Week 66

Week 5 Korea Town

Ya it's the one on GJ. By USC the place is called Cream. It's super good. It's not like the creamery though, not even close. It's just has ice cream cookie sandwiches and that's it. We haven't been to Yogurtland cause I'm trying to budget even though my comp is basically complaining that we need to go. Transfers are next week and I'm also getting the feeling that I am staying, but that my comp will leave.

Monday we did our normal Pday stuff. When we are shopping, we are trying to be a little adventurous. Last week we bought a container of coconut- Almond milk and that was pretty good. This week we decided to buy Cashew cream milk that is chocolate flavor and 😮😮👍 it is so good! We biked one handed back to the apartment and yes, my fingers were losing circulation, but I'm alive! We went with some other Elders
to Korean BBQ at a place on Fedora and Olympic and we payed about 13$ a piece, it wasn't too bad. Korean BBQ is definitely a social experience. You have to be patient and the conversation has to be good, or else you feel like it is a waste of time. Well after that we went to go and play basketball at the church so that was fun. We all
had a good time and nobody got hurt. After the Pday part of the day was over we went to go and visit the A family. They are less active cause the mom works on Sundays. We taught them the Restoration and it was good. They gave us popsicles afterwards and then the mom suggested that her son, C, come with us on splits. We set up a time for Wednesday and that he seemed like he would go. We then went
to see the D L family. We took a little while with the A family because of the popsicles so we arrived late to the D L's. We barely had enough time to talk to them about prayer before they had to leave. They just don't want to progress, but then when we think we are going to turn them over to the Lord, they come to church... So
idk.

Tuesday was just a crazy day, poorly planned based on our bike route. At the beginning of the day we actually were in a trio with Elder H because his companion had a meeting so we chilled with him till the meeting was over. He is a Chinese elder from Massachusetts and he is really smart. Afterwards we went to go and see the B family. The son, J, was there and we talked with him for a bit and it was pretty good. He is a nice guy and he pays attention when we are there. He helped us get the attention of his sister J, who is not a member and we shared a video about being Christlike to them. In their home they aren't exactly the most Christlike people. After that we biked all the way across our area to try and go see the E family, a part member family. We barely caught the mom leaving to go
and do laundry so we set up another time for us to go by. We were right by the apartment for L so we stopped by to see her. You will not believe the reason why they didn't come to church: so when we stopped by on Sunday and knocked on their door. The twins answered and we told them to go get dressed for church and they told us that their mom wasn't feeling too good. They told us that their sister, L, was waiting for someone to come pick her up. Well the person didn't come until about 10:30 (so they missed church) and then the person only took her for about an hour, so then the mom was mad. Guess what she did during that hour? She went to go and get her toenails painted... The twins then went and beat on their sister because she was the reason that they didn't go to church. After that we went to the church before coordination for some dinner. Well Hermana G was the one that signed up on the list to give us food, but she also signed up to feed the sister missionaries. So here we are waiting for Hermana to show up when we find out that her husband, a member of the bishopric, is out with the other missionaries visiting investigators
(woot woot) but that she has no way of getting to the church. SO we had to wait for all of them to come to church. Hermano R, the WML kinda chuckled about the whole thing and so all of us ate what Hermana G brought, it was super good. We had coordination and I just can't stand this one person who always comes... I'll vent about her another time.

Wednesday was just a weird day. We had a cool day planned out, with some members coming with us and everything. One of the appointments changed times so then the member couldn't come out with us, and the member is this super cool RC named J D who is hilarious and awesome. We wanted him to fellowship Sogui, but because he couldn't make it, we went anyways. Ana, her mom, decided to give us food! (Uh oh). It had tofu in it and it was disgusting! We didn't really have a lot of time to talk with them or anything so we just followed up with S on everything. I feel like such a terrible missionary because we never have any time to actually teach a lesson to S because of her kids and everything, but she has a lot of desire so that's what is keeping me going. After that we went to go and have our actual dinner with the C's. They had this awesome soda called Lift and its apple flavored. Apparently it's really hard to find, so if y'all can find it, try it. We told them that we wanted to stop by during the week to have one of their NMLs, so we planned for that. We then went to go and pick up C, a YM in the Ward, so that way he could walk with us to the lesson with E and E. We also wanted to contact with him along the way. It was his first time going out on splits with the missionaries so we gave him a little run down. Why didn't I ever go on all its with the missionaries?? I probably never wanted to, but y'all should've just forced me lets be honest. The lesson went really good, we talked about tithing and fasting. E is a true convert. She is just one of those people that will do anything, she even goes with the sister missionaries to their lessons! It was a good way to end the night.

Thursday we had this amazing day planned. So many set appointments and new people to go and visit. I feel like this is the cycle for my planning though: if we have a legit day planned with all these appointments and new investigators, NOTHING will happen, whereas if we have nothing planned and we improv it, it goes amazing! So ya, one by one the lessons started to cancel, even after we had already confirmed the lessons. After weekly planning we were invited by the Bs to eat a lunch with them. It was really awkward because they were just really cranky I guess that day. The son and daughter were just fighting left and right. J, the son, helped get everyone to listen by the end. It was just awkward the entire time basically. We then had all these awesome plans with the R family (L) but then right as we got there, bam, she cancels.... Ugh! During the day we would try and contact and talk to people, but it wasn't going so good. We did have some success with the Koreans though. We have a card for Korean-English classes and so whenever we would try to start a conversation with a Korean and they would all be like "oh sorry don't speak English" we would be like "no problem! Here is a card for free classes!" Wabam! We then dropped by to see how the D L's are doing and it is just getting more depressing every time we go.

Friday the Zone Leaders texted us and told us that we were going to go in exchanges with them. Elder H was going to come with me in my area and Elder B would be going with Elder W in their area. Elder H is from Kaysville and he went to Davis high. He is extremely tall and of course we just started to go off on all things we had in common. He is a really good missionary. I don't know what it is, but whenever I'm with another missionary we just go and talk with everyone we see, and we see miracles. We talked to these two ladies and they were so high on fumes I tell you. We asked them who is Jesus Christ to them and one of them said "a hippie"... Great. The other one was Muslim so they started to bash on the fact that we are "forced to go on missions" and that we should "stop this, and live your lives!". To their amazement we told them that we actually chose to do this, that it is completely voluntary. I tell you their mouths dropped it was so funny. That got them really interested and then we told them what we do as missionaries. They seemed both interested, and I bet if they weren't so high that they might've wanted the other missionaries to go and see them, but it was a cool experience nonetheless. We
talked to a lot of people in that area. We then went to go and see the C's and talk to them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the second half of the Plan of Salvation. It was really good and their conversion stories that they shared with us are just amazing. They are that family that has a lot of struggles, but they remain humble through it all. They aren't perfect, you can definitely tell that they have tempers sometimes, but all in all they are doing good.... They just need to come to church. After that we went to go have dinner with Hermana G. She is super cool and she has the son serving in Ecuador right now. She gave us some real good food and apparently when we asked the Rs to come out with us to visit investigators... Go figure that they talk to their friends in the Ward. This is exactly the type of tender mercy that was needed. The members are starting to trust us more and want to come and visit with us! We stopped by to visit S and she is doing good. It was really sad cause her daughter has pink eye, and so that means that she won't be able to come to church, cause that's really gross if the little girl who has pink eye spreads it around when she partakes ok the sacrament. That was a little sad, but understandable. We went to the area of where the R family lives because we had some time to go and talk with
people. Let's just say that the area was a little weird. We tried to stop by a part member family and outside their apartment building were some guys who weren't doing nice things. As we walked in this guy was just "watering the grass" 😷 and so that was awkward. On the way out of the apartment complex I got a bad feeling. The guys outside all looked at us when, the phone rang! Thank you R! They called and we walked out of there like it was no big deal. We then had the most awesome lesson planned for the R family. We were going to teach them the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and have the Rs with us during that lesson. Well, lo and behold, right as the Rs found parking and are excited to go, L says that she won't be home. Kidding me right?

Saturday was one of those improv days that actually went good. We started out with a visit with E and that was good, but E isn't feeling so pumped up about church anymore, so we don't know what to do. We then went to go and see the P family. They are a family of 6 and the two youngest sons are less active. We had a HTBT lesson with them and made them laugh and it was a really good lesson and we had fun doing it. We then set up that we would come by Saturday at 2 with them from now on. We then went to go and see S C because their whole family is moving and they are less active so we want them to be active members now so when they move they will be active members there too. It was a weird lesson because S wants to get tattoos and the dad just got a blue mohawk.... Lovely. We
then ate dinner with the R family and that was good. We then decided one last time to go and see the R family a who would've guessed, they were home! It was really weird because the mom was complaining about this member of the family, then that one, it was so awkward. We then invited the, to come to church and told them that the R family would love to give them a ride if they needed one. The mom seemed very optimistic about it....

Sunday we were pumped, except for the fact that we had a meeting at 8:00 in the morning. We had plans to go and wait for the R family to leave their house so that way we could make sure that they would come to church, we even had the R family ready to pick them up. We had the meeting with the bishop and then biked clear back to our area (FYI it's about 1.5 miles from our apartment to the church) and we went to knock on the door for Luz. BUT they weren't home, so we biked there for nothing. We then got a text from E who wanted us to come by and wake up E because he "wants out" of church. We decided that we weren't going to force him because that's never good. We then walked with E to church and she vented to us a little bit. Church was good, just because I'm getting closer to the
members so that's really what makes church fun. We had a lot of our less active members show up to church, but again, no investigators. A different D L family gave us dinner and I'll tell you why: The night before Mothers Day we sent out a text to all the Hermanas in our area telling them how much we appreciate them and how amazing they are. Ever since then the D L's have given us food every Sunday. We then went to the B family, but they weren't home so that was a little sad. we saw E and followed up on how church was and the family history class, so that was good. After that we talked to all of the RC and LA members to set up a time during the week to visit them, so finger crossed!

That was the week, it is definitely a time of growing and of patience that's for sure, but I'll make it, no worries:)

I'll be on later so I might respond to some stuff

Love,
Elder Roberts