Well another week flew by and I really don't know what to tell you about. It was just all around a normal week. I guess i can be grateful for that. We had a lot of appointments cancel but we also met a lot of new people. We have been meeting our little family with the twin boys who are just hilarious. We designed our dream houses in english class and they made it pretty clear that they wanted slaves and not maids or butlers.... kids are too fun. Our little family is coming along pretty great. We meet them tonight and the two little boys love the Book of Mormon stories book. It's been really fun teaching kids about the gospel because you are a teacher to them. Everything you say is correct because they trust you. So we're trying to be very simple and clear and their mother has really appreciated it. I guess in their religious school they have been a little forced to learn a few things that their mom hasn't fully agreed with so it has been a little interesting teaching them. But Sister Kim loves the way we teach them and the boys absolutely love coming to the church to be with all of the foreigners.
We also spent a lot of time this week with Brother Kim who has been doing so great. We went with him to the hospital to visit Brother Nam who will live in the hospital for the rest of his life. We got there and Brother Nam has been really sick this week and he couldn't have been more happy to see us. He was so happy to have a new visitor as well and him and Brother Kim could actually carry on a pretty great conversation. Brother Kim really enjoyed visiting him that he will be going back this week by himself. And Brother Kim was really able to open up more about his family. Right now Brother Kim is the only one who was baptized and he has felt a little opposition in going out to church but this time since he has been coming out he has been praying more and reading the Book of Mormon a lot more, and now it seems like his family is completely fine with it. He has had a lot of opportunities to actually talk about the gospel with his family now and He has loved coming out to all of the classes lately.
We're still at the point of change in Korea these days. Every single talk we had at church yesterday was about doing missionary work. If you haven't read the power of everyday missionaries I strongly encourage you to do it. A Sister talked about when her husband brought it home and she thought it would be boring so she never started reading it. But last week she had some spare time and for some reason she just focused on the book and picked it up. She shared a really funny story about how her sons friends wouldn't come over often because they sometimes acted like brats and destroyed things. But as she changed her mind to now looking at them as people who aren't blessed with the gospel she has been having their families over for dinner and what not and they brought a family out to english class. All in one week She said that everything in the gospel just meant more to her this past week. Even waking up early for church to start the wrestle of getting her children ready was easier. She said now that there is a special spirit in their house they are dedicating themselves to living the gospel a little more and she is excited for the blessings in store for her family.
It seemed like all we need here in Korea was just one week to experience this giant change. We are sitting here thinking about how close it is and all of us missionaries keep on hoping it will happen this week. And maybe the entire world feels like that right now with all of the talk about missionary work. But we all took a step back this last week and Korea has come a long way since I came to the mission. The change is happening and I'm so happy that I could be here for it. There's still so much room to grow but we're making progress over here with missionary work. And if it has to be one family a week that just means we'll be there in a couple months in this ward haha. The wards are a little smaller. I really hope I'm not recognizing this just because I'm a missionary but I really hope every member can feel that spirit when we go to church. When I came here I felt like we did have the missionary church and the member church but these days I actually feel like I'm attending church. They include us in everything and they work with our investigators. We had 4 people volunteer yesterday in priest quorum to come teach our little family.
Well I love it here. We have a lot of work to do this week and I'm excited. I hope all of you have a great week and I know that we will. Love you.
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