The last week of November was great, and lots of eating! We had three buffets, Monday-Wednesday. hahaha! Monday was in Nampo, then on Tuesday we went with our member and the Elder's investigator to Pizza Hut for a buffet deal they had going on. Then on Wednesday we had a meal at a members house with our investigator. THEN on Thursday for Thanksgiving (Happy Thanksgiving by the way! Sorry I forgot to say that last week) we went with the Elder's investigator again to a super nice restaurant and ate a ton there. Yeah, it was definitely Thanksgiving time. hehe
Anyway our investigators are all doing well! We met with most of them, and though none of them came to sacrament meeting, they are still faithfully reading. In fact, one of our investigators who just last week had said she doesn't want to read the Book of Mormon by herself randomly asked us about a chapter we had asked her to read forever ago and read it on her own, even without us asking her to! That was a surprise.
As I think about what happened this past week, I realized that throughout the week I had been disappointed because our investigators weren't progressing how we wanted them to. But now I can see that perhaps I should have payed more attention to how God was helping them progress, no matter how small. It always important to look for any progression at all in the people we are working with, because the little steps are almost just as important as the big ones! I'm a firm believer in never giving up on people before they choose for themselves. :)
It was a great week, and keeps getting faster and faster! Just one more email after this...........Weird.
So mom, as for your questions, I did really like water painting! if I can figure out a way to get the painting home, I'll bring it so you can see!
And wow, there are Koreans in Mountain Home?? I will have to find them and become friends!!
Finally, school starts on Monday the 6th of January. So I'm thinking I should be up a few days early so I can make sure everything is in order and such. :)
Anyway that's all!! I will talk to you again next week!
Sister Christina Segovia
Interesting Fact: Korean dentistry is a lot cheaper in Korea than in the US. And you already heard about the whole wisdom teeth fiasco, right? If not, I'll remind you. So pretty much every Korean missionary I know didn't get their wisdom teeth out before the mission, because the dentist always just says they don't need it. But then something happens like whats happening with my poor companion. Hers actually came in pretty much right as she started her mission, but the last one wasn't set right so it's been trying to come out but is stuck by the other teeth. So she's been in a lot of pain, and we will probably be getting it out this next week! SO Pray for her! She's super nervous about it <3
And the best is always for last :)
We had Zone Meeting this past week and I learned so much from our leaders! It's really interesting because the church is starting to really crack down on member missionary work through social media. It really seems like a great, easy way for members to bear their testimony to hundreds of people in small and simple ways. Something cool they said about Korea is that right now there are only three Koreans posting Anti-mormon stuff on the internet. So if every member who has a social media account (and that's almost everyone I bet) then those false Anti-mormon things would be completely out-ruled by the true testimonies of our members :) let's make it so that when our church is searched on the internet, our church websites always come up first!
One way to start with your social media missionary work is to share this Christmas video: http://www.mormon.org/christmas?cid=HPFR112814529
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