Angle Rain

August 31, 2025

 On our way to visit wheelchair man a woman stopped us on the street and asked if we were hungry. Without waiting for an answer, she started dragging me towards a restaurant, apparently very eager to feed us. Because of our appointment, I had to refuse, but I got her number and told her we'd meet with her soon. She told me her name was Angel Rain, and that she came up with it herself. Pretty fire name if you ask me. During an exchange a few days later, my temporary companion and I had an appointment with Angel Rain and the sisters, because we wanted to refer her to them. We waited with the sisters for long past our scheduled time, until she finally showed up. She then dropped a sermon about how her tummy hurts and how she has greed for money and needs to stop praying for money. So relatable. She repeated that her tummy hurt a couple times over and then said she'd see us next week. Leaving us after literally only 2 minutes, so there went that appointment...! My comp and I decided to do our language study at a nearby café with the new hour of time that just opened up. When we finished our study and went out to the streets again, lo and behold, Angle Rain, walking towards us. She told us to follow us again because her pastor was gonna come give her cookies and she wanted to give them to us. We waited with her for a long time until her pastor showed up. When he showed up it was like a movie where the main character goes to a girl's house and knocks and a different guy opens the door lol. Bro was nottt happy to see his most loyal attendee with missionaries. It wasn't even cookies either. It was coke flavored roll-ups. Straight diabetes.  

Also met with Ice Cream man this week, and without the sisters this time because I'm pretty confident he's Sister Interest. We asked him if he wanted to take the lessons, and he said no because his pastor said not to read the Book of mormon. My comp started shaking a bit and told the guy his pastor was being controlled by the devil. Had to make a slight intervention after that comment but yeah, bro's not gonna be taking the lessons. 

Had three people show up to church and taught them all lessons. Miricles are happening in 세종 babyyyy. There still is some gold in them hills.

We made a pinwheel and went and did pinwheel finding, because Koreans go crazy for gambling, and it was super fun. One little kid landed on "name that tune," so I sang him jingle bells. He yelled, "CHRISTMAS!!" and it was adorable and made my day. He won a candy.

Spiritual Thought: 

There's a section in PMG that shares an analogy about fishing I like. It says that some fishermen spend 8 hours away from the house and spend 6 of those hours fussing with their equipment and getting to where they're going, while others spend 6 of those 8 hours fishing and catching. The first might wonder why they do not experience the same success as the second. 

I gave a training in a district council recently where I expanded on that by talking about celstial fishing (fly fishing) When I first started to get the hang of fly fishing, I would cast all day long, cause I thought it was fun, but my dad would always say, "you can't catch a fish with a fly in the air." 

You can even be standing in the middle of the river and still get nothing done. This has a lot of applications to missionary work, but another for me is my personal scrupture study. Before my mission I would study scriptures, but the difference now is huge. It doesn't feel like I'm just trying to cast, I'm actually trying to catch stuff. Prayer before and after, paper copies, and recording impressions has been very helpful for me. Don't just do the motions! 

Love you all!

Current weight: 189.3 (lowkey relapsed on oreos this week )