Well they came out with a new rule in the mission, well I guess it's not new but I just heard about it. SO, apparently I am no longer allowed to tell you the full names of my investigators anymore. It's for some privacy policy. Weird I know but from now on I will just be putting their last name or their given name or the english name if they have one. I think that God will still know who you are praying for. :)
Well I will first talk about our investigator Sister Oh. Just so you don't get confused, we have 2 investigators with this last name, so she is Oh #1. Haha. Anyways, she is still doing wonderful, except the fact that she couldn't make it to General Conference and we don't know why. She told me like 2 or 3 times on Friday she would be there, but then didn't come or answer her phone. We will call her tonight and see if we can get ahold of her and figure out what happened. As far as I know she is still wanting to be baptized this coming Sunday. Hopeuflly we can get it all to happen. :)
We did have two investigators come to sacrament. One of them is FULL of potential. Her name is also Sister Oh. The one I met on the street like 5 times. Remember? Anyways, she LOVED conference and said she had a lot of questions answered. I see everything with her going in the right direction. Brother Park also came, but he was only there for 30 minutes. He also told our members that he isn't religious and meets us for English. Uh... :/ haha.
This week I met up with a lady and her husband in Gangnam. I know you all know that word from the song Gangnam Style hahah. Anyways, so this lady, I got her number from Mindy Hawkins. They have a foreign exchange student at their house and he is Korean and his parents were interested in our beliefs, so I got her number from Mindy to call and help her get in contact with missionaries. Long story short, her and her husband took us out to a nice resturaunt and we had a really good talk. They are just hilarious!! We were able to introduce the message very naturally and normally and she told me like 3 times she would try to read The Book of Mormon. How cool is that. I also told her that the missionaries in her area would give her a call in a few days. I hope it goes well!
Now for the grand finale of the week! I know you all remember Mr. Bong and have been wondering about him for some time, as I haven't mentioned anythinga bout him. Well that's becuase he has beeng going to countless trials, leading him to get a new phone number and we lost all contact with him. I had his addresss from the baptismal record and it's out of our area. I visited him once about 3 weeks or so ago but nobody was home. I left a note on the door. Well one day last week I felt like we needed to back to his house so I set aside some time in my planner to make that happen. On wednesday evening we headed over there to meet him. Get to the door and to be honest I was a little nervous. I knock and he asked who it was. As I told him who I was he said "I'm not interested go away" basically. And let me tell you it felt like a knife stabbing me in the heart. I have such love for him and it just killed me to hear that. After recovering from that we left, leaving a Gospel Principles book with my testimony written in it by his door. We walked the what felt like forever walk back to the bus stop to go home. I was on the phone with the ZL asking for advise on how to handle the situation when all the sudden he and I both just had a feeling that we had to go back there again...that same night! So never turn down a promting right!? I talked with my comp and we turned right back and went again. We stopped in a private place to pray and ask for help on how to handle the situation. As I was at the door for the second time, I felt like all I needed to do was just talk, so I did. I literally talked at a door for 10 minutes or so. I don't know what I was really saying but it was 100% guided by the spirit. No question. At one point I knew he was right on the other side of the door listening. He started to talk back to me and explain everything that had been going on. He wouldn't let me in but said he wanted to talk on the phone so he taught me his new phone number and we talked about 15 minutes. He told me of how he is going through a divorce, his wife right now is making terrible decisions and feels like it's his fault, he lost his job, he hasn't seen his kids in a really long time, and ya just soooo hard. But we are now in contact. What a miracle to me! Follow the promtings of the spirit! And please continue to pray for him.
Well I'm out of time for this week. Grandma, know that I love you and stay stong please. Everyone else also have a great week! I love you all!
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Elder Messick
Such great stories this week! I love that he is always listening to the Spirit!
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