Now Is The Time!

August 13, 2017

Now is the time, for members and missionaries to come together, to work together, to labor in the Lords vineyard, to bring souls unto him. President Monson 

This quote gets me so pumped! This last week has been amazing! We have made it a focus to do member missionary work instead of just walking around the street all day trying to talk to people that are too busy to talk.


We ended up meeting with 3 different families this week! Pretty good! It was usually only one a week before! But we have our plan, and it's gunna work, and we're hopefully gunna start getting our members into
the work with us.

We met with a member named Kim Gyeonghwan 김경환 he is an old dude, but he loves me a lot, and I love him too! He was baptized 4 years ago but his family didn't come with him.  We met and he told me that every time he goes walking people ask, are you a preacher? You have this spirit around you! And he always responds, "No, I attend the Mormon church!" He told me that the reason we don't have a red cross on our building like all the other churches is that all the members are our symbols. They are the red crosses on our building. 
Every member is a missionary, and it all starts with showing that example to everyone! It is the first step in doing this work! He commit to invite his friends to come to church with him after we talked about faith.  The next Sunday at church he came up to me and said, "I invited my entire family to come to church. My wife said no, and my sons were too busy. But I know if they knew a little about our church they would come, I believe that my family will one day join our church." I told him that I did too, we are going to work with him, and try to teach his wife, and hopefully his sons too!

We found one new investigator this week! His English name is Leo, his real name is Kim Hongsup 김홍섭  It's a cool name.  He came to English class and after the message said he wants to learn about our church!  So we are starting to teach him thirty minutes of English, and then thirty minutes of our church! He is 30, doesn't have a religion, but believes in God! Also his english is perfect, but we'll still teach him in Korean haha!


This week I've been focusing on service.  I got my call as DL and I want to do my best for the Lord, and for the members of my district.  So I've really been trying to serve them and not just go through the motions.  It's been really interesting that as I haven't been worrying about myself I have felt God's love more. His love for me, and for others. I've also been able to focus my mind on the work instead of thinking of all the other things around me to destract me.


I know God lives. I know that he loves us all. If we put our trust in him 100% and serve with all we've got then he will lift us up and make us more than we can become! I love this work and am so excited to continue doing it!


PS:hump day is Thursday... one year down ㅠㅠㅠ(sad faces)