This week was uneventful again, but p-day was awesome. We went hiking with a bunch of missionaries in our zone. The mountain is called 관악산. The "악" part of it is suppose to mean that it is really hard. Sister Kim explained it as you yell "ack" when you get to the top of the mountain. I don't know if it is just because Koreans don't do as much outdoor things, but it wasn't that bad. On the other hand we also got distracted and ran out of time so we couldn't go all the way to the top. Maybe that would have made it harder, but the view that we got was so beautiful. The weather was perfect and we all had a blast. I'll make sure to attach some pictures.
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| Sister Carnahan and Sister Rindlisbacher |
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| The entire group |
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| I love Korea! |
We have been spending a lot of time outside trying to find people to teach. No success so far, but we haven't lost any motivation. Each day we do bingo and it has helped so much. We have found some people that are interested, but no new investigators just yet.
On the other hand we have amazing members. We have been recently working with two people who are referrals from our members. We have a meeting with one this Thursday to start teaching. She is a mom of an adorable 8 month old little girl. She doesn't have any church that she attends currently so she is very open to learning about the gospel. The other is the daughter of a less-active mom who started coming back to church recently. Her youngest daughter who is 16 wasn't baptized so we are trying to work with her. The main problem right now is time because school has started again. In Korea most students go to school and then to 학원 (academy) afterwards to continue studying. A lot of the time they don't get home until 10PM or later. We have tried to meet with her after church, but the timing just isn't right yet. We're going to try our best though.
This week we were also able to go on exchanges. I went to another area to be with Sister Risenmay. She is a wonderful missionary, who is training Sister Forest (probably the most prepared and Christlike greenie I have ever met). We spent a few hours that night making calls to former investigators. We were able to get them an appointment and had a lot of funny conversations. My favorite was an old woman who kept asking for our mission president's phone number. She wanted to call and complain that the missionaries keep moving to often. She went on and on for about 10 minutes about how it was hard for her to get close with the missionaries. We had a good laugh about it after we got her to hang up.
Things are slow right now, but it has given me a lot of time to think about things with a broader view. I know that this work is directed by our Heavenly Father. I am so grateful that I can be here in Korea to help move it forward. I love and miss you all. Have a wonderful week!
-Sister Rindlisbacher
P.S. If you have time this is an awesome talk that I've been studying lately :) https://www.lds.org/ensign/
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