Gotta love Missionary Life!
This past week has been one full of little miracles and tender mercies for us.
Tuesday was a little of alet down because of English Class and we only had 3 students show-up and that was all. Although the individual conversations that resulted helped build and strengthen these people were great. Especially between Tom (one of the advanced class students) and I, I was able to testify about keeping the law of chastity and obedience to him and their importance. It was very interesting seeing his arguments and such pitter away as we talked more and i prayed silently in my heart to be able to speak the truth to him. It was still sad to see our numbers drop so low despite our best efforts. In response to this warning alarm. My companion and i decided to try something that our WML (Ward (Branch) Mission Leader) suggested to hand things out at Korean markets. So Wednesday afternoon we did that and not only were we able to ge tour face out there we talked to people and it was great. We had several people say that they wanted to come. We also realized tat we need to be able give directions in Korean. Pretty sure that we met the pastor of another church and that was an interesting exchange. He came over all innocent and asked us for a Book of Mormon in Korean since he had one in English. However the second he had it he kind of hid it in a newspaper and walked away. We should've testified more. Gratefully the Book of Mormon is it's own witness and we pray that its power and good spirit will work on this man so that he won't attack us (if he is a pastor of a local church) since that is all the local Churches do is hate on Mormons and their polygamy. We also ran into a member of our branch who offered to take us out to dinner since we didn't have an appointment. So we took her up on it and it was a wonderful experience with her.That was another miracle and tender mercy. Us running into a member and speaking Korean with them and understanding and our relationship growing. Our branch relationship is growing exponentially right now and it is amazing.
Thursday i was able to go on splits with Elder Yoon my former compnaion and work in Korea town it was good. Interesting but good. It felt like last transfer only the location had changed. Weird.
Friday was our zone conference at the Orizaba building. Which was amazing and my expectations were met. I walked away feeling good and having some more direction in my mission. That night we went and taught Hamoud (An Arab from Saudi Arabia, Who has been studying English for the past two months can respond well and understand basic conversation. He also has ambitions to have a massive business empire all over the world. He also is planning to take the TOEFL and ILETS (Huge and hard English Proficiency Tests that universities use) in 4 months and pass it with flying colors) English and then he provided dinner for us. Mexican ingrediants Arabic style. It was pretty good actually. That was a tender mercy in the fact we hadn't eaten anything all day and we didn't have time until that night during planning to eat. We are moving slowly with him, mainly just working on English and doing our best to follow the guidance of the Holy Ghost with. We know that the situation with Arabs is sensitive and so we shall press on carefully as the Spirit directs. Also during one of out visits we had a little book exchange. He came and gave us each a Quran and we in turn gave him a Book of Mormon in Arabic. So now we each have a Quran.
Sunday was a miracle day. So Saturday night we set some goals have 1 of everything (member present, other, refferral R and C, and 1 new investigator) We put our faith forward and we didnt know how it was going to happen but it did. One of President Hong's students came to church and we were able to teach her during Gospel principles and we gave her a Book of Mormon and she wants to come next week and we invited her to bring a friend, who is a Korean who speaks Spanish and is from Ecuador! Although as we work with her more since she is Mongolian (from Mongolia) we will have to hand her off but it was super cool to see the effects of faith and the miracles that resulted!
That was our week.
Elder Craner
Tuesday was a little of alet down because of English Class and we only had 3 students show-up and that was all. Although the individual conversations that resulted helped build and strengthen these people were great. Especially between Tom (one of the advanced class students) and I, I was able to testify about keeping the law of chastity and obedience to him and their importance. It was very interesting seeing his arguments and such pitter away as we talked more and i prayed silently in my heart to be able to speak the truth to him. It was still sad to see our numbers drop so low despite our best efforts. In response to this warning alarm. My companion and i decided to try something that our WML (Ward (Branch) Mission Leader) suggested to hand things out at Korean markets. So Wednesday afternoon we did that and not only were we able to ge tour face out there we talked to people and it was great. We had several people say that they wanted to come. We also realized tat we need to be able give directions in Korean. Pretty sure that we met the pastor of another church and that was an interesting exchange. He came over all innocent and asked us for a Book of Mormon in Korean since he had one in English. However the second he had it he kind of hid it in a newspaper and walked away. We should've testified more. Gratefully the Book of Mormon is it's own witness and we pray that its power and good spirit will work on this man so that he won't attack us (if he is a pastor of a local church) since that is all the local Churches do is hate on Mormons and their polygamy. We also ran into a member of our branch who offered to take us out to dinner since we didn't have an appointment. So we took her up on it and it was a wonderful experience with her.That was another miracle and tender mercy. Us running into a member and speaking Korean with them and understanding and our relationship growing. Our branch relationship is growing exponentially right now and it is amazing.
Thursday i was able to go on splits with Elder Yoon my former compnaion and work in Korea town it was good. Interesting but good. It felt like last transfer only the location had changed. Weird.
Friday was our zone conference at the Orizaba building. Which was amazing and my expectations were met. I walked away feeling good and having some more direction in my mission. That night we went and taught Hamoud (An Arab from Saudi Arabia, Who has been studying English for the past two months can respond well and understand basic conversation. He also has ambitions to have a massive business empire all over the world. He also is planning to take the TOEFL and ILETS (Huge and hard English Proficiency Tests that universities use) in 4 months and pass it with flying colors) English and then he provided dinner for us. Mexican ingrediants Arabic style. It was pretty good actually. That was a tender mercy in the fact we hadn't eaten anything all day and we didn't have time until that night during planning to eat. We are moving slowly with him, mainly just working on English and doing our best to follow the guidance of the Holy Ghost with. We know that the situation with Arabs is sensitive and so we shall press on carefully as the Spirit directs. Also during one of out visits we had a little book exchange. He came and gave us each a Quran and we in turn gave him a Book of Mormon in Arabic. So now we each have a Quran.
Sunday was a miracle day. So Saturday night we set some goals have 1 of everything (member present, other, refferral R and C, and 1 new investigator) We put our faith forward and we didnt know how it was going to happen but it did. One of President Hong's students came to church and we were able to teach her during Gospel principles and we gave her a Book of Mormon and she wants to come next week and we invited her to bring a friend, who is a Korean who speaks Spanish and is from Ecuador! Although as we work with her more since she is Mongolian (from Mongolia) we will have to hand her off but it was super cool to see the effects of faith and the miracles that resulted!
That was our week.
Elder Craner
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