Let me just say that this week was incredibly busy. This past week has been a lot of fun too. The oldest district left for Korea... that makes the elders in my district the oldest. Anyways, because my companion is zone leader, he had to stay up until they had checked everything off their departure sheets, this meant we had to stay up with him. So when 10:30 (lights out) rolls around, we go and check on them. We found them sitting around a garbage bag table with bags and bags of chips. Yay, chip party! When we saw them they invited us to eat chips with them. My companion probably ate chips for 15 min. I didn't feel to comfortable to I only ate chips for about 5 min. After our run in with the chip party, we went back to our room. It was at this point that as a companionship we decided to ask the older district if they could finish packing so we could go to bed. Umm, I think they ended up going to bed aroundmidnight. I probably feel asleep around 12:15. Then we woke up to see them off, 5:30. That was fun. We climbed the stairs back to our floor (4 floor) and looked into their rooms. Ya, we spent the next 30 min cleaning up their rooms. At 6:00 we decided to try and sleep for the next 30 min. I ended up laying in bed thinking with my eyes closed.
So Monday was kind of rough. I think I ran out of candy around 10:30. Then I was on my own to stay awake. We came up with some interesting tactics. Another fun Story. Yesterday was my teacher, Brother Sung's birthday. The sisters found this out in a ... creative way? While the elders were teaching Levi (Brother Sung) the sisters wanted to know his first name. Lets just say that Brother Sung might have left his wallet in the classroom. Anyways, back to his party. We found out his favorite candy and grabbed a pair of jeans we inherited from the Koreans and grabbed a shirt we received as well. Then we left dinner early so we could wait in the classroom and surprise him. We wrapped all of his presents in saran wrap, also inherited. and waited for him. When he opened the door, he went to turn on the light and saw Sister Blum. Yes, lets say he was scared. Then we had him open his present. It was a lot of fun! For our last surprise, we told him we found him a girlfriend and set him up for a date in the middle of class. His 'Girlfriend' was a tiny paper cut out of Anna from Frozen. So after we told him this and watched his reaction, we had someone from another class leave his 'Girlfriend' with a bunch of Chocolate kisses in front of the door. Then we had this person knock on the door in the frozen knock. HAHA, Best class time ever!! I can not wait for his 1 year teaching anniversary, yes we did figure that out too.
Our investigators are doing well. Another funny story. We started TRC, basically it is a simulation were you teach people who are members of the church who volunteer to help you. they act as themselves so it is really cool. It really helps with the language. So we are informed that we will be teaching members on Friday night. We go into our first teaching assignment and it is going pretty well. Halfway through the lesson we find out that two of the people we are teaching are not members! Yes it was super exciting. Then we went to our next appointment and we had the same thing happen to us. We were not to happy with our teacher for giving us the wrong information. Kimsulbin is getting baptized on May 22! We are so happy with the way that she is progressing. You can totally feel the love that God has for her. It is really awesome to watch her testimony grow. Levi is progressing as well, he such a cool person. I am glad that we get to teach him. Tuesday we also started teaching a new investigator. Her name is Katie, Sister Callister, and she is super awesome as well. We were not told we were teaching her. So we had about 10 min. to prepare a whole lesson in Korean, the lesson was about 20 min. long. I can totally tell that we are learning the language.
This last week we also had a lot of really good devotionals. I can not wait to go out into the field. It is going to be so much fun helping other people come unto Christ. I can really feel the love God has for everyone. As I read the scriptures, I feel like I draw closer to Him as well. Please, study the Book of Mormon everyday! you have no idea how often it will answer a question that you have.
Love Elder Brown
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