This week was pretty vanilla aside from 설날 (Lunar/Chinese New Year's) and one of A-Team's investigators getting baptized yesterday! Other than that, it was a lot of going outside to find people (but unfortunately there weren't a ton of people out because Chinese New Year's is pretty darn big here in Korea...). But it was still fun! Someone's out there waiting for two white dudes to teach him about Jesus here in 호계 and Elder Minson and I are obliged to do so. Update time~
On Monday, Elder Geddes (my P-Day companion) and I were left with nothing to do and we couldn't just do nothing since it was a birthday P-Day so we had decided to go to the coast in our area and see what was there to do. But all the buses going there got cancelled, so we just went to downtown Ulsan instead and searched for a gift for Elder 이해성 since his birthday is coming up soon (we got him a sweater a black guy on it; Elder 이 LOVES black people, so it was a solid find). And then we ended the night with FHE, eating pig fat stew with the youth, and watching some snow fall down here in Ulsan. Fun day.
Our weekdays all the way up until Friday (선날) were all just regular days, with some soccer or basketball with some potential investigators thrown in there somewhere. We're still trying to figure out how to make some of those fellas into real investigators, maybe I'll have some good update on them for next week.
Friday was Chinese New Year's! Our mission asked us to do district meeting, a district lunch, and then a district proselyting activity in a well populated area so we could use time a little more effectively on one of the deadest proselyting days of the year in Korea. District meeting was awesome; definitely one of the better ones I've had in awhile thanks to some great insights from other missionaries. District lunch and proselyting was a ton of fun. Luckily there were still people outside to we were able to talk to some nice people and get their contact information to talk to them later. We ended on all drinking some bubble tea together and then splitting back to our areas to finish up the day. All the missionaries here in 호계 were lucky enough to get invited to eat at our Branch president's house and even more lucky to get permission to have all three teams go to the same dinner appointment from the AP's. They fed us SO MUCH. And afterwards we were all able to sit down and chat together about the our Branch Mission Plan and our focus is going to be going to all the members houses every week, reading the Book of Mormon with them for ten minutes, and inviting to keep reading the Book of Mormon all week long for at least 10 minutes. Branch President thinks that as the members invite the spirit into the home through the Book of Mormon and nourish/strengthen themselves spiritually that they will be more willing and apt to spring into some member missionary work action. We were all on board. I'll have to update you more on the execution of that plan later.
We were also able to meet Branch President's son who just returned home this week on Tuesday, Brother 추지웅, who just served two years in the Korea Seoul South Mission. He is an absolute baller. He's all fired up for member missionary work and he's already talking about helping us all the time, contacting some of his friends to see if he can't find somebody to refer, doing soccer and basketball with our potential investigators, going out proselyting with us, etc. He's going to be such a blast to work with; I hope he keeps his fire going here for a long time.
On the weekend, we were able to have a lunch appointment with all of the missionaries in the area again in a different member's house on Saturday (even more food than last appointment; I think my stomach has stretch marks now), and that was a great house to be in. One of them had a friend who had been meeting with A-Team for quite a while and finally got permission to get baptized from his parents on that day! Since he had all the lessons already and a passed interview, he got the signature that night and he was baptized the next day at church! His name is 김태원 (Kim Taewon) and he's a super cute 14 year old kid with an awesome friend that he can grow up with in the faith now. Awesome Sunday.
And nowwww I got nothing else! Today Elder Geddes are on our own again today. I actually caught a pretty bad cold so we're probably going to just finally actually take a rest P-Day. I got no problem with that. Thanks for reading and writing, love you all~
-Elder Metcalf
1) Snow in Ulsan with the youth (It's not supposed to snow here...) 2) The best 떡볶이 I've ever made (it was SO good; super proud, had to share) 3) Elder Minson at our Branch President's daycare center (we eat there every Wednesday) 4) One of our meal appointments this last weekend 5) 김태원 at his baptismal service
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