Yup, we ate dog. It was Elder Staker's first. It was my second time. But apparently I ate it wrong last time because you're ACTUALLY supposed to eat it in the summer. It supposed to be good for your health or something in the season. Also it was tasty. I have no regrets. Sorry fido.
NOW FOR THE WEEKLY UPDATE. WHAT. DID. WE. DOOOOO.....
- We bought a bunch of Korean stuff to prepare Elder Staker to go back to America. (Only two weeks left...)
- The stars aligned and we got four new investigators this week! Two of them were some fellas we found in our area book that we met this week and were down to meet again (one of those guys wants us to come to his house and do an FHE type thing with his family). One of them was a college student we met on the subway. He's super nice and he's aspiring to become a fashion designer and he's also down to meet again. The last guy was someone Elder Sayer and I met last transfer that took us out for dinner and wants to introduce us to his family (WHOA, another family). So we need to try and figure out how to make that happen; hope that we can set up some appointments with them soon~
- We went back and forth from Busan for MLCM (Mission Leadership Council Meeting?). It's a meeting where all the zone leaders and sister training leaders in the mission meet up and discuss the things that are going well in the mission, the things that we could improve on in the mission, and our mission goals. Our mission is currently trying to get 100 baptisms before the end of the year and we're up to about 20? at this point. We're hoping to just focus on Christ and develop our faith to be able to achieve the goal and one of the basic ideas that we came up with is just to think positively about it. No one's going to want to strive to accomplish a goal if the people around don't even think well about it. So we're going going to focus on PUMPIN people up, showing our faith by actively striving for the goal, and letting people know that they CAN achieve goals. So that was a good constructive meeting. But then we got a bunch of new rules given to us and that was no fun... Oh well.
- We visited a hospital to eat lunch with one of our members (he's a doctor). We were able to help edit some report he had written in English (his English is better than mine actually). And then we went to go visit a less active member who had been stuck in the hospital for awhile. He's doing good; he was grateful that we spent the time to come visit him. Nice people~
- We had our MCM meeting with our ward mission leader over some traditional summer dog soup. He's the actual best. And then while we were eating some dude just said hi to us, thought it was NUTS that some white kids were eating dog in Korea, saw that we were missionaries, and then gave us his number and told us to visit him right after we were done eating. MIRACLES. So we went over there and he wanted us to talk to his son who he mentioned was really into religion. BUT turns out that he's not really into any religions outside of his own. Yup, that happens. BUT. The dad and mom were super interested in who we were and how our church was different and showed a lot of respect to us as missionaries. Our WML did a baller job of talking to the people and explaining our purpose really well too. They left us open to come over again if we wanted to so we'll just have to see next time we're in the area. Turns out you can do missionary work just by sitting down and eating some dog.
- We met with our triplet of friends (an aspiring pastor, a Jehovah's witness, and a less active catholic) who are all studying the Book of Mormon to see if it's true. Only two of them were able to show up and out of the two of them, one made the commitment to try fasting this week as he prays and reads to find out if this stuff is true or not. He's a baller, and we're hoping and praying over here that he gets his answer.
- Just a small add-on that isn't crazy important but we came up with a bomb spiritual message for the family that we visited with some gummy worms. We gave them each a worm attached to a string and told them to become "fishers of men" by feeding it to the person next to them. It was cute. The kids loved it. Just wanted to share~~~
AND THAT WAS THE WEEK. People were met. Places were walked to (a lot). And sweat was... sweaten? sweated? sweat? It's hot, is point. Loving the work out here and looking for the eternal friends out on the street still. Hope that our bodies don't give out before the end of the summer. Next week is interviews. Catch you next week~~~
-Elder Metcalf
1-2) 보신탕 "boshintang" or other wise known as DOG SOUP (thank you 길희근b) 3) Us in one of our investigators houses (the air con was up SO HIGH, it was fantastic) 4) A bonus picture of me getting slapped in the face by a raccoon a few weeks ago after I gave it the opening to give me a smooch #waituntilafteryourmissiontosmoochpeople #thisiswhatideserve
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