Alright, the last week of the transfer was really, really, really busy. And there's a bunch of pictures that were taken too which I will try to include later. The week basically consisted of Zone P-Day, exchanges to Gyeongsan, Zone Conference, a Helping Hands service activity, last week weekly planning, deep cleaning our house, a baptismal interview, a baptism, and trying to meet a handful of investigators and potential investigators in the mean time. We'll see if I can't hit the highlights a little better...
-Zone P-Day was suuuuper fun. It was the same thing we did as last time (going to an open park and playing a bunch of sports). Our Mission President actually tried to cancel it on us because, reasons? I don't actually remember.. BUT, we saved it through the wit of our Zone Leaders, who managed to concoct a "missionary purpose" behind the Zone P-Day. Woooooo! Good thing it didn't get cancelled because it was planned for the entire transfer and it was really stress relieving.
-I went on exchange with Elder 설진영 Seol Jinyoung down in 경산 Gyeongsan the day before Zone Conference. Elder Seol's health hasn't been all that great lately and he's getting to be an older missionary these days so the exchange was quite as "hard working" as I would have hoped for it to be but it was good to talk to him and do the work that we could. And we were able to teach a recent convert that day about how to receive answers to his own questions through personal revelation. Elder Seol is SUPER good at teaching and it was really cool to see a lesson being taught about something as important as getting answers to the questions in our hearts. Aside from that, we did some 전도 out in the middle of nowhere, and when we finally came in and called it a night, Elder Seol treated me to hot chocolate on the roof (the Elders live on the top floor our their villa in Gyeongsan, easy access). A nice therapeutic exchange back in one of my old ares with a good friend.
-ZONE CONFERENCE was down in Busan this week, and was our annual hiking Zone Conference! And to make things better, we did the the conference with Daegu zone AND Ulsan zone (the only two zones I've ever been in or know people in). So it was another good time to see some faces and chat it up. A shame that they are starting to segregate the Elders and Sisters more and more in our mission though. We hiked separate from all the sisters the entire time and ate lunch separate as well. Alright for me though, there were a ton of awesome Elders to spend some time with. More on the spiritual side of things, the focus of this conference was personal revelation. Our President talked about how prophets would go up to mountains to converse with God and at the very end gave us time at the top of the mountain to pray about our personal questions. Spending a couple of minutes at the top of a mountain to think and pray about the things that are one my mind was actually a lot more enjoyable than I expected. Free time to think has now become a luxury haha. The talks and testimonies were great. Good fun time.
-A little bit about our investigators~ We tried meeting our referral guy who wants to get baptized but cancelled on us for the second time in a row (bummer), but in the same day met our Sugar Daddy investigator and a new investigator (recovered). Sugar Daddy, 장재형 Jang Jaehyung, fed us the best tasting roasted fish I've ever had. Unfortunately didn't get to share anything with him but set it up so we could do so next time. Our new investigator is a super nice guy we met on the street working in insurance with a super cute family that wanted to take us out to eat. And so he took us out to eat dinner at an Italian restaurant (hard to find in Korea). We got to more properly get to know each other, he thinks missionaries are sick, and he's planning on asking his wife if we can come over to meet his family (WHOA). So that was a nice miracle for that day. We're planning on meeting him again this week! We also got to meet Ben again and taught him the entire Plan of Salvation. It seems like a little too much information at one time for him but he didn't start running away after we taught it. He's still down for us to continue teaching about Jesus. We just got to try and figure out how to get him to act on the things he's learning now...
-Helping Hands Service Project and Baptismal Service. We had the entire Daegu Stake come down to Suseong to help clean up the river right next to our church. Pretty hot outside but still had a good turn out. More missionaries and members to see. We had an awesome potential investigator show up out of nowhere, Lorenzo or 나준성 Nah Junseong. And then he decided to stay for the baptismal service right after; he said that he thought it would be a cool experience, so why not? Speaking of the baptismal service, I got to conduct my first ever baptismal interview to Brother 문민식 Moon Minshik, who met his girlfriend (super active member) last year, heard ALL the lessons from her, met our A-Team a month ago, reviewed all the lessons, passed the interview with flying colors, and was baptized on May 26th 2018. He's a baller, and him and his girlfriend are planning on getting married in the temple a year from now. Way to go 민식!
That's all I have time to write! It was a super fun week, I'll try to include as many pictures as I can! Thanks for reading~~
-Elder Metcalf
1-4) Exchanges with Elder 설진영, with a bonus pic of his daily language study (the one where he's sleeping)
1) Elder Seol leading me to "전도 Mountain" (there were zero people) 2-4) Romantic rooftop escape
1-5) More relaxing roof time and some face masks that Elder Seol had
A BUNCH OF ZONE CONFERENCE PICS (sorry if some don't make sense)
Our investigator who fed us some real fancy fish and took some pictures with his Aunt and little sister
HELPING HANDS SERVICE ACTIVITY
1) the Helping Hands group fro Daegu (I'm in the back making a heart on top of Elder Fox's shoulders) 2) 문민식's baptism!! (I'm a little red in the face because Elder Staker and I just sprinted 10 minutes to our house and ten minutes back to grab some baptismal clothes for him)
