Monday, November 23, 2009

Orphanage

Theres a Religious group on the Air Base who goes to the Orphanage every Wednesday to help teach them English. We tried to go twice before but both times things went wrong and Liji and I were never able to make it there. This time after finally having been to the building before so we knew we wouldn't get lost this time we made it to the Orphanage after finishing work. We met other people from the Branch there and went into one of the buildings to meet the kids. Well we have heard stories about this kids but they definately didn't come to life until seeing these kids first hand. They are WILD! When we walked in. 2 of the guys from the Branch were sitting on a couch and jumping all over them were about 5 very rambunxious boys. There were some other branch members sitting around trying to read to some of the kids with very little success. It was very funny to watch. I tried to stop one of the boys running by to ask him his name but he just pulled his hand away and kept on running.
We took the picture below just after the poor little guy got hurt wrestling and broke his glasses. He was laying on the floor crying, so I went over and picked him to cuddle him. Well that was a lot harder to do than I had expected. But once we got over to the couch he started feeling a little better. But that is why he looks sad in this picture.
Cute!
I was playing a mirror game with him. You know where you hold your one hand up and the other person does also, and then you lift your hands all the way up and so do they so tickle, tickle.
The Man below is Nick. He really egged the boys on and because of this, he got the brunt of their attack. It was sure fun to watch though.

The kids were amazed the Elder Bullen could speak Korean.

More Fighting






















Very Cute Chunky Boy:)


































After the Orphanage the Elders said they were going to visit the Korean member who has started reading all this Anti-mormon literature on-line and now hasn't come to church for a month because of it, so we tagged along with them to visit him. He lives in a very small "shack" is what I would call it with his brother and his family. He is in his 50's and still single. He is a really funny guy and we have missed having his presence at church. He was surprised to see us there with the missionaries but invited us all in nonetheless to his small room, that had books and papers covering the floor everywhere. We talked with him for awhile and sadly he is a lot farther of the deep-end than we had thought. Along with the anti-mormon literature on-line he is reading these Books about why there is no Christ and sadly he says that he no longer believes in Christ. I asked him how he feels when he reads these books compared to how he feels when he reads the Book of Mormon, but he would never really give me a straight out answer. It was very interesting meeting with him and the Elders shared some really good thoughts with him that I think he semi-took to heart and I hope will think more about. We invited him to dinner for tomorrow night, he said he will come if he not too busy. I guess we will see.

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