Last week was a doozie. I'd tell you all about it but I better not. It was a long week though lol.
Trying to fit more appointments into our schedule, my comp and I ended p-day an hour early last week so we could travel to the other side of Daejon to meet a guy. We were planning on eating with this guy so I fasted from lunch and dinner to eat a ton, but when we arrived and called him he said he "couldn't meet" Bruh. Now I had to do finding for 3 hours with my 배꼽시계 (bellybutton clock) going off the whole time. I was kinda pressed about it but then he called back 30 seconds later and said, "Hey! But you can still go visit my family. They're at my house." We figured we might as well, so we made our way to the 18th floor of an apartment building and when we got there the door was already open, letting me peer into a pretty normal apartment. I knocked on the door and a lady came and invited us in excitedly. The second we turned the corner into the room the vibe was... not ideal... you could say. The tiny "house" looked more like a clinic than anything, coffee machines everywhere, a person getting a massage on a table to the left, and everyone was wearing white lab coats. They sat us down right in the middle of all of them, put two mysterious drinks in front of us (we didn't touch them) and another lady walked in from a mysterious door to my right wearing a lab coat, snapping on a latex glove that was lubed to the max. By the grace of God, she said hi and walked right past me to a different room. Well obviously this was no "family," at least not by birth, and to quote Admiral Ackbar, "It's a trap!"
They yapped at us about why we should join their pyramid scheme for about 30 minutes and I was taking mental notes about what NOT to do when I'm being a missionary cause holy, they didn't let us get a word in that whole time. Ended up telling them about the Book of Mormon and leaving for our "appointment." We survived though, and then I got someone's contact outside the apartment building, when we left, by telling him the story. He thought it was funny. haha.
I feel cursed recently. I'm over a year and a half into my mission but I still avoid talking to women younger than 30 at all costs, but everytime we went on a bus or train last week there was no one but women in sight. I had to force myself to talk to 3 in a row on one bus ride. It was horrifying. Got that contact though!
Spiritual thought:
My oldest sister Elise bought a house a few years ago and I randomly remembered the story of her getting the house from the previous owner. When he showed the house to the previous interested people, they all kinda scrunched their noses and looked disgusted, but my sister could see through the old paint and carpet and really saw it for what it could become. After much cleaning and renovation, it looks beautiful in there now, and I have slept many a night there as a pit-stop for SLC concerts/ just to hang out with Elise. I like to imagine Jesus looking at us the same way she looked at that house. He focuses on our potential and understands far better than anyone what we are capable of and what we need to do to achieve it.
Current Poundage: 31.5lbs (moon gravity)
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