Hey everyone!
This week has been really really good!! We found 18 PEOPLE!! Crazy… and we also got a lotttt of lessons in! Sadly, 2 of our baptisms this week fell through… but we’re still holding strong!
Tuesday
Temple day!! We went with a recent convert named Shawn! It was really fun, we did baptisms and an endowment session! I had to baptize 4 different girls who all had like 7 names, so it took a while… we then met this guy at chick-fil-a named Larry who had this crazy story of miracles and being converted to Christ; he was so awesome!! We played some card games at the church for a while, then had dinner with the ward mission leader’s family! They have a reallyyyyy cute baby… shortly after, we went to a lesson with a guy named Logan, and taught him about the restoration! We then started an exchange – I’m back with Willardson! The GOAT!
Wednesday
Very fun and productive day!! Willardson and I did a lot of knocking… we put someone named Hugo on date, went out to eat at Wendy’s, and then went to the same deaf guy’s house (Glenn), and i actually knew some ASL this time, so i came more prepared! We then went to ASL class! So fun, I got to learn even more words! I then gave a blessing to a woman in a hospital… my 3rd I’ve ever given… and after I gave it, she said that she heard a calling from her passed away family to come to her? Uh oh… Anyways, we met with Elder Hale / Balls at In-and-Out (which they were 20 minutes late to…) Then, we immediately started another exchange with the zone leaders! So i got to be with Elder Lundberg, and stayed in my area! Yayy!!
Thursday
Great great great day! We found 6 people!! We spent a lot of the day ripping calls… we found a lottt of people that way… I also got to make a bunch of food for Lundberg, and he said like I was the best cook on the mission! Which totally made my day… if it dont baptize someone, at least i can leave in peace knowing I blessed people with some food! We also did a lottt of knocking as well, Elder Lundberg is really good at doing street contacts, thats something I want to get better at!! Also, the Hanna’s took us out to TEXAS ROADHOUSE!!! 😋😋 It was sooooo yummy… we got our recent convert Shawn (same guy who went to the temple with us) to come to volleyball that evening, so that was super fun!! We then switched back! Great day, except for the fact that the lady that we were going to baptize this week, Yvette, literally dropped us 3 days before her baptism… BRUH!
Friday
Another really productive day!! We went finding for a while… we did laundry in the morning (since we didnt have time on p-day…) we then got yapped to by some ladies (who majored in religious studies) about different denominations of Christianity?? We then helped a lady move… And she had like the craziest stuff i’ve ever seen, like bro she had a giant marimba (basically a huge xylophone with pipes). Then it was time for the interview with President Loo… SCARY!! Nah just kidding it was pretty chill, he just introduced a new way that we should be knocking, teaching people using the BOM! We then went finding at green waters (the biggest apt complex in our area) for a while, and i practiced my street contacting! We stopped by a girl named Chandler, who seems like half-interested. When biking back to our apartment, we almost ran over a rattlesnake!! Which freaked us out, but it looked like we freaked the snake out even more. We had dinner with the Gibson’s (who fed us pasta and garlic bread, yum!! 😋😋) Then, we called a family with 10 kids!!! And they’re interested in the church!! That could be a pool party if we can get them to baptism…
Saturday
Prettyyyy good day! We had 9 LESSONS, the most I’ve had here… we also found 5 people as well just in that day, which was our week finding goal! We knocked on this old guy’s door, who talked to us for AN HOUR about how Jesus apparently can’t be named that cause there’s no J in the hebrew language? He wasn’t exactly bashing, but he wasn’t exactly interested in converting either… I looked it up later, and apparently in old English bibles, he was called “Iesus” instead of “Jesus”, until the J was added in later! Kinda cool… We also met with a guy named Kevin Karnes, who lives in a household with all members… he also studies the BOM every morning at 4:30?? So, we’re hoping to talk to him more!
Sunday
Today was a really great day for finding again! We ran a lotttt of calls! Honestly the best way to find people in my opinion! Sacrament meeting was awesome! We started our “gospel principles” class today, but nobody showed up… 😔 so that sucked… But then we did our weekly planning and went to dinner at a family’s house, and they gave us enchiladas! Which were SO BUSSIN especially cause it was fast Sunday… they also had 2 return missionaries, so it was fun to talk to them!
Monday
Started out with district council, focusing on finding! Then we went to a lesson with Chandler, who WOULD NOT GET OFF HER PHONE!! We promptly dropped her… Then, met with Nathan again and talked to him about how he’s doing. He’s still good for throwing away everything Wednesday! We also helped him move some stuff as well! Then, we had a dinner with a family named the Hilke’s, who fed us pasta and mint-flavored honey water?? It tasted really good though… then finished off with some calls, found 3 people, and went to bed!
TLDR
Pretty good and productive week! Found a LOT of people (18), had tons of good lessons… got dropped by Yvette AGAIN but we’re continuing to put people on date! We’re working with Nathan and he’s progressing! I’m convinced that calls are THE WAY TO FIND!
BYE EVERYONE!! LOVE YOU ALL!
Elder Andrew Hyun
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