Run-ins with religion

Steph has had a couple of run-ins lately that have been quite interesting. Read below to find out more about them.

• So some of you may be familiar with Stephanie's past run-ins with the Jehovah Witnesses. She was often frequented by them at her house in Rochester, much to her disdain. They often left magazines and other pamphlets for her weekly. No matter what she did, they wouldn't leave her alone. Well, once she left Rochester, she thought all her troubles were behind her....she was wrong. One day, her and Shawn were in E-Mart because it was time for Shawn's bi-monthly haircut (yeah, not exaggerating!). Steph was out roaming the aisles, waiting for Shawn to be done, when two girls came up to her. Now this isn't something rare, people often run up to us to say hi and hear us speak English, so Steph decided to be nice and play along. They were pretty good at speaking English, a nice change of pace, so Steph thought the conversation was going pretty well. We were chatting about the basic things that most people try to speak to us about, where we were from, how long have we been here, did we like Korean food, etc, when BAM! One of the girls pulls out, you guessed it, a Watch Tower (for those of you who don't know, that is the Jehovah's Witness magazine). All of a sudden her English became exceptionally good as she started preaching about her religion and Steph's eternal soul (perfect setting, don't you think?). Steph tried telling them that she was Methodist and wasn't interested, but those words, oddly enough, were not in their vocabulary. Luckily, Shawn was done with his haircut and came to the rescue. But who would've thought that the Jehovah's Witnesses would follow Steph all the way to Korea.
  

• As you may have read in our last post, we recently attended the Cherry Blossom Festival in Jinhae. One thing we left out was when we decided to climb almost 400 stairs up to a museum/tower at the top of this big hill. About 150 stairs into the hike, there were some Buddhists sitting around at a landing. Steph and Shawn quietly attempted to walk right past them. But that wasn't going to happen. Once Steph was passed, one of the Buddist started to yell things at her, in Korean of course. Steph obviously had no idea what she was saying and tried to keep on walking up the stairs. But this Buddhist lady was NOT going to let her go. She proceeded to chase Steph up the stairs, continually shouting things at her. What a spectacle this was! Everyone else climbing the stairs parted way to let this chase proceed. Since this Buddhist lady was considerably older than Steph, she tired out after about 100 stairs. So Steph took advantage of this opportunity and kept right on climbing, but could still hear the inklings of someone shouting at her from the stairs below.

So, you tell me, is God trying to tell me something?