Elder Gavin Metcalf's Adventures in Korea: Conference and nice weather

This week was a little bit of a busy one. But the weather was on our side so that made our lives a lot easier. It's literally the P E R F E C T weather in Korea right now. It's like an automatic boost to the mood of the day. And it makes me remember the unforgettable times I had in this season last year in Gyeongsan. And just like those times, we're still continuing to see some miracles~

Alright here's the weekly table of contents for ya:

- Two exchanges; I stayed in Oncheon for both of them. One with our Busan zone leaders (I did my exchange with Elder Wright) and one with our Changwon zone leaders (with Elder B. Giles). And they were both pretty darn fun. There's something about exchange days that I can just never grab an appointment so you know what that means? GRAND 전도 EXCHANGE PT. 3&4. Except we didn't actually have the copious amounts of proselyting time that we had the last few times. We had a ward picnic on my exchange with Elder Wright at a local arboretum (like an outdoor nature exhibit) and three of our people that we're teaching came. Not a lot of time to teach but I finally got some time to know our friends and members a little better. And with Elder Giles we had to come back and forth from his area in the Changwon zone, and we visited our super cute ancient couple here in Oncheon to invite them to do a Book of Mormon challenge that we're working on in our mission. Cool people met on the street in between and fun times had.

- We did some sticker boarding this week to find some buds to come to our English class that we still haven't started yet. But we got a handful of contacts and we'll have to find out who will end up at the end of this week when we try starting it back up again. But we found a cool kid named 다윈 Darwin during the time and we had a Family Home Evening type of thing with him this week at our Mission President's home and met him the next day to play some more games a little bit and share something that was helpful to us when we were his age. He's got a lot of time so it looks like we'll be able to meet him pretty often~

- We got to meet with our Bishop's younger brother again, both at the ward picnic and at the church for a lesson. He totally read a little bit of the Book of Mormon since the last time we saw him! And another good thing is he's starting to warm up to the missionaries a little more. and ask questions in lessons. He's still got a bit of a way to go but we think that we can get him to start coming to church here soon too.

- We did a morning hike up the mountain behind our HQ and a breakfast with our Mission President and Mission Mom this Saturday before General Conference. It felt like home and it's nice to feel some parent-like love all the time from President Jeong and Sister Kim. It's a privilege to be able to spend so much time with them and I'm thankful for my Korean mom and dad (I still love you too Mom and Dad, don't worry). Also General Conference was A W E S O M E. I got a bunch of answers to some stuff I had been thinking about recently and it was nice to have some time this week to sit back and just hear what our Heavenly Father has prepared for us to hear through His chosen servants. Too many good talks to name them all off but I'm going to focus my best on looking back through all the talks and notes to put together some actions and commitments I can make to put these things into practice. I would also like to testify that the Lord blesses his missionaries because back when Elder Metcalf didn't have 'Elder' in his name he just slept through conference everytime but now I am spiritually restrained from doing so. He knows I'm a tired 장로, thanks for the extra and needed strength. It sounds silly but you have no idea how seriously I take my sleep these days haha

That's it for ya! Shout out to my cuz Will for finishing his mission in Mexico City, there's one less Elder Metcalf in the world now~ I haven't seen him for a while but I know he absolutely reefed the past two years. You're the best.

You're all the best too. Have a beautiful autumny week~

-Elder Metcalf

STUFF I MISSED FROM LAST WEEK (pictures from meeting and stuff)

LAST WEEK cont;d

OFFICE ADVENTURES

Christmas is coming early in Busan. I refill Elder Kim with a bagel. We get a "Joop" belt from that ancient member in our ward (it's supposed to be "Jeep").