Hello family!!!
Glad to hear that you all are doing well. I am so thankful that the missionaries in the philippines are accounted for and safe. Such a miracle. The Lord really does bless His missionaries.
Nothing too big or exciting happended this week, but I will give you the run down on our investigators.
Jo un jeong (the artist) is doing well. She is slowly progressing. We talked this week about our purpose in this life as a time to prepare to meet God. She said that was the first time she has ever heard that. So we invited her to really think about and pray about when she will be ready to receive baptism. She came to stake conference this week and she was taking notes and seemed to really enjoy it so that's good!
Jeong so jeong (14 year old) we met with on Thursday and on Saturday. She had a ton of questions about baptism and about the plan of salvation, so that was exciting!! We are teaching her the second lesson right now and her mom was there to listen to some of it. They almost came to stake conference this week, but the mom said it was too hard, so we are hoping that this next week they will come to church at the normal ward building which is a little closer than the stake center. But we have been trying to help so jeong make friends with a recent convert in our ward so we all went out to dinner together on saturday and it was fun. We had to stay for stake conference meeting but they went home together so hopefully they can be a good support system for one another.
Ahn Tay young is a mom that called from and english add to teach her kids english. we go there every monday night. We taught the first lesson last week and it went well. she agreed that having a prophet today would be really good. She was wondering when there would be a korean prophet though...But we are going to teach the first half of the plan of salvation today. I just really want the spirit to be there and she will feel something and wan tto get baptized!!
Oh say young is a 39 year old woman that called to practice english. She is buddhist and doesn't know anything about the bible or god so we are starting from the beginning with her. The first time we met her she was really hung over, but the second time we met it was a lot better. the gospel would answer so many of her questions and help her life so much so I pray that she will be open to learning about our message and will follow through on our invitations.
This week we met with a new investigator and it was funny because the whole time she was asking us questions about our church because she had heard about it when she went to school and had heard negative things, but was open to learning about it from us. So we just answered her questions and set up an appointment to come back again. But then she called the elders and told them that we were trying to hold a church service in her house and that she doesn't want to meet with us because she is buddhist....we thought it was funny because we honestly were just answering her questions the whole time and we only invited her to read the bom introduction. It's just funny how we meet so many different people, but lots of them we never see again.
This week was stake conference and it was super good!! We also had a special missionary meeting with pres shin and our stake president. It was good. He talked a lot about the training he had from Elder Evans that was at your stake conference. It was a good meeting. and guess what?! One of the 12 apostles is coming to our mission in may!!! I'm pumped!!!! We don't know who is coming yet, but they are all awesome haha. We set the goal as a mission to accomplish our BRT122 goal by april as a gift to the Lord and the apostle. We also have a goal to have one person baptized by christmas as a gift to the Lord. So that's what we are working toward right now.
Love you all!!! It got really cold here in Korea this week. But life is good! Today we went out to lunch and at booday cheegay. It is a soup with a bunch of ham and random stuff in it. It was yummy :) Korean is definitely coming along, but I still feel like I can only talk about the gospel. If someone asks me something just out of the blue I usually have no idea what's going on, but if we are at church then I can understand haha. Helps me to stay focused on my purpose haha.
Love,
sister Livingston
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