Our area missionaries have changed! But only one. It's actually kinda biggish news though, at least for the Ulsan Zone. So my Zone Leader, Elder Geddes has been moved from Shinjeong to Hogye, remaining as zone leader and being co-Zone Leaders with Elder 이해성 (Lee Haeseong, who was here last transfer as Hogye A-team). Zone Leaders don't get moved around very often so that's kind of an interesting change. He's a good missionary and a fun housemate so I'm excited for the rest of the transfer. Our sister team has become a two-area sister teams now so their schedules are wrecked for at least the next transfer. But it's all good because they're still doing great, they have a ton to work with. And my new District Leader is Elder Kirkham! Elder Kirkham served in the same house as me in my very first transfer so it's like having my uncle as a District Leader. The rest of the district is awesome too. Looks great for the future.
The rest of our week was pretty same-old stuff. We tried to visit less-actives, and we were able to see both of our investigators this week. Actually, one of the days of the week was a little less run-of-the-mill. On Saturday we had the opportunity to accompany our youth and our youth investigator, 주관 (Jugwan), to their weekly youth activity: roller skating. The missionary inside me was screaming that it was crazy ineffective but it was completely worth it. We got to get closer with the youth and youth leaders and we were able to make Jugwan feel a lot more comfortable. He's a little quiet and doesn't really push his way into the group but by the end of this transfer we're hoping to get him some baptismal covenants and a well fellowshipped group of youth. We sealed the deal with basketball afterwards too (he loves to ball). A bummer that he couldn't come to church this week but he's still doing awesome. More updates later...
Okay, here comes the super cool inspiring missionary part of the weekly email. Or at least i think it's pretty cool. So we had a short district meeting this week to get the information on what's going on during the transfer. Our Mission mom attended the meeting too by the way (부담...) and we were told that it is now a new "rule" to get three contacts and give one Book of Mormon everyday. Now, doing that in Hogye is a little difficult because the only area that you can really proselyte in is full of people who have seen the missionaries a billion times, so 전도 has never really worked out the way we hoped. Our Mission Mom, Sister Kim, heard this and told us that night to go to a bus stop right after the meeting until the end of the night and get our contacts and Book of Mormon that way. So we were already discouraged by the new "rule" and now we were even less excited about our Mission Mom's advice but we had to try in faith to see what would happen. And it happened. We sat at a bus stop from seven until nine and got three contacts. And walking home we met a man who was curious about our book as we were talking with him and was completely willing to take it when we offered. MIRACLES. We got humbled big time. We're going to try and keep that new "rule" every day and follow our Mission Mom's advice and go to the same bus stop every night we can (same place, more consistent exposure to the same people = easier to approach). More news on that later too...
That's all I can write for now! Thank you for reading! Buh bye~
-Elder Metcalf
1) Elder Geddes (it was his birthday on transfer day so we treated him at some buffet place in downtown Ulsan) 2) The current batch of Hogye missionaries 3-4) My beloved Zone Leaders
1) Our investigator 현주관 (Hyun Jugwan) 2-4) Roller skating antics with the youth (they're SUPER fun) 5) Elder Minson went too hard on the skates and ripped his wheels out of his skates trying to pull of some Tokyo Drift stunts
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