Wonderful Week
This week has been a wonderful week.
We were able to have a lunch appointment with a recent convert of the Korean branch. I realize that i never told you all about him, he has an interesting story. His name is Vincent Kim and he lives in Monterray Park in the China town there (outside of the mission). Our BRanch has tried to get him baptised for a very long time. However our previous mission kept saying no. So anyway We couldn't teach him and so President Hong went to the mission that he lives in and somehow got permission(not sure what he did) to baptise him there in MArch or April. and then had his records transferred. HOwever when we met with him this week for lunch that was the first time that he had ever met with missionaries and we made great strides in our relationship. We found out that he still drinks coffee and tea and all that he knows is that it is a good church and that he wants to be a part of it. . He comes to church and reads the Book of Mormon in church and learns the gospel there. Which is better than nothing but it worries us. SO we are going to try to see if we can start meeting with him weekly.
We have had several dinner appointments that have immensly strengthened our relationship with our branch along with our language goals. I love this branch and although the language is hard it is getting better.
Then staurday we had a miracle. We go to the library after studies to finish prepping English Class and take the stress test. When ELder JEnkins gets a call from a harmoni할머니 (Grandma aged women) and says that they are there at church building where we hold english class and that they were wondering where everyone is for class. It was 1230 two hours before class and Elder Jenkins was like uhh it starts at 230 and she is all okay we will wait. So they sat in the church for an hour and a half by themselves until we could get there at around 130. Then we had an awesome english class of 3 new people and 3 returning for there second or third time. So 6 people total in our class.! WOOO! We are talking with the Older couple after class and he asks if you can know i say that you can and he says that is a lie you can't know. Then Elder Jenkins continues to talk to him and they sincerely were asking if you could know and they wanted to know how. So we set up an appointment with them for the following Saturday before class. HOwever a little later they call and cancel because they forgot about a previous appointment. BUt She had forgotten her glasses and so SUnday we were near their house and we called them and asked if we could drop them off so we did. When we get there they invite us in and we begin to get to know them. THen we turn to gospel topics and they figure that we are mormon and they are slightly hesitant but not to much and she confronts us about Polygamy (because all Koreans still believe that Mormons still practice polygamy) So we tell her that we don't and that our fathers only have one wife each. We continue to teach a little about the restoration and the Book of Mormon and we leave them again with the promise that they can know God and He has again called a prophet to guide us these days. It seemed that they wanted to continue to meet with us but right now they are confused because they just started attending this other Presbyterian church and not sure if they could just switch again. They are lonely old grandparents who just want some friends. So we are going to do our best to get them out to church to meet our members! HOwever we are working on how fast we should work with while at the same time giving them there space so we dont run them off because that has happened before. We did leave them with a Book of mormon and a committment to read it. So we shall have to follow-up on that.
We were able to have a lunch appointment with a recent convert of the Korean branch. I realize that i never told you all about him, he has an interesting story. His name is Vincent Kim and he lives in Monterray Park in the China town there (outside of the mission). Our BRanch has tried to get him baptised for a very long time. However our previous mission kept saying no. So anyway We couldn't teach him and so President Hong went to the mission that he lives in and somehow got permission(not sure what he did) to baptise him there in MArch or April. and then had his records transferred. HOwever when we met with him this week for lunch that was the first time that he had ever met with missionaries and we made great strides in our relationship. We found out that he still drinks coffee and tea and all that he knows is that it is a good church and that he wants to be a part of it. . He comes to church and reads the Book of Mormon in church and learns the gospel there. Which is better than nothing but it worries us. SO we are going to try to see if we can start meeting with him weekly.
We have had several dinner appointments that have immensly strengthened our relationship with our branch along with our language goals. I love this branch and although the language is hard it is getting better.
Then staurday we had a miracle. We go to the library after studies to finish prepping English Class and take the stress test. When ELder JEnkins gets a call from a harmoni할머니 (Grandma aged women) and says that they are there at church building where we hold english class and that they were wondering where everyone is for class. It was 1230 two hours before class and Elder Jenkins was like uhh it starts at 230 and she is all okay we will wait. So they sat in the church for an hour and a half by themselves until we could get there at around 130. Then we had an awesome english class of 3 new people and 3 returning for there second or third time. So 6 people total in our class.! WOOO! We are talking with the Older couple after class and he asks if you can know i say that you can and he says that is a lie you can't know. Then Elder Jenkins continues to talk to him and they sincerely were asking if you could know and they wanted to know how. So we set up an appointment with them for the following Saturday before class. HOwever a little later they call and cancel because they forgot about a previous appointment. BUt She had forgotten her glasses and so SUnday we were near their house and we called them and asked if we could drop them off so we did. When we get there they invite us in and we begin to get to know them. THen we turn to gospel topics and they figure that we are mormon and they are slightly hesitant but not to much and she confronts us about Polygamy (because all Koreans still believe that Mormons still practice polygamy) So we tell her that we don't and that our fathers only have one wife each. We continue to teach a little about the restoration and the Book of Mormon and we leave them again with the promise that they can know God and He has again called a prophet to guide us these days. It seemed that they wanted to continue to meet with us but right now they are confused because they just started attending this other Presbyterian church and not sure if they could just switch again. They are lonely old grandparents who just want some friends. So we are going to do our best to get them out to church to meet our members! HOwever we are working on how fast we should work with while at the same time giving them there space so we dont run them off because that has happened before. We did leave them with a Book of mormon and a committment to read it. So we shall have to follow-up on that.
Elder Craner
