Spiritual thoughts or insights
this week: I thought about how, from our perspective, it
can be hard to work with people with pretty major problems or we can be
judgmental of them. Always their
problems are harder on them than they are on us, so the best thing we can do is
love them! Also I love general conference. The prophets and apostles
are such good amazing people, who teach truth. Just studying last conference, I
feel they are sent of God.
So this week there was probably
the funniest/ weirdest moment of my mission so far. We went to dinner with a new
investigator and he took us to this little restaurant his sister owns inside
this market. We were eating where you sit on the floor. You have to take off
your shoes and then step up on the dining area. Anyway there was this drunk guy
sitting at the American style tables and was just yelling, cussing, singing,
etc. Our investigator was trying to explain something in English but forgot
a word and said something like "what is that?" Anyway the drunk guy
said something right then so our investigator thought he was answering his
question. So they started talking. The drunk guy called our investigator
"dang sheen" which means “you” but is really offensive because he was
a lot younger than our investigator and stuff. Anyway they got in a little
argument but then our investigator just started ignoring him and talked with
us. The people at the restaurant tried to get him to leave but he wouldn't.
Eventually our investigator called the police. Anyway the drunk guy stood up
and walked right to where you take off your shoes and just stared at us and
sang songs. We just didn't look at him. Finally he took off his shoes and
came up to our area of the restaurant. Our investigator immediately stood up
and left. So we were stuck with a drunk guy just walking towards us. I
was the one closest to him so he came right up to me and sat down and grabbed
my hand and sang to me. He said he loved me and I was like, yup love you too.
He then went to kiss me and got my check. He was like "kiss"
"kiss". And went for another kiss. I just gave him my forehead. He
then wanted to kiss my companion and my companion would only give him his hand.
He talked to my companion and said "younger brother" (which is normal
to call younger people). My companion said yeah? "Younger
Brother" "Yeah?" "Younger Brother"
"Yeah?" "Your stylish" "You are too!"
"Me stylish? hahaha" and then fell over laughing. Finally the
police came. It took them a while to finally get him to leave. It was super
awkward and weird. But funny at the same thing. But perhaps mainly sad.
Also last week I ate dog soup.
So that was exciting. It wasn't great meat so I didn't love it but the taste
was pretty good! And actually quite a bit of meat. More importantly than all of this, this week
was a little slow. We had Zone training. It was good. They introduced some new
rules. The idea is to get us out on the streets in our area more. Or at least
just doing something worthwhile in our area more. So they took out spiritual
prep before district meetings which was normal before and stuff like that. We
weren't able to meet with many people. We will see if the investigator with the
drunk guy will want to meet with us again after that. Jeoung Soon Eh came to
church again and we will meet with her again. Andrew seems to really connect
with us. He now has a little more free time so likes to hang out with us. But I am not sure
how much sincere interest he has. He definitely is Christian but I don't think
he wants to participate in a church or change some things in his life. We will
see. We are also meeting with him tonight.
The language is slow but
is progressing. Anyway life is good. I love you all.
Hurrah for Israel!
Elder Sabey
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