Sunday, March 5, 2017

Week 32: Baptism part 2

Discover Baptism
Dunk and Freeze
Long fill but short ordinance
Stop the Problem
How?
Cut the CCTV
The proof is bowling
Baptism

So yeah, I saw my second baptism in Korea yesterday, and this time it wasn't an 8-year-old member. It was the other team's investigator, but I love him still. He's so pure. He has 100% not sinned yet. His name's Jeff and he is a good man, but yeah, that's really all the news I have.

In other news, I've decided I was sent here exclusively to see the character development of Han Lee. Like, this man is the best person I've ever met. Let's do a flashback because I don't have other news really. Basically I spent my second night in this country consoling a man, or rather watching helplessly as Elder Brown consoled a man, as he cried over his son and all the decisions he was making. The day after that his daughter was baptized, and that was baptism number one. 

As the weeks passed I did not have a conversation with 이춘호 where he didn't talk about his son. This continued even past the first week of my second transfer when I finally met our Prodigal Han. He came back from BYU to do his Army service, and was just chilling at home one night when we dropped by. He's really cool, and I kind of just wanted to be his best friend. 

Flash forward though 12 weeks of meeting this guy multiple times a week, and watching him slowly let go of his anger and slowly, oh so very slowly, start coming back to the church. 

This brings us to last week, which I already updated you on. So it really brings us to Yesterday.

Yesterday was fast and testimony meeting, as we Mormons like to do, and 이춘호 went up to the stand. I then saw him cry for the second time as he bore testimony of the changes his son was making in his life. It was touching. Then right after the block, good ol' Han was called on with no notice to translate our recent convert's testimony. 

There has been a lot of growth in the time I've been in 녹번. I've seen in in myself, companions, members, investigators, but I have never seen as much change in a person as I have in Han. I doubt I ever will. 

Best wishes, 

Elder Newton

Oh, also Elder Ryu did a "Street Casino" and lost. But I got this pic:

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