30 Aug 11

So whats up!!  We had transfer calls last night and I'm still staying in my Greenie area with Elder Dooley. I thought for sure I was gone but I guess I lucked out!!! I'm glad i'm staying here. This week has been pretty good.  On monday we went to a place called 이태원 (Itaewon). It's an area in seoul where a ton of foreigners live. I saw more black and white people than I have my entire mission!!! Oh and I ate at Taco Bell!!! It was great. Actually, no. Tacobell was pretty gross and super greasy. So anyways, on tuesday we went and visited an "investigator" I'm not sure if i've talked about her before but her name is Jacy Boo... She lived in america for a long time and so she speaks english fluently. So anyways, this lady is pretty wack. when we visited her she showed us a book she had written, It's called "guess who i am" and it's basically a book to try and destroy christianity. She said that her book will "sell more than the Bible" She also told us that "sitting meditation and marijuana can solve the world's problems" hahaha Yah, she'strange, but it's always an adventure when we visit her so we still keep her on the radar. Oh man, it was soo hard not to bust out laughing when she spoke. So, wednesday we met a new investigator who wants us to teach him english so he can pass a test for his work. He wants to learn english in like 2 months, I'm not sure how he's going to do that... We also met another new investigator and we played ping pong with him. He is a super awesome guy but unfortunately I dont think he has much gospel interest. We met him again on saturday and we climbed a mountain and taught him the first lesson. It was soo much fun but like i said, I'm not sure how much interest he has in learning about hte gospel. He listens well but he's not really down for acting on our commitments. We'll keep teaching him for a while and see if his heart changes. So the other night we were walking back to our appartment when we saw a guy walking around with his shirt half-off... Well, he came up to us and started talking in english to us. He kept saying "I'm a cyborg!" or "My name is John Connor, I'm Super man" then he got up on a step and did this weird dance thing and pretended that he was a super hero. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen. Drunk people are great. I think this guy was probably from china.

So in our apartment we have some old pass-along cards that have our phone number on it and they have an old phone number on it from when there were two sets of missionaries in our area. Well my companion decided to call the old number and guess who answered!?!?! Sister Oaks!!!! It was the craziest thing ever!! 

Well, that's pretty much all that happened this week, It was a pretty good week. Well I gotta run, I love my savior and I am super happy to be a missionary. It's hard but it's worth it. Hope youall are doing well!

Elder Oaks