(June 24)
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! i love you daddy :) these past few months, i've learned that a lot of what i have to offer the Lord is stuff i learned from you and mommy. thank you :)
this week just flew by! the hours went by slow because it's just been really hot so time spent outside seems to be going slower but the days and weeks go by so so fast! i want it to slow down!! i love being a missionary :D
anyway, monday, we got transfer calls and sister hill and i were really sad because we thought we'd be split up but guess what? WE'RE STAYING TOGETHER HERE!! YEEEE!! the AP who called us seemed to be taken off guard because when he told us we were staying together, sister hill and i screamed and gave each other a high five and he was like "uh... okay... have a good night..?" hahahaha :D this is so great because first of all i love sister hill, she is so comfortable and way fun to be with! and second of all, the english class presentation is this next saturday and we've both been working so hard on preparing for it (teaching the kids, making props etc) so we are so glad we're going to be here for it! oh, and this other 교포 missionary and I were asked to be the hosts (사회 sp?) for the presentation so that should be super fun! i'll be able to send pictures of it next week yee! :D
so on wednesday, sister hill and i were walking to the bus stop and this lady popped out of no where and said to me "our church made it into this magazine this month!" and she just started flipping through pages of a magazine and went off for 15 minutes saying that heavenly mother is on the earth today. and she's korean. and how the 2nd coming already happened. and the whole 15 minutes she was talking to us while we were walking to the bus stop, she asked me ONE question. it was "you've never heard of our church have you?" i'm not about to claim that i'm a perfect teacher/missionary cuz i'm not. but this lady wasn't really taking the time to get to know me or make her message applicable to me. and i really appreciated her caring for my salvation, because really, she was a nice lady. but even when i agreed with some things she was saying, she didn't realize that i agreed with her and just kept going on with what seemed like a memorized message. i knew that PMG is really inspired but i think that this encounter added to my testimony that Preach My Gospel is inspired. cuz there's this whole section that talks about LISTENING. and then discerning needs of people. and relying on the Spirit to know what to say and do to fulfill the specific needs of each person. this encounter then added to my testimony that our prophets are called of God. and that this church is true :)
on sunday, we had a lady who randomly came to church! WOW huh? yeah so she just came 30 minutes early and so sister hill and i started talking to her so we could get to know her. but she was SUPER SECRETIVE. like when we asked if she lives around here, just to make conversation, she wouldn't tell us. and when i asked about her family, she just smiled and didn't say anything. and then she asked questions like "what category does this church go under? baptist? catholic? etc" and "who is the highest person of the church?" and when we gave answers, she compared them to other churches, and although she did seem to have genuine curiosity, she didn't seem very satisfied with any of the answers. it was awkward to say the least. but good thing i love and embrace awkward situations:P a few minutes before sacrament meeting started, i felt like it'd be best if we just were friendly and let her FEEL THE SPIRIT. so i showed her my family pictures even though she wouldn't tell me anything about herself. and when i showed her our family pictures and explained how i was a normal student before my mission, she asked questions about me and commented that i seemed to have had a great life (she especially liked the picture of our family at the beach, where all of us are wearing those hairbands, including daddy! she was like "your dad seems to be a fun guy." haha!). and then she opened up a little bit about her life! and she told me about how she's kept busy these days with her little grandson who is 3 years old! it was so cool. and then sacrament meeting started; i never prayed harder for someone i didn't know than at that point. i just prayed the whole time in my heart that she would just feel the spirit. and guess what? I'M POSITIVE SHE DID. cuz i did. and back in the salt lake city mission, i learned that we can know if people are feeling the spirit if we feel it too. it was really cool to see her smile at the youth speaker giving a talk on loving one another and watching her listen to a sister speak on following gospel pirinciples. she hadn't seen just normal people give talks before at church cuz usually it's just one person. and then the last speaker
answered the question she had about prophets! not a coincidence :D she was still secretive about herself as she left but we're hoping she comes back! (we gave her a Book of Mormon so hopefully she'll read it yee!)
anyway, sorry, running out of time! spiritual thought for the week: Elder Neil L Anderson said, "Faith is not only a feeling. It is a decision." i thought that this was cool cuz i know that as we choose to have faith, we will be much happier in whatever state we are currently in :)
love you.
sister cho
(i'll send pictures next week!)
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