AUGUST 27
dear family and friends-
first off, HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MINHEE!!! sorry i meant to write it in my last email but we were having computer problems so i forgot :( but I LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU AND I'M SO PROUD OF YOU for being a diligent high school student! (eek! time is flying by so fast!!!) and jee, i hope max is feeling well and congrats on the award to BOTH OF YOU! my family is the BESTTTTT. and :D
this week was AWESOME. it was super busy but we love being busy! :) Tuesday was our temple day so we went to the temple and it was exactly the power and peace that i needed! after the session, i met two sisters from my last area 금천 and it was so so good to see them! i'm so grateful for all the wonderful people i've been able to meet on my mission; i wouldn't trade the mission for anything! so we went ice skating for the rest of Pday. yep. i went ice skating. me. uncoordinated with any sort of transportation vehicle-- plus or minus wheels. AND IT WAS SO FUN :D i definately fell. but it was only once. and after that, i got better at skating hahaha a few weeks ago, i taught the young women's lesson at church and it was about trying new things so yay i got to apply it to my life :D then we had a zone conference on Wednesday and it was fun getting to hear the departing testimonies of the returning missionaries and also the testimonies of the new missionaries. and we were asked to help the young women with their 주먹밥 making contest on saturday so that was fun too :)
but the best-est thing everrrr happened on Sunday. Our investigator, the one who just miraculously appeared out of no where last Sunday, we met her after church with her husband and taught the 1st lesson, and the Spirit was so so present as she bore testimony that she knows that this church is true. she said that something that got her attention about this church was that when she met her husband, she noticed that he was a consistent person; meaning he was the same on any other day of the week as he was on sunday. she'd investigated lots of other churches and she saw that people were great and spiritual on sunday but they didn't always maintain/ try to maintain that during the week. so she was greatly impressed with the members of our church! last week, sister Kim and i had prayed about her and felt that august 1st was the date she could be ready by then but we were a little nervous because her husband seemed a little hesitant about putting a date to her baptism! so we were a little hesitant about bringing it up again with them. but we did. and we just asked them how she felt about baptism and didn't say anything about the date we mentioned last week. and guess what? she said "well, i didn't know people could get baptized this fast and we were both hesitant about it at first. but when i thought about what you two sister missionaries said, about how you two prayed about me, even though you didn't know me well, and received revelation for me, i felt that august 1st is the best date for me. and so i decided to be baptized on that date since you two said i am ready. my husband and i talked about it and we feel like any of my inadequacies that i feel like i have can just be made up as i attend church." WHAT???!!!! sister kim and i were so so happy we just wanted to cry! but we didn't :) SO SHE IS GOING TO BE BAPTIZED THIS SATURDAY!!!! she is so so prepared! they live an hour away from our church but because we have 2 more lessons we need to teach her, THEY OFFERED TO COME UP TO THE CHURCH MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY!!!! so we actually just taught the 3rd lesson today and they took us out to lunch!!!! she is so so solid. we were so so happy!! there are really no words that can express what we felt slash are feeling now! EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING IS WORTH THE HAPPINESS THAT COMES FROM DOING THIS WORK. that's all we could say to each other all yesterday and today! on sunday, when the husband gave our closing prayer, he called us his daughters and that's really how we feel!
seriously. CAN LIFE GET ANY BETTER??!!
my time's up. but just a thought i want to leave with you: President Uchtdorf said, "don't let a day go by without doing something to act on the promptings of the spirit." because when we do follow these promptings, we are bound to receive a lasting happiness, the kind that sister kim and i are so grateful to be experiencing right now! because "our birthright--and the purpose of our great voyage on this earth-- is to seek and experience eternal happiness."
love you all!
sister cho
pictures: from our zone conference, our ice skating adventure, and a cool statue we found :)
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