sorry i'm writing a day later! apparently monday was the day that buddah came so everyone gets the day off :) anyway, things are going well here! oh, and thanks mommy for sending me that stuff i need! you're the best! :D here's what's been up:
1. so for the buddah holiday, we a stake picnic yesterday and it was so much fun! we played games like who can throw their shoe into a box (sounds lame but it was so fun :P) and i got third place in the relief society category! so i won some 물티슈 which is kinda like baby wipes minus the smell and they are like kleenexes except way better when you need to clean up a mess. I LOVE THEM. they are such a great invention. anyway, there were other games and a huge picnic and sports going on on the fields and a man made waterfall turned on at certain times so it was nice and cool. it was the best picnic i've ever been on!
2. on thursday, we streeboarded and this grandpa came up to us and looked at sister hill and said "ok. you're american." and then looked at me and yelled "ok. you're korean so you'll understand what i'm saying." and then he went off for 10 minutes quoting scriptures and saying, "judgement will be scary!! you need to know what you are believing because what you're doing is useless. you know why? jesus has already come and he is preaching right now. and you don't even know that. and the 12 tribes have already gathered and there are ten thousand of us and you need to join. or else judgement will be scary for you!!!!" i tried to be patient and smiled and tried to say goodbye but he kept going. so even though i understood everything he was saying, i had to tell him "sorry, i'm a 교포 so i don't understand what you're saying" and smiled and he told me that it's okay and just mouthed really big (so that i'd understand) that i need to come to his church. he was intense!! but whether he intended it to be super
intense or not, i guess looking back that's nice of him that he took the time to tell me those things because he wanted me to be saved. we are soooo blessed that we have the fulness of the gospel! :) oh and while i was talking to this grandpa, we noticed a girl who kept staring at us out of curiosity regardless of the fact that there was an old grandpa yelling at us and quoting scriptures. so while i held down the fort in talking to this grandpa, sis hill started talking to the girl and got an appointment with her! yeeee!
3. miracle of the week: so on thursday, we had a dinner appointment at 7 30 with a lady in our ward who lives a little ways away from where we live and usually proselyte. so we decided to go a little bit earlier and then 전도 around that area. but our lesson we had scheduled before that got cancelled :( so we had a lot more time than we thought we would to go 전도 there. we got there and we were just so tired after a while! but we stuck with it and we talked to the lady in our ward and she said we could come earlier. so when it was like 6:55 we were like "ok, let's just head over there now!" cuz we were just tired i guess. but we decided to just do a few minutes more til like 7 just so we weren't too early to the dinner. AND GUESS WHAT? A RANDOM MAN CAME UP TO US AND HE STARTED SPEAKING ENGLISH TO US AND SAID HE WAS INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT OUR CHURCH! if there's one thing i've learned, it's that miracles happen when you push yourself to do the things you don't want to do most and talk to the people who you don't want to talk to the most. those last few minutes were totally worth the miracle!!! so we made an appointment with him and we were so excited!!!! that tiredness just dissappeared cuz we were soooo amazed at what just happened. so we were about to leave and the man came back and gave us drinks saying thanks for serving here in korea. REALLY? WOW. yay for miracles. seriously.
4. thought for the day: i read in preach my gospel that faith in action is repentance. and repentance is change. i guess i never really thought about it like that. but i'm learning every day that as we exercise faith and put it into action by repenting--changing--we can't help but become better. and more Christ-like :)
5. love you all!
sister cho
ps. i'll send pictures of our picnic next week! :)
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