This week has been awesome! I have been learning and growing so much the last few weeks. One thing this week that I learned is to not get discouraged, the people in my district are brilliant. I'm a smart guy but these Elders and Sisters make me look bad. My companion, Elder Meyer, knows pretty much every word in the english and 한국말 (Korean) dictionary, and my other companion Elder Hubble, I swear understands everything that people say. But I realized this week that it doesn't matter who's better at Korean right now, because everyone progresses at their own pace and I have still learned A TON the past couple weeks.
We learned how to bear our testimonies in Korean last week so our homework was to go and share our testimonies to random people. It's nice that for now pretty much everyone says yes when I try to teach them, hopefully it'll be that way in Korea. I made it a goal to share 35 testimonies this week, or 5 a day. It doesn't seem like much but when you are in a classroom for 9 hours a day and the rest of your time is spent preparing lessons or eating you sometimes forget about it. It's fun to go and share the gospel with people walking around, and even more fun to see some of their faces when I start spouting things off in Korean. A cool story that happened this week was that Elder Meyer got sick, so we had to go out of the MTC boundaries to go pick up his medicine at the BYU health place. It was weird to be out walking down the street and seeing normal people but it was fun. While we were there though the super nice sister that helped us out at the front desk let me bear my testimony to her, and it just so happened that that sister was one of my best friends, Maddie Smith! It's a small world I guess, especially for me because I've been so sheltered for weeks... but it was fun to see someone I knew. Another funny thing is the bathroom stalls, they are probably the best place to bear your testimony, the people you are talking to aren't gunna be going anywhere so I have them cornered! They can't do anything about it, if they were to say no I don't want to hear your testimony then too bad! cuz you just have to sit here and listen to it anyways! Most people are either ok with it or don't ever respond so it works out.
We had the amazing opportunity this last week to hear from 3 apostles in a row! I already talked about Elder Christofferson last week but this week got to hear from Elder M. Russell Ballard and Elder Quentin L. Cook! I don't know how we got so lucky to hear from 3 in a row but it's basically been the best week ever! Especially because Elder Ballard told us in his talk to get up with a smile on our face because we get to serve the Lord and that is an awesome opportunity! So every day we all wake up and we go around the residence asking everyone "You know what today is? It's a great day to serve the Lord!" and even though it may seem like a stupid, funny thing to do, since I've started doing it the days really have seemed better, I feel more positive, and I've had a lot more fun doing the work!
That's pretty much it though, I love it hear! I love my companions, I love my district and zone! And most of all I love being a servant of the Lord!
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