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You know what time it is. Here we go. It’s story time a I said it’s story time. Alright, so today’s story is actually connected to one of the idioms that you learned today. The idiom that we are going to be talking about is be in a tight spot. So I wanna tell you about when I was in South Korea.
Now during my time in South Korea, I was an English teacher. As a missionary, I also was a student studying Oriental painting and also learning Korean, and I started this YouTube channel to help you speak English. So I was a very busy individual. But I always had a passion for helping people in need. And during my time in Korea, I saw many different individuals in need.
You know that no matter where you go, you’re gonna find someone in need. And I saw lots of homeless people when I went downtown. Even in America, when you go downtown in the city, you’ll see quite a few homeless people, and Korea was the same. And I felt like I needed to do something. I didn’t just want to enjoy this wonderful country and teach English and learn Korean.
I wanted to do something else. So as you know, I’m a Christian. I prayed and I said, God, what can I do to help the homeless people I see when I go downtown? He said, okay, I want you to start something. And I started this monthly group. We would raise money and then take food to people downtown that were in need.
Now, I had actually done the same thing when I lived in America prior to going to Korea. So I was continuing the same thing I did when I was in America. So every month we would raise money and we would, our goal was to hand out 100 meals every month. It was so inspiring. People inspired me by how excited they were to help.
It was so nice to talk to the homeless people again, I spoke Korean so I could have conversations with them, and it was very interesting to learn their life stories and what happened to them. So every month our goal was 100 meals, which meant we had to raise about four to $500 and every month, you know, we’d send out messages to our friends and say, Hey, we’re trying to raise money.
People in America, my family and friends would donate money. My Korean friends in Korea would donate money because we all wanted to help people. But one month we went out at the end of the, we were scheduled to go out at the end of the month, and it was about maybe a week away the day that we were gonna leave to go out.
There was about a week period prior to that date, and we didn’t have the money. We only had about $300, so we needed about 100 to $150 more. And the money wasn’t coming in. So I said, God, you know I am doing this to help you, your people. Lord, I want to feed people. That’s what I’d like to do, but God, I’m in a tight spot.
I don’t have the money we need to actually purchase the meals. I was in a tight spot, so I prayed and I said, God, I don’t know how you’re going to do it, but you have seven days to figure it out. I prayed hard. Then I went to work. I was still teaching. And a few days later, I got my salary. I received my notice that said, Tiffany, you’ve received your salary for the month.
From the institute that I worked at now, we had a set salary every single month as missionaries. We made a certain amount of money and we received at the same time every month. So I wasn’t looking for any extra money, but then I went to the bank and I looked at my stub that had the paper that showed me how much I made.
And it was exactly what I needed to get the food for the homeless. It was about $150, the exact amount I needed to add to what we had raised to get food for that month for the homeless people. And I was in shock that God answers prayers like that. The simple prayers end so quickly. Come to find out that my job at the time decided to give us all a bonus randomly, and this bonus, I used the bonus to help feed the homeless.
That month we were all able to go out and we, we were able to hand out a hundred meals. And I will never forget that situation because when I was in such a tight spot. God came through and gave me what I needed to help somebody else. Maybe you’ve also been in a tight spot and someone, God or someone else has helped you.
If so, let us know in the comment section. I hope you enjoyed today’s story and I can’t wait to see you next time.