wow i can't believe it's getting so close to your wedding day! i'm so excited for you jee :P anyway, it's been another rainy week but we've had some cool things happen.
so first the bad news: the lady who is getting baptized wasn't able to make it to church this past sunday :( it's always sad when the time ticks closer to church starting and the one person you really want to see at church isn't there! and every time the back door opened, we kept hoping that the person coming in late her but it wasn't. so she probably won't get baptized til next month which is next transfer. but it's okay! at least she is still doing well and still making progress! oh and she found another job! yay! she was really worried about that but when she put her faith in God and she went out and did everything she could to find a new job, everything worked out for her. so that was a blessing :)
but for good news: on thursday, we were streetboarding and it was SO hot. like really really hot. but not cuz the sun was pounding on us (which it was) but because it was so unbelievably humid!!!! so trying to talk to the number of people we wanted to was really hard. but the 2nd to last person we talked to was this girl and she just kept looking back at us because sister hill is american lol and so we said hi in english and that usually turns people away but she came up to us and started talking to us! and she was carrying a bag of 야쿠르트 and she
gave us some cuz she wanted us to have something cool to drink in the crazy heat! she was soooo nicee!!! so we set up an appointment and we met her on friday! when we met, she was a little hesitant in learning about the gospel cuz she had mainly english interest. but she told us that she was atheist and then her friend wanted her to come to their church for years but then a few weeks ago, she finally started opening her mind to church! and ta da! enter missionaries! :D so we don't know how it's going to go cuz she seemed a little hesitant; we are hopeful! yay for miracles that happen even when it's hot and sticky :P
anyway, the other cool thing was that elder choi yoon hwan (최윤환 장로님) came to our ward this past Sunday because 금천 is their homeward! so we got to hear from him and his wife and it was great!
gah i'm running out of time but the spiritual thought of the week comes from President Uchtdorf: "Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship." wa bam. so true. so i'm working on showing more faith by loving more :)
have a great week!
sister cho
wow another week has just flew passed! gahh i can't believe how fast everything is going! guess what? on the 19th of this month, i'll be halfway done with my mission already! gahhh! i want things to slow down! sister hill can't believe she only has 1 transfer after this one!
anyway, so it rained a ton this past week so we had a lot of time to just make phone calls. it's way harder to get ahold of people through the phone so it's made me really take advantage of the time that we have to 전도 outside even if it's really hot. so sister hill hates doing phone calls because she says it makes her a little nervous (even though she's super great at it!) but on one of the rainy days, she said she wanted to do the phone calls because she wants to get better at it. so she did and guess what happened? well, the same thing that
happens when any of us stretch ourselves and take a step of faith to do something that we are prompted to do. we saw a miracle. what do you know :) so she contacted a lady who was just sooo nice (cuz a lot of the times, they just hang up before you even get to say anything more than "hi we're missionaries for the church of--") and she just invited us over on friday!!! yeeee! it was real rainy on friday too but we got there and she had us come in. she was doing like a tutoring session with her son and his two friends. she was teaching them how to write good essays in korean. so we got in there and we were so confused because we didn't know what she expected from us. we thought we were going to BRT a little and then after getting to know her, explain a little about what we do as missionaries and see if they wanted to learn more. but instead, the 6 of us sat in the room and the mom just wanted to talk. and she didn't really lead the conversations anywhere! so yes, in the beginning, IT WAS AWKWARD to say the least lol but then we've gotten really good at just making awkward situations FUN :D so we just talked about random things and it was so fun! one of the friends' name was bella so we even talked about twilight; did i ever think i would talk about twilight as a missionary? nope haha but it totally worked and we may or may not have all took sides of who we'd pick between edward and jacob. and i guess the korean school girls like edward here :P sister hill was like "ah nee yo!!!!!!!!!! jacob 짱 ee ay yo!" bahaha it was so fun! so anyway, the woman asked us to come back next week because the kids had so much fun! so we just realized how important it is to really build relationships with the people we meet :) we're excited to meet next week!
On Friday, we also had a mission conference to meet the new mission president! President Christensen is from Salt Lake City, Utah and he is a doctor! he majored in Chemistry and went to med school at the U. (it was cool because Brother Collins, the ward mission leader for one of the wards that i was serving in in the SLC mission, told me back in december that his friend's son just got called to be the mission president for seoul korea! so it was cool to meet him!) He is a sharp guy and he gave a great talk! He said that while he was serving a mission, there were 10,000 missionaries. and now, we have almost 60,000 missionaries all over the world! and he said "isn't it wonderful to be a part of this army of Christ?" i guess i never thought about it like that! and sister Christensen spoke and i was asked to translate and it was my first time translating from English to Korean. so i was kinda nervous because the other times i translated, i went from Korean to English for sister Han's talks and that's what i'm comfortable with. but when the time came, as i started with a prayer in my heart, words just flew out of my mouth; not because of me. but because that's what the Spirit does! it was so cool to hear myself (but not really me, because it was the spirit just doing his thing!) put together sentences that i don't think i could have done normally in the short time span that i had. YAY FOR THE SPIRIT :) anyway, so that was really neat.
so to end, i want to just share with you what President Christensen shared with us that he learned at the MTC in a mission presidents' seminar. He said Elder Allen (i think :P) said that we are now in a "Mormon Moment." He said that because of a variety of events that are happening now (BOM musical, Mitt Romney, etc), people are starting to wonder about our church. and he said that he calls it a "mormon MOMENT" because we don't know how long that moment is going to last. and he challenged us to figure out in our own ways how we can use this
Mormon Moment to introduce the church to the people around us. So I'd like to ask you to do the same! :D let us all figure out how we can, in our own circumstances, use this Mormon Moment to help fulfill the purpose of God, to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man! isn't so cool that we can all help with this work? :)
anyway, love you all! have a great week!
sister cho
first off, JEE YOU LOOK SO GORGEOUS IN YOUR PICTURES! you and max are super cute in all of them!! i'm so excited for youuu!!!!! (i'm going yellow dress shopping with sis hill today! :D) i love your outfits! and the balloons! and the chalkboard!!! it's exactly what you wanted ever since NPS lol :D congratssss!
this past week was AWESOMEEEEE!
so we had our english class presentation on saturday and it was SUPER SWEET! we had a rehearsal before the presentation and it was chaotic! and the kids were just being kids so they were having a hard time focusing and it was especially hard because we had the youngest class! but everyone had a prayer in their hearts and the presentation went soooo well thanks to all the amazing members who put a ton of work into english class :D so instead of just doing a presentation, i thought it would be cool if the theme of our presentation was presenting what we learned in the format of the viewers flipping through different korean TV shows! so we turned our stage into a huge TV screen and sister hill and i made signs of different TV shows and had someone walk across the screen with the sign so that the viewers would know what they were watching when each act got on stage! yay for watching lots of korean TV :P
i hosted the beginning of the presentation (elder choi, another 교포, hosted the other half/ while our class was presenting and he did a great job cuz he's really good at korean and english!) and started off by asking everyone to help me turn on this huge TV with my cute remote control (sister hill made it and it was so huge and SO CUTE!) so we did a 뽀뽀뽀 act and everyone loveeedd it when sister hill started off by saying "HELLO MY PPO PPO PPO FRIENDS! i'm ppo mi unnie!" it was super cute! and our students counted to 20 with the song "1 little 2 little 3 little indians" they sang the wiseman built his house upon a rock and popcorn popping that we taught them and our last act was a news desk and we had a little girl be a reporter asking all her friends "where are you? what are you doing?" which is another thing we learned! and the upper class did lots of acts of describing their family and mini fable skits (sister hill made all the animal posters for them and they looked fabulous! SHE'S SO ARTISTIC!) as part of different tv shows. they were sooo adorable! and we finished with the upper level class doing a puppet show of Finding Nemo! It was soooo fun!
At the end, the audience had to give compliments in english to the performers and the performers handed out fake american money and the audience had to collect them to "buy" their refreshments (cookies, sandwiches, drinks, 떡볶이) this was our bishop's wife's idea and it turned out so cute!!! other missionaries from 2 other zones came to watch our presentation to figure out how our awesome members run english class here and they seemed to have enjoyed it too! our members are SO GREAT!!!!! they worked so hard and invested a lot of time intoenglish class! yay for motivated members :D
so as if that wasn't a cool enough day, we had an appointment after the english presentation with the miracle 구도자 that randomly came up to is a few weeks ago at 구로 digital 단지, remember that one? so we were going to go to a choir concert with her and we were super excited! but then she was feeling super tired cuz she works 11 hour days! so we were kinda bummed but we decided to just spend time with her at her house. and we taught her the plan of salvation and the spirit was just so strong, and she was understanding real well and what sister hill and i taught flowed really well together. and she was excited to hear that in the celestial kingdom, she'd be able to be with her dad and husband who both passed away a while back. and then we felt prompted to invite her to be baptized. AND GUESS WHAT. SHE SAID YES. we were both thinking, 'wait, what just happened? does she know what she just said? we just met her a few weeks ago! she trusts us that much? wha???' and then we set her baptismal date for the end of this month (last saturday of this month!!!) and she got super excited and WROTE IT IN HER CALENDAR THAT SHE IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!
sister hill and i are just feeling so blessed and happy!!!!!! our week in a nutshell: our members are awesome. and miracles really do happen. all the time.
look for miracles. every day. and you will find the tender mercies of the Lord that guide you and uplift you every moment of your life.
love you all :)
sister cho
pictures:
us making props/preparing for the presentation
our finished TV stage! (our bishop is such a handy man! he put it
together for us!)
our class kids :)
an act from the show
our students with their indian hats! (sister hill made them! cute huh?!)
leading the popcorn popping song
our investigator who is getting baptized! she's so great :D
