Hello, everyone... Good wishes all around.
My zone is going to the temple tomorrow! That'll be super fun, cause I can go through a session in English... Last time I had to go through in Korean. Granted, I had a translator, but it was still weird. I'll send pictures next week!
In other news, during transfers me and Elder District Leader went out to meet a less active in 남양주, and in his apartment the 4th floor was replaced with the Fth floor... We went up there just to hear the announcer lady say "F 층입니다". :P The reason for that has to do with the Chinese... In Chinese, the word for four (Si, sharp downward tone) and the word for death (Si, downward then upward tone) are very similar, so the number 4 is considered unlucky. Kinda like how a lot of buildings in America skip the 13th floor.
The less-active himself was pretty cool... He speaks really good English so that helped. ;)
In other news, we talked to a guy and his wife a couple weeks ago outside his workplace, and we set up an appointment with him on Friday. We were kinda worried about it, but we did it anyway... He ended up just preaching to us about his church, which is called 신천지 (Shincheonji). According to some of the other elders, it is one of the craziest churches in Korea.
Basically what they believe is that in Revelations 7, it talks about 144,000 people who are sealed in the Kingdom of God (or something like that). So their goal was to get 144,000 people to join their church, then they would all be saved. Then they got more than 144,000 people, so they decided that you had to make it into the top 144,000 in order to be saved. How do you do that? You bring people into the church. So all the people in this church are going around trying to get people to come to their church, because well, their salvation depends on it. So that's interesting.
Also on Saturday, the ward held a 'Karaoke night', where some of the members got up and sang karaoke, including the bishop. It was lots of fun, and afterwards a few of the missionaries sang "Saviour, Redeemer of my Soul" which was spectacular.
As for our investigators, Bei is still being Bei... He's kinda flaky at the moment, we've been trying to set up a time to go eat with him but he apparently has no time.
We didn't meet with Kim 2 this week... We're gonna try and bring a member to talk with him this week, and help him come closer to Christ.
Speaking of Kim, We've been worried about Kim 1... He hasn't been answering phone calls and he didn't come to church yesterday. We can contact his mom, though, so we're gonna try getting to him through her.
Plus, good news for Jung... His former fellowshipper came back from America this week, so now we can go and teach him lessons again! Maybe this time he'll be able to keep commitments and progress in the gospel.
Interesting note... Our team picked up a less active yesterday. Basically he just randomly came to church and sat down next to my companion and talked to him... So yeah, that's an interesting little thing there.
This is a really long email... So I'll close off today with a scripture: 1 Kings 3: 5-14. It's long, so I won't put it in here, but basically it talks about Solomon, when he first becomes king, and he asks the Lord for a wise and understanding heart in order to judge the people. I know that if we ask the Lord in righteousness to help us through our trials, and to make our weaknesses strong, then he can do it. I also know that if we ask in humility, not asking for riches or fame, then he will multiply blessings upon us that we won't have room enough to receive.
Good luck everybody; live the gospel and make it a great experience.
DFTBA,
~Elder Skinner
Ward Karaoke Night!
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I got some popcorn!!
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