February 15, 2016 (Week 61)

February 15, 2016

New Junior Companion??

Sorry if this email is short, not really feeling like typing today....

Monday we cleaned the house... all day long... that was fun...
Tuesday we had P-Day... which meant we sat in the house and played  board games. Then went to the church and ate chicken and board games with the elders that came down from Soak Cho.  Then we had singing practice because we are the most musically untalented group in the mission and need a lot of help... haha.   That night we had 11 elders in our house, since they had to come in for the conference in the morning, and travel was too long...
Wednesday we got up early and went to a bathhouse since we didn't have time for every one to shower at the house.  That was pretty fun, but after a little bit you get a little bored... you just sit there like, man this hot tub is pretty great, but why am I still sitting in it?  But it was still a good time.  Then we had the mission conference/ another zone conference, because our zone is kinda just excluded from the rest of the mission... So we talked about New Years in Korea, then we had lunch, and some more talking... not the most exciting conference, but hey, lunch was pretty good (닭갈비) which is pretty much fried chicken vegetables and hot sauce that they cook in front of you.  After that we went around finding some less-actives, then had movie night.  We watched Ephraim's Rescue, which was pretty good.. but cause of the New Years holiday nobody came... lame....
Thursday we were with an office elder, who is touring with the AP's, around our zone, since they're already out here. So we walked around, had 4 appointments fall through we were hoping for.  So we did that, went and saw the beach, then had English class.  That was the usual...
Friday I was with Elder Jung, and we went and visited his 89 year old investigator.  He used to be Jehovah's Witness, but loves the church. He was supposed to be baptized, but because our branch president hasn't had our water heater fixed, it had to be postponed... :(   We walked around and got canceled on by a couple more people...
Saturday we met 이상준 and taught him the Plan of Salvation, and he took it pretty well. We're definitely going to review it, but he is pretty good with remembering to read the Book of Mormon.. then we had English class and planning. Then we met 고영욱.  He didn't want to talk with us about religion and only wanted English help, but after meeting, he asked for the Book of Mormon, and agreed to keep meeting for both English and gospel topics! That was great.

Seoul Skyline over the River

Sunday we had church.  I gave a terrible 20 minute talk on honesty in sacrament meeting, right after blessing the sacrament... That was fun. I like this ward.  After that we met 김대현 our 17 year old that has a tough life.  We met and talked for a little bit, then he invited us over to his house... Suuuper tiny house, his mom had three drinks already out, and she is super handicapped.  But he just loves her and was really nice to her, and acted like the perfect son.  It was a pretty sweet experience.  He even gave us his Spam and cooked it for us. (Spam is expensive here.) Man, I just wanted to give him anything at that point. That night we met our Chinese buddy and talked with him about the restoration. Super cool guy.

Well, love ya,
-Elder Mortensen