so this past week was super awesome. as always :P first off, i went to the temple on tuesday and yep, lo and behold 할머니 할아버지 were there haha so it was so cool i got to do a session in korean with them :)
so the rest of this week was full of visiting less actives. we ventured out into new parts of our area that we'd never been to before to go see them. we walked a lot and when we finally got to each of the houses, we were rejected in several different ways.
1. one of them apparently moved so she wasn't there
2. one of them didn't open the door but just yelled at us saying they
didn't want to have anything to do with the church.
3. one of them was working and didn't really want to talk to us
so it was a bummer in that we couldn't meet any of them but you know what's so cool? there was a small miracle associated with each attempted visit.
1. we couldn't find the house that we were looking for because sometimes, korean addresses are really hard to see (sometimes, when it's really bad, they're written on the buildings in sharpy lol) and we decided to ask someone before going on further into the town. so we asked a 부동산 man. and the guy looked at the address and told us that it was 4 houses down from this 부동산 place! good thing we asked right when we felt like we should cuz we found it real quick and didn't get more lost! :D so yay for promptings that don't seem very spiritual in the moment but really turn out to be so after you act on them :) (also, i have a new appreciation for 부동산 people! they are so nice, especially when you're with an american! lol)
2. the elevator that we took to get to this apartment was SUPER SKETCHY! yeah jee, ultimate etch a sketch. it made all sorts of noises and it felt like the thing holding it in place would just snap any minute hahaha but we made it alive! yay for mini miracles...? well it sure was for me hahaha :)
3. so we couldn't get through the apartment building doorway because in korea, they all have it closed off with a door so you have to use the keypad to call the people to let them know you're here so they can open the doorway for you so no creepers get in. but the lady we wanted to visit was at work and so we wanted to heart attack her door but we couldn't get in. but sister hill called the 경비아저씨 (grandpa security guard which seems maybe like an oxymoron of some sort but that's the way they do it here :P) and she said in korea "uh, i need to get to this apartment. but i'm american and i can't speak korean well!" and the guy asked questions but she didn't really catch what he was saying so she just smiled into the camera and then he let us in! BAHAHAHAHA! so miraculously, we got to heart attack the house hahahaha
cool tender mercies yes?? :)
anyway, so that was awesome. over the weekend, we watched conference and it was just what i needed :D our whole stake gathered at the stake center and they played the dvd with the korean dubbing and the missionaries and the other who wanted to listen to it in enlist were in a small room together to listen in english. it was cool cuz i wrote down things that could help me improve and progress but for the first time, i could pick out things that would help other people, namely our investigators, to progress and improve! yay for revelation :)
all is well here! there are still 아줌마s saying they're too busy to listen to anything even though they are stopped at the crosswalk. and there are still old homeless men dancing on the side of the road next to their cardboarding collecting carts. and there are still grandmas with few teeth who try to tell us their whole life stories when we simply say hi. and there are still missionaries in korea trying their best to preach the message of true happiness :)
i love my life.
hope you're doing great! have a great week!
sister cho
pictures
1. sister hill swore she would never roll one of the 아줌마 carts around.
but she bought one haha and now she loves it!
2. yes you can probably tell that this picture is not of sister hill,
it's of the old lady in the back. there are Jehovah's Witness grandma
missionaries like that everywhere!
3. general conference!
4. old man sleeping at the bus stop :)
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