Filling the Days With Our Kind of Finding!
A big part of a missionary's life is finding, but it's done differently here in Vietnam. The missionaries here can't go door to door, or hand out pamphlets, or show a Book of Mormon unless they are first asked about it. They get creative in their finding. Many of them are approached outside by people who hear them speak English or who ask who they are as they visit a bookstore or in the park. Much of their teaching comes from referrals from the Church Face Book page, or from the English activity Face Book page. Allen and I can't speak the language, so our kind of finding looks like us walking around the city of Hanoi with our badges on, hoping that we attract attention by our sparkling demeanors and cheery dispositions. Don't laugh; it works more than you'd think! We spent our p-day this week at Bat Trang, the pottery village that we have visited many times, and 3 ladies remembered that we had visited there before (most recently with Kevin), and remembered us b...