This transfer is going by freaky fast. I've already passed two major holidays and it's felt like two hours. Hard to believe that four weeks ago I was white-washed into this area. But I guess that's a good sign that we have an okay handle on the area now (for the most part). Here's what happened this week...
We're currently working on a way resurrect our English class and Family Home Evening program here in 호계. As of right now it's super dead. Maybe one of two people coming to both activities regularly. So we're making plans and starting anew! We're also trying to work on angle from a social media standpoint too. It's a bit hard though because a lot of things are still restricted in the Korea Busan Mission. So the plan is to produce some well-made videos, get permissions to publish and put them on social media, and then get some good impressions from some people and help others see that we're normal people trying to serve in Korea. I'm not really at the spearhead of this operation so I can't give the whole vision in an elegant manner but it is the 21st century and we all agreed that it wouldn't be a bad idea to try finding people through more effective ways that making people uncomfortable on the street. It's got a lot of potential, and I'll keep you posted on where it goes...
There really isn't much other than that actually... We had district meeting this week too; we're still focusing on members. Hmm... No wait; I have a fun, little story to tell! Okay so one night Elder Minson and I had decided to go visit a member who hasn't been coming to church lately. we had planned to go right after dinner but during dinner he texted us and told us not to come. So we finished dinner and walked outside, and as we were walking back to the church, we got to chatting with this man on the side of the street. He actually greeted us first. But the catch is this: The guy was fairly drunk. The area our church is located is smack-dab in the middle of a bunch of restaurants and bars and neon signs everywhere. It's kind of ironic actually. But anyway, this guy had seen and chatted with missionaries before so he was interested enough to just small talk with us right then. After some small talk he had decided that he likes these two American boys and wants to meet up again and eat dinner together or something. So we get to exchanging information, waved him goodbye and got to walking again. So we had arrived to the front of the church, and just as Elder Minson was asking what we should do next, a car pulled up. It was our friend that we had just met moments ago. He told us that he would drive us to our house, but our house was only a minute away so we told him that we didn't need it. But then he told us that he wants to treat us, and take us to his house to chat more. You'd think that we would have given some more thought into stepping into a car with an intoxicated driver but we were missionaries, and the Spirit gave no red lights, so we went! He drove us to these brand new apartments, walked into the convenience store nearby, grabbing whatever caught his first interest. stuffed it into a bag, handed it to us, and drove into the parking garage of this apartment building. We go up a handful of floors and this guy starts giving us a tour of his whole house (it was a nice place). He feeds us, he takes a video for his wife, he chats some more with us, and then tells us to call or come back whenever we wanted. And then we walked home. It's hard to find people out here so Elder Minson and I labeled it a miracle, and we're looking forward to meeting him again and seeing is he likes us while he's sober. And more importantly, see if he has any interest in what missionaries are doing in Korea. Fun stuff.
And in other news, on working on getting permission to go see both of my old investigators (PJ and 박상민) get baptized on the 14th. It's gotten really hard lately to get permissions to go to baptismal services more than an hour away but I'm praying really hard to see if it can happen. They are two of the most special people I have met in my life and it'd be a privilege to be able to see them come closer to Christ through baptism. Crossing fingers over here...
That's all I have for this week. Today we're going to 경주 (Gyeongju - the oldest city in Korea) with our zone for P-day and maybe going to a Buddhist temple if the rains dies down. Should be fun~ Thanks for reading/writing! 바이 바이~~~
-Elder Metcalf
1) Elder Minson, disguised as Elder Lee, Elder Gil, Sister Kang, Sister Stott, and myself. 2) A life-changing quote found in a Korean restaurant (the stuff they write in English here is hilarious sometimes) 3-4) We set out on the quest to find the best tasting ramen for last FHE. I'm not proud of how much I ate. And we still don't know what the best is by the way...
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