안녕하세요~~
This week was busy, full of miracles and hot, hot, HOT.
It's raining today so it cools things off a bit, but it's
been in the 90's here all week.
This was also Missionary Leadership Council and Zone
Training. This is the 7th MLC and Zone Training I've done . . . and I still don't
think I've gotten any better at training . . . But that's life. I'm considered
an "old" missionary now and I feel like I'm still being trained
myself! I'm always learning and always growing but that doesn't mean I haven't
come a long ways.
After Zone Training - we came home, did a practice lesson
with a member and then prepared for ANOTHER baptism this coming Sunday (the
Elders are on fire!).
After we were done we went home and started planning but we
realized we lost our phone. We ran back to the church but couldn't find it
anywhere! We said a prayer, asking God to help us be safe and find the phone
quickly. We asked the Elders where our phone was and they said to look back at
the church. We went back to the church and found that it was somewhere we
thought we had already looked. BLESSINGS. We breathed a sigh of relief and
rushed back home because we knew it was pretty late by that point.
On the way home, however, we were stopped by a lady in our
neighborhood who we had said 'hi' to lots of times. She was so happy to see us
and wanted to show us "real quick" where her home was so we could
come by and visit her. We let her show us to her home but we said that we
didn't have a lot of time.
Long story short ~ We ended up eating fruit and kimchi with
her, she introduced us to her son and we were able to share a little bit about
who we are and what we do. She sent us home with some kimchi and told us to
come by a lot because she is our "mom in Korea."
Thank goodness we lost our phone! God works in mysterious
ways.
I like to call this technique "Oops-we-lost-our-phone-but-we-found-a-miracle-proselyting"
The other day we were walking and we saw a puppy on the side
of the street. I wouldn't say we were "prompted" to go and pet the
puppy . . . we just really like puppies. So, we stop and pet the puppy and a
man comes up to us, gives us his number, and wants us to teach his family on
the weekends.
I like to call this technique "Puppy Proselyting"
On Friday, I was making calls to some potential investigators
to see if any of them would be interested in meeting with us. We called one
family who had stopped coming to English class but who I knew had a lot of
potential. As I was talking with them I remembered that they said their uncle
cuts
hair so I asked them about that and they said "Why, do you want a haircut?" and I blurted out "yes!"
"How about tonight?"
"Sure! That sounds great!"
"Ok, we'll meet you in half an hour."
So a long story CUT short....(get it?)
I cut my hair ^^
While I was cutting my hair Sister Jacobson (I was on
exchanges at the time) was able to talk about our church and bear her testimony
to this cute family!
So now I have short hair - but it's actually perfect for the
hot, hot summer!
I like to call this technique "Sacrificing for a
greater cause"
On Sunday we had another baptism! And we're having a baptism
next week too!
Here's the picture from the baptism a few weeks ago:
Also - this is the Seongnam ward family and I love all of them!
<3
I hope you all have a wonderful week! I love this gospel and
I love this work!
LOVE,
Sister Holdaway
P.S.
There's a mosquito which lives in our room that we haven't
been able to kill so I wake up with 2 new bug bites a night.
And we found this guy the other night:
We ended up just staring at it for about half an hour
wondering what we were going to do about it. Some prayers were involved. We
eventually just took a broom and swept it out of our apartment. SO we're all
good now.
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