able to come back as she planned... SO. We spent the day making a survey
for proselyting, finding less active houses, and proselyting with our
new survey :P The survey actually worked pretty well. Starting up a
religious conversation in Korea is kind of rough (usually because they
run away from us screaming, haha), but we were able to talk to quite a
few people and give out a number of pamphlets. We did it also on
Saturday, and were able to give out some Book of Mormons too. Yaaay!
On Friday we usually had an appointment with the Taekwondo lady,
but she cancelled too :( So we did more less active finding. Though we
did have a lunch appointment of sorts... We had met a lady on the
street, and she thought we were cute and whatever, so she wanted to feed
us Korean food, so she invited us over, but she has no interest, and
neither did her friends that she invited :P Korean culture is such that I
guess it's normal to invite random people over for food. So that
happened.
On Saturday, we had a regularly scheduled appointment with this on
girl who was SO awesome, I loved teaching her, but she dropped us... :'(
We only met her 3 times, and she was really interested in our message,
but she texted us saying that some sort of "personal matter" came up,
and she can't meet for the time being... Which in Korean politeness
basically means she doesn't want to meet anymore. So we were really
bummed about that.
Soooo.... between nothing going on all week and Sis Hurley being sick, this week was rough.
But today was fun! Despite it raining, we went with some of the
elders to a Buddhist temple. It was the one I already went to before
with Sis Erickson, but it was still cool, because it was decked out with
a bunch of lanterns, because Buddha's birthday is next week. It's a
pretty big holiday, I hear. You should look it up online, because there
are festivals with these lantern things and stuff that you can light
from the inside.
Anyways. soo.. I'm a clutz, apparently, because on the
way back, we had arrived at our stop to get off the bus, and I think the
step must have been wet, because I fell, quite... elequently ;) I was
holding on with my right hand to a rail, so it wasn't too bad, but I
slipped, my shoe fell off and I slammed by elbow/forearm area on the
step, and hit Sis Hurley's leg with my foot. So my elbow hurts :P Haha.
oh well. That's about it. We are hoping this coming week is much better :P
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