Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!


Hope you all had a great Christmas.

Mine was good. Proselyted the whole day. Our mission came together at the mission home and watched a movie called Winter Thaw. Its a BYU production movie I think. Anyway it was super good. You should watch it! I love seeing people give and show love and care for others just like the Savior would.

김정우! He is super awesome!
He returned from his mission in Cali a month ago
and now he is going to BYU  tomorrow.
If you ever see this guy in Provo tell him I say 안양!  

We had a ward Christmas party. The missionaries did a dance so that was super embarrassing haha. Our Bishop did a crazy performance. I don't know what the point of it was but it was pretty funny. He punched a rock and broke it. He also broke a knuckle. That explains our bishop haha. I also was Santa at this party. I feel bad for people who have to dress up as Santa. Because I kept getting attacked by these little Asian kids.

Christmas Sweat!

It hasn't felt like Christmas at all here haha. Not very many celebrate Christmas in Korea. Which is sad. Such a great and important day. A day that changed everything. I am so grateful for Jesus Christ. I am so grateful I have the opportunity to pay just a little bit back for what he did for me. I have thought about that a lot this transfer, finding ways to pay our Lord back. I hope all of you have thought about that too.

Chicken!

Christmas Skype<3

복음

Hello! :)

This week was a good week. This week I got to go on an exchange with an Elder Named Elder Sandstrum. He is super awesome! He is really good at Korean and loves the culture more than any other American I have ever met!

The district. Elder Sandstrum is the blonde on the left.

We did a board 전도 (that means proselyte kinda sounds weird in English) with the sisters and it was awesome. We gave a away every Book of Mormon away that we came with (I don't know how many it was a few huge stacks). I think that exchange was one of the best I have had so far.

So recently I finished the whole Book of Mormon. I love it so much and feel so blessed to have it in my life. I also feel so blessed to be sharing it with everyone I see. It is such a great gift! Because it is such a great gift we are doing a challenge with our members where we give them a Book of Mormon and they write their testimony in it and wrap it with a ribbon and give it to a friend or a neighbor. Can't wait to hear about the results after Christmas.

Dough-un-casuh! 

Home made fried chicken.

안양하새요!

Good morning from Korea!

Not much happened this week. But it was still good. Meet a 25 year old kid who wants to be a missionary for his church and go to North Korea to preach. That was interesting. He mostly just wanted to tell us about what he believed in. He believed that Jesus Christ, Heavenly Father, and the Holy Ghost were one person. It was super hard teaching this guy because we were going into deep doctrine and there was so much new church vocab I learned. Then our 83 year old investigator who drives stick shift hit the fence at our church haha. His car and the fence are ok. Got to go on a split with Elder Redford during a training meeting for district leaders. It was super awesome!

​Elder Redford and I.

안영하새요!

This week has been good. Elder Finch and I just did a lot of street proselyting. We broke our goal for street lessons by 20! One interesting I have noticed is when we ask, "What do you believe in?" they say, "I believe in me." Haha I have struggled with a response to this. I usually say, "It's a good thing to believe in ourselves. Right?"

Picture texted to Mom & Dad by Sister Johns' Parents
Elder Schimbeck and Finch

Then I usually switch subjects because I don't know how to tell them what I really think without offending them. I think that is a reason why I came to a foreign speaking mission because if I could speak what I wanted to I would be way too intense haha.

This week we had a Mission Tour and Elder Whiting (a member of the 70) came to speak to us. We just basically had a big gospel discussion. The thing that stuck out to me the most was when he talked about prayer. When we pray and ask god for an answer we need to act and try to look for the answer.

Chicken! :)

A perfect example is Joseph Smith when he prayed to God he asked which church he should go to. Not which church is true. Him asking which one he should go to shows that he was going to act on his prayer and it was a more specific prayer. So I've thinking about that a lot and it has helped me a lot. So I want you to remember that more specific prayers bring more specific answers.