so this past tuesday we had what we call a mission tour conference and Elder and Sister Stevenson came to speak to us! They talked about how important it is to have a good foundation to become great missionaries. and the basics come down to obedience, diligence, and language studies. it was really great and remotivated me to improve, progress, and be better!! and i was asked to translate from korean to english for part of the meeting like when President and Sister Lee spoke and it was a really neat experience! daddy i'm sure you understand this but it was really interesting because in korean, the verb doesn't come at the END of the sentence so i had to wait til the very end of the sentences before being able to say it in english so it was 정신없어 a little bit haha and daddy, sister Lee read a poem--and wow poems are hard to translate! (stuff about flowers and analogies!) i can only imagine how hard it was when you translated for general conferences and stuff back in the day :P but i was happy to have had the opportunity to do it and i was grateful to you daddy that you had me do it when i was little during sacrament meetings to try and keep me interested in the talks when i was bored hahaha anyway, it was
great meeting :)
so this past saturday, we had one of our former investigators come to English Class! (and turns out that she was taught by sister 박유라, jee remember the super cheerful girl who took us home from the utah KYSA conference? yeah her! small world huh?) this lady is so sweet and she said that life and a series of trials and sticky situations got in the way of her getting back to investigating the church but when she reached her hardest point, she just for some reason decided to come to English Class and she told us that when she did, she felt PEACE! even though it was just English Class, she felt such a drastic change! we explained to her that peace is a fruit of the Spirit and you could tell that it just clicked for her. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! so we're going to start meeting with her and we are so so excited :)
i've learned that sometimes, even when we feel like everything we're doing isn't making a difference, we're still being obedient and thus we are progressing and fulfilling that which God has asked us to do. I really felt this while 전도ing because sometimes it feels like there really is no way we're making any difference because there are so many people and only a few of us and no one wants to listen! but i've found comfort in that as long as i'm doing what i'm supposed to be doing, everything will work out. Abinadi could have easily said "well, king Noah isn't gonna listen to me and i'm going to be put to death so whatever." but in Mosiah 13:9, we find that he still finishes his message to king Noah and yeah he didn't listen but Abinadi really could stand before God and say "i've done everything you asked me to." and that's what i want to be able to say too :) so keep going. keep moving. keep being amazing.
-sister cho
pictures: these are just some awesome members we've been able to have dinner with! i know exactly what kind of a member i want to be :D
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