It's been packed week and a lot has happened. First of all, new district! Half of our district has changed so far. Elder Lunt is still our District Leader up in 상인 and he's going to "die" this transfer and head back home to Utah in a few weeks. His new companion is Elder Aurich, and their area also got two new sisters who white-washed in, Sister Thurgood (who came to Korea just a couple of days ago from the MTC) and Sister Nielson (who's training her). And then over here in 중리 we also have two white-washed sisters who are also our zone's Sister Training Leaders, Sister Raju (who came to Korea with me and was serving in our District Leader's area last transfer) and Sister 강나리 ("Kang Nari"; who's finishing Sister Raju's training). They already gave us food at least twice so they are amazing in our eyes. And then of course there's Elder Fox and I! Our first district meeting was awesome and we are all pumped to kill it this transfer. We looking to get four baptisms this transfer and we're going to do everything in our power, with the Lord's help and guidance, to accomplish it.
So Elder Fox and I have two major projects going on: the first being our possible Filipino branch, and the second being all of B-Team Elder's investigators that they handed off to us. So first off, there are a ton of Filipino's in this area and a couple of them are already members of our church! We already have two that regularly attend with our ward, Bryan and Alex, and we're determined to work hard with them to get less-actives to church and help them invite their friends to do as well. Last Sunday we had a less-active members, Marife and her daughter Arrian, attend and it was awesome to see them feel the Spirit working in them for what I'm sure must've been a long time absent. So we got that going... And then there's all of B-Team's investigators who we've all met so far but one. Two of them have families that might want to attend church so Elder Fox and I are psyched to help get them there. One of them, 김정세 (also known as "Spomartial" Kim), met missionaries 15 years ago, talks a ton about how much he loves our standards involving health and family, and at the end of our first meeting introduced us to his wife and had us call his daughter to try and convince them both to come learn with their husband/father. I think this is what it means to find someone "prepared" for the gospel. We're SUPER excited to continue meeting him.
In other news... I had to drop my first investigator because he wouldn't keep any of our commitments or progress in any way. It was a bummer but he might be more ready somewhere farther along the road. Elder Fox and I figured out how to bake in Korea! It's revolutionary in terms of expanding our menu. We also almost died moving desks and dressers to the sisters' house. And a ton more stuff that I really can't remember. It's going awesome here, and I hope it's going awesome for wherever you're at as well! Thanks for reading, and have an awesome week!
-Elder Metcalf
1) Elder Fox, myself, and our fantastic banana bread (complete with handmade whipping cream) 2) Our area's missionaries over here in Jungni
3) This full chicken (I forget the name..) that I ate with chopsticks (super difficult but super tasty)
4) I found Dr. Pepper in Korea and it was AMAZING. Dad would be proud.
***For those who don't know what he meant by white washing...It is a term they use to describe 2 missionaries put into a new area at the same time so neither one is familiar to the area.
These last 2 are just extra pictures that he sent with no captions
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