Dear People I love.
So last week, it was super warm so i was like wow maybe spring is coming sooner than i though! but then it snowed today so scratch that thought :P but things are going great here in shindang! (i'm going to romanize the korean because it seems to come up in chinese characters, right?) so we're we're getting busier these days but we love it! the past few weeks has been full of trying to find new people to teach and so we did a lot of jundo. but you know what's always so cool? blessings pop up from places and at times where you don't expect it. so we had been jundo-ing a lot but haven't been finding people who want to meet with us but we kept going--that's always the important part i've repeatedly learned, to keep going. and then last week, we got a referral from the office of this lady who wanted to learn more about our english program because she wants to teach her children english at her house. We went to her house and oh my, the house was sosososo nice! when we got there, a tutor hired to teach chinese to her kids was just leaving and there was another teacher coming later after our visit too. we found out she's a pharmacist and her husband is a doctor! (how cool cuz i want to pursue pharmacy too!) sister lee and i were wondering why she wanted us to come over when she could probably find a lot better qualified english teachers to come. as we were getting to know her, she explained, "so i really wanted to hire english tutors that could come to our house and teach my kids here, and so i went online to look and i couldn't find anything! they were all hawkwons that required my kids to go there and i wanted someone who could come to my house because my kids have some health problems and it would be easier to be at home. so i looked and looked, and the only thing i could find was your guys' church website offering a gospel and english program. i had attended your church missionaries' english class when i was younger and i thought those missionaries were really good people so i figured i'd give you guys a call. i'm not sure why i couldn't find anything else, maybe i'm just bad at searching online..?" sister lee and i looked at each other and we were both thinking "oh, heavenly father might have had something to do with this :D" so we are going to be meeting with them every week and they are interested in and very open to learning about our church too! yay!! so we're excited!
another cool thing happened yesterday. after church it started snowing a little but it wasn't too bad. so we went home and broke our fasts and then we looked outside and it had just kept snowing! when this happens, we are advised to wisely figure out what would be the best use of our time; we can go out if we feel so prompted, or do phone calls, or other things. for some reason, even though it looked like no one was outside, we felt like we should go outside. so we did. and guess what? there was like literally no one outside :( we got to the crosswalk that we wanted to jundo at and no one was there. but we decided to wait a few minutes. good thing we did because then people started come out cuz it was dinner time-ish. so we started talking to people. it was harder to give people cards because people were carrying umbrellas and they didn't want to take cards but it was still fun talking to people. after 20 minutes or so, we saw 2 women on the side of the crosswalk we were on. i didn't know which one to talk to: one of them was an older lady and older ladies are usually nicer when we talk to them and the other one was a an ahjumma and was wearing an orange coat and a face mask to protect her from the cold. naturally we might have talked to the other woman but after saying a prayer in my heart, i felt like we should talk to the orange coat lady. we talked to her and she just kept walking kinda fast and she looked like she was looking for a certain place. like even though she looked busy, we asked her if she wanted to meet us for 15 minutes to talk about our message of eternal families. usually, the answer is no :P but to our surprise she said "well, you see, i was supposed to meet my friend here at 6:40. and so i left the house thinking i'd walk here and meet her, but then the snow was too bad so i took a taxi instead. so i have like 30 minutes and i just need to find a coffee place that i can just wait for her at. do you know of any? oh and i don't like long boring religious talks but if you insist, (and we did :) a short chat's okay i guess..." sister lee and i were like so surprised :D we found a tous les jours bread store and sat and she asked about the book of mormon so we taught about it. she took our number and pamphlet and wasn't comfortable giving us her number. but regardless, i know that that was why we had to go back outside in the snow.
so anyway, things are going great! miracles always happen as we do our best even though we aren't perfect. Our mission president, President Christensen said something that was really cool pertaining to this fact. (jeehee this is for you since you love math right now ha) x + infinity = infinity. we are x and Heavenly Father who leads this work is infinity. so as long as we're trying our best--no matter how inadequate we feel or how imperfect we are--things will work out because God is adequate. and God is perfect. how awesome is that.
Have a great week! love you :D
sister cho
pictures: our shindang district! and our zone at zone conference :)
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