Can you believe that another week has flown by!?! I am having a hard time just thinking about what happened this past week.
Monday we didn't have a P-day, it was moved to Tuesday, so we worked hard and tried to meet a lot of new people. In fact it worked so well that the shoe vendor we started talking to taught us how to talk with people. After telling us that a ton of churches in Korea just yell at him to go to there church and repent, he counselled us that we needed to talk with people. He said we didn't need a soap box or anything fancy, we just needed to learn about the people with whom we talked with. I think his reaction was prize-less when we told him that is what we did. He stopped for a second and then started laughing and said that we had tricked him. He was super sweet and we are hoping that we can meet with him again. He seemed interested and walked back into his store from his smoke break with one of our pamphlets without even realizing.
Funny how you just meet awesome people. But I think it is even better when awesome people find you.
We were talking with someone when this other man, John, ran up to us and told us he wanted our number. He seemed super interested and we excused ourselves for a second and exchanged numbers. Now he wants to take us out to eat.
Back to Tuesday, We had our Temple day for the transfer. Tuesday was really great. We ran into a Russian couple who didn't have anyone to attend there wedding ceremony and we were invited to attend. It was an interesting experience having a Korean preform a wedding ceremony in English and then the Russian couple was reading what he said in Russian. It was such an amazing experience.
Now to the anchovies. We went and helped our less active friend, Oonsung, and like always he wouldn't let us leave until he feed us. After ordering food for us, he pulled out his collection of kimchi to add to the meal. Some how dried shredded candied anchovies ended up onto the table.
That was probably one of the grossest things I ate.
In Korea, you have to try all the side dishes at least twice in order for it to be polite, at least that is what I am told. I just tried to stick to the Kimchis. Dinner was super good and we are hoping to see him at church next week.
Thursday we had another surprise. Elder Whitting came and spoke to us. He is the Area President for the Asia North portion of the church. He is super funny and I really felt inspired after I spoke with him. He said his main assignment from the Quorum of the Twelve was to make sure that President and Sister Sonksen (The mission president and his wife who are in charge of all the missionaries in the Korea South Mission, where Colten is assigned to serve. President Sonksen is the one in charge of making assignments and watching over the missionaries of the area) had not turned tail and flown back home. He was cracking jokes the whole day that we were with him. It was really great.
Hope everything is well back home,
Try to stay awesome.
Love Elder Brown
