Elder Gavin Metcalf's Adventures in Korea: One transfer down in the Boo

HELLO~

We were reaaaaal busy this week, as we always are. But it was the last week of the transfer and I think we ended on a good note. The HQ is starting to feel more and more like home as time goes by. And speaking of time going by, it doesn't even feel like I just did a transfer here. It feels like it was just a week ago that I got moved here. This place must have a built-in time machine or something. Alright, I'm going to summon all the mental strength I have to remember what we did last week~

- WE FINISHED UP ZONE CONFERENCES! We did Busan and Ulsan zone conferences this week and they were tons of fun. It was still Chuseok season so we had time to do some fun activities/games at both of the conferences. The Busan conference was held outside and we did some sort of a relay with a bunch of Korean traditional games. The Ulsan conference planned a game of 인간 윷놀이 "human yutnori". Yutnori is a Korean traditional game that involves throwing some sticks that act as dice to move your piece from start to end on a board. But the pieces on the board were real people this time around, and there were minigames on different spots of the board. The actual meeting part of the conferences was great too. We learned a lot about repentance last week and I got to have two more rounds of it this week as well.

- We met a few people this week, including some new ones! We met a man named JJ earlier this week, who is from the Philippines, who approached us last week and wanted to meet us again. We're not sure how sincere his interest is yet but he's super open and accepts the things we taught him pretty easily. Only bummer is that he travels often so it'll be hard to nail down a time for him to meet us next time. We also met another guy for the first time named 송무현 Song Muhyeon, and he's someone who wants to learn English from us. But he's SUPER nice and seems to be willing to hear what we have to say about what we do here in Korea. And another cool thing about him is that he owns a super tasty hotdog stand so I don't think it will ever be a chore to go visit him. We also met a guy named 김영철 Kim Youngcheor for the second time. We weren't able to teach him much this time because of the setting but he took us to the fanciest omelet place I've ever seen in my life. Also met our Bishop's younger brother for the second time and he is SOOOO good. We straight up asked him this time if he would think about joining the church if he found out that it was all true, and he told us yes! He accepts what we teach really well, keeps commitments, and we plan on meeting him every week.

- TRANSFERS HAPPENED! But nothing changed for me. It was pretty neat to be on the other side of transfers though and knowing ahead of time where everyone is going. I got to give the calls to the transferring missionaries too so that was a ton of fun. The real fun part though is making the travel plans for the missionaries after the calls are all done (a little sarcasm in this one since it's a little complicated and time consuming but it actually was kinda fun to draw up and plan the missionary goose chase).

I can't remember anything else to save my life, sorry. There's a lot of work to do over here but I'm having fun! I'm excited to be here for another transfer with Elder Kim, and we're hoping to tear it up over here in Oncheon. Have a beautiful weekend!

-Elder Metcalf

1-2) BUSAN ZONE CONFERENCE 3-4) More Busan zone conference; we played a game where one companion hides and the other companion finds him but he can only see out of the small hole at the end of the party hat (our mission president and his wide did it too, fun stuff)

1) We cleaned a house this week to prepare it to be reopened for some whitewashing missionaries to use and THERE WAS SO MUCH TRASH (no one got rid of trash for three transfers) 2) The fanciest omelet ever 3) Good angles with my boy Elder Reiley 4) 김영철, our fancy omelet bud

EVEN MORE

1) We got punked by a guy that we planned to meet in front of McDonald's, so we celebrated our cancellation with some real unhealthy burgers 2) A picture we took at our Busan Stake President's house last week for Chuseok 3-4) We visited the oldest couple of the Oncheon Ward with the sisters yesterday; they're SUPER nice and love pictures so they sat us down and showed us pictures for the majority of the time we were there 5) Staying up late after transfer calls but being refueled by some ramen that Pres. Jeong gave us 5) We were fed a quick dinner last night by President again after our new office elder Elder Oh came in