Holy Moly how time flies when your not paying attention!
Definitely has been a fast week, lots of stuff happened but we will keep
to the important stuff!
One of the biggest things that happened this week happened
when going through some OLD records. Not like days or weeks, more like 10
years back when we were inspired to do some former investigator calls.
This normally is not a big deal, most people are open to meeting and
learning again and so we thought to fill out our investigator pool we would do
some old calls. About 1 1/2 hours in in the hot wet heat of Seoul, I hear
some screaming from my room in the form of "NO WAy, NOOOOO, NU
UH!!!!!" I rushed in thinking something bad happened, and Elder
Anderson hands me a record of a Kim Ju Your, someone I do not know. I
read the rest of the info, about 60, family lives in Canada, very well off,
address, phone number, etc.....I grab the phone and typed in the number with
hestiation, but fast because I wanted to know. Well it turns out Mr Kim Ju Your,
baptised in 1993 (Wow when I was born), and refound in 2004, is Matthew.... Our
most prominant investigator who had a baptismal date 2 weeks ago. He just
turned into a less active. Hahaha, although we were kind of let down at
the time we are excited to be able to teach him the gospel again and get him
reactivated! What a doozy though as our zone leaders and even Mission
President were surprised to hear that!
I had exchanges with Elder Kim Mi Gi this week, as his comp
went on exchanges with Elder Anderson. We walked alot, tried to do some
walk jundo. Met some pretty rude people who just keep saying yes to
everything you say and then curse at your repeatedly for bothering them.
This happens frequently and I was tired of it. Luckily, we had an
appointment with someone, and the best part is that it was on the river down
the street! So we taught this man, and about 10 minutes in I decided to
take an impromptu nap for about 5 minutes hahaha. I woke up quickly and
found out that we were walking to some benches up above on the bridge so he
could show us something. Woke me up a little. Went back down and
decided to stand instead of sit, and luckily I did because we saw a massive
snake about 2 minutes later! That kind of ended the lesson and we were on
our way, not without first taking a picture of it! It was soooo fat!
The rest of our day was really slow. We walked a lot more, and it
was scorching hot that day!
Saturday we had President interviews. As I walked into
the room with my Mission President, that sense of peace and happiness that
always accompanies him settled on me. I told him his OK three years as a
mission president would be wayyyy better than my best two years. He said
yeah, gives you something to look forward too when your older! I wouldnt
mind serving as a mission president, I would really want to! We spoke of
many things together, angels and demons, family history and convert retention,
patience and anger, everything that was on my mind. It was a time where I
could learn from the vast amounts of wisdom that my mission president has!
Its amazing how 40 years can really give someone a better perspective on
life! hahah^^. I had a great time with him and was able to also learn
about some things like Patience as he talked to me about my mission so far.
Great time! Speaknig of Patience...
Patience is something that I have been working on for a
couple of weeks now. Ive been searching the scriptures and talks and
seeking the wisdom of other people, and giving myself up to much prayer to find
more patience. And I have found that knowing principles to build patience
is good, and you should learn those first, but ultimately, those principals
have to be tried and tested and applied to your life in real situations.
I have had several experiences this week where my patience has been tried
and some I back away from and dont allow anger to over come me, and others I
have almost fought people on the street. It is a good examination of what
I need to improve on and hopefully those things that I learn to have more
patience become habits and I never again have to worry so much about losing my
temper on someone. Plus I found a good scripture in Proverbs 29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: buthe that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
I am trying to understand people more when I contact and
when I do anything to further the lords work. I pray before hand and then
try my hardest to be patient with everyone and it definitely is working.
I love it!!!!
Anyways thats about all that happened this week, it has been
unusally quiet here, today we have practice for a multi stake missionary
fireside musical that we are putting on. I am in a couple of the scenes
as the main missionaries companion or people in the MTC. It is super fun and
exciting! Me and Elder Anderson are killing it out here and we are super
excited for transfer calls next week. By the next email I will know where
I am going!!!!!
I love all of you back at home and I pray for each of you
every single day! Hope all of you pray to have Heavenly Father help you
with all of your trials and problems ^^
Have a great week!!!
Elder Sun Hyung Soo
Elder Yamagata
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