daddy- i was surprised to see how many people don't want to be with their families forever because they don't like their families! we truly are blessed! i was 전도ing to this lady and i said "예수그리스도의 회복된 복음을 통해 가족 이 영원히 함께할수있어요! 큰 축복이죠?!" ("isn't it a blessing we can be with our families together forever through the restored gospel of Jesus Christ?")with a huge smile on my face. and she was like "i'm already sick of my family so why would i want to spend forever with them? 가족이 웬수야!" i was like, uhhhhh.... and i didn't know what i should say so i just bore testimony of what i do know. so i said that i know that even if she's not happy with her family right now, she will be happier as she learns about Jesus Christ's restored gospel. but i thought it was so sad that people think that families are just a bunch of people grouped together that annoy each other. WE ARE SO BLESSED!
mommy- thank you for your email! 매일매일 느끼고있어요, 제가 얼마나 많은 사랑과 축복을 받으면서 컸는지 from you and daddy! 또 항상 "엄마라면 어떻게 했을까" 라는 생각을 해요 when i buy things, or when i decide whether i should wear a thick coat or thin coat, or if i should take an umbrella! ㅋㅋ 그리고 항상 엄마 말이 맞다는것을 깨달아요! love you :) oh 그리고 엄마 i'm so grateful that you were brave enough to meet the missionaries and join the church ^^ 최근 개종자 들이랑 이야기할때 i'm so amazed at their stories! 근데 생각해보니까 mommy YOU are a convert too! and you're story is sooo awesome too!!! so thank you for converting!!
anyway, this week has been kinda rough in terms of missionary work :/ the investigators that we added to our teaching pool and the current investigators we had were doing so great! but then they just STOPPED PROGRESSING. boo. boo. life just got in the way and they didn't read what we asked them to read. and they didn't come to church like we invited them to. and they just blew off our appointments. BUT YOU KNOW
WHAT? it's still okay because sister park and i have been obedient and we've been the best we can be so we know clearly that this lack of progress in our investigators is not due to our lack of obedience! AND THIS IS SUCH A COMFORT!!! otherwise we could have gotten down on ourselves saying "oh it's because we don't have the spirit because we weren't obedient this day or that day." but we know that it's because everything works on the Lord's time and we did everything we could to help our investigators progress so we just need to keep up our work
and the time will come when they are ready :) 2 nephi 2:2 is when lehi is talking to jacob saying that jacob's had to deal with a lot of trials from birth but he tells jacob that all his afflictions will be made up for and for our gain. so even though things are rough, life is still great! because this is the best work ever! and the rough times will make the good times even better and more worth it!
have a great week! love you!
-sister cho
picture: so i went and visited a member in this ward who served as a missionary under the Rife's in Daejeon (there are quite a few here actually!) and we were looking through her mission pictures and look what we found!! everyone who i've met who knows the Rife family only has good things to say about them! They are such a great family. I love them so much. my prayers are with their family :)
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