Hey everyone!
TLDR
This has been a pretty fun and chill week! General Conference weekend was AWESOME!! Nathan’s baptism got pushed back AGAIN! Butttt we’re pretty sure this will be the last time! 😅 for real! I also got my first mission haircut… which is probably the closest i’ll ever be to getting buzzed… I hit my 2 months in the field!
Tuesday
P-day!! Very very fun day, started out by playing scum (the card game) with 6 / 8 of the district… then, after Sisters Budge and Howell came, we played some volleyball… 🏐 that was super fun, especially cause Sister Budge is like a legit volleyball player!! We pretty much just chilled at the apartment the rest of the day… we went to the Macy’s for dinner, and then it started monsooning… and because we walked to dinner, we had to run back to the house through it! So, we ran some calls for the rest of the night inside, and found someone that way! Yayy!!
Wednesday
Pretty good and productive day! Started out by knocking around and finding, then went by our friend Syrena, a referral who we taught the entire restoration to!! She was super nice and seemed willing to learn! We then went by our friends Brinda and Mike, and brought a member named Sister Figueroa who really related to Brinda really well… Brinda grew up in the catholic church and didn’t really like it, so we’re trying to get her to our church! ⛪️ And Mike is an inactive member. And he helps us encourage Brinda to come! After that, we went and met with Nathan and showed him the baptismal font, got his baptismal clothes, and he said he’s really excited! 🌊 We then had dinner with the Scott’s, a very nice old couple who fed us some Shepherd’s pie! We then went finding a little longer, then stopped by our friends Kito and Brian (a young married couple)! Kito was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, but had some bad experiences with controlling leaders… Brian is her husband, and they’re working through a lot together… we shared about how the gospel can bring peace, and they seem to think of us as actual friends instead of just robot missionaries! So that’s nice! 😊
Thursday
First of the month! I set my entire phone to Korean, since I’m trying to learn the language better! 🇰🇷 But honestly now I just feel dumb cause I can’t understand a single thing… 😭 But anyways, started off the day with my interview with President Loo! It went pretty chill, we talked about Celestial laws and about how the mission has been so far! Then we had some lessons! We talked to our friend Katt, who has a lot of Catholic beliefs, is VERY conservative, and can’t go to church cause she’s in the mountains every weekend looking for her lost dog?? 🐕 We also met this African kids who LOVE THE MISSIONARIES! I showed them some magic and Banta gave them some stickers! We then had dinner with the GOATTTTTTT!!! 🐐⚠️ BROTHER ESCARCEGA!! He’s in Elder Hale’s ward (Craycroft), but he loves the missionaries and wanted to have me and Elder Banta over cause Banta is new! He made us this lentil soup with cactus from his backyard, which was SO GOOD! Then, we went and played volleyball! Shawn came as well! Nathan and his daughter were supposed to come, but they backed out last second because Nathan had to help his other daughter out to get ready for homecoming…
Friday
Pretty chill day… We went bus flowing (getting on a bus and just talking to people), and we found 3 people that way! 🚍 We then went to some lessons. One was with Syrena! We taught her the entire plan of salvation, and she totally understood it and found peace in it! She’s so cool… We then visited with an inactive member named Ellen McBride, and her family! They fed us hamburgers which were SO GOOD (and made me think I need to up my game…). Her husband is a professional hypnotist, and so that was so cool to learn about! 😵💫✨️ Like he would hypnotize people to stop their addictions and he said it works like 80% of the time which is INSANE! I was gonna ask him to hypnotize me to stop being a lazy bum but I decided against it… maybe next time! 👀 we then ran some calls with Brother Horn… our friend Isabelle who was on date unfortunately sent us this –
Poop! That stinks… she blocked us too… the hermanas were the ones who originally met with her, so they’re gonna stop by her on Monday and see what’s up!
Saturday
GENERAL CONFERENCE PT 1!! Started off blessed by going over to Brother Escarcega’s house to watch! Roberts and Hale made some waffles, and Banta and I cooked some bacon, sausage, and scrambled eggs. Then, we watched the 1st session! After that, we went over to the church for a baptism (for Roberts and Hale)! His name was Marwan, and it was cool cause he only spoke Arabic! So everything had to be translated! I played the piano for the baptism… it all went super well! We then went back to Bro Escarcega’s house for the 2nd conference session (which we had leftover waffles for lunch…) Then we visited a friend named Christine, a single mom who’s going through lots of stress and needs the gospel in her life. We shared some scriptures that I think really made her feel better! We’re coming back on Friday to help her weed her lawn! 🌱 We also met with a lady who speaks Spanish… We were so ready to drop her (in our first contact with her, she seemed very uninterested…), but she actually seems really intruiged and wants to come to church! Unfortunately, we have to pass her off to the hermanas though… on the way back to our apartment, we were like a little off the road, stopped cause we were calling a friend, and some guy (guy #1) goes around us and apparently almost hits another car (guy #2)?? I didn’t see it but guy #1 suddenly stopped, and guy #2 rolls down his window and starts cursing at guy #1… Guy #1 said that “he didnt wanna hit the kids” and guy #2 was like “they’re missionaries!” 😆 and guy #1 was like “ohhhh you’re acting tuff for your girlfriend huh” (guy #2’s girlfriend was in the car), and guy #2 was like “alright then, get out of the car and let’s talk it out” and then guy #1 just drove off… Elder Banta and I were just so shocked while it was all happening… WE WERE BARELY ON THE ROAD! But anyways that was hilarious!
Sunday
2nd day of General Conference!! We biked over to Elder Hale’s and Roberts’s apartment complex. We made some egg-in-nests (basically eggs inside of bread), and some sausages! We then watched the first Sunday session! After that, we had some Mac n Cheese for lunch and played some scum! Elder Hale also gave me a haircut 😫 and I was the first person he’s ever actually given a haircut too… he basically buzzed me, and also gave me a little bald spot above me ear! Yay… Honestly it’s not toooo bad! But after that and a shower, we watched the 2nd session!! We then biked home, changed, and went to an inactive lady’s (Cindy West) house who’s getting back into church! We were able to retrieve her patriarchal blessing and also restore her church account! We’re trying to get her to the temple as well, so we scheduled a temple interview for her this upcoming Sunday! We then did some weekly planning, had dinner, and did the mission-wide zoom!!
Monday
Started off meeting with James (our friend on baptism date), and we talked about getting him to church!! We then went to Wendy’s for lunch, and went to district council! After district council, we went knocking for a bit, then went by our friend Syrena! We tried to put her on date for baptism, but she said she was baptized into another church and didn’t really understand proper authority… but we’ll work with her! Then, the Hanna’s took us out for dinner! 🍽 We went to this all-you-can-eat salad / Italian place! It was SO good!! We then met with our friend David, who was a member over 20+ years ago. He’s been going through some hard times, but we testified of how the gospel can help him, and he wants to come back to church! 😁
That’s it for now! Bye!!!!!
Elder Andrew Hyun
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