A trip up to the mountains, and living the college life.‏

Hi!

This past week has been pretty good.

Elder Hess and I taught the best lesson that we've both ever taught since we've been out. The spirit was really strong, we both spoke really good Korean, and everything just flowed really well. We taught a new investigator family that we got as a referral from another investigator - it's a really big blessing for us because the whole family seems to have interest. It being the best event of this week, I'll outline basically what happened...

We met them on Saturday night, and for the first little while we just kind of talked to them for a little while in English (the mother and daughters lived in New Zealand for two years - the youngest daughter is pretty much fluent, and the oldest daughter is really good. The mother is ok, and the father understands a lot but doesn't really have any interest in English anyway). The oldest daughter told us how she went to Seoul a couple of days ago as a school and got to go to a movie production studio there. While they were there, they got to make a video commercial. It was really, really funny. She showed it to us, and the song they sang still gets stuck in my head. It's about this girl that is doing really bad in school, so she starts thinking about suicide (sad topic, but stay with me). While she starts thinking about that stuff, random people will pop out and stand next to her and start singing:

"Oh no, don't do that!
Oh no, don't do that!
Oh no, don't do that!
자살 하지마새요!" (don't commit suicide)

I wish I could get the internet link that she showed it to me - it's so funny! It's any Korean anyway. But after that we started talking to them a little bit more - and then we moved onto the gospel topics.

We had a really cool example that was made from cups that showed the organization of the church in Christ's time, explained the apostasy, and then explained the Restoration. Basically you set up cups as the base to show the original organization of the church when Christ was alive - the original twelve apostles, and etc. Then you pull those cups out to show the apostasy. Then you rebuild it with the names of our living apostles as the Restoration. The family all understand wonderfully - the father had a question along the lines of "Baptist comes from Christians, Presbyterian comes from Catholics (and so on), where do you come from?". So we explained again that this is Christ's purely restored church, not just another branch off. It was really wonderful.

Now, I have to tell a story about what happened before the appointment to lead up to this part of the story. We didn't get the chance to eat dinner, so we went into a Family Mart (7/11 basically) and got some food there. Elder Hess decided to buy a liter of juice, because a liter of juice was the same price as one of the quarts. So we drink the whole thing, eat our food, and then head over to the appointment.

we both had a liter of juice sloshing about in our insides.

Can you guess what happens?

During the lesson, just after we had explained the Restoration, Elder Hess exhales and says "... I'm sorry. Can I use your bathroom?" Let me reiterate that this was one of the best lessons we've ever taught with the sort of spirit that was guiding us the whole time.

I was laughing so hard! The kids were laughing pretty good, too - so I explained that we had both drank a liter of juice before we got here. The family was pretty ok with it, anyway. I still make fun of him about it.

But onto other things, we made a few new contacts this past weekend with some college kids. Basically, I got to see what the college life is like in Korea... We went out to eat with one contact, and then he decided to take us on a drive into the mountains a little bit. After that we introduced us to some other friends that we contacted, and we hung out at Dunkin' Donuts for a little while. It was really funny. We had to explain to them that we don't drink, smoke, drink coffe, can't watch movies or listen to the radio while we're missionaries. Maybe "flaberghasted" would be a good word to describe them.

But anyway, I hope that turns out and we get to meet with them again.

In other news and needful things... send me pictures! I need and want some more pictures that I can show people - more family shots and more pictures of the hikes, the scenery, and that kind of stuff of Utah. Koreans really enjoy it. Also pictures of the temples would be good, too. I only have Provo temple and Seoul temple.

Other than that, all is well! I'm still looking for a SD Card reader so I can send you people some pictures, and am still wondering about the price of 8 or 16GB USB sticks in America.

Anyway, all is well! I hope everyone out there is doing great! Especially you two out there in the Land of the Faster-Than-Korea Rising Sun! Happy Birthday Sister Jones! :D

Stay happy! Stay healthy!

Love,
Elder Webster