My new companion is Elder Johnstun! He's from Arizona. He has an odd obsession with Canada. He's never been there but he loves it. He hung up Canadian, Korean, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland flags in the house. He's super super funny. He hates peanut butter so freakin much. But that's ok cuz peanut butter is expensive anyways.
He's super good at Korean. He studies hanja, the super old Korean symbols now because he's pretty fluent in Korean. He was trained in Miryang a year and a half ago, so the members know him and he already knows the area well. We get along super well. The only hard thing is that we have different jundo strategies and his kinda crushes mine cuz they are opposites. He has a lot of faith that the people who are prepared will stop and talk to us so if someone doesn't slow down when we start talking to them and telling them we're missionaries then he lets em go. But I like to try to talk to them and get them to somehow stop and talk, both good styles I think but we'll just have to figure out how to work together.
Guess what I ate. It's called hoe (said like hweigh) It's raw fish. The dude popped it out of it's tank, killed it, sliced it up and we ate it like that, with wasabi. Have you ever had wasabi? It's killer, it wrecks your nose.
This week we are focusing on the new church Easter initiative, so we've been trying to share the message with everyone. It's been difficult. Cuz jundoing is always difficult I guess. But if we keep going I know we'll find someone who is prepared.
Since I didn't talk about this last week. I went on an exchange the Friday before transfers with Elder Oh Eichan. He went home last Monday, super sad, he's a legend. We set out to jundo all day and ended up getting 9 new contacts! One of them became a new investigator! Only problem is he lives in Seoul. And we have a meeting with one this week. It really showed me that if you have the faith anything is possible, you can find those who are prepared.
This week we got to watch general conference! We watched it in the Branch President's office while all the branch watched the Korean one in the chapel. One of talks that really stood out was Elder Rasband's talk on the spirit. I've been trying to learn how it speaks to me. And one thing he was talking about was heeding the nudges. And just after hearing the word nudge to describe the spirit, it kind of just clicked. I realized, oh crap, I've had so many of those that I have ignored. But after so much praying, and fasting, and preparing, and studying I have finally found the answer to the question that I've been searching for for four months! The Lord seriously does answer prayers. And the spirit seriously does speak to us, a lot more than we realize it I think. If we learn how to follow the spirit it will bless our lives so much!
I also really liked Elder Choi's talk, he actually gave us that same advice, look up (don't drink the water because it's Korea and it will do bad things) and align with the will of the Lord and talk to everyone fearlessly! Ah so much good stuff from conference I don't know what else to say! I'm so grateful for an inspired prophet and for inspired church leaders and the help they give me in my life! I know that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet on the earth today!
Have a good week! Love you all!
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| Some of our branch youth and young adults |
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| An awesome bridge |
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| This sad old horse at service just fell over and laid there for an hour! |
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