Week 36: I'll come up with it later

Railbiking with Elder Shumway and some church members. Elder Shumway is wearing grandma pants, also known as refrigerator pants.

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Round and Ripe

Warm day, but cool snack

Stop the problem

How?

Tend the wound

The Proof is 박의창 (RIP)*

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So this week we've been doing Operation Keystone again, but this time for the Gospels. (I hope I explained Operation Keystone last time we did it.†) It's been pretty laid back, like only two chapters a day, so I like it. We also got a district commitment to do one of them PMG activities. It's a fun one, and I'm learning how to testify and stuff. It's on page 199 or something if you also want to do these things. And of course I'm reading the Liahona whenever I can because it's the lightest reading material I have out here. 

And yeah, so this week we had a little bit of a miracle. So I'm just gonna talk about that. Sorry to all of you who like having me ramble about nothing, but this week I have things to say.

So this week we've been preparing for the Branch Easter Party a lot. It's been a little intense. We made individual invitations because the branch is kind of really small. So we were making those invitations 하다가 when we realized we needed paper, so Elder Shumway and I ran out to our Less Active-owned Alpha to grab some. On the way there's a huge hospital, and right at the front of it this man stopped us and asked for our number. Now I don't know about other missions, but out here, usually we're the ones asking for numbers. So I am very interested, so we talk for him for a second. Turns out he wants us to teach his daughter English and he lives way out in this corner of our area, but since we have basically no investigators or appointments always, we agree to go out there next week and do our 30/30 program. (It's where we teach English and then snag them into hearing our message for half an hour.) Anyway, we part ways, and I mostly forget about this man.

This takes us to Sunday, when like at 5 minutes to 10, this same guy just waltzes into church with his daughter. She's really cute by the way. She laughed at me as I tried to sing the Korean hymns. (In my defense, we sang fast ones yesterday.) But anywho, this guy just stays for 3 hours of church, gets taught the Plan of Salvation while his daughter is in nursery, and is basically any missionary's dream. Like he was attending church before he became an investigator. So yeah, he's my little miracle.

Also yesterday we played the clarinet as a home teaching message to a family who's moving to Provo kind of soon. It was fun, but alas, there is no video. Or pics. I'm a failure. But here's other pics!

Elder Diamante!

All of us at lunch in our (sadly not pictured) 할머니 바지 (grandma pants). L-R Newton, Diamante, Horne and Shumway.

Elder Shumway was happy about this here food truck

Sometimes my companions remind me that people at home want pics of me, not just aesthetics

But here's an aesthetic pic of the district in the place where we met Miracle man. (Elders Shumway, Diamante and Horne; Sisters Lynn and 전한아라)

And yeah, that's about it!

Best wishes,

Elder Newton

* "He's one of the members. He's leaving to America tomorrow. For school and stuff"

†  He didn't, but "it was a thing where we read the Book of Mormon in like a month"