Thursday, March 19, 2009

I don't really have a witty tag-line for this week.

Hi!

How is everyone? This week flew by, huh? It all kind of rushed into a blur. But a good one. With like, blues and yellows and greens of swirlies. Yep.

Anyway, transfer is coming up. Again. People are actually getting moved - the word on the street is that Elder Woods is the one going. Hopefully I get to stay! I'm still not used to this whole... Korea thing to be moving anywhere yet. I'd love to stay here for a good four transfers. But, that might change by the end. :)

Things are still going great out here in Wonju. We're still working hard - especially on Mr. Beh. He's the one that we have a baptismal date set with.... for next week! President Cho wanted us to bump the dates back, because he's been doing everything that he should've been doing - so why wait? I was hesitant at first... but I think I can understand now. At least if he isn't ready, he'll be ready by the end of the month (the goal for the mission is to get one baptism per companionship per month). Unfortunately, we haven't been able to meet with him but once since the beginning of this week - his phone has been off, and he didn't show up to our appointment yesterday. I'm getting a little bit worried, but I think we're going to head out to visit him tonight. We also got a baptismal date set for his family - I think it'd be wonderful if they could all be converted to this gospel!

Oh, and speaking of baptismal dates, we've reached a miracle here in our zone. Elder Cameron - our Zone Leader - told President that we'd reach 7 baptismal dates in 강릉도. Apparently President laughed (don't take that bad - that's just how he is. He's really quite nice). But hey! Guess what? With our powers combined... we have *trumpets flare* 7 baptismal dates! It's really encouraging - we've also been doing really well with contacting and teaching lessons - I think we had something like 360 people contacted this past week and... a lot of lessons taught. I don't actually remember. But at any rate - for being out in the country, it's been going great! Elder Lemons and I usually get about 10-15 a week.

So there's my pat on the back - and that's where the bar has been set, so it'll be awesome at the next transfer to shatter that goal again.

But, of course, with the good comes the bad. Helena and Seo, the couple that we've been meeting with for a good while, has potentially dropped us. Because Seo is going to school now, Helena has to help more in order to support them. Therefore, she teaches at a 학원 (kinda like an academy school), and then does private English lessons from 5pm-11pm. Crazy! So... the circumstance is understandable, but we get to meet with them one more time on Saturday - so we plan to learn their whole schedule, figure out what we can do to best help them, and then just go from there.

This next week we'll be working hard to increase our teaching pool - a lot of our investigators have been having a hard time meeting lately. Therefore! We get to do more street contacting and door-knocking. Hooray!

But, the weather here has been getting amazing! Today and yesterday have been absolutely perfect - today the missionaries went out to play Soccer. I kicked Elder Lemons' knee with my shin, so... that wasn't so fun. But! Everything else was. I'm also learning Tai-Chi from one of our new investigators. He'll be teaching us each week, and then we teach him about the gospel. Asia is awesome. :D

Anyway! Not a whole lot else to report. I've been getting everyone's letters - so thank you for that! It's been hard trying to find time to write back, but I'm really working on it. I haven't gotten any packages as of yet, but have been informed they are in trasit.

Things are going great! Still happy, still alive, and still can't speak Korean very well. But that's ok, but I'm still a movie star to little kids. "아~! 항국말 잘 하시네요!" No. No, I don't.

Stay happy! Stay healthy! Remember to read your scriptures and pray.

Love,
Elder Webster

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