So first off lets start off with some kind of depressing news... So our Chinese investigator would not respond to any of our texts all of last week. We started to get worried that he had heard something about our church that scared him away. But we called him Saturday night and he answered!!!! He said sorry he has been super busy with work and he is super tired! He said he would come to church if he didn't work.... but he never came to church so I am assuming he had work. Keep praying for him!
Next we got 2 new investigators this week! The first is filthy flippen rich... like super rich. We went to this super fancy hotel where he said to meet him, we called him and he said to wait. We thought maybe he was one of the staff that worked there..... then this guy came told us to follow him and took us to this room when we walked in there is this huge gold chandelier and just super fancy. There he was sitting in the chair at his office. Turns out he owns this huge hotel and like 3 others in other parts of Korea, and a couple restaurants, and some wedding halls. Super rich guy and his English is super good! We mostly just talked for like 40 minutes he asked some questions as to what we could or could not do then at the end we gave him a business card with the prince of peace qr code on it and told him when he got home to watch it. I am not sure how much interest he has in gosple but we will find out! He also has like 4 girlfriends (2 serious girlfriends) and he loves drinking. After the meeting he offered to drive us home. We go to his car which is this super nice Maserati! He opened his trunk to put something in and I am not joking when I say it was FULL of 6 packs of beer.... He has some work for us to do but we will fix his life, hopefully! Super cool guy, just very much living in the World!
Next is this junior in high-school. We met him on the street and then called him the next day and he said he wanted to meet! We met at dunking donuts, and taught him! Me and elder Johnson felt like we messed the lesson up though, we didnt have much time to plan it and afterwards we were talking about it and we felt like we were teaching a lesson not a person. But the spirit is awesome, and he said he wants to meet again! This time we need to be more in tune with the spirit!
And then yesterday (sunday) was the day of miracles! After church we decided to go proselyting, we were walking and talking to this old man when we here this guy say in English, "I think he is to old for you guys to talk to him." After that we talked to the guy who said that, his English name is Jimmy! Jimmy had a friend who served a mission and new a little bit about us. He teaches English at an academy. He gave us his number and said come visit him sometime!
After proselyting we decided to try out our new English proselyting board. We did it with the sisters for an hour before they had an appointment with a member. When we were doing that we met this person who is from japan, but speaks very good Korean and ok Korean. Turns out he had met the missionaries like 3 years ago and still has English interest! We got his number and are going to call him.
After that we met a bunch of really cool families with English interest and gave out some family proclamation to the world pamphlets. But the real miracles was this: We were walking home when we here in English "are you the Mormons?" We turned around confused and said yea we are! How do you know us? He had met this missionaries like 4 years ago and wants to meet again! He gave us his number and has lots of interest! Super cool to see how the lord prepares people for you!
Then at night I got home and was going through the phone trying to clean it out. Just as i was about to delete a bunch of groups people had made in the phone I got a feeling that I should send a text to all of them before. So I sent a text saying Hey we are the missionaries, do you remember? Probably to like 100 people, I was not expecting to get anything back, but then the flood gates came in. We got so many texts. We still have not responded to like half of them because 10:20 came and we cant text after 10:20 and all of today we were on an island hiking a mountain with one of our investigators! But we have already gotten 2 appointments for this week! Super awesome!
I will send pictures next time!
This transfer our mission president has been focusing on the sacrament. And how important it is, for us, and for our investigators! And as I have been studying it and learning more about it I have learned how much more sacred I need to make it to me! There are 4 R's that I think will help with making sacrament more meaningful!
REVIEW: Review the last week, what you did good, what you did bad, how can you improve, how good did you follow your goals, etc.
RECOGNIZE: Recognize what you did good at and what you need to improve on.
REMEMBER: Remember Christ, and what he has done for us. Remember how important this sacred ordinance is to us and how great a gift it is.
RECOMMIT- Recommit any goals you made the past week. Dont be discouraged if you failed because you probably did! But the sacrament is a time of starting over again with a fresh board! Its almost like getting baptized again! Think of it like that!
If you study and try and make this weeks sacrament more important I promise you guys you will notice a difference and it will make the ordinance so much more important to you!
Love you all! Keep being awesome! Spread Christs light to all the world, and the easiest way to do that is brighten your light by feasting on Christs light!
-Elder Stagg
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