I'M TRANSFERRING!

A surprising turn of events over here in 중리! So most of the time when you finish up training, the trainer transfers out and the trainee leads the area but I guess God had a different plan going on. Elder Fox is going to be staying here in Jungri for a fourth transfer as District Leader aaaaand he's training again! He's going to have three 'sons' in the mission now; so proud of him. Meanwhile, I'm going to be moving just three districts away in 경산 (Gyeongsan)! I'm a little bummed to be leaving the main city, heading out to the country side, and not being able to see all of awesome investigators but I'm ready to start a new chapter of my missionary life out here! And because I'm still in the same zone as Jungri, I get to come for my investigators' baptisms and see my trainer and little brother! Now over in Gyeongsan, I'm going to be follow-up trained by Elder Seely (who I served with in my district my first transfer in the field, yay friendly face) who is going to be District Leader over in my new district. Ahhhh, I'm super pumped to see what happens the next six weeks.

Anywho, now that I got out the big news, I'll tell you what happened this week. So first off, this week went by like a blur, and we were busy every single day. I can't even remember if we did anything crazy because I feel like the whole week was crazy... Ah! We had Mission Tour this week! Mission Tour is when a general authority rolls through the area and has a conference with the missionaries in that area. Elder Yamashita (and area seventy for the Asia North area) came and talked to us with his wife. It was probably the longest meeting I've ever experienced but boy it was jam packed with some edifying knowledge. Super cool to see all the missionaries together too (Three zones of missionaries got put together), and I got to see a bunch of friends from the MTC. A but of a bummer we couldn't take any pictures or unpack the knowledge because we had an appointment directly after the meeting (we literally had to sprint out of there). 

But the busiest day of all was Sunday by far. We had a lot of incentive to invite people to church this Sunday: we had a baptism for a boy in our ward right after church, a ward lunch right after that, and I was moving areas so it was going to be the last time people could see me. All that being said, we had an amazing turn out. Both of baptismal date investigators (who were super sweet to me, I have to get pictures with them when they get baptized), three other investigators, and two less actives. I was running around church all day trying to talk to all of them. But man was it nice to leave on a good note. We our meetings, and then district music 전도 with members right after that. So I was super toasted after I got home (had to stay up late the night before to start packing too, woops), and I'm a little toasted now to be honest haha. And now right after email I get to head over to my new area and meet my companion. Looking forward for what lies ahead...

That's all I got. Thanks for reading/writing!

-Elder Metcalf

1) Last P-Day we went to Outback to send Elder Lunt off 2) Jungri missionaries with our awesome matching sweaters (I don't know why we chose IKEA but people in Korea just wear IKEA shirts for some reason 3) Last pic in Jungri with my beloved trainer Elder Fox, I hope another trainer won't kill him