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Well like I was telling Tawns today I'm not really sure what to talk about today. We had a pretty good week in Daejeon. We spent most of the week with our investigators and they are all so amazing. Last week was really interesting. We went from having the most baptismal dates in the mission to now having none and for some reason 4 of our investigators are moving this week or next haha. I kinda just sat there last night when we reviewed our week and I honestly don't know what happened but we still had an amazing week with all of them.
Our biggest focus these days is brother Iem. He is our Senior in High School and he is such a punk haha. He calls me Hyung 형 which means big brother in Korean and he is a pretty funny kid. They just make fun of us so much whenever we meet but I have met about 15 of his friends in the past month. We are teaching 5 of them right now and Brother Iem is in Mosiah right now with the Book of Mormon. We have been able to meet his parents a couple of times and they just love us. They are pretty strong Budhist but they love what we are doing. His mom loves teaching us the strangest Korean and we can't leave their house without a full stomach and food in a bag. It doesn't help when they are all pretty fluent in English so they tell me what to do in my native language. But Brother Iem has been asking some amazing questions lately and whenever we talk about him getting baptized he says that he still just needs some time. He did say that Praying before bed just seems comfortable now and it gives him some time to think about his day a little more and in a more positive way. So we have been focusing on giving him the more specific commitments with praying for specific things and really excercising his faith. He's still not sure exactly what kind of answer he's looking for but we told him just to take his time and he'll find it.
Brother Iem is just one of the people we have been working with lately and it has been so much fun. I'm pretty sure that Elder Gibbons and I went to a high school party last week along with 2 business parties. I promise that we're not party missionaries but we have been able to meet so many of our investigators friends and we have started to meet them as well. We have been averaging about 3 appointments a day lately and suprisingly we are teaching half of them english and the other half the gospel only. I feel extremely blessed these days but there's just the giant elephant in the room wherever I go and it usually starts with a question about when I'm leaving. Also Brother Iem and his friends learned the term dying missionary from some of the missionaries here in Daejeon and that's one of their favorite things to tell their friends. I still have no idea what to think right now. Church was so much fun yesterday and at the same time it was super sad. I went to a ward council meeting and when we talked about missionary work it was like a 30 minute question and answer time with Elder Jensen. And I still live by a very strict rule of being sick and not telling the relief society president. Well that backfired on me yesterday and I was in a lot of trouble. But the presidency of the relief society came over yesterday to do the monthly cleaning checks on our apartment and filled our kitchen and our medicine cabinet while talking to me like I was a child haha. I feel loved here so much though and Daejeon has been one of the greatest parts of my mission so far.
Well I have to get going but I love all of you so much. I guess I have one more of these e-mails and I'll try to make it good. Have a great week!
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