Where's Home?‏

This past week was pretty great! We were able to meet with members and help them out, though two appointments with the members I didn't even get to go to because we did exchanges that day. That was a bummer. But I was able to go back to my old home in Hogye! My old companion Sister Lee came here to Gyeongju, where she actually had served for a transfer a year ago. So she was really happy to come back here and get to meet with some members, and I was really happy to go back to Hogye! I was with Sister Harris, who was one of my MTC roommates! She is actually really similar to me, and I was able to learn a lot about her. :)

And not only that, but we were able to meet with two of my old investigators! One of which we hadn't been able to meet for a couple months, but I called her up and said I was coming back to Hogye so she met with us! It was really great, because Sister Harris was able to become friends with her and hopefully they were will be able to meet again in the near future and begin teaching her again. The other investigator was the one we found when we were knocking on doors. She seemed really happy to see me, and I felt that our lesson was guided by the Spirit. Sister Harris is doing so well in Hogye, and I have full confidence that she will help that area grow a lot! 

PLUS, they were able to meet with a different investigator again finally, that we have been trying to prepare for baptism for three months now, and she finally is actually going to get baptized, in two weeks! Yayy!! 

So those Sisters are doing so well! It was really great to do exchanges with them. <3

Also, my companion and I are continually getting better about working together and talking with one another. Sometimes we have kind of struggled because both of us are kind of quiet, and don't tell our feelings as much as we probably should. But we were able to get to know one another better and are doing better about the whole communication thing. haha

Sooo yea it was a great week! How was yours? I was SO EXCITED to hear that not only is Christal Segovia having a baby, but also Chelsea Hansen! Ahhh that's so awesome! Congratulations congratulations! I love you both, my beautiful sisters and amazing mothers! 

Thanks for everything, and for the love you send in your emails! Have a wonderful week. :D

Sister Segovia

Interesting Fact: Wisdom teeth are called Love teeth in Korean. hehe fun huh? And it's actually not as big of a deal to get them taken out here. Pretty much all of my Korean companions still had them, and a couple even had them grow in on their missions. Apparently when they give the papers to the dentist, the dentist doesn't feel it's necessary to extract wisdom teeth so lots of Koreans go on a mission without getting them out.

Once again, I'm going to change it up and talk about something from District Meeting with the other missionaries. 

In 1 Nephi 3-9, it's the story of Nephi receiving the command from God to get the plates from Laban, a not so nice ruler in Jerusalem. He and his brothers made a plan to receive the plates in order to have the record of their fathers, making both plan A and plan B. Plan A was simply to go and ask for the plates. When plan A didn't work, they went through with Plan B and attempted to buy the plates. However, Plan B didn't work either, and by this point both Nephi and his brothers must have been very discouraged. They had received a commandment from the Lord, so why wasn't it working out? They were trying hard, why didn't God help them so their plan would work? 

Perhaps we feel this way too. We know what we need to do and yet we try multiple ways and nothing seems to work. Perhaps at that point we could feel that God doesn't care, that He isn't helping us because He didn't make our own plan successful. But this is where we can look to Nephi for an example. After both of his own plans didn't work out, he didn't give up. Instead, he turned to Plan C, and completely gave it over to the Lord. He had no idea what Plan C was, but he had faith that God did know, and that God would guide him. Then, he acted. He went forward, and was indeed guided to know and do what GOD had planned.

Sometimes that's what it's about. Not knowing beforehand what we should do, but knowing that God has it all in His hands.