Hello everyone I know! How's things been for y'all?
Things out here have been pretty good, but also pretty hard
this week. Here's a little bit on why that is:
This past week was one of the last weeks our Mission
President will be over the mission. He will be going home in just a couple of
weeks. As a result, he gave all the missionaries the opportunity to take the
'100 hour week' challenge he did in his mission. Wake up at 5:30 in the
morning, leave the house at 6:30, and don't come back until 9:30 at night,
taking only a half hour a day for studies when you were just wiped out. You
could eat during the day only if you did missionary work in the process, and
you couldn't go home to do it.
As a companionship, we decided to do a modified version of
this challenge, taking our normal P-day, and a couple days we would do normal
studies.
The rest of our district did the same thing, and all
together we were able to 고셍 (work hard, or suffer) really
hard in missionary work. Here are a few of the things we did;
We made some flyers for our English Class, and started
handing them out in the morning to people going to the train station. So far
that's been really successful, we've had a lot of new people come from it, and
the Sisters found a really prepared investigator from it!
We made a lot of calls and set up a lot of appointments
ahead of time (as much as we love street contacting...) and a few of them were
able to meet and we taught them a bit. One in particular was Yun, who lives up
in 퇴계원 (Tyegyewon) just north of Guri city, and he's
really ready to accept the gospel! He's older, about 70, and he lives alone
since all his kids are gone out of the house. He's willing to try out what we
teach, and we really think he will accept our message. Plus, he plays the 대금
(Daegum- a traditional Korean flute) professionally! I might send some music
next week, and he's really good! So yeah, he's pretty awesome.
So just overall, a lot of cool stuff happening this week. A
lot of hard as well- we had a couple days where we just went out on the street
all day in the heat and talked to everyone we could find. It was super worth it
though! I hope all is going the same for you!
So I don't know if you all remember Sam from a couple weeks
ago, but for a while we haven't been able to contact him. Then on Saturday,
Elder Eagar called him up one more time, and he answered! He's been in Paju
City (Outside of our area) with some friends, and he's been reading the Book of
Mormon! He says it's his favourite book! He's gonna come to church next Sunday.
Not much time left so I'll just leave with a quick Aloha and
a picture of Bei!
~Elder Skinner
