On Monday
we went to one of the three churches in our mission boundaries that has
a basketball court and balled out for like 5 hours. Because of the recent schedule changes for missionaries, Pday has
been stretched out and there is more time to do fun things. I swear
if there was a crowd watching, the people would be chanting my name (haha). There
were like 26 missionaries involved, so we had a ball. We ended the day with the delicacy of Costco pizza, which is a rare treat in the life of a Korean
missionary.
On Thursday
we had kind of a funky thing happen. Right now we are living in a four
man house--Elder Lee and I and then Elder Dalley who is from Springville
and Elder Myeong who is a Korean as well. The special thing about
Elder Myeong is that he is like 26 years old. He has graduated
from college, fulfilled his Military obligation, lived a year in Europe for work, and
is also a convert of only about 3 years! In Korea, there is a
mandatory military system for 2 years, which Elder Myeong completed like 5
years ago, but every few months you have to go back in for a day for
some training in preparation for war that might come. On Thursday
Elder Myeong had that day long training and so we just dropped him off
in his military clothes with a bunch of other former soldiers and then worked as a threesome. The reason it was so funky is because we had scheduled 3
appointments and Elder Myeong and Elder Dalley's team had 3 scheduled too! We were just running to and from appointments for both teams, but it was
a lot of fun and we met a lot of new people.
The highlight was a guy named Ike. He is the other team's investigator and is fluent in English. He lived in North Carolina for something like 20 years, so he even had a southern accent. It turns out his entire life he has been looking for a religion that fits him and feels true. We were able to have a great chat about faith using Alma's parable in Alma 32 and he really enjoyed it. Finally after some time, I just felt really strongly I should ask him "what if the Mormon Church was the church that he had been looking for, and that he didn't have to search any longer?" In response, he said one of the coolest things ever: he paused for a second and then in a kind of low and soft voice said, "well if that were to be the case, then the Mormon Church would get one strong believer." BOOM! Sick!
The highlight was a guy named Ike. He is the other team's investigator and is fluent in English. He lived in North Carolina for something like 20 years, so he even had a southern accent. It turns out his entire life he has been looking for a religion that fits him and feels true. We were able to have a great chat about faith using Alma's parable in Alma 32 and he really enjoyed it. Finally after some time, I just felt really strongly I should ask him "what if the Mormon Church was the church that he had been looking for, and that he didn't have to search any longer?" In response, he said one of the coolest things ever: he paused for a second and then in a kind of low and soft voice said, "well if that were to be the case, then the Mormon Church would get one strong believer." BOOM! Sick!
Keep it real!
Elder Jenkins
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