A STORY ABOUT BAE, SUNG SU
by Ronald K. Nielsen

The Taegu Branch was organized in July of 1962. By the end of the year among the many converts were a number of high school students. 

To aid in their growth in the Gospel, the missionaries organized an early morning study class patterned after seminary in America. They met at the Branch building at 6:00 a.m. each school day. (In those days the missionaries also lived in the same building.) 

Brother Bae, Sung Su, a new convert, was a senior in High School. He was very diligent in his faithfulness to the Gospel and was a natural leader who went the extra mile to help others.

He would wake up at the sound of the 5:00 morning curfew siren and walk to the branch for our study class at 6:00 a.m. 

One morning at 2:00 a.m. we were awakened to his knocking and teasing voice "Get up you lazy missionaries, you are going to be late for class." 

Bleary eyed we came to the door to see that he was not kidding, but soon figured out what had happened. He had apparently awakened to the 1:00 a.m. curfew siren thinking it was the 5:00 a.m. siren. 

Being the winter time, it was still dark even until 7:00 a.m.

We all had a good laugh and commended him for his diligence. 

Brother Bae continues faithful in his service to the Church and was serving as the Taegu Stake President when I met him again 30 years later in 1992.