"Almost 6 Months? 벌써?"

It was a pretty fun week. We almost had an incredible P-day last week. On account of the weather still being unbelievably beautiful, we (just our companionship) planned to go rent some bikes and ride along a beautiful trail along the beach, but just as we got on the bus our ward mission leader called and said he wanted to feed us. So I suppose the trail will have to wait until spring, as it's cold again. Thankfully I'll probably be in 김포 for a while. Today's P-day activity is staying and home and updating/organizing records all day. Is an iPad really so much to ask for?

In other news we temporarily dropped 이한 due to lack of progress. He's been meeting with missionaries for a year and a half now, but his wife is opposed to religion, so we told him we won't meet again until either we meet in his home with his wife or he attends church. He'll come around I'm sure. And we'll still see him at English class.

Not even sure if I had mentioned this to y'all, but our super-awesome investigator 유덕균 had been scheduled to go into the military in February, but now he's postponed it a year, which is super awesome! Not only does this mean we don't have to rush towards baptism, but we also have much less worry about him getting baptized and going less active right off the bat.

My ponderizing verse this week is Mosiah 2:21, if anyone was wondering.

Now in response to all y'all's questions:

• Our official "Progressing Investigators" stat is at 1 right now. But two new investigators came to church yesterday just out of the blue (one of which used to attend church all the time, but because of Korean business culture, in which teams will go out drinking together and one doesn't really have the option of not drinking when their boss wants to buy them something, he never got baptized, although he doesn't drink outside of that and actually really likes the Word of Wisdom), and an investigator that some Elders in another area have been teaching is about to become ours this week on account of moving. Then there's a bunch of people who want to meet with us and do occasionally but just don't have much time (the #1 problem in everybody's life in Korea). And then there's some people who want to hang out with us and/or like practicing English, but don't want to talk about the gospel. So maybe that kind of gets at answering your question.
• This past week we taught a lesson to the two who came to church yesterday and met with 유덕균 once. Also taught 4 lessons to members. So 1 introductory lesson.
• Our mission president is the bomb.
• The language is coming. Whenever I do evaluations with zone leaders (or one time I met with the APs) for the in-field Korean learning programs we have (12 Week and TIP; just realized I don't think I've ever mentioned those before; their explanations will have to wait until another day), they're always surprised at how quickly I'm learning, but I've still got a loooooooong way to go, of course. And Koreans always tell me I speak Korean well, but that's seriously unavoidable. It's difficult to even have a conversation with someone on the street for 3 minutes without them saying, "와, 한국말 잘 하시내요", or "Wow, you speak Korean well!" Sometimes it happens after just saying introducing yourself, just because it's so rare for non-Koreans to learn Korean.
• I haven't really made any New Year's Resolutions since we make new goals every week in our Weekly Planning. I suppose just work hard, love the people, and obey the rules. And I'm handling the cold fine.