January 27, 2014 Bible Bash Time!!

January  27, 2014

Bible Bash Time!!!
 

Family,

Another week come and gone, sometimes it feels like the week went so fast but at the same time I can't even remember last Monday or Tuesday.  My new district and zone are so great, a complete change from my last one so I was a bit shocked at first but I think it is a really good change for me.   A lot more relaxed so that we can actually enjoy each other.  I think the balance of having fun and working hard is so important.  When I arrived here in Cheonan there wasn't much to start off with;  Wednesday we basically just walked around the city all day and I was getting so discouraged and frustrated about what to do.  But then the next day everything started falling into place and I could really see god helping us. The next day we received a phone call that we referred to the Elders, finally were able to meet our investigator, and meet a potential investigator.  It just reminded me to keep working hard and that the lord will help us do the rest.

Well, the potential investigator turned out to be one of those people that wanted to bible bash...good thing I could only understand half of it.  She kept telling us we needed to read the bible and not the Book of Mormon and made us buy her drink at the cafe, yeah she was a bit crazy.  But we are going to meet her one more time and see how things go.  All we can do is bear our testimony and she can choose to read the The Book of Mormon and really see if it is true.

English class, in my last area we had funny grandpas at English class but here in Cheonan we have funny grandmas.  One of them is running for mayor right now and is just a riot, the other one hysterically laughs at everything and the rest of us just start laughing too.  After English class bishop invited the English class and us to come eat downstairs, because there had been a meeting for members over 60.  And in true Korean style the microphone was turned on and the karaoke started.  The first grandma got up and I am not surprised she is a politician cause she loves being in front of people, the other grandma dragged an elder up with her to sing edelweiss.  The grandmas really like me right now and keep volunteering me to say the prayers and they tried to make me sing but some how I got myself out of that:)  The best part was when a super old grandma from the ward got up and sang us a song in Japanese, it was so precious.  I am going to see if I can send the video.  Sorry, that was a long boring story if you weren't actually there.  There is just always random activities going on at the Cheonan church.  Literally I feel like there is always a party going on at the church.  The youth are on school vacation right now so they are always there playing ping pong and hanging out.  The are a lot of youth in our ward and they love missionaries so we are with the youth a lot.  Our investigator is the Bishop's daughter's friend so she is always with them, which is awesome.

Yesterday we had a potential investigator in the Branch in the little city right next to us.  The Branch only has Elders right now (Sisters were taken out a few transfers ago) so they were so excited when we came but now they think we are their Sisters.  I had to give a surprise short talk, awesome.  I didn't know until he announced it in Sacrament Meeting and didn't even hear him announce it...but it all turned out okay.  Sometimes I love being in the small branches of the church and just seeing the faith of the members.  We ended up meeting with a recent convert in that Branch afterwards and she told us her entire story of being converted, it was amazing to see how she has embraced the Gospel and really see it change her life. 

We are still working hard to really pick things up here and I really hope we will start seeing some of the fruits of our labors.  I have been speaking so much Korean that I am starting to lose my English, ha ha.  This week is one of the biggest holidays here in Korea so we will be spending lots of time with our Districts since we can't visit many people.

I hope you all have a wonderful week and enjoy the nice Washington weather while I am freezing here in Korea, haha!!

Love you so much!!

Love,

Sister Jacklin

Pictures:

-me and our ward mission leader's daughter.  she is so cute and reminds me of Esther and phoebe. 

-Us four sisters on the bus last night:)