This week's highlights in 부천 (Bucheon)

(11-4-2024) I titled this email "this week's highlights in 부천" cause I will talk a little bit about this week's highlights in 부천. The past 7 days we've done a lot of finding but didn't have a ton of success. However, we did play basketball with one guy the other night and then taught him about the restoration after. He promised us that he would read the Book of Mormon and we're meeting again next week so I'm excited to see what happens with him! He spoke English really well so we mostly just taught in English. That's honestly how a lot of discussions are in 부천 cause so many people can speak English

One of my favorite parts of the week is Saturdays because we get to teach English classes at the church to Koreans who want to learn English. We usually only have like at most 10 people there but it's still super fun and in my opinion one of the most effective ways to find people! Because once you can get people to the church you sometimes spark their interest or have them stay after to have gospel discussions. Also a ton of our current ward members have said that they found our church through the English classes. So I'm hoping to gear my efforts more towards that in the future

Yesterday at church, a happy old man walked up to me and linked arms with me so we started walking together. Then he turned towards me with the most cheerful smile and said, "Merry Christmas!!" And then he walked away to spread his Christmas cheer elsewhere. He looked so relieved that it was Christmas that I didn't bother to correct him haha

Spiritual Message: It's officially november! Which means it's the month of gratitude or something. Dieter F. Uchtdorf said in a talk one time: "those who set aside the bottle of bitterness and lift instead the goblet of gratitude can find a purifying drink of healing, peace, and understanding." So I would challenge everyone this month to choose to be grateful and obtain healing, peace, and understanding!

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