So I just had a thought and if anyone has the answer to this question, I would be somewhat appreciative if you could tell me. So is it a normal thing for the subject line of an email to be the last thing that people write in a letter? It certainly is for me. I also wonder if that comes from actual letters or if it's just an organizational thing for computers. Probably the latter. Not too concerned about that question compared to the prior so don't worry about it too much.
Anyways, this week has been a bit of a roller coaster in missionary work. So remember how I end up saying a bunch that I like contacting people and stuff? Well that is no more!!! Now we are just trying to have conversations with people. The differences may seem minor from an outside perspective, but I think it's huge! Scratch that I KNOW it's huge!
Prior to this change, we would measure our contacts and it was kinda based upon giving the people gospel material which isn't a bad thing by any means. The problem arose when people weren't giving those that they came in contact with the proper chance when it comes to trying to share the gospel with them. They could have kept going for the conversation to last, but instead, in order to get better numbers they would give them gospel material and kind of just move on to the next. I always felt bad when I did this so one thing me and my last companion did was stop making daily goals for contacts. Theoretically, if you're working hard, you shouldn't need those. You should just be trying to talk to everybody! Anyways, this new method has potential to be super awesome. Give people a better image of missionaries.
Missionaries in Korea have kind of a bad image. That's part of what the plan is with this new thing, is to improve our image. It's actually not to the fault of our missionaries that we have a bad image, but its because of these "proselyters" for other churches. They get paid to work and are really crazy, also they copy our strategies for missionary work.
Stories for this week. So we met this guy on Thursday. Dude is super nice and bought us dinner on Friday. He wanted to buy us dinner last night along with another guy, but we were kind of busy and had already eaten so we didn't get to, but still a super awesome guy.
For any of those of you who were curious about screen golf, it is sooooooooo fun. Kinda really easy, but really hard at the same time. So every single shot has the exact same lie so it's not like there's any real difficulty that varies between the different holes, unless you're like me and can't aim regardless. Also it makes you feel less good when you think you hit it far because it's in meters, not yards. Suuuuuuuuupppppeeer fun. Also is only like 10 bucks! I'm pretty sure the only one of those things I've seen in America was like, 150 bucks. Kinda flip flopped here.
Final story. So last tuesday, had the craziest weather I have ever seen in my entire life~!!! So crazy. The Zone Leaders weren't there, but it was psycho! So it was 1 in the afternoon and looked like it was maybe, 7 at night that's how crazy the clouds were. We had an appointment, but I had to cancel it cause it was so gnarly outside. It legitimately looked like the footage that you see from the hurricanes. We went back inside until it calmed down, and it felt like the least productive time in missionary work of my life. Weather was bugging me that day. Maybe we weren't supposed to meet that person. Who knows?!?!
Sorry, we're kind of busy today so we don't have too much time, but if you have any questions go ahead and shoot me an email!!
I love you all. The work here is so awesome. I'm super bummed that I've got less than half of my mission left. It makes me super sad. I'm more scared for the change going home than the change I had in becoming a missionary. It's not too soon, but man it approaches faster and faster. Makes me sad that we can never get time back. Gotta do it right the first time, and if not, learn from the mistakes otherwise time is too short. Life is too short to not take the time to be busy, but to take the time to smell the roses too. Don't waste your time doing nothing, but even more don't miss the beauty around us.
Stay awesome everyone!!!
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