Not gonna lie, this last week was rough. But it was only rough because a lot
of the time we weren't doing actual missionary work (and by this I mean we didn't have a lot of time to teach people)! ahh I love
missionary work so not doing it... well it's when times are rough haha.
This last week we had zone conference which took up almost an entire
day! It was really really good. I was reminded how important and vital
the spirit is to have when we teach as missionaries. Without the spirit,
we truly cannot teach. I know this is true with all my heart. The
spirit NEEDS to be present in order for our investigators to truly be
converted. Also, This last week us missionaries here in the Bangeojin
branch had to do all the preparation for the Halloween party! We were
put in charge of building a haunted house. yeah what? haha I had no Idea missionaries did things like that.... only in Korea I guess. Also
we were in charge of figuring out all the games to play and making them
so we made a bean bag toss game out of card board and a jeopardy game
for our Halloween English class that we had. We had to plan and work on
all this for about 2 1/2 days! I just had to keep reminding myself that
it was all going to be worth it because we were inviting everyone to the Halloween party! Well... Saturday
came... and Miracles happened at the Halloween party! One of the Sister
Kims we are teaching... the one with the English club who we sorta had
to drop... because we couldn't teach lessons.. I'm pretty sure I wrote
about that... ANYWAYS... She came to the party! with her husband and her
two kids! and they all speak English really well so I was able to help
them all night while Sister Bonney helped with the other games. I taught
them how to carve a pumpkin haha it was really fun actually. And then
while their kids were running around in the church going through the
haunted house (which was in the basement of the church...) and playing
all the games, I was able to bring up the gospel with Sister Kim and her
husband! supposedly Her husband met the missionaries 20 years ago and
they gave him a Book of Mormon and he read the whole thing in one day
because he loves history! soooo crazy! He actually remembered quite a
lot about our church. and he had so many questions. This led into Me
grabbing Sister Bonney and the four of us going into a room and having a
lesson! During the crazyness of the Halloween party we snuck away
and taught a lesson. It was incredible. We were able to give Sister kim a
book of Mormon and her husband really wants her to read it. We plan to
meet them again this week! All the Halloween prep became worth it
because of that moment right there.
This last week I also gave a talk in church. The Branch president said I
could speak on anything so I decided to speak on charity... something I
believe to be one of the most important things in life. I read Moroni
7: 48 and talked about how we can't develop charity alone.. we MUST pray
for charity. I believe this is true with all my heart because I have
tried it. We must pray for charity every day!
Anyway!
I love you all so much! Oh we had another Mandatory mission pday today
where we ran another 5k. My mission president and his wife are super fit
and they love working out! It's always fun to get together and see the
other missionaries!
Love you all!
Sister Hurley
Awkward moments:
That
awkward moment when I think I am speaking second in church because that
is how they announced it and that is what the program says but
supposedly the first speaker forgot he was speaking so while I was
praying that I could speak with the spirit everyone is staring at me and
my companion nudges me and all of a sudden I went up and spoke... haha.
hopefully people didn't think I was sleeping!
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| Masks! |
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| We made these for the Halloween party! |
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| Mom, we used the banner you sent! |
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