He's Back!

It was a good week everybody but I got to get straight to the point on this one: HE'S BACK! 박상민 IS BACK!!!

So our golden investigator that we had this past transfer that disappeared after he had a motorcylce accident and made another appointment to meet us has come back into our lives! We were in the middle of P-day and for some reason that day (I don't even remember why) we decided to just stay and Gyeongsan and not really do anything for the day. Well it turns out that it was actually the Spirit because halfway through our P-day the phone started ringing and it was none other than 박상민 (Sangmin Park). So we flipped out, answered the phone, he said he would be at the church in five minutes, we met the man, and then we talked. Turns out that after he had that accident and made an appointment to meet us again, he had some sort life crisis thing happen where he was just crazy confused about life. Like why was he 21 and working at a pizza place, why he couldn't get into the college he wanted, why he broke up with his girlfriend, and so forth. So for over a month he didn't contact anyone. Not his best friend, not his exgirlfriend, not us, not even his mom. So he told us that he didn't really pray at that time but he always kinda had a prayer in his heart, like questions for God. And the day that he came to us again, he had a feeling that he should come tell the missionaries what's going on, and that he should tell his mom everything too. But long story short, he's okay! He missed us, he still loves us, he still wants to meet with us, he still has his testimony, and he still wants to get baptized. We need to teach him and solidy his faith a little these next few weeks but he's for sure getting baptized next transfer. I'm not sure I'm going to be there for it, but I'm super excited to meet with him and teach him again these next two weeks. Miracles do happen and the church is true.

That's the best news right there. Aside from that, we had mostly a normal week, aside from zone conference. We had our zone conference on Tuesday this last week and we were sharing the zone conference with Ulsan zone. But the other twist was that Daegu zone had to travel this time, which is something that never happens apparently. It ate up our entire day actually, but I'd say it was still worth it to see some friendly missionary faces and recieve some spiritual nourishment. The only thing new that came out of the conference was a revised list of mission specific rules, what's the deal with our smartphones not having any apps, and a new mission goal to have 400 new investigators by Christmas (7 per team). The rules are fine (some missionaries aren't happy about a few), the phones will get apps "eventually" (we're all still really confused about that), and Elder Seely and I already have 3 new investigators out of 7 so we're pumped to try and find more.

Nothing else worth mentioning really happened this week. We met all of our investigators. We had an awesome Sunday with 박상민 (it was primary program day too, so that was super cute and hilarious). And we're still trying to figure out how to help our branch more...

Thanks for reading/writing!

-Elder Metcalf

1-4) HE'S BACK BABY

MORE PICS:

1-2) Elder Seely and I found some fun advertisements during a 전도 sesh 3) I FINALLY GOT MY WINTER STUFF AND I'M SO HAPPY 4) It snowed in Gyeongsan! Apparently it NEVER happens. (It melted super quick though)