Happy Mother's Day!

Hello and Happy Mother's Day!!

I honestly don't quite know what to say as I have or will be talking to most of you in the next couple hours. I am grateful for that opportunity. It was really good to hear from you, Mom and Dad! You sound great and our talk actually helped refocus me in a few ways. You're right. In the end I only will have the opportunity to do this once and I want to do it well. Thank you for helping me remember this. We didn't really talk about that all that much, but as I reflected on our conversation that was the overwhelming sentiment that I felt.

This week was interesting. We actually found a new investigator. Her name is MiNe. She is around 40 and just returned from living in Singapore for 6 years. She has two daughters who are 11 and 12. MiNe actually tracked down the elders when she saw them at the subway transfer station and told them she wanted to meet/learn English from them. MiNe's mom was actually a church member when she was in college and was the ward pianist for three years. She told MiNe that if she wants to learn from good people who believe in God she needed to find the Mormons. MiNe's mom is now Presbyterian,  but still has a great respect for Mormons. We met with MiNe and her daughters this Monday and were able to get a better sense of her spiritual background. She is a really spiritual person and believes in God. She lost a child after he had only lived a few months. She knows that without God she would have had nothing. She is such a grateful person. She told us she is not looking to join our church, but she is open to our messages after we teach some English. As we talked about God it seemed like she really opened up, in a lot of ways. Initially she had said that she couldn't promise us that she would ever come to church. At the end she told us she might be interested in attending one or two times. We gave her a Book of Mormon and invited her to read the introduction. She is really sweet and we will be meeting with her again on Wednesday. I am really grateful for her spiritual openess. It is something I haven't really experienced since Sister Eo and Brother Bak in Jinhae. It is really refreshing.

We are preparing for a grand ward activity (Karaoke party and BBQ) this week. Koreans do love their karaoke. I hope it will be fun. Jungri ward only has about 35 members who attend regularly, half of whom are under the age of 18, so the leaders seemed a little worried, but I think we'll be able to pull it off. We are trying to do a big push this week to invite people on the street to the non-threatening activity.

Love you!!

Julia