Hello! So this is my first time emailing in Gyeongsan! It's a pretty cool area.  It's right on the outskirts of Daegu city so it's still pretty big.  There are multiple Universities so there is a ton of students and a ton of Foreigners.  Super awesome! I like talking to young people.  It'll be different than my old people in Miryang.  My comp is Elder Lee.  He is hmong.  It's like a special kind of Mongolian person.  But he's from California.  He speaks hmong, English, Japanese, and Korean. He leaves in two transfers so he dies with me.  Which will be fun.  I'm practicing my hmong to say hi to his parents when they come to see him and I meet them.

  

We have two investigators. One is an old dude that comes to church almost every week and loves Americans.  So that's fun.  I only met him for a few minutes on the street.  We also found a new investigator this week from Afghanistan.  His name is Janee (Johnny but he spells it funny).  He is Muslim but he is really curious about learning of our church and Jesus Christ.  And he also committed to read the Book of Mormon!! He can speak decent English so we have to teach simply but he gets it.  He's also rich and a college student so he bought us Banana Juice at a cafe.

One thing that I guess I relearned this week was that our faith builds during the hard times.  People are busy here.  They are a little less kind sometimes than in the countryside. So lots of times I just get ignored.  But anyways I was having a tough time and no one would acknowledge my existence and so I started just saying hi and passing people a little bit.  I just had a lot of fear.  But I recommitted and kept going after a couple minutes of frustration. Then all of a sudden this car pulls over and the guy wants to talk to us.  It was a pastor from the Protestant Church and he really kinda wanted to argue about revelation.  But we took it calmly and testified of ongoing revelation as the word of God and he agreed to meet with us again.  So while we were talking about this later we said hello to this guy and he stopped and asked where our church was.  We told him, got his number and will hopefully be meeting with him this week.  

If we just have the faith to push through the hard times the Lord lifts our burdens.  I was reading in Mosiah this week. And you know the people of Alma have heavy burdens from the Lamanites.  And because of their prayers and their diligence in trusting the Lord, their burdens were lifted and they were able to make it through.  When we will do the same, Work hard through tough times, and have faith when it's hard, then the Lord will strengthen our faith.  

Love you all, have a great week! Look for opportunities to serve others! 

PS Elder Oaks is coming to our mission this week so I'm pumped up!

Sorry this is the only pic, Elder Lee has the good ones but his camera is being weird right now. This is us doing language study in a cafe with basically a Korean snow cone. We were asked to start doing studies outside so people can see us doing stuff and be curious.  Pretty fun.