dear people i love so much.
oh boy. time flies! yikes i only have like 18 days left! ㅠㅠ seriously. where has the time gone?! well, you'll be glad to know it's getting warmer yay! :D
so we've had a crazy week because we're trying to juggle 봉천 and 노량진 wards and there is just a lot to do! but that just means more chances to see miracles, eright? so as we've thought about how we can find more people to teach in our new area, I came across this line in PMG that stated that we will be guided by the Spirit in our finding efforts as we strengthen recent converts and less active members. We decided to put PMG to the test and so on Saturday, we decided to go visit the less active members in our area. We left the house with a map on my camera of where they live, a message card to give to them, and a big prayer in our hearts that they would be home and welcome us. And so the journey began :) as we were walking with very little clue of where we were headed to, there was a woman walking a little ways in front of us. I felt like we should say hello so we did. She kind of gave us the cold shoulder at first but then we found out that her sister lives in California--in santa clara-- so she opened up to us a little. then it was so cool because there were two other people walking slightly in front of us, so sister Arthur and Sister Gu went and each started talking to one of them :) This woman and I continued our conversation and I didn't mention anything about our religion; just talked with her about families and stuff. and then she asked me about the book I was holding! :D so we talked about the book of mormon and how it has blessed my family! She said that she believes in God too. She goes to another church but wouldn't say where when I asked :P and then she said "well, we have different beliefs, so here let me give you my number and we can talk about this stuff sometime." I wasn't quite sure whether she wanted to convert us to her religion or if she was really wanting to figure out what's different about our church, but one thing i know is that she had a good feeling about us three; we really seldom know how much people can really tell that something's different about us as members of the church. so that was really cool! :D
2. so then the other sisters finished talking to the other people in front of us and we continued on our way. and we were trying to find this three way road but couldn't figure out where it was just with the map. but while we were thinking about where we needed to go, we hit a crosswalk. and there was a cute student there doing something on her phone. and so we said hi. she was so sweet and she was on her way home from somewhere. the three of us were able to talk about the book of Mormon and we offered her a copy and she took it! and sweet sister gu shared a scripture that she likes and we wrapped it up with a powerful testimony from sister arthur! (foreign missionaries have such powerful testimonies!!!) then we exchanged numbers yay!
3. so we were super excited and we kept walking and missed the turn to get to the less active member's house. so we ended up on this hill and we realized we had to turn around :P so we did and on our way down the hill, there were two cute girls walking up the hill. so we talked to them and exchanged numbers too!
4. so it keeps getting better. we finally found the apartment complex but couldn't tell where our 동 was and as we were walking up the hill to the complex, we heard this old man's voice saying "take longer strides, it'll help you get there faster!" so i thought he was talking to us so we turned around and he was just talking to his cute little wife--such a precious sight, an older couple walking together :) and we were able to start up a conversation because we thought he was talking to us ㅎㅎ and they were such sweet people and they helped us find the 동 and we shared a message about eternal families and the restoration. they weren't interested in meeting with us but it was such a tender mercy to be talking to people all night who liked being around us and talking to us :)
5. so we finally got to the apartment and yep. she wasn't home. 띠로리. but we left a note on her door and came back out. then there was the 경빙아저씨 outside and he was a little suspicious of us lol (they all seem to be worried that we're going to cause trouble ㅎㅎ) he asked us what we were doing, and the name of who we were looking for haha and we told him and then just explained that we're from all over and we're new missionaries in the area and we wanted to come say hello to a member. when sister arthur stated she was from australia, he was like "oh cool!!!! i went to australia before! do you know where this place is...? up the road from there there is.... and have you seen this place close to the opera house...? etc" lol it was so funny to see how excited her got :) and then we left him our card with our number on it and thanked him for being so nice :) so like 15 minutes later, after we were on our way home already, we got a call from an unknown number and it turned out to be the 경비 man and he just called to let us know that the lights in that house we went to visit just turned on, which means that she's home home now! BAHAHAHA we couldn't believe that he called to tell us that cuz usually those 아저씨s don't give info like that! so pretty much we're best friends with him now :P hahaha that phone call made us so so happy :)
So after having tested PMG again, i'm only more sure that this work is God's work. We didn't get to meet the less active member, but Heavenly Father works in mysterious ways and gives us tender mercies and blessings when we just do what we're taught to do--Alma 57:21 obey and remember what our mothers teach us and we can't go wrong! :)
hope your week is going great! love you all! :D
sister cho
pics: some 노량진ward members, look familiar mommy? :)
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