Time is Flying By

It's only been a little over a month that I've arrived in Korea and it has felt more like a week. It's been an early wake-up call on how precious the mission time is and makes me want to work even harder. Next week marks the end of my first transfer as a missionary. I'll probably end up staying here in Jungni with Elder Fox completing my training, but we recently got a new mission president so old patterns could be shaken up. And something that just hit me is that A WHOLE EIGHTH of my mission is already past! It makes me feel all antsy just thinking about it... 

As for things to report this week, there isn't a ton to say. I had an exchange with one of the zone leaders, Elder Casutt, who is going back home to Utah in just a week from now. It was super cool to see a missionary just a little over a week away from going home and still working super hard til the very end. Awesome example, and learned a lot more about how to teach people and see different styles of proselyting. We also had a district meeting this week, and focused on how we can teach to needs using the resources that we have and how to better reach our goals. It was a nice boost in the middle of the week. In other news, Elder Fox and I worked our butts off this week to start finding some new investigators, and trying to get more appointments with our current investigators. Big bummers when we couldn't find anyone that wanted to meet with us this week, and more than half our appointments either got rescheduled or couldn't make it. So closer to the end of our week, talking about our dry spell, we decided it would an effective use of time to sit down, pray, and make some goals/actions to help us reach some success. President jeong has been stressing a lot this transfer about the importance of specific goals so it felt dually appropriate to do so. We came up with our plan for the remainder of this transfer (and hopefully the next) on how we can bring the people of Jungni closer to Christ and have already started to see the fruits of it! One of the things we started doing is sending a message to all the members in our ward on Saturday to pray for our investigators to come to church (since we've only had one come this whole transfer). And the next day, one of them contacted us in the morning and said he wanted to attend sacrament meeting with us! Super strong testimony builder on the power of prayer and how far prayerful goals/plans go. I'm excited to see what other miracles will happen as we continue on...

That's all I've got for now! I hope everyone has a great week!

-Elder Metcalf

1) Sister Han leading our teaching practice in district meeting (she's also going home in just a week) 2) A bird's eye view of where we sleep; super huge. FUN FACT: If it was literally an inch shorter we wouldn't be able to fit all four of us in there. 3) My zone leader and temporary companion, Elder Casutt 4) My loving and exasperated trainer, Elder Fox, waiting one of our investigators after a large block of 전도