dear people i love.
it's officially hot. and sticky. but as usual i'm doing fabulous :D thanks daddy for your email! i laughed at the funny parts hahahaha :)
so this past week was crazy in that it wasn't our normal schedule because we had temple day and president Lee's farewell conference and 2nd ward's ward conference! it was a spiritual boost week! lots of edification :)
so temple day was great and 할머니 할아버지 were at the temple too and it was also elder rife's temple day so we all got to take some pictures! it was so funny, when we saw 할머니 i was like "let's get a picture with my grandma!" and he was like "you mean OUR grandma." bahaha! it's so great that our families are so tied together through the gospel--like how Bishop Rife is gonna seal you and max jee! The temple was so great! it's been like 2 months since we've gone because we go once a transfer but we went at the beginning of the first transfer and now we're going at the end of the 2nd transfer so it feels like it's been forever. there is a certain peace and serenity that is really hard to describe that is felt at the temple. heaven is gonna be AWESOME because it'll be like that all time tee hee :)
anyway, on wednesday we had a farewell conference for President Lee and all the sisters wore 한복s to surprise him and sister han and they loved it :) i don't know how he was doing it but he was as energetic and smiley and happy as ever! everyone was sniffling and such but he was still smiling as usual-- even during the song "god be with you til we meet again!" when i asked him how he was so happy, he was like "well, i guess it's just cuz of the blessings i've received through the restored gospel." he and sister han are so great :) they will be missed!
Yesterday we went to 전도 in an area that sister hill thought would be nice to go to because we haven't gone there much and last time we went it worked out great (like the people were nicer and not as rushed) so we went there and guess what? IT WAS IN THE SHADE! it was in the shade of a huge homeplus store (kinda like a costco store) so we were way cooler than we thought we were gonna be! BLESSINGS YAY!!! anyway, while we were there, a man on a bike asked us what our poster was saying and he brought up Mitt Romney and so we had a conversation about what we believe. but then he told us that our church is not true because there is no apostle-ship like there was back in the day of Christ. and we listened with a smile on our faces and then tried to explain to him that we do have apostles but then he brought up the fact that mohammad (sp?) and joseph smith both claimed they had a revelation so to him, it doesn't make sense that our church could be established all of a sudden through "revelation" without apostles. I remember the distinct impression i felt at the 2 or 3 moments where he just talked over what we were going to say. i could tell that he just did not have an open heart. and he wasn't going to listen to anything we were going to say. so we smiled and said if you have questions later to contact us. and he looked at me and said "well, there's no hope for the american because americans support your religion because it started in their country. but YOU. it's not too late for you to save yourself. really think hard about this sister cho. cuz you'll see it doesn't make sense. i'm giving you advice as a korean to a korean."
and then he realized he heard me speak english to sis hill so he was like "or wait, are you from america too?" and i had to break it to him "네, 사실 저는 교포에요..." and he was like "ohh... well still think about it..." and then he left! it's a bummer i'm a korean-american huh? :P heehee it was kind of funny. actually it was really funny :P anyway, it's so interesting how the adversary will work really hard for people just to have a closed heart and not be open to listening to anything. man i love meeting people through 전도! helps me realize how blessed we are :)
Thursday, it was really hot and sister hill and i were going to go visit a less active woman and her family but they lived further away and it was really hot and even though i bought a cute pink bunny fan, all it really does is move hot air around so we were just really exhausted. so for a minute we thought about just working on things at the church where it's cooler. but we decided we should go. and usually, the less actives we try and visit aren't home or they pretend like they are not home. but at the time that we went, this lady was there! and she told us that her kids aren't really ready to go back to church beause they're really busy. but you know what was so cool? she told us "i hope you know that even though sometimes it seems like your efforts aren't directly rewarded with bringing people into the church, you missionaries are making differences in peoples' lives that you don't even know. i know that although my son is too busy to go to church, when he's stuck in hard times, i see him pray. and that's because missionaries keep dropping by and strengthen him. so i thank you. and i know it's hot but keep it up. you're doing great." THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEEDED. it was the hug from God that we needed to keep going. it was the hug from God that proved that He is our father and knows us and our needs. and it was the hug from God that confirmed to us that when we push ourselves to do the things that we know we have to do but we don't want to do, that's when we are rewarded with the things that we need the most.
God knows and loves each of us! if you have time, i think it'd be great if you could read You Matter to Him by President Uchtdorf from a two conferences ago :) love you all!
sister cho :)
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