March 31, 2014 English Prayer

March 31, 2014

English Prayer

Hey Family!!

 

So I decided that being a Missionary sometimes feels like being on The Amazing Race and Tuesday was one of those days.  The Elders were our opponents giving us bad directions of how to get to a new investigators house...haha!!  We have been running all over the city on foot, taxis, and buses just trying to not be late to our appointments and not get lost, quite the adventure in a city!!  Tuesday we also visited a member who recently returned from a long visit to her sister in the states.  They often visit America so her kids are AWESOME at English.  The little boy tried to speak English to me the whole time and asked me to say the prayer at the end in English,  I never knew that would feel so weird!  I haven't done that out loud in 10 months!!  So, you should all just expect a really awkward pray-er when I get home, unless you let me do it in Korean:) 

So this week I was hit on by one too many older men, I think the spring weather is making everyone a little...too friendly.  I have started my business card pile, haha!!  First, one guy pulls over in his car on Tuesday when he saw us on the street,  super good at English and already knows about our church, we are going to try meeting him this week and probably hand him over to the Elders to make sure there is only Gospel and English interest, haha!!  other good “old men moments”...We had to run out the other night to get something from a member and some older man says Hi to me and then comes over and tries to get me to go to a karaoke club with him.  Nothing like a drunk politician trying to hit on the blonde foreign girl; that moment was a bit scary.  We got away easy but were disgusted when we got his business card and he was a politician and acted that way.  And finally there was the homeless guy that watched us all through our proselyting activity and then the next day we were in the same area and he kept staring, moving to benches closer to us, and then when we got up he started following us all through the shopping area so we were just running down random streets to lose him, quite the entertaining week!!

Oh, I forgot about shru-da-man-u, the Elders investigator.  he is Korean but changed his name to the interesting indonesian name.  he came to a members restaurant with me, Sister Lee, Elder Allan, and Elder Baldwin.  He is quite the unique guy and kept showing us all these random apps and translators on his phone, a talking cat, and would speak three languages in one sentence.  He has a thing for foreigners and said he would come to church if me and Elder Baldwin would be there, haha.  My favorite is when he pulled up a picture of Tyra Banks and said I look like her, oh goodness!!

Also this week we spent some time with our investigator and her daughter (a super awesome member of our ward) making jam and dumplings and I felt right at home.  All those years of making potstickers with Dad and jam with Mom are coming into use:)

This week was so great and we have been seeing so many miracles and really seen things picking up in our area.  We found some super great new investigators so I want to share my favorite story of one with you.  This woman came to English class two weeks ago and then we arranged to meet with her one on one the next week.  We met her Saturday and had a great time during English where she told me all about her trip to the US.  After English we asked her what she knew about missionaries and she surprised us by telling us she met them 30 years ago outside of her college and received a Book Of Mormon, she even read some of it but the language was just too hard to understand.  But then later on as we were talking about the Book Of Mormon she completely remembered the story of Lehi and his family, me and Sister Lee just sat there in shock.  She is really interested to hear our message and I am so excited to see where things will go:)

I hope you all are as excited as me for General Conference!!  We have to wait an extra week to watch it here.  I encourage you all to take the time to really sit down and listen to our prophets words and pray beforehand to receive the answers and words you need individually.  Last conference as I really took the time to sit down, listen, and take notes I learned so much more than I ever have in the past.  There were so many inspired things and I received so much help and guidance and look forward to receiving the same thing again this year.

I love and miss you all so much, I literally look at pictures every single day!!  Have a great week!!

 

Love,

Sister Jacklin