So Stinkin Hot

July 23, 2017

This week was rough, not gunna lie.  I had a tough one.  But there were some highlights.

One day we were jundoing and we talked to everyone, or tried, but everyone that we met went to the Gyeongsan Center Presbyterian Church.  Which is the great and spacious building.  It's huge, and the pastor doesn't like us and everyone in this city goes there.  They literally have pictures of us missionaries that say, don't talk to these guys, and over the pulpit he warns them of us and tells lies.  That's my rant for the week, but ya. We met a ton of them, and we were able to resolve a few concerns they had, but they still wouldn't meet again.  From here on they will hopefully talk to missionaries now.

We had an exchange this week, so I went over to 수성 Suseong with Elder Stein.  He's in his fifth transfer so I was Senior Comp for a day! Let's go! It's a crazy experience seeing that who the Lord calls he qualifies.  This was my second exchange with Elder Stein in the last two transfers. But when you're with a younger missionary, someone has to be able to speak Korean. And both times I've gone with him, my Korean has taken a bump up.  I understand almost everything when I'm with him and I can talk what's in my heart and share the gospel really well.  But when I get back with Elder Lee, who's beyond fluent, it goes back to like 50-70% understanding and decent speaking.  The Lord qualifies his servants that he calls. I know that. 

One day this week it got to 38 degrees C. I think that's 100 degrees farheinheit.  We got a text from President saying stay inside, don't go out.  100 isn't too bad, unless you add in the crazy humidity in Gyeongsan and Daegu cities, they are the hottest cities in Korea.  It was nuts, be we got to stay home and call all of the area book! From that calling we got a new appointment and maybe 3 or 4 really solid potential investigators! We will hopefully be meeting up with new people and finding a bunch of people to teach this week! The Lords work will go forth boldy, nobly, and independent! Regardless of the weather circumstances haha!

That's all I got for this week.  We went to a small town in our area called 청도 Cheungdo.  There was no people there but it's famous for being a beautiful place, so there's a pic!

Elder Geddes

1. Me being afraid in a tunnel filled with spiders, Scariest moment of my mission but I can do hard things haha

2. 청도

3. New grandma pants! Let's go!
4. Me and Elder Stein and an awesome family