February 17, 2014 A visit to Cheongiu

February 17, 2014

A visit to Cheongju

 

Hey Family!!

 

Last Monday we had some epic plans to go sledding with cardboard and plastic bags but by the time we finished emailing the snow was all gone:(  So instead, we headed to this area of houses right by the church where the walls are all painted with these crazy pictures and you can take lots of funny pictures.  It was a party and I have attached a few pictures from Monday.

    Tuesday we had an awesome District Meeting, everyone really opened up and we had an honest conversation about feeling the spirit and how we can start feeling it more in our missionary work.  I am just a real straight up person so I loved that we all just gave our real opinions and learned from each other.  The things I learned the most is always remembering prayer and to ask for God's help even with the little things.  We are all trying to become more like Sister Hingano and pray all the time even if it is only for hot water in the shower:).  We also discussed that we always need to be looking for the spirit's promptings and answers.  This is really something I am trying to work on right now. 

   This week we were able to visit quite a few members and had some awesome visits.  I have already been able to build much better relationships here than in my last area,  partially  because I can actually understand and communicate now.  This week was wisdom week as the sisters in the ward kept giving us advice about missionary work, family, marriage, and kids.  We were taking our notes, haha, but really learned a lot from these awesome members.

Thursday we had a  proselyting activity in the huge shopping area of Cheonan.  Our District Leader always makes it a little bit of a competition and I was determined to beat the Elders, and of course I wanted to share the gospel with as many people as possible, haha!!  We won the competition which satisfied my competitive spirit but better than that we were able to meet quite a few potential investigators.  We only have one investigator right now and have struggled to find investigators so it was such a blessing.  One girl came up and looked at our sign and told us she had been thinking about starting to attend a church, so we received her number and are meeting her tomorrow:)  So excited to meet her and to see things start happening for us here in Cheonan.   I just always remember to keep pushing forward and not give up and God will make up for the things we can't do ourselves.

Guess where I got to go on Sunday?... Cheongju!!  President Shin was doing a fireside there and we had to pick something up from him so we were able to go.  I was so excited to be able to see Cheongju but most of all to see all the missionaries, especially sister Son!!  She is my big sister and we were both so excited even though we only got to talk for a few minutes.  They are doing great in my old area right now and our recent converts daughter there is getting baptized next week, yay!!

Excited for another week in Cheonan and can't believe this transfer is already winding down.  Hope you all have so much fun in Utah and can't wait to see skiing pictures.  Give all the family my love!!

Love,

Sister Jacklin

 

Picture #1:  I was taller than Sister Hingano for the first time ever!!

Picture #2:  Sister Son!!  We re-enacted the days of us teaching together, haha!!