KOREA, KIMCHI AND CONVERSION: ZONE CONFERENCE AND HIKING

Hello everyone!

This week has been a pretty fun one. We've gotten to do some cool stuff!

First off we officially got a new investigator! It took weeks but after a lot of faithful prayers and long street jundo sessions we found one! His name is Brian. We met him maybe two weeks ago. On Tuesday we taught him at his English Academy, he is Korean by the way, but his English is amazing. He wanted to learn about our church and try coming to it because he doesn't like how other christian churches always say you need to pay money. We taught him the first lesson and it went ok. We had some trouble with the balance in the lesson cuz Elder Johnstun talks fast and a lot but it went good and Brian liked it. He prays every day. He went through some tough times and he said that he would pray to God and that eventually he found a job, found a house. And then got money to start his English Academy. The power of prayer is super awesome. He didn't end up coming to church which was sad. But hopefully next week.

We also had the opportunity to go to Busan and do a hiking Zone Conference! It was on the last week of the Saviors life. We would stop every once and a while and listen to talks from missionaries in the 창원 (Changwon) zone. It was really cool to hear all the great talks on the Savior and his atonement. There was one point in the hike were we talked about the sacrament and how it wipes you clean from all of your mistakes. We did a really cool object lesson where we stuck red dots on a picture of a lamb for all of our mistakes. And then we flipped the paper over and it was clear, and they said that's how it is after the sacrament if you go in prepared. Also one interesting thing I thought about what this question, I want all of you to ponder this this week. How would your life be if Christ said no I don't want to be the Savior and so we had no Savior? I would feel dark, and gloomy always. There are times when I feel lost and sad and awful and without the Savior there to pick me up I would feel like that all the time.

I took one study sesh just to look at the differences in the sacrament prayers I ended up running across sacrifice in the bible dictionary. One thing that I liked was it talked about the order that the jews did sacrifices. They would always do the sin sacrifice first. Followed by the burnt sacrifice, and then the peace sacrifice. It symbolizes the repentance process. You offer your sins and the spirit burns them away and cleanses you, and then you find peace with God. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to repent and use the Christ's atonement in my life.

Ok now for a fun story. This morning I went to 만어사 (Manoh Temple). It's a buddhist temple that has an interesting back story. There was a poisonous dragon and a treachery woman (not sure what that is) that got close to each other and it caused storms that made it impossible to grow crops for four years. The king tried to use magic to cast them out but it didn't work. Then he called up Buddha. Buddha came with 6 priests and 10000 heavenly men to cast him out. The king was so happy that he made a temple. Then there was a prince who was looking for a new place to live. So he asked a monk and the monk said where you stop you will live. He was followed by a school of 10000 fish and stopped at this temple. He then turned into a rock, and so did the fish. So this temple has a giant rock and then tons of boulders that if you hit sound like bells. Pretty neat eh?

Anyways that was my week! Hope you all have a good one!