Hello friends family and anyone else reading this! I love you!

This week has been full of success and blessings!  I really learned the importance of Faith and trusting in God.

I don't want to say that I was broken down but before this week I really was, I had little faith and was to scared to talk to people cuz I understand nothing.  But this week I had the opportunity to go on an exchange with another newer missionary who doesn't know much Korean either, and we had a big talk about faith and not being afraid.  So, we set out to proselyte on the street for 7 hours straight in Kimcheon. We had a goal to place 7 Books of Mormon, and we really believed we could do it.  Before this my goal was to talk to 5 people a day and I usually didn't meet it or get more than 2 or 3.  But I had to have talked to at least 35 people. We were able to place 9 Books of Mormon that day! Super crazy!

We also have another investigator who made a baptismal date on the exchange.  My companion committed him while I was gone! I'm so excited!

We taught Hamed, our Egyptian investigator this week! We were able to find Arabic pamphlets to give him! He is so excited for his baptism which is awesome! I can't wait for Christmas day so that he can finally have that in his life!

Have a good week everyone! I love you all! I know that if you have faith anything really is possible! 

THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM AN EMAIL HE WROTE TO THE FAMILY, ANSWERING MANY OF THE QUESTIONS WE PEPPER HIM WITH EACH WEEK:

Hi everyone! I love you all!

The language is coming well! I can understand a word or two here or there when I'm talking.  I mostly just look for the words house, work, buddhist, christian, and atheist and go off of that when contacting.  I can teach the gospel pretty well though for a trainee.  

My companion is super funny! He's from an island in our mission called Goje I think, I'm not sure though, I know which one it is on our map.  He plays the guitar and a bit of piano so at night he plays cool songs on his guitar.  He's a goof ball sometimes, it's really funny.  He's also a super good cook.  Like crazy.  

The branch is super small.  We get 15-23 members at church depending on if there's harvests or anything going on. The branch presidency is just the president and the mission leader.  The mish leader is super cool, he brings us kimbop everyweek for mission conference.  They always make jokes about me when conducting sacrament meeting which is funny.

The members feed us two times a week.  Usually to a restaurant, but when it's at a house it's really just Korean food. Soup, rice, noodles, and side dishes.  Super awesome, but this one member made us steak cuz she didn't know if I could handle Korean food.

We have only taught three real sit down and teach lessons the whole time.  Two to Hamed the egyptian guy and one to 김진훈 .  They both have baptismal dates. Super awesome!

Schedule is different depending on the day.  We wake up at 6:30, do planks and push ups.  Then we get ready, do personal companion and language study.  Eat, do training for an hour and hit the road.  We usually go to the church and do something, which is different depending on the day.  We do a lot of stuff with members and less actives, if you include those we teach, probably 5 lessons a week.  Then we proselyte a little in between meetings and head home to plan from 9-930.  After that it's chill till bed at ten thirty.  It's hard because every day is different. 

The food is crazy.  The Kimchi is way better than the Utah stuff.  I'd have to try it again tho.  Today we are going to try traditional Andong food which could go either way I heard... Not a lot of insane stuff tho, usually just rotten veggies and meat.

The spiders are all dead so I'm not scared haha. 

Have a good week! Love you!