Oh boy, the week has already slipped past. I always have a hard time remembering what the heck I did during the week when I think about it...
I'll just give an introduction to my new area, the Gyeongsan Branch! Gyeongsan is located right outside of Daegu (the very end of the subway line in fact). It's a beautiful area with a great mountain view, a river, and a lake. It's a lot less 시걸 (countryside) than I've heard actually, but since it's on the outskirts of the big city it is a little less poppin' in terms of population. But they do have a huge college in the area so it's not completely dead. The Branch here itself has about twenty members depending on the day and they are all amazing people. I'm super pumped to be in an area where I can really work with the members and figure out how to help them. I've actually spent more time planning parties, decorating, and rehearsing stuff than I have been proselyting, haha. It's a little hard to get used to not doing the regular cut-and-dry, "real" missionary work but this area has different needs and I'm prepared to learn how to work in different ways. My companion Elder Seely is a Korean language guru, he has an answer for every one of my questions. He's a great faithful missionary and we are going to kill it this transfer.
Things I did this week!
-Met our main investigator here in Gyeongsan, 박상민 (Sangmin Park), and he's AMAZING. The elders met him not to long ago on the street with his suped up bike (decorated with profanity and middle fingers) and decided to talk to him. He was atheist when they met him and now the man loves Jesus and loves the missionaries. He's scheduled for Oct. 8th to get baptized. He's so cool. He's this super tall, beefy dude, with a voice that sounds like a movie trailer announcer. I'm super excited to see him get dunked.
-I went to DLTM with my companion/District Leader Elder Seely. I got to see some old friends, and I also got to see my Trainer Elder Fox, his first trainee, and his new trainee. It was a little Fox family reunion. I also got to go out and proselyte for two hours while the district leaders were in the meeting so I got to go out with another junior companion and hit the streets of Busan. I went out with 이한슬 장로님 (Elder Hanseol Lee), who just finished half of his training so I got to be a Senior for a bit! Super fun. But there was only ladies on the streets so it wasn't very effective (Elders can only proselyte to men, And Sisters vice-versa in this mission).
-We threw a camping party for the Gyeongsan Branch. It was fun stuff. We put a lot of time and effort into it and two of our investigators came. We danced too. Wish I would have taken video or something, sorry.
That's all I got for now, thanks for reading/writing. Love ya
-Elder Metcalf
1) My new companion Elder Seely, just cheesin' and waiting for an investigator 2) A picture of the river in Gyeongsan 3) The royal Fox lineage (his newborn child Elder Soap on the left, and my older brother Elder Song)
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