For the most part things have been going great! We had a cool experience last week!! At the beginning of the transfer we set a goal to find a family, and we have been praying and working but finding families is hard.
Well on Sunday we had a plan to door knock a bunch of places, but suddenly a member invited us for dinner, so we ended up going to their house... Now I have never gotten into a house on my mission before, but I still believed! Haha. So we decided to just door knock the apartment the members live in in the time before the appointment. So we knocked, and knocked and nothing. We felt like we should start with the 19th floor, but no one answered... and we went down to the 18th and 17th... nothing! So we went the other way... 20th, nothing... but on the 21st floor we met a guy who let us in! We sat down on the couch with him and talked for like a half hour about life, told him what we were doing in Korea. He said lately he has suddenly been thinking that he wants to learn English! So we set up 30/30 program with him and met him again on Monday. The best part is that he has a wife and 2 children!! They are 25 and 23. So we found a family! We were really happy. He doesn't have much religious interest at all, but I am praying that as we share little by little he will gain some. It is actually really really hard to meet people in Korea out of purely religious interest... usually we also play a sport with them, go out to eat, or teach English. We have been blessed to find a lot of cool people lately!! Please pray that they will gain not just English or other interest, but want to learn the Gospel too.
Quick thought-- from Sunday School:
The children of Israel were saved from slavery in Egypt. Although the Lord continued to lead them and enact miracles for them in the wilderness, because of the difficulty of the journey and their wavering faith, they continued looking back longingly to Egypt ("Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt!" Numbers 14:2), rather than having the faith to go forward to find what new things the Lord had in store for them.
It is an easy trap to get lost in "what was" or "what could have been"-- a trap that can steal present joy and cause us to squander current opportunity. Rather than seeking the comfort of the past, as we are willing to face and embrace change we can show our faith in God and move and grow in the way he wants us to. Sometimes we feel that the past was ideal or much better, which makes it difficult. But I know that God's plan is perfect, though we can't understand it all now.
When we are willing to move forward and do our best, though we may not be certain about the future, God will do the rest! Moses said it well when he said, "Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day... The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace."
Sure love you all! Excited to skype you, too!
Love you!!
Nate
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