New Comp, New Calling!

Hello everyone! This week transfer calls came! I will be staying in Gyeongsan! I also got called as DL, so that is exciting.  I was starting to get comfortable being a junior comp, and ya know what they say. No growth in the comfort zone. So this will be good! 

My new comp is Elder Seely, he's from Burley Idaho. He's in his 6th transfer so he's younger, but he's super good at Korean for 6th! So it should be fun!  Elder Lee goes back to America tomorrow, so if you see him tell him hi for me haha! I love that guy, gunna miss him but excited for new things!

We are really starting to work on member missionary work, and actually this week we got a referral from a member!  He's going to be coming out to English and we will try to move him to learning about the gospel! We had a branch counsel meeting where the members ended up getting super pumped because 1) If we get a few more priesthood holders we get a building, and 2) they want their friends to get baptized. They ended up commiting to invite everyone they know, and set goals for how many less actives and non-members will attend.

We made a 5 step plan for member missionary work this transfer, but I think in that meeting we already accomplished step 1 of it haha! The goal is to get the members recognizing that finding investigators is mainly on them haha! They all think it's all about how the missionaries proselyte on the street. But things will be picking up! I will report on how the plan went next week, so stay tuned for that. 

This week I looked through my copy of the book of mormon that is marked up about faith. I really liked this scripture on faith in Mosiah, I cannot remember it for the life of me, but I will share it next week.  It basically talks about acting, you have to act, and have faith.  And that's what we are doing here in Gyeongsan, we're gunna have the faith to get it done and I know we'll see miracles! I know all of you can see miracles according to your faith as well! The Lord loves you all and blesses those who believe AND have faith.

Love you all! Have a good week!

Elder Geddes

1. Eating 샤브샤브 before Elder Lee left, not actually sure how to explain the food but it was delicious.

2. Last district pic.... Sister Colton (our senior missionary) is gone though...

3. Elder Lees family at church!

4. RIP Elder Lee

Delicious Boy

July 31, 2017

So this week was a good one! I don't have much to talk about in terms of investigators cuz we basically dropped/ got dropped by everyone.... And are searching.

To start off, a funny experience! We were jundoing and these 4 boys on a bike were in front of us, but they stop and we passed them. Korean boys sometimes know really odd english, so while we were passing them one of them yelled "Delicious Boy!" What the heck? I just started laughing.  I should've invited him to english class to help him.

I finished the Book of Mormon for the 3rd time on my mish the other day.  I read about faith.  It was amazing to see how much I've learned about faith and how much my faith has grown since I started reading it again a few months ago.  But I realized at the end when I was asking the Lord to recomfirm to me that it's true, that I couldn't just ask him.  I have to do something.  So instead of saying, please let me feel again that this is true it was more like.  As I share and testify about this book, let me feel it again.  I made a promise to God to up my work, and to testify harder about this book that I already know is true. I think that's more what faith is.  Promising to act on your answer that you expect.  

I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God.  I know if you all read it and ask God with faith that you can also know it's true.  If you don't already know this, please read the Book and ask God if it is true. I promise he will answer. 

Have a good week!

Love you all! Sorry no pics.

So Stinkin Hot

July 23, 2017

This week was rough, not gunna lie.  I had a tough one.  But there were some highlights.

One day we were jundoing and we talked to everyone, or tried, but everyone that we met went to the Gyeongsan Center Presbyterian Church.  Which is the great and spacious building.  It's huge, and the pastor doesn't like us and everyone in this city goes there.  They literally have pictures of us missionaries that say, don't talk to these guys, and over the pulpit he warns them of us and tells lies.  That's my rant for the week, but ya. We met a ton of them, and we were able to resolve a few concerns they had, but they still wouldn't meet again.  From here on they will hopefully talk to missionaries now.

We had an exchange this week, so I went over to 수성 Suseong with Elder Stein.  He's in his fifth transfer so I was Senior Comp for a day! Let's go! It's a crazy experience seeing that who the Lord calls he qualifies.  This was my second exchange with Elder Stein in the last two transfers. But when you're with a younger missionary, someone has to be able to speak Korean. And both times I've gone with him, my Korean has taken a bump up.  I understand almost everything when I'm with him and I can talk what's in my heart and share the gospel really well.  But when I get back with Elder Lee, who's beyond fluent, it goes back to like 50-70% understanding and decent speaking.  The Lord qualifies his servants that he calls. I know that. 

One day this week it got to 38 degrees C. I think that's 100 degrees farheinheit.  We got a text from President saying stay inside, don't go out.  100 isn't too bad, unless you add in the crazy humidity in Gyeongsan and Daegu cities, they are the hottest cities in Korea.  It was nuts, be we got to stay home and call all of the area book! From that calling we got a new appointment and maybe 3 or 4 really solid potential investigators! We will hopefully be meeting up with new people and finding a bunch of people to teach this week! The Lords work will go forth boldy, nobly, and independent! Regardless of the weather circumstances haha!

That's all I got for this week.  We went to a small town in our area called 청도 Cheungdo.  There was no people there but it's famous for being a beautiful place, so there's a pic!

Elder Geddes

1. Me being afraid in a tunnel filled with spiders, Scariest moment of my mission but I can do hard things haha

2. 청도

3. New grandma pants! Let's go!
4. Me and Elder Stein and an awesome family