Elder Zachary T. Davis

New Investigators!! And a public bath house

So to start this email I will just say that I had the weirdest morning of my entire life, probably the most uncomfortable one too! Everyone decided that for me and Elder Cronin’s birthdays, we would go to a public bath house in the morning. (President Barrow lets us go to these on p-days). So we went to a public bath house on the top of our grocery store. Soooooo weird, especially since the Koreans old guys who are always there never see white people come in. Soooo weird, I’m never going again.

This week was super fun though!! We met 2 new investigators in one night, and one of them we talked to for 5 minutes then he asked us when church started and came to church the next day! Then he said he was coming again next week!! Super weird but way awesome!! We will try and meet him again this week. We have now officially activated one less active member, and he will be receiving the priesthood in a couple of weeks. We also have met another person walking out of the gate at the church, which now makes three people we have met who have wanted to meet with us. (The gate is where we have our best proselyting time?) His English name is Jason, and he is one of the nicest people I have met. He is pretty good at English so I am able to have a conversation with him!! We will be meeting him again this Thursday. The baptism of At Lay Ho is still happening this Sunday after Church. It is a little sketchy though because we have more to teach him and he has no time, but luckily he gave up learning Korean this Saturday so we can meet with him. He is super excited to get baptized, and he loves all the members in our branch.

This week also had an absolutely massive protest in my area against Hyundai, thousands of people marched down the streets into Hyundai with tons of signs and stuff. Luckily, Koreans really aren’t that violent so all they did was walk down the street chanting stuff and singing songs and carrying poles so no one got hurt. This week I also played our branch president’s wife in ping pong, she killed me of course, she is wayyyy good at ping pong!! We also played against Kim Chang Ho, which was super hilarious. I have gotten a lot better at ping pong in my time here, and I have been getting trained by one of the young men name 강민 (Kong Min) He has been making sure that I get better!! I have a rematch set up with our branch president’s wife, and I have to play our branch president now sometime this week.

This past Saturday we had a young men and young women party at the church because they had just finished taking a massive test on Thursday. We had a big nerf war (which was super fun) and then we went and ate a ton of food downstairs!!!

The language is still challenging. Elder Romney, Our zone leader taught me some sweet ways to memorize stuff so I have started using that now, and I memorize 6 new words everyday!!

Love ya!!

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