Few quick shoutouts:
First:
Shoutout 이태진 for finally coming to church! 이태진 is totally down to learn about the gospel but he said he couldn't come to church cause his parents disapprove! But we were able to grow closer with him this week by eating pizza together, so he came to church on Sunday and we had a great lesson! We're gonna meet him again on Tuesday.
Shoutout 황혁이! We weren't sure what his interest was cause this was our first time meeting him in person, but we were able to talk about the book of mormon and give him one. And he knows nothing about missionaries or missionary work, but he knew I'm going home soon so he bought me a present; a set of gold spoons and forks
no idea where he got that, but we concluded it's either really expensive, or he just found it on the street or something.Shoutout to 냉면 (ice ramen). I forgot how good 냉면 is, but I realized I'm not gonna be able to eat it soon so I lowk ate it like every day this week.
Shoutout 남궁희정 자매님 for painting a picture of me.
Shoutout Zechariah Kim for praying for us at his own church haha.
Shoutout to this nice sunset
This week I have realized the importance of recognizing and following spiritual promptings! There was a less active member that we called and wasn't super friendly over the phone, but a few days later we ended up in her neighborhood and were debating if we should call and ask if we could visit her house or not. I thought based on the way she acted over the phone surely she'd say no but after feeling prompted a few more times we decided to call.
She ended up telling us to go over so we were able to meet her and her family and sing to them! And one of them is not baptized so we'll prob try and go again. Another spiritual prompting experience was during one of our lessons when we were talking about baptism with one of our progressing teaching friends. Something that he said reminded me of a quote I put in my farewell talk, when I wrote it more than 2 years ago. I felt prompted to share the quote, but I had no idea what talk it was from and the only place I could think to find it was on the Google doc that had my farewell talk written on it.
At first I was like yeah no way, I don't even remember what the quote is fully about anyway, and it will prob take so long to find that Google doc. I also knew that the talk wouldn't have a Korean translation so I would just have to translate it sentence by sentence while sharing the quote. But after dwelling on the prompting I decided to look for the quote and share it. (I also had some time to search for it cause the member we had in the lesson was a yapper) anyway I ended up sharing the quote, and because I trusted in that prompting, I felt that I was able to explain everything I needed to say, and I felt the gift of tongues in action more than I probably every have!
Usually when teaching lessons, I only share or plan to share what I know is within the limits of what I know and can say when it comes to the language I am learning, which you know I feel like is common sense, you shouldn't plan to teach a lesson on something you have no idea how to teach about in another language, or, if you want to teach the plan of salvation, you should probably learn all the vocabulary in the language you plan to teach in first.
But I learned an important lesson from this: that when we are asked or prompted to do something, even if it is something we know nothing about, if we exercise the faith to do that thing, then God will do the rest and help us fulfill what he has asked. After all, "the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." (1 Nephi 3:7)
Anyway sorry that was long.
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