We were able to grab some appointments with members in the evening a lot of this week. We're trying to visit all the members houses, share a message about Easter, record their testimonies, and then put them all together to watch as a ward sometime after Easter. It was looking difficult to try and visit all of them so it was pretty awesome we got to see four of them this week. Hoping to get the rest of them this week and the week afterwards, wish us luck...
We had a good chunk of time to work on the new Area Book record stuff and have some time to proselyte outside so we managed to find a good little handful of potential investigators. One guy we called invited us over right after we called him, so we hurry out to get to his place, show up, and it's a Buddhist college. This man is some sort of Buddhist teacher guy and he's dressed up in his Buddhist wear, invites us in for some apple juice and a religious conversation. I thought he was just going to roast us the whole time but he was actually super nice and respectful. He met missionaries 30 years ago in Seoul, and says he's read the entire Book of Mormon before. He thinks we should focus less on proselyting and finding and just study more about religion while we're on our missions, so he gave us a textbook to read, and in return we gave him another Book of Mormon to read. I'm not sure where that will go but it's instances like these and a handful of others that show the prospects for new investigators.
Speaking of investigators: we taught our older investigator twice this week. I taught him once on exchange with the Zone Leaders (Elder Seol, who was in my spot last transfer and had been teaching him before me), and then again on Sunday with our Ward Mission Leader and an Area Seventy from Seoul (It's an interesting story, but he knows our investigators younger sister and was the man who originally referred the man to us after he heard our investigator's mother's dying words to send missionaries to her son. She got her wish. The Area Seventy and guy who gave us the referral is Elder 배동철 Bae Dongcheor). But unfortunately with all that hype, he still won't accept anything. We'll just have to keep praying and see what we can do.
We have Facebook now!! I still haven't made one because I've had zero time to figure it out. We're using it for proselyting purposes only so don't expect and replies on social media and expect a lot more post of spiritual messages, occasional pictures, and some Korean language stuff. Not sure how it all works yet but we'll see! We also got a bunch of new rules last week. We basically can't do anything with the Sister missionaries anymore. No eating together, no P-days together, no taxis together, no taking pictures together without a member. Basically if an activity doesn't have a center of the missionary purpose, you can't do it. A lot of people aren't excited about it, of course. Expecting more rules to come out soon about social media too.
That's all I've really got this week. It's been harder here than some of my past transfers but I'm feeling some real growth from serving here. It'd be nice to see some progress in my area but I know that my own personal progress is just as important if not more important. Although it's stressful sometimes the stress has that odd comfort behind it, confirming that it's just positive stress. Gotta give it to Heavenly Father, he sure seems to know he's doing haha Alrighty, gotta go now! Thanks for reading and writing~
-Elder Metcalf
1) We did deep cleaning at the church for Stake Conference last week (we got our member present for the picture; yay obedience) 2) Our Sisters her in Suseong (Sister Redd-left and Sister Olsen-right) 3) Elder Seol was on exchange with me while we were doing all of the work outside of the church; he loves sawing the branches 4) We cleaned the baptismal font too (don't know why I posed like that, sorry world)
MORE PICS
1) More Elder Seol while we were on exchanges 2) I went on exchange back to 경산 Gyeongsan!! We were so busy that I couldn't really take it all in but it was nice to be back in my old area. They're on a diet right now in that house so they gave me all the candy they could find to get rid of. 3) Elder Adams (serving in 경산) and I heading to Stake Conference
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