Friday, October 17, 2008

Cho Lee Je's family

i was pretty lucky this week and had an opportunity that most return missionaires don't get. i was able to see a family that we baptized in korea with a couple of my mission companions. it was Cho Lee Je and his family.
we met them in an area called bul-gwang. i served there for 6 months and had two different companions when i was there, elder brimhall and elder jensen.














here's elder brimhall the day he transferred out. here's elder jensen. he slept like that at night o he would already be dressed and ready
and have more time for scripture study...
we served in the bul-gwang ward and the church building is pink. just thought i'd let you know.


this building was orginially a day care type place for the children. i don't know if it was pink when we kicked the kids out and used it for a church, or if we painted it pink afterwards.




it is a 3 story building. one day we met there to carpool for soccer and we found some teenagers that broke in and we're smoking, eating our food from the kitchen, and hanging out in some of the classrooms. two of them ran away but i totally caught one of them. he didn't want to learn the message of the restoration.

we met Cho Lee Je and his family and began teaching them. they were totally awesome from the start. we saw lots of miracles happen with this family. here's their baptism day picture.














the family, except for the oldest son because he is in the korean army for 2 years, came here. they visited some friends in missouri and then came to utah. we met them here in provo after they went on a tour of BYU and the MTC, and we went to Salt Lake City together. we tried to get to a session at the temple, but we missed the last session by 5 minutes. they let us participate in other ordinances at the temple and it was amazing. it was so much fun to be with that family again. they are so awesome!
here's a picture at the hotel where they were staying.

5 comments:

Jody Weiss said...

That's awesome you got to see that family! Did you shave your head??? Looks good brother!

BK Barnes said...

What a sweet treat Billy. You're right, not too many missionaries get to savor the fruit of their labor like that. It's got to be one of life's greatest joys.

Love ya,
Dad

hanna platano said...

that is amazing billy, i wanna go to bul-gwang ward when i go back to Korea for vacation. i can't believe the color of the building is pink! and.. haha brimhall and your green jacket!

Jon said...

sweet green jacket. Those ties are probably mine too.

jon♥kara said...

That's really exciting, those sort of things are rm's favorite. Did Jon tell you how if we both die when he's under his air force scholarship you get the $400,000. It's to make up for him being a bully to you all your life.