Jee thanks for the update! i hope max gets better soon!!! :D
So this week it has been super super rainy! It feels like all the rain that we were supposed to have gotten during the summer is just pouring down on us this week!
But guess what? MIRACLES HAPPEN EVEN WHEN IT'S RAINING. So here are just three of the bunch of miracles we saw this week!
1. so we were on our way to visit a less active woman but the weather was looking really ominous. but when we left the house, it didn't look bad at all!!! so we didn't think we needed umbrellas. and of course we did. it started raining a little and it looked like it was going to down pour any minute! sister kim and i prayed in our hearts that we'd just get to this lady's house before it poured. and guess what? that's what happened. we found out that she doesn't live there anymore which was a huge break through that we even found that out because we'd been trying for the past 3 weeks to figure out if she lives there cuz no one has her address really. so right when we got to the apartment complex, it poureddd! and so sister kim and i felt like we should wait a little bit because the rain could stop. and we prayed together asking that we could just get to the bus stop somewhat dry. and we waited all of 5 minutes and it stopped! i felt like we didn't have to take the bus and that we could just walk cuz that's what we usually did. but sister kim felt that we should hurry and take the bus. AND GOOD THING WE DID. cuz we got on the bus and buckets. of. rain. just. fell. How much does Heavenly Father control weather for us? i'm not sure. but i do know that prayer never makes anything worse. in fact, it always makes things better :)
2. during my whole time here in korea, i'm learning every day how important it is to TALK TO EVERYONE. Because you really don't know who is looking for the light that we have. So sister kim and i were on our way to visit a member and we were stopped at a crosswalk. We're only allowed to start conversations with girls and we looked around and all the people were men! except this one student standing closest to the traffic pole thing. but of course, SHE HAD HER HEADPHONES IN. boo. usually, when you start conversations with people who have headphones in, they just pretend like you're not there and lift their head up a little so that we are out of their sight. But i just started a conversation with her anyway. AND SHE TOOK OUT HER HEADPHONES. AND LISTENED. AND SHE WAS NICE. AND SHE GAVE US HER NUMBER. wow. you wanna know the other crazy cool part of the story? her name is 예그리나 (yea gu ri na) and we asked her where she got her name cuz it's unique. and she said that her name is a shortened version of 예수그리스도 그리고 나 (Jesus Christ and me)! turns out her family is christian! We never know if we can meet these people we get numbers from off the street but it definately was a miracle that we talked to her! and we're hopefully gonna meet her!
3. Sister kim and i have been trying really hard to find new investigators because the ones we have are not progressing and have kind of dropped us. boo. so we have tried all sorts of things to figure out what kind of missionary work works best here in Honje. So it was kind of sad when it got to Saturday and we didn't find anyone new (we had made a goal of finding one new investigator every week). But we did everything we could to be obedient and hard working, talking to as many people as we can and making the most of our time by visiting members and less actives. AND THEN SUNDAY CAME ROLLING AROUND. A member brought his wife to church who isn't a member. great huh? but it gets better. he came up to us and said "hey, could you sisters teach the lessons to my wife after church today?" WHAT??!!! WHERE DID YOU COME FROM MIRACLE?! sister kim and i were soooo happy! and we both felt like we should teach the plan of salvation, yay companionship unity! and yay spirit! and during the lesson, she said "i've always wondered where we came from cuz other churches don't teach that." WOW. could it get any better? yep it sure can. i have these plan of salvation cut outs that i got from the SLC mission that help teach this lesson and i always leave them at home unless we have it in our schedules to teach the Plan of Salvation. But before leaving for church, I decided that i should take them around everywhere i go just in case we have to teach it. AND VOILA. we used them. YAY SPIRIT!!!!! it was just so so cool to see that when WE are prepared, Heavenly Father leads us to PREPARED PEOPLE. I was thinking about that for sister cho when she's not a missionary anymore; the cool thing is, this idea will work for anyoneeee--even sister cho when she's not a missionary anymore! yeee! so anyway, it gets better. this investigator told us that she used to come to this church with her husband every once in a while and she decided to just read the Book of Mormon. (wow) and then she said that she realized this church was good but making a switch in religion is hard because there are so many friendships that are involved in going to a church so it was hard for her to just let go of all those friends. but then, she said that two weeks ago, after attending our sacrament meeting, she felt in her heart that Heavenly Father wanted her to attend this church now. and on saturday, her husband came to clean up the church and she usually doesn't come with him but she decided to this past saturday. and they cleaned and talked. and she found a copy of the Book of Mormon again and started reading it again and it confirmed to her that her choice to come to this church now was a good choice. WOW. miracle. we don't know yet when we'll finish the lessons but she said that she will get baptized! The husband was a little hesitant on putting a date to baptism but that's for sure where she's headed! yay miracles :D
Lessons learned from these miracles: pray. talk to everyone. do your best. then see miracles.
THought: always remember that the atonement is not only to make bad men good. it's also for good men to be better as Elder Bednar's talk states in april's liahona! (read it! it's great!)
love you all! have a great week!
sister cho
pics: sister kim and i are going to use these pictures for message cards for our members! saying they're 최고 (the best!)
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