Miracle Fast
안녕하세요 사랑하는 가족!!
So, I have a story from last week
that I forgot to tell and I think it is pretty important. We were
visiting a less-active and she ended up feeding us dinner; a delicious, spicy
noodle bowl with veggies and some kind of scary looking seafood but it tasted
good (mollusc?) Well one of the veggies was a couple baby tomatoes and so
I pushed them off to the side planning to sneak them to my companion when the
sister looked away. Well that didn't
happen and I decided it was time to suck it up and conquer my fears. Well
turns out tomatoes are as disgusting as I remember and I literally almost
threw-up while eating it. But, be proud
mom, I covered it up so no one saw that I didn't like it. Let’s just say
that I don't plan on eating a tomato EVER again!! To make matters worse, the
soup on the side that was basically like eating the bottom of the ocean, green
and slimy...
Another random funny moment from the
week, on Thursday when we showed up for our proselyting activity our District
leader announced that our "special" challenge was a law of chastity
activity and he gave us all law of chastity pamphlets to hand out...we all just
sat there and laughed and couldn't believe he was serious!! Good thing it
turned out to all be a joke but it would be pretty funny to see us all out there
on the streets teaching the law of chastity. We also met this super
awesome christian man from Kenya named Gideon, he definitely loves God!!
We got his number and are going to try and meet this week!!
This week our District decided to do
a District fast all together and it is amazing because we are already starting
to see the miracles. Yesterday church was super full and there were quite
a few less actives that came who we have been trying to get to church for a
long time. The Elders were also able to make our recent converts little
brother and another recent converts older brother investigators and they both
came to church, yay!! And we also found a new investigator this week who
came to church!! She is 14 Korean age, that means she is Luke's age, and her
mom saw one of our English flyers and contacted us. We had quite the
adventure getting her to English class, running halfway across the city cause
she couldn't go by herself, and then when we got there she freaked out at all
the people and would not go into English class so we met separately. She
was super shy just hanging onto me and my companion but as she started meeting
people she warmed up and loved our recent convert. We all hung out for a
while and after some positive peer pressure she decided to come to church with
us the next day, she already attended another church by herself. She had a
super good experience and we ended up teaching a lesson to her and watching the
short restoration video. It was a super good lesson because we were teaching
our recent convert, investigator, and a less-active. Our recent convert
was such a rock star talking about Baptism, Prophets, and the Restoration.
She is really gaining her own testimony and has already started doing
missionary work.
This week I started rereading last
October's general conference and wanted to share a quote that I really
liked. It is a quote by Elder Holland from Elder Dube's talk, "The
past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the
embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have
learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have
experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed
toward the future." I loved that this shares a message of
learning from our mistakes but not dwelling and moving on because we can always
grow and do better, that is how I feel in my missionary work that I can always
try a little harder and do better. I also love the message of the
importance of faith because it is something I have been focused on lately,
faith in God and faith in ourselves. As we have these two things we can
accomplish anything we want and become the best disciples of Christ possible as
we continually learn and grow.
I love you all and hope that this
will be a good week and that the spring weather has started. We had a
bunch of rain this week and I can totally sympathize with that Washington
weather!!
Love,
Sister Jacklin
Picture #1: Just another
normal day in Cheonan
Picture #2: Hingano just
having a party spring cleaning:)
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