Happy birthday, Jeremy's mission

A lot of this week's noteworthy happenings seemed to be in connection with less-actives:

1. Monday night we met with 전봉휘. That's a funny story, but it'll have to wait.

2. Later in the week we met with David, who had been baptized seven-eight-ish years ago by a missionary who it seems wasn't quite as obedient as he should've been. Consequently, David loves inviting missionaries to go hang out with him and break the rules. But he promised Elder Eddy he'll come to church before his mission ends (which would be in one month), which is progress, I suppose.

3. When we met again with 김경수 (the guy who served a mission but got swindled or something by a stake leader), he offered to cut us up with an ex-acto knife to test how much forgiveness one can offer through the Atonement, and he seemed pretty sincere. But I love that guy so much (not sarcasm).

4. 김종인: Just met this guy this week. He injured his back years ago and so wanted us to help him rearranging some furniture in his newly-moved-into house and doing some farming (not sure how his back's still up for farming but not taking a bus to church, but....agency, I guess). That was pretty cool, but afterward when we tried to have a gospel discussion he instantly went off about how pollution and global warming are killing this planet and NASA's scientists better get on finding a way to shoot all of our trash into space and colonize Jupiter and Saturn (but zero mention of Mars, surprisingly). Although in a way this monologue was pretty miraculous: just a day or two earlier I had learned the names (in Korean) of all the planets, and then wondered why I'd really ever need to know them. (Not that I had wasted a whole bunch of time on it; you can learn all their names really really easily with a little knowledge of 한자 and mythology.) But then there we were. That's actually something I've seen a whole lot on my mission. Like a whoooole lot. It seems every time I learn new words, no matter how common or uncommon they may be, they suddenly pop up in all the weirdest places, and those odd 'coincidences' make it super easy to remember them. I've decided that's part of how the gift of tongues works.

Outside of that, we weren't able to meet with super-golden 김돈 again; he says he was still busy but will finally this week be able to meet us. We picked up a new investigator, 조세종, who's pretty solid but will move to the 서울 mission in a week. President and Sister Turner attended our church yesterday, which was pretty cool. President Turner's Korean isn't too bad for how recently he arrived, although he did use a translator of course for his sacrament meeting talk. We have our bi-transfer-ly interviews with him tomorrow. (Speaking of bi-transfer-ly things, we will henceforth only be going to the temple that often (as opposed to each transfer), because a member of the North Asia Area Presidency thinks we go to the temple "too often." Because, you know, that's a problem that a lot of people have. But I'll follow my priesthood leaders.)

Remind me to write about 이장석, the guy who got baptized right when I got here, next week, because it's a story too long for the time I have remaining. In other news, while you guys have your above-100 heat indices, the past few days over here have been real cool. I would even have called Saturday morning 'cold.' Of course it's usually pretty warm, but the summers here definitely have nothing on Texas.

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