This last week, we also got what I like to call a phone "downgrade"
because they apparently switched phone companies or something and gave
all the missionaries new phones, but they are worse than the ones we had
before :P We have been dealing with learning how to type on them and
the text messaging system is ridiculous. It is apparently meant for
super old people, because the font on everything is big or bigger, haha.
And I think they didn't intend the people using the phones to actually
text :P The message inbox and outbox are separate, so you can't even see
the whole conversation without flipping back and forth between them and
clicking lots of buttons. Sigh. But it is okay. We'll get used to it, I
guess :P But we had to spend a ridiculous amount of time transfering
phone numbers from the old to the new, and organizing them because our
phone has over 1000 numbers in it :/
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| Lanterns at the Buddhist Temple. I discovered that my camera hass some pretty cool features |
Something cool that we have been doing this past week or 2 has been
proselyting with these survey things we made, just asking what people
think about some questions, and based on what they respond we can give
them a pamphlet or something. Usually it takes some time to really find
someone who has a margin of interest, but it has been pretty good to
find and talk to some people who might meet us later. Cool :)
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| You can see the monks inside |
On Thursday, we met with a less active member we have been meeting
almost every week, but because of holidays and vacations and such, we
haven't met her in several weeks until this last one. And it went really
well, we were able to talk a lot with her and such. She is so
interesting, because she knows a lot about the church and such, but she
says she wants it in her heart, she doesn't want to go to church again
until she knows that she will keep going. She has such a good desire to
really feel and know that the gospel is true, but it is also preventing
her from doing the very things that would help her get that knowledge
from her head to her heart :P
We have had a lot of miracles this week too. On Saturday, we
had English class, and some new people came who had interest in learning
more about our church, and English, so we set up to meet them. And also
that day, after an appointment with a member (in which we ate lots of
yummy food), we had gotten a call from the APs (assistants to the
president), and they had a really good referral for us. She is
someone who has just gospel interest (which doesn't happen very often)
and they wanted us to call her that night to invite her to church. We
did, and she said she would come, so that was really exciting! But then
she ended up not being able to come because she had something come up,
but during church, another lady just randomly showed up. She was really
nice, so hopefully she'll come back sometime.
Yesterday was Buddha's Birthday, so it was a holiday, and all
the members in the Ulsan area had a sports day, and that was why we
couldn't email yesterday. It was basically all day, and it was pretty
fun. Also during that, a random lady who happens to live in our area
came up and said she wanted her daughter to attend a church, so we might
meet with her too. Yay! A lot of really good things are happening here,
and I love the people we are already meeting with, but I might end up
leaving this transfer... We'll find out this Thursday, but I've been in
Shinjeong for 3 transfers now, so it is pretty likely that I will live
next week... But I don't want to, I really love it here :( So we'll see
what happens, but I trust that whatever happens will be for the best,
for the area and for me.
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