a quick one!

Hello!

I heard from many of you this week with stories grand and simple.
Thanks for making me feel like I was there. It was good to hear from
you.

I'm pretty sure I will be cramming to write much for the rest of my
mission. There is too much to do in Jeju to just sit around. We are
professional tourists on Mondays around here. Hopefully it will be
rejuvinating. Next week is Halla Mountain. This week was an "illusion"
museum. It was pretty fun.

This week was a little bit of a bust. We travel about once a week to
Seoguipo, the other area in Jeju. There are between 20 and 25 members
that attend regularly, so we usually end up teaching the female
investigators becase the members are so few and can't attend and the
elers can't teach them alone. So, this week we taught Sister Go. She
is 15 and has been to church quite a few times. She hasn't been coming
the last few weeks, so we decided, since we don't have any
investigators in our ward, we would, with our branch president's
permission, go to Seoguipo branch this week, knock on Sister Go's door
and see if we could get her to come to church. She has some sort of
learning disability and is deathly afraid of me, but slowly warming
up. Anyway, after our appointment we gave her a baptismal date and
told her we would come pick her up for church. Well, after 15 minutes
of pounding on her door and calling her....nothing. Agency is a
wonderful gift, but as a missionary, I'll be honest, sometimes I want
to subscribe to Satan's methods. Ha. But, force never was the way to
conversion, was it. I know that, and at the end of the day, I'm
grateful for the ability to make choices and that others have that
same ability. I have confidence in God's perfect timing. We'll keep
trying. It's not easy, but we have to do it.

So I guess the best way (so far) to get to the residents of this town
is to go to their homes. We have been knocking on doors. I love the
responses of dismissal that come. It's funny. "I don't have religion."
"I already have religion." "I'm Buddhist." All three of these
responses are seen as an adequate dismissal. We did talk to a
Phillipino woman in English for about 5 minutes. She is afraid of her
husband and worried he would come home so she didn't talk to us long,
but seem genuinely interested. We will try to go back this week.

The street is my favorite way to talk to people, but I'll be honest,
I'm in a bit of a proselyting slump. Gotta get out of that one.
Anyway, hard to believe that this transfer is just over halfway
over...

Time is fast and slow on a mission. It is an interesting concept. I
think the fastest way to get out of a slump is to realize how short
time really is and get moving. It's not always the method I subscribe
to, but we're planning on a few new investigators this week, or at
least an effort worthy of a few new investigators. One of our members
has a friend she's been talking to a bit about the church. She told us
this week she will give us a referral if things go well on Tuesday.
We're hopeful about that one. Members are the best way.

Ah. Time. Love you guys. I'll organize my thoughts better before I
write next week. Lovvvveee. Hope things go well with the baby, being
back in SLC, and life in Guam. Thank you for your testimonies and
support.

Julia