Being a regular missionary is amazing and so is my new area! I'll tell you a little a bit about my new area and my new companion before I give you the weekly update. THE BUSAN WARD: It used to be three different units in South Busan but each of them were struggling a ton so they mashed them together about 6 transfers ago. And thus the Busan Ward was born. This area is LARGE. We have the majority of the biggest parts of the city in our area too so there's always people out on the street no matter where you go. We also have a beautiful island part of Busan called 영도 (Yeongdo; FUN FACT: they filmed a part of Black Panther over there when they were shooting the movie) where there used to be a ward so we get to go there at least once a week to visit less actives and find and teach people. There are about 50 or so active members and they're all the people I've met so far are super nice. They also have a bunch of youth that the missionaries here spent a lot of time focusing on, so that's something to look forward to. Elder Hunzeker is a fantastic human being. He's obedient, he wants to work ward, he's willing to follow his goofy senior companion, and he's just an all-around loveable guy. He's a great companion to have in this area and he's done an awesome job introducing the are to me last week. We're gonna go hard this transfer~
QUICK UPDATE:
- We visited the 대신 할머니 (Daeshin Grandma; she's a living relic of this mission) because she loves the missionaries and wanted to meet Elder Hunzeker's companion as soon as possible. She's in a nursing home these days cause her legs aren't doing to good so we come to talk to her every now and then and also give her the sacrament on Sundays.
- On the way to meet our Korean grandma we met two homies who were taking a tour of the nearby museum type place. So I asked if we could tour with them after talking and having a conversation with them and they were down. They live up in Seoul but after talking to them during the tour I offered to 소개 (introduce/refer) them to the missionaries up there and they were down for that two. New friends are easy to find than we thought. The tour was interesting too. It was a place where the South Korean government moved their HQ during the Korean War (because Busan was the capital during the war time).
- We went to Yeongdo and helped a less-active sister set up here 뿡어빵 (fish-shaped street pastry?) stand. And then she gave us one of her famous nutella flavored ones and it was darn good. Afterwards we met another famous less-active, Brother 박명호 Park Myeongho, someone who my old companion Elder Minson found and baptized! He's got a long story that I'll go into more detail next time but he was super nice and fed us some Korean BBQ for our first meeting. We'll be meeting him next week too because we asked him to refer his wife to us (someone the missionaries tried teaching a while ago but stopped meeting) and he thought it was a good idea and worth trying again.
- We got another 소개 from one of the people Elder Hunzeker and Elder Wright were teaching English to last transfer. He introduced us to his son and we met him for the second time this week and taught him something for the first time. We taught a simple Restoration message and taught him how to pray, and then prayed with him! We're going to try and meet next week. And then we got another referral from someone we're currently teaching yesterday! I don't think we'll forget to ask our friends for referrals anymore aha
- MORE 소개! A member from Pohang (a city on the northern east side of our mission) came to our fast and testimony meeting and randomly brought his uncle with him too. He introduced him to us after the meeting and gave us him and his father's number to set up an appointment with his uncle later. The random miracle 소개's are always the coolest so I saved it for last. Hope it turns out well~
No time to write much more but next week is 설날 (Korean New Year's) and our Zone Conference (out of nowhere). Should be busy and full of more miracles~
Thanks for reading and writing!
-Elder Metcalf
PICS:
1) Daeshin Grandma 2) Elder Hunzeker and I in front of this rock (I don't remember where we took this picture) 3-4) Waiting inside of our member's fish-shaped-street-pastry shack while she shows up 5) Our tour friends from Seoul 6) Sharing the gospel with statues
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