Hey everybody,
So this was a pretty eventful week. On Monday we had Family Home Evening at our Bishop's house again, which was super fun. Me and Elder Jeong did an object lesson with his boys (all under 6 or so), where you empty out and unfold a teabag to make a tube, and stand it up on someone's hand, and tell them not to move. Then you light it on fire. :D If they believe you and don't move, they don't get burned. You should try it yourself to see what happens. As long as you use the right teabag, you really don't get burned. Do you believe me? :D
Then on Tuesday I went on splits with a greenie, Elder Sanderson. He's been in country for three weeks now. It was an interesting experience to be contacting with a greenie again, just like when I trained Elder Greer forever ago. He's a great missionary, he has a lot of love for his ward that he's serving in and the people of Korea. It really made me glad that I can speak Korean fluently though. :D That day we had English class, which I spent playing Go Fish with three elementary-school kids. I may not have taught them a lot of English, but they know how to say, "Do you have any ___?" really well now. :D That day was when the rain really started here. Before that it had only really rained once, but from Tuesday to Saturday there was only one day that it didn't rain. Last year was longer than this year, but this year is hotter.
On the Fourth of July we had district meeting like usual, and then ate delicious kimchijjim. That's beef or something steamed with kimchi, and it was super good. I would have gone to McDonald's or something to recharge my Americanism to celebrate if there was one in our area. :D
Saturday was really fun. We played basketball with our investigator and his three friends for an hour and a half, and then had our Friendship Night activity. That's a meeting put on by the missionaries, where we share a spiritual thought for like 10 minutes and then have fun games for like an hour and 20 minutes. You can see where our priorities lie there! (jk) Me and Elder Jeong did the teabag on fire object lesson again (he's a pyromaniac at heart), and then we played Ultimate Spoons. It was super fun, and it ended in a sister missionary almost tackling Elder Jeong to get the very last spoon. He said that night that he slowed down a little so she could win, but he didn't expect to be shoulder checked into the wall. :D After that the senior missionary couple from America, the Pecks, dropped us off some cookies because they are super nice, and Elder Peck did some card tricks. One of them was super cool! He had Elder Jeong pick a card and put it back in the deck while he wasn't looking, and then he gave the whole deck to Elder Jeong and told him to shuffle it. He shuffled it like three times, and at this point I knew this trick would be really good. It gets better, though. Elder Peck took back the deck, kind of looked through it for a sec, and then made eight piles of four cards each in plus-shapes. Elder Jeong had no idea where his card was at this point. Then he had Elder Jeong point at any two piles. He took them out. He did it again and he took those out too. By this time all the people watching were whispering, "no way..." under their breaths. The process continued till there was only one pile left. Then Elder Peck had Elder Jeong pick two cards out of the four, which were removed. Then...he pointed at one of the last two cards, which Elder Peck removed. Elder Jeong reached out for the last card and picked it up...and it was his card. You should have heard all of us yelling, it was such a good magic trick. I definitely want to learn some good card tricks now. :D
On Sunday things were a little crazy after church, because we had to handle taking a recent convert back to his house (his leg is paralyzed), getting a new member lesson that was taught by a member going, attending the missionary coordination meeting with our ward mission leader, and teaching one of our investigators, all at the same time. Hectic. I ended up teaching our investigator, a high school student named Yang Hiyeong, who is probably getting baptized this Sunday if everything works out. I teamed up with another church member to teach him because we can't do anything alone as missionaries because of the rule. I hadn't taught without another missionary for a really long time, so I learned that I need to work on my teaching skills. My teaching was kind of boring and like a recitation. But the member I taught with was awesome. He seemed to say everything I was feeling but couldn't express, and he bore powerful testimony of the truth of the Restoration and of Joseph Smith's experience. Interestingly, I had heard that the member himself wasn't exactly the most active of people as far as the gospel goes, but he himself said during the lesson that he felt the Spirit as he recited Joseph Smith's experience and that he knew it is true. It really strengthened my testimony that God knows all of us personally and what we need, because out of that meeting, I learned how I can improve my teaching, the member strengthened his testimony and we became friends, and our investigator accepted a commitment to pray to see if God is really there. It was a really big miracle in my eyes.
Oh, and we have a new mission President, by the way. :D He started a couple weeks ago, and I've had the opportunity to talk to him a couple times. He seems like he will do a really good job, and he still understands Korean really well and speaks fairly well too. His name is President Christensen, and I'm excited to work with him.
I love you all, and I hope you have a great week! Don't melt in the heat!
Elder Matt Dean
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