{Sam often uses Korean in his email subject lines, which I translate via Google translate. It doesn't always work well, and this week in particular I have no idea what it means. But I thought Ppwasya ppwasya was kind of catchy and left it as is!)
Good afternoon, dear family and friends. It's nice to be in touch, and I hope that all are well. It's been a beautiful week to be a missionary, and even though at times it doesn't go as fast as we would wish, the work is always moving forward. I was reading this morning about Sister Snow's miracles on the Amazon, Sister Shumway's imminent departure, and just reading stories from California, Taiwan (
), and elsewhere makes me very grateful to be a part of this worldwide work in beautiful Korea. It's a good time to be a missionary, and it always will be.
It's been an odd summer with regard to rain, in that it has rained much less than normal- I guess no typhoons have hit us yet. I watched some live videos last July that showed Seoul just turned into rivers, and that certainly hasn't been true yet. I do like the rain, but as people tend to have almost as great a fear of rain as pigeons, it certainly is good news for us. A couple of investigators committed to coming to church on Sunday, with the caveat that no such thing would happen were it to rain. We prayed very hard.
Sister Ju came in this week, a new missionary. A VERY new missionary, in fact, she wasn't able to get a visa to go to the MTC, so she went straight to President last Monday, and her tag is still written in white marker because she came so quickly. She's be great, and we're excited to work with her. Sister Jeong, who I served with in Dongdaemun/Imun also came in the week, and is just a fantastic missionary. We're sad to see Sister Kwon go, for sure, but also excited for the next transfer, which will be a lot of fun- we're excited to work as hard as we can.
Dream Forest was a blast last week, a massive free park in the middle of one of the world's biggest cities. We just have nothing like the parks of Seoul in America. On the way over, I was talking with an older guy on the bus about different Korean traditional foods, and his musings on the company in which to enjoy the small intestine of cattle were amusing but perhaps for another time.
After four hours or so of pretty solid street contacting, we were tired but had one more card that we hadn't given out. One of my goals in the MTC was to always talk with one more person, knock on one extra door, 등등, so after turning back around and a couple rejections, met Hyeonu, this incredible high school student who started to believe in God a year ago, and who met the next day. He is wonderful, really understood the apostasy and the primitive church better than almost anyone else we've met, and had great questions. We're meeting this week again, and are very excited for him.
I met Jaeu at a crosswalk near a subway station, and we had a great conversation. He asked, if there were so many people, why I talked with him, and as we talked, he opened up a lot about guidance, and how he went to church before but isn't sure about God now, and such. He met us later that week, and came to church as well yesterday. The circumstances of his meeting and the time opening up for him to be able to meet were really a miracle, for which we are grateful.
We see a lot of miracles. I was thinking about that this morning. We're not converting villages or speaking with cloven tongues of fire, but every time someone shakes our hand, gives us their number, or meets again, it really is miraculous. We're very grateful to be here In Korea and Sanggye with wonderful members and a great district, and we really feel God's love in abundance as we do His work as best as we can.
I hope that you are happy and healthy and blessed. I pray that it is so often. Good luck in all your endeavors, and fight the good fight!
Elder South
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