My goodness time flies! Last Saturday evening Dad attended a media
fireside with the Korea Public affairs Representatives from Seoul who came down
for their calling. They are the Robinson’s,
the inlaws of Jessica Simmons Robinson! They found out Dad was from Texas and after a
few questions found out that we know their daughter in law. After the fireside Dad came home to get Ben, me,
and the George’s before going out to dinner. The Robinson’s spent the night with us at the
mission home and then traveled with us to Hogye Sunday morning. It was the 40th anniversary of the creating of
the Hogye branch so we attended their branch conference and spoke in church there.
We were told the regular number of people in attendance at
church in Hogye is about 40 but this week they had about 160 show up. It was fun for us to see a couple of our
returned missionaries come back to celebrate and visit with the people who they
came to know and love.
This young man got baptized a week before the branch
conference. He was very nice, typical of
most Korean young men - they seem to be attracted to Ben. Ben is fun to talk with and they can feel of
his goodness. Another person said Ben
looked like Ryan Gosling! Dad had priesthood meetings to attend to after the
conference, and then after the dinner, so Brother Chu walked Ben, me, and the
Robinson’s to the train station and helped us to know which train/ticket we
needed to get back down to Busan. He was
so nice that he stayed to chat with us for an hour waiting for our train to
arrive.
The members of the Hogye branch worked hard for months
preparing special musical numbers to perform at the branch conference. Really,
the branch members had it in their mind that the branch conference was going to
go according to their own agenda and were quite upset and offended to find out
that they didn’t get to make the assignments. Dad had to smooth things over with his mission
counselors when they heard about the ruffling feathers, and smooth things over
with the branch members when they found out who held the priesthood keys to
plan the conference. It was interesting!
Our sweet missionaries worked so hard and performed in many
musical numbers. I especially appreciated Elder Lee (who previously served in
the mission office). He’s so sweet and
close to the Spirit.
Cute children!
