Dear People I Love,
Sorry the past few emails have been so short! It's been a crazy transfer! Here's what's been going on:
1. First things first: so I thought 신당 was going to be my last area. but Heavenly Father has lots of surprises for us :) So for my last transfer, I will be whitewash training in 봉천 with a co-senior Sister Arthur, the one I went on exchanges with! (so it's a 3 some!) We have lots of good investigators here in 신당 and the members are so great so leaving an area is always sad but I'm excited to see what the Heavenly Father has in store for our three some for my last 4 weeks :D
2. Our mission President's wife (sister Christensen) and I had the opportunity to put together a mission wide sisters' exchange right before the lunar new year conference so we were busy with that and it turned out great! it's amazing what things we can learn as we learn how to best face change! We had a short sisters' meeting which closed the exchange and it was cool to see how the sisters were with people that they really needed to be with for that time and it was also neat to hear all the miracles that happened in each of the areas! One other cool thing was that at that meeting, I felt that we should ask a certain sister to bear her testimony so after praying about it, I asked her to bear her testimony at our exchange closing meeting. She agreed to do so. Like 20 minutes later, Sister Christensen came up to me and suggested that maybe it would be a good to have this sister bear her testimony in this meeting. Turns out it was the sister that was already asked to do so! It is so cool to see how the Spirit can work through all of us and confirm the things we are thinking or the impressions that we receive :) through these miracles, we then can receive strength to continue pursuing the path of discipleship that we are on. I'm so grateful that we have a loving Heavenly Father who watches over all of us and plans specific tender mercies in our lives to know that we are loved :)
3. So we have this family we are meeting with and teaching English and the Gospel. Last week, we had a member and her daughter there to teach with us and they were perfect for this family! We talked about Jesus Christ and His church established on the earth during His mortal ministry and it was so cool because our commitment we had planned was to invite them to come to church. During our lesson, the 10 year old raised her hand and said, "well, i don't know how to ask this but... uh... can i come to church this sunday?" sister lee and I were so excited and so were the members with us and the 17 year old was a little hesitant but the member's daughter had already become friends with her and helped her feel comfortable and so the two of them decided to come to church! The mother said she'd come another time because she has to take care of her autistic son but she's keeping in touch with our member so they're friends too! Members really can naturally work so many miracles that we as missionaries can't (or can but with more time and effort). The two girls came to church and we went to pick them up but the dad said he'd be willing to take us by car! So we had a nice chat with him and he's supportive of them wanting to come to church! The Young Women just fellowshipped the the 17 year old so so well! and the little 10 year old had fun but thought it was a little too long :P it was a real cool experience :)
4. Our ward mission leader was on the ball about getting a new English class banner put together and this lady just saw it and came to english class! Turns out she lived in Utah for about 3 months when she went with her 2 children for them to learn english and she said that she was impressed with the lifestyle of the mormons. she said that she attended church but didn't know what was going on because it was all in really fast english but she got a good feel from it. When we met with her, she asked about why we don't drink coffee and how polygamy is related to our religion. She seems to know a little bit about everything that we believe and doesn't seem scared by what others say about our church because her experience in Utah. We asked her about baptism and she wasn't sure exactly what that entailed so we were able to teach her the difference between sprinkling and baptism and she wanted to see the baptismal font too! it was cool. when we invited her to church, she said that she's Presbyterian and there are some problems at her church; because she's been attending there for a long time, she wants to see those things get resolved and then come to church with us. We were able to ask a question which just popped in our heads (inspired question? :) to distinguish whether she wants to meet for English and out of curiosity or if she's interested in learning if this religion is really for her. And she told us it was the latter reason! yay :) we are excited for her!!
Thought for the day: the Lord's way isn't always our way. But as we align our will with His, miracles just happen. Because this is His work :) Hope your week is going well! Love you all!
-Sister Cho
pics: at 설날 conference, before the sisters' exchange, saw 할아버지 at stake conference :), a gathering at a member's house (she's so awesomeee!)
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