I cant believe it! It's almost been a year since i got my call! So weird! I liked seeing the picture on my calender of the night i opened it...when i read the fish part and Jenns laughing at me haha...and now I'm chowing down oysters and stingrays! So weird but so cool to see progression! :) Now Dad and I can go eat oysters together and I wont make nasty faces at him :)
My companion likes to remind me that my time is coming up...she always says your almost done! I'm like what? are you kidding i have 9 months!! but really...that is fast...I'm scared! I can't go back to America! Whenever i see white people here i feel so awkward haha.
So this week was really good! I told you last Wednesday about the first half of the week so here's the rest :) well at least the highlights...Friday i went to the office and passed off...finally...i put it off for a long time...but its finally over! So one picture is with an AP Elder Mejia and he signed off my book. ("Pass Off" is Scriptures, Language, Vocab, Lesson teaching and all the basics of missionary work...basically seeing if you can run an area.)
then we all ate ice cream to celebrate...
AND THEN our English coordinator ward missionary "Choi-myeong-sook"
took us to Outback! It was such a great day :) Outback is so expensive here it's insane but she wouldn't let us get anything but steak...so we each got like 30 dollar steaks! ( this area is pretty rich:)
We did run into a big problem this week...we wanted to go visit a member...i was so excited to meet her cause her brother was in the bishopric in my last area...so we called to ask the elders if they knew how to get out there and they said we couldn't go! What? So apparently we are so close to Deajon mission and the border is in our area....so a lot of our members live in their boundaries but still come to our ward....but we can't leave our boundaries! so sad!
Sunday was so good! we were siting in Sacrament meeting and a lady comes up and says your investigator is here...and we were like what? who? we weren't expecting anyone else to come. So we go to the back to sit by her and it was a grandma we met with a couple weeks ago. Cool story...so our zone leaders called to see how we were and we were still so new to the area it was hard to make plans...but he mentioned he was coming to our church that night for a mtg...about an hour later he calls again and says are you busy? and we were still kinda struggling with a more effective plan so we said no of course and he said ok well we just met a lady by your bus stop and she'll be at the church in a half an hour! haha so we ran! She's the nicest lady she met with missionaries before for English. Anyway we only met that one time and she said she was really busy and would call us..and we had called to try and see but she never had time...and then she showed up to church!!! She loved it! At one point she was crying she was so impressed. Then we had a ward meal afterward, it was so good she got to talk to a lot of members and then we had a really good lesson with her.
She's semi Buddhist but really just believes in universal truth, but by the end of the lesson she's like oh maybe i would pick this church but i can't just pick for me that's selfish I have to think of my family...and ancestors....ah...but hopefully in the future she'll understand..this is what they'll want too :) after her lesson we ran to meet Kim-jew-myeoung shes 12 and is getting baptized on Feb 18th! Shes so stinkin cute! and practically fluent in English. It was such a good day!
There's my weekend in a nut shell :) LOVE YOU!!!!
Sister Richardson
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