Long story sort: I got wrecked this last week for a whole bunch of reasons. Becoming senior companion and district leader for the first time while coming into a new area is apparently harder than I first thought. My new companion Elder Nations has only been here in 수성 for 6 weeks, and those six weeks were spent with a Korean missionary who was leading everything so my poor man didn't really get to know a ton about what was going on with investigators or anything involving the area. So I came in with just about the same amount of knowledge that he did about the area. It was like whitewashing all over again haha. BUT! The worst part is over, and all that stress was good for bringing about some more humility and sincerity so it's all good in the end. I'll move on to all the updates of what the heck is going on in 수성 Suseong~~~
So first things first: the missionaries in my district are the actual best. They are all solid. I actually think I was the only one who was having some struggles haha. After going down to Busan and getting some District Leader training, I felt like really the only thing I need to do help this district be awesome is PUMP THEM UP. It's the time of the year where winter is finally starting to die and the spring is coming in. This is the time when all the sadness of the cold goes away, people's hearts start warm up. It happens every year and we're going to get fired up to start it early. We're going to be focusing on seeing miracles everyday. More an the awesomeness of the district later~
I'm going to fill you in on the few investigators we got now. The most unique by far is 장성태 (Jang Seongtae); he is a 60 year old man who used to be a gangster back in the day and now he's pretty sick and got a head injury a couple years ago so he's just a docile, old fella that chills in his office and listens to the Bible. His mother died not too long ago and her dying words were to send missionaries to him. So he's a referral! The Elders met him maybe three times before I came in and he doesn't really keep any commitments but he listens to us and likes having us visit them. His sister who lives in Canada is calling the Elders everyday to ask about his progress because she wants him to be baptized next month. Also and area seventy up in Seoul is good friends with his sister so he's involved too. Not sure how to teach him yet really but it's interesting being the one in the companionship that has to do the majority of the teaching and understanding. We're also teaching another older gentleman who is also a referral. His name is 서정한. I met him for the first time yesterday and he's down for praying and reading the Book of Mormon so that's great. He's an interesting man, not sure what's in store for the future for him either. He's heading to Jeju Island for a bit so I don't know when we'll meet him again. And lastly the only other one is 오세진 (Oh Sehjin); he's a really good friend of the youth here and has been coming out to church for a long time. He doesn't really think much of the lessons he's had and his parents are super against the church so he doesn't like talking about baptism very much. We're going to work on getting close with him this transfer and seeing if we can't warm him and his parents up a little~
The church and the members here are AMAZING! Every Sunday we do three hours of church at the Military Branch and three hours at the Korean Ward. It's awkward speaking in English and whatnot but it feels nice and homey to be around other military saints and understand what everyone is saying again. My convert PJ attends church there too! He's doing awesome and is going to be receiving the priesthood here soon. Everyone in the Korean Ward is super nice. We're working on visiting all the members before Easter so being able to see some friendly faces and introduce myself was a load off for the stress. There was a party afterwards at a members house too and this place seems like a big old family. I'm going to love it here in 수성.
That's all I have time to write! Thanks for reading and writing ^^ Buh bye~
-Elder Metcalf
1) View of the area 2) Commute to church 3) Party at Brother Billy Clites house (the entire ward managed to fit in there) 4) The Elders I'm living with; Elder Stewart and Elder 설진영 (Seol Jinyoung) and my companion Elder Nations
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