tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34626038843216414652024-02-07T05:23:40.603-08:00Seoul Searching The Weekly Postings of a Mormon Missionary In KoreaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462603884321641465.post-61530534895550492442015-05-04T11:09:00.000-07:002015-05-04T11:11:36.622-07:00Circles Down<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(35, 35, 35); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #232323;">
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Exciting week last week. There were a lot of highlights, but the week as a whole was just awesome. I've been happier than I've been in a while. Something in the water, maybe, but more likely I'm just glad I'm not cold anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Our stats last week were also great. Felt like a really productive week of missionary work. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Last P-day we thought we were going to go hiking up North Korea Mountain (Bukhan San) but Elder L__ had other plans. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Miscommunication ended up taking us to this mountain that was a bit less intense, but was equally interesting. For those of you who are cool (translation: have seen Lord of the Rings before), the phrase "The Beacons of Minas Tirith!" may bring to mind a scene that describes where I was. Apparently that system of signal fires on the peaks of mountains is something that was actually done in Korea. We hiked to the top in an hour or so and had a great view of the majority of Seoul. I climbed up the signal and though I sat on the top...well still a heights coward. Couldn't bring myself to stand.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Also went on exchange with Elder P___. I like him. We were able to get a lot of stuff done, but it was still very chill, which I appreciated. He told me about a book called the King Killer Chronicles, which made my list. Sounds hilarious.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Final district meeting this week was about Enduring to the End. Saving those details, but very glad to be done.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Elder M___ and I have been teaching a lot on the street. We met one older guy who we are going to meet again today who claimed all kinds of visions and things. Another couple of guys took the first lesson at a table in front of their hospital. We also found a couple of less active guys. One of them joined and quit the church 30 years ago after having his faith challenged by the whole Lamanites-dark skin-curse-racism thing. I explained it to him and totally resolved the whole thing. The guy still loves D&C and the restoration and everything so there is a pretty solid chance he'll come back now. He said, "I wish someone like you had been there to explain that for me 30 years ago." Also, though we didn't have an appointment, we ran into J___. I still want to help him, but I'm getting disheartened at his lack of desire to be helped. Save your prayers for now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was also Elder B___'s birthday yesterday. To entertain the lot of us, I've been making up a pirate themed story starring us during meals and what not and the others have been getting into it. So for his birthday me and Elder H___ had a "district leader coordination meeting" while our companions were out jundoing. We made brownies, then dumped a tub of ice cream on top, sculpted that into a volcano (Isla Inferno of the story) featuring a chocolate sauce lava flow made by melting down two chocolate bars and inserted a couple of model ships (the Aria and the Justicar) supplied by the sisters. We wrote a note and had Elder M___ fold it into a pirate hat and placed it on a mold-able stress head thing Elder B___ likes to play with. Throw a couple of pirate faces on some balloons and voila! Done with seconds to spare. Hopefully it was a memorable birthday for him.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462603884321641465.post-40355042481338556622015-04-27T13:17:00.002-07:002015-04-27T14:58:55.474-07:00Passing Stones<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>...I testified to the contrary, that God lives, he loves us, and that through faith and repentance we really can access real power, not just some psychological facade, but real transformative power that leads us not just to courage, peace, and confidence, but also to freedom. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today is my third to last P-day in the sovereign nation of Korea and we're going to make the most of it. Got President's permission to duck out of studies a little early and go on a hike at <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CEYQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazingplacesonearth.com%2Fbukhan-mountain-south-korea%2F&ei=LZY-VZ_mKMWxogTO_oGIAQ&usg=AFQjCNEIEqC1GFJ69iLSE4J8mZ5vTj2T5A&sig2=mmmiY60ey_OS9h-yGMUELw&bvm=bv.91665533,d.cGU" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Bukhan Mountain</span></a> I've been looking at that mountain for the last couple of months waiting for today. I've mentioned a couple of times how much I love Korean mountains and this may be my last chance to experience one, but it's one of the best ones in the mission. Should be great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We've been working with a Satan worshiper for the last couple of weeks. We met him again without much fruit last Saturday. He's addicted to most things you can be, acknowledges serious rage issues, and even sometimes cuts himself and drinks his own blood to help himself feel strong, and in his mind it is working. He believes in God, but doesn't believe that he's aware of or cares about all of us and that all of the prayers he's offered in his life have been fruitless. [My companion] is rapidly progressing in understanding, but I still had to take a pretty weighted point for the lesson. I testified to the contrary, that God lives, he loves us, and that through faith and repentance we really can access real power, not just some psychological facade, but real transformative power that leads us not just to courage, peace, and confidence, but also to freedom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's interesting that [this investigator], in his choice to follow the father of lies, is more honest than almost all of the people who "believe in Jesus" that we meet day to day. That's the silver lining that I'm clinging to: that there may still be some sort of hope for him. This week we can't meet, but he's been charged to think seriously about whose side he's on and report next time we meet. He also knows that we can't help him at all unless he's trying to move in the direction of Jesus Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One of the interesting things that we can see from the case study of [this investigator] is that the reason he hates church so much is that he feels completely powerless for more than a week at a time after going. He can't even summon the physical strength to go outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sort of a weird email, but I think about this a lot lately. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In less dark news, President <a href="https://www.lds.org/liahona/2009/05/news-of-the-church/elder-michael-t-ringwood?lang=eng&query=Elder+Ringwood" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Ringwood</span></a> came for a mission tour this week. Great stuff. Emphasized that companionships who teach a lot seem to have no real problems. They're going to be trying to get the ward mission leaders in our area responsible for helping the missionaries hit a certain number of sit down lessons every week moving forward....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I did get called in for an interview again. Really good stuff. This wasn't the focus, but he did spend a lot of time persuading me to take up running. You guys know how I feel about cardio. I am loving the weight set in my house though. Benching this morning was really fun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As far as the airport is concerned, I just want to have our nuclear family there. And the same thing goes for that night. The next day if people want to come over, that's fine, but I want a night with just you guys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Other than that, the only request that I have is that in the car on the way back we listen to <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DshdiTRxTJb4&ei=YJM-VarqKIHpoASd24GQDw&usg=AFQjCNGHwLsWW__ExPUOqqGIkGTk4fkC6A&sig2=gUjuqwrFMP5ABbtVz1aTHA&bvm=bv.91665533,d.cGU" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Into the West</span></a>. I'll probably cry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Abandoning the previous boring thought and casting off to the realm of vaguely interesting, we did in fact go to a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePianoGuys"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Piano Guys</span></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: orange;"> </span>fireside yesterday. Turns out that two of them (producer guy and cello guy) served their missions in Korea. There was even a woman in the crowd who had served in producer guys district in the crowd. The focus was definitely spiritual/churchy talks over music, though we got a bit of that as well. Producer Guy and Cello Guy were my favorite speakers, and not just because I was impressed at how much Korean they remembered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Elder H__ and I went on exchange last Tuesday. Took the whole bloody day, but we put together a new system to better facilitate LA work throughout the area. Went through a bunch of records, divided each person in them by the area they live in, split them up into twelve areas, and made a folder for each one that has the names, contact info, and a map of the areas involved, as well as a sheet that allows for the missionaries to keep track of the work they do. I about lost my mind staring at the computer all day, but, theoretically, this will help us do a much better job at reaching all the lost sheep we can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Not going to go into much detail on that one. He's basically a troubled kid that never got over it and is 29 now. Has some psychological problems, but I really want to help him. I don't think he's so far over the line that he can't come back, though I doubt that it is going to be a quick turn around. I've always joked about how I wanted to perform and exorcism on my mission, and this may count. But it will be slow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But back to street boarding. The exciting thing is that I convinced the district to try flavoring the activity with a nice healthy dose of controversy. The idea is that if you go out there showing pictures of recent tragedies (crashed planes and what not) and ask people why God didn't stop it, they are more likely to have some form of care than they are if you simply philosophically hypothesize with them. I didn't think they'd go for it, but...should be fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">[By the way,]I only contend with people who really deserve it. Like the guy yesterday who started pointing us out to all of the other people on the train and talking loudly about how we were a bunch of frauds who knew no truth and were intent on deceiving true believers of God. Said that we didn't believe in </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2007/10/the-only-true-god-and-jesus-christ-whom-he-hath-sent?lang=eng&query=Are+Mormons+Christian%3f"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>God or Christ</b></span></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> and that our religion had nothing to do with the </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2007/04/the-miracle-of-the-holy-bible?lang=eng&query=The+Bible"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Bible</b></span></a>.<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I tried being civil for five minutes before I put the man in his place and left the car. Ignorance is a titanic irritant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We went to the palace at Gwanghwamun today, which was pretty fun. They had a museum exhibit for jeans and another for sheep, so that was fun. We also got to see </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=Meet+the+Mormons&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmeetthemormons.com%2F&ei=WZjzVM3tHYqHyATDqoKoDw&usg=AFQjCNEQJmXq_d62sxHX8A2CuV_j4-QnRw&sig2=1UCBztF3kGSw-IDIAHy8PQ"><span style="color: orange;">Meet The Mormons</span></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> and another movie called a </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=A+New+Day+for+the+Book+of+Mormon&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.byutv.org%2Fwatch%2F90be2679-e6eb-4039-afa1-fee5477b0c20%2Fnew-day-for-the-book-of-mormon-new-day-for-the-book-of-mormon&ei=-pjzVOW7AsSjyATw34GwCg&usg=AFQjCNHNrIrPFDYpi-ltQPI-R2HH8qgBEw&sig2=VycsWj2h0GdcU3NQiRchqQ"><span style="color: orange;">New Day for the Book of Mormon</span></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">. I liked both quite a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There are a lot of changes happening in [my new] district. There are twelve missionaries attached to the ward and seven of us are transferring in this week. We are also getting split into two districts, so I'm the district leader of me, my new trainee (who I will meet on Wednesday), and four sisters. The other district is all Elders. President tried to explain why it was divided that way to me last night, but I didn't quite get all of it. For now I'm working with Elder H, the other district leader and a friend from Gireum, and his companion, Elder B. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Our house is really nice. Apparently the most expensive house in the mission, but not quite as nice as D___. Real estate is real expensive in Seoul. For example, they just sold the mission office a month ago for over 15,000,000$.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Of the transfer, Sister Pihl said, "Don't make me cry again!! We will miss him so!!!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Bonus thought: The best measure of how "<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/58.27?lang=eng#26"><b><span style="color: orange;">anxiously engaged</span></b></a>" we are may often come in the situations where we aren't performing at 100%. We can't always be running around doing the work of the Lord. All things have a balance. Jesus slept, after all. But when we can't put our hearts into it, we should be engaged. And when we can't be engaged, we ought to be anxious. When you do push ups you ought to have sets of intense effort and periods of rest in between, but there is a key difference in both results and satisfaction that comes from resting for the push ups and working for the rest. If you are focused on breaks, your results are broken. So also the work of salvation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Could God simply choose to save us all contrary to how we acted? Could He choose to intervene and pull even the vilest of sinners, the most outspoken of dissenters, and the most wretched of rebels into His presence? The answer is a thundering, "Yes!" However, could he do so and remain, as He is now, perfectly just? Could his justice survive the equal reward of both unrepentant rapist and raped? No, he could not, and he does not, and should he do so he would cease to be God, or at least the God that we now work with. So while each of us—-sinners, every one—has the opportunity to receive salvation only in and through the grace of His redeeming son, Jesus Christ, it is our decisions that determine our destiny. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This week was pretty good. We got three referrals and contacted four of them, so that was sweet....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My companions birthday was this week, but it wasn't great for him because he is still dealing with the aftershocks of some nasty food poisoning from the day before. Bored out of my mind. Lots of records and calls. One of the families we are working with has been having some family trouble that I'll probably have to just talk with you guys in person about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Love you tons!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm currently working in the strangest area of the mission: Dongducheon. It's a small little city that only really exists to support the American military bases in the area the largest of which are Camps Casey and Hovey. I'm working in an English speaking branch teaching primarily soldiers and African factory workers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They're pretty interesting. Very different from Koreans. Since I got here, we've actually been having a drop party at the end of every weekly planning. There were well over 70 names on our board when I got here and I've never been able to meet the vast majority of them. Not always their fault. Korean labor laws are a bit looser than American ones so most of the people who come to work the factories work over 13 hours a day and are in an out of work frequently, which makes it hard to meet even though the majority of them are very religious and a bit more open than most. After a month or two of trimming the fat, we have identified/found the people that are actually willing to keep commitments, come to church and all the rest, and three of those people (M___, J____, and R____) are on track to be baptised on the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1016183576" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4th of January</span></span>, God willing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">M____ is as gold as they get. After meeting him once and challenging him to read the first lesson pamphlet, he came to church, then when we met him again he had read the pamphlet, had questions, went to <a href="http://mormon.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">mormon.org</span></a>, cleared up his concerns, watched the Joseph Smith movie, then felt like he needed to pray about it and did, resulting in him being told in a dream that it was true.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He's already being a good fellowshipper, reaching out to friends and family and helping love and invite them into the church. Those friends include R___ and J___.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">J___ is great. Really smart guy, comes to church on his own really well, but we have a lot of trouble meeting him because of his work schedule. We got permission to stay out later to meet him, but still haven't been able to meet him since we set his baptismal date. The only two things blocking him from baptism are us being able to teach him everything fast enough and a concern about whether he will stay strong in the church after returning to Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">R___ is fun. He has a lot of friends in the ward fellowshipping him and meets with us pretty well. He has some trouble understanding sometimes so the teaching is slower, but he's on track for the date as well.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This last week we met a couple of interesting people. J2___ is from Philadelphia and has been living in Korea as an English teacher for six years, so his Korean is pretty good. Probably comparable with mine. He doesn't attend church, but is really religious. He's studied the crap out of his Bible and expanded to the apocrypha and the Book of Mormon, as well as, I believe, the Koran. However he's got a couple of interesting, but incredibly strong beliefs. One of them, which is essentially the only thing we have talked about so far, is that Jesus of Nazareth was black and that he can prove it from the Bible.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now, I don't really care. Honestly, that would make Jesus just that much more cool to me. The problem comes from his strong objections to our pictures of Christ as a white guy. My belief is that Jesus probably looked like most Jews at the time, which in my head is fairly tan. But. Alas. We are going to talk doctrine next time, but it seems like even if he can accept all of the doctrine, he still isn't likely to get baptized over this. Really interesting lesson though.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The other guy is a recently inactive friend of Elder C's from back home. Looks like he's kind of fallen off the map since they lost contact. He's in a really dark place. Even I was able to discern a really dark presence coming from him. It really got to Elder C, but it felt more familiar to me. If there is a reason for the two of us working together it is because we are maybe the two people in the mission who are best equipped to help him. There are too many signs of intervention to believe that he's here and so are we by chance and that we ran into him just days after Elder C prayed to find him. I mean, just think of how many other places the army could have sent him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well, this week in Church was our Christmas program. I sang twice. First with the missionaries singing With Wondering Awe and then with the Elder's quorum slaughtering While Shepherds Watched their Flocks. I'm starting to really enjoy singing. The hymns are a lot funner when you are putting together the Bass or Tenor part instead of not being able to hit the melody.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">President Peden started his remarks by talking about commercial vs real Christmas. This wasn't the case last Christmas, but I was actually kind of shocked by being reminded that there was a commercial version. There are a lot of things that are difficult about missionary work, but it is really easy to be focused on Christ. Honestly, I, being imperfect, spend a lot of time while we are walking around (low population density) talking about non-churchy things and I may or may not have broken when a member pulled up the new Star Wars trailer on his phone (ok, I did, and it was EPIC!! Already talked with President and he didn't even care!!), but all of that aside (no really, let's let it go), just because of who I am and the role I'm playing now Christ is always a huge factor in everything that I do.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And why shouldn't he be? Is there anyone or anything more important in this world? People talk about family, and family is awesome, but Christmas would continue to go on, the world would continue to go on without my family. Presents, trees, and wrapping paper are all hollow and empty unless we choose to turn on the lights.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That actually is one of my favorite Christmas traditions. The lights. We risk life and limb to hang up these colored lights all over our house throw them on and Christmas time becomes, quite literally, less dark. A couple of musings on Christmas lights:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. There is a reason that we put our lights on the outside of our house. One of the great things about light is that you never run out when you share it. In fact, if you want to make things brighter, you should try to find things to shine your light on. Think about it. You shoot a flashlight into the night sky and the area around you is only illuminated on the most minute of levels, but once it hits a tree, or the ground, or the face of one of your friends, your view brightens. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. Not all Christmas lights are the same, and not all of them are equally beautiful, at least in my eyes. Though each light contributes, some of the most beautiful light shows I've seen make good use of flickering. Constant, steady lights are great, but those lights that flash different colors or sparkle like stars in the bushes have always had a special place in my heart.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you are looking for ways to do that, think about getting involved in the<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> <a href="http://www.mormon.org/christmas"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">#ShareTheGift</span></a></span> push. The church has made a couple of incredible videos to help us focus on the true gift of Christmas. The gift that matters. The gift that came with no receipt, so there are no returns. It is ours to reject or embrace, and it is ours to share. He is the Christ.</span></div>
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Yeah, it is freezing here. For me. I don't have the greatest blood circulation due to my low blood pressure, and being tiny. To rectify the situation, Elder B has put me on a gain diet and I'm now working out his way, which is less strenuous, but for some reason I feel more sore. Hopefully I get huge.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The branch has maybe a hundred people who come. I'm not sure how many less actives there are out here, but there are quite a few stronger members as well. Much bigger than Chuncheon ward. The leadership is also good. President Peden is actually new, he just barely got his calling on the first Sunday I was there, but he runs a nice MCM (first one of those I've been to besides one in Gireum where they forced it because a 70 was coming). He's got lots of leadership experience. He's the camp’s Command Sergeant Major, which puts him at basically the top of the Sergeant tree (So most officers are above him, but not all, and there is only one of them in each major installation. He's pretty successful.)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Actually, this week wasn't the best. We got 14 lesson stats, which is a fair week for me in any other area, but this place is supposed to be the promised land and of those "lessons" we actually only met with two people. Everyone else punked their appointments. So I jundoed for the whole week, but it turns out that this is actually a terrible jundo area because no one is really around.</span><br />
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There is a lot of dumb advertising here.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually some of my better work), <a href="https://www.lds.org/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-20-baptism?lang=eng&query=baptism"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">baptized</span></a>, <a href="https://www.lds.org/manual/gospel-fundamentals/chapter-16-the-gift-of-the-holy-ghost?lang=eng"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">confirmed</span></a>, and gave the <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/priesthood?lang=eng"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Priesthood</span></a> to Brother ______, and confirmed Sister _____. Also bought Outback (200$, cleared out most, but not all of my MSF money). </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Sounds like a good service <i>[<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/news/president-monson-rededicates-ogden-utah-temple?cid=HPMO092214429&lang=eng"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Ogden Utah Temple</span></a> Rededication]</span></i>.</span></div>
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I forgot to answer this question, but we had two transfers. Elder K (Elder S's companion and one of my good friends) got moved into the office and was replaced by Elder B who I also really like. Funny guy, has a way with words, enjoys Korra, that kind of thing. Also Sister L moved to Jangwi (the gotham of the mission, right next to and in the same Zone as Gireum) and was replaced by Sister M, an art major from Provo.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Last week we went on a hike on Monday with our ward mission leader....</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The next day was temple day, so I did that and then grabbed some "On the Border" Mexican food. I think the premise is "Outback from Tijuana," but it wasn't as good. I had been craving some Mexican food, but 40$ later it didn't measure up to either Outback or Cafe Rio. </span>Right after we skipped P-day, viewing Monday as our play time, and came home to jundo. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">[To celebrate <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuseok&sa=U&ei=esIYVPfpM8OUyAS3mYEg&ved=0CBQQFjAA&sig2=15sIbqNej5xiv7cUBrJaRQ&usg=AFQjCNFfBfJ67VWjhHpCPK7gbUJ6HxSLfQ"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Chuseok</span></a>, we] had a big conference and a zone training meeting and a district leader council. The district isn't doing as hot as I would like, but we're still the top scorer in the zone (because the stats mean everything, right?). _______ says he wants to be baptized in December, but we all know what that means. Chinese investigators are good. ... not baptized and still covenantless, but otherwise alright. We got another guy named _______ on date for October 18th. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I was positively giddy with joy by the way. Loved it all! I guess you guys know what I like. Poured through the books, especially our trip book, threw on the pjs first chance I got, am wearing the Point shirt right now, scarfed the no bakes...all of it was the best. Thanks so much for everything guys. I really loved everything. Thanks so much!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of those two baptisms both were canceled. [#1] went on a trip with his friends ...so we reset his two week countdown. [#2] is only 13 years old and her mom revoked permission the night before the baptism. So Sunday roles around and the Sisters let us know that it is back on, so we throw everything together and get it done...and then the sisters let me know that they didn't ask for the mom's permission again. So....</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We met with the family who is moving to Utah again this week to review the lessons and it hit me that, wait a minute, my family lives in Utah too. Can I give them your phone number and let you guys go meet them? Interesting, fun family. Plus they like me, so they can further inflate your view of me, which I like.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">...Usually when I think about the Book of Mormon, I think about how I can put on the armor of God and everything that that means. Insights I like from that symbol: Faith, like a shield is cool to wear, but is useful when you use it. It takes action to apply faith. Also, charity is the clothing underneath the armor. You can do everything that the Book of Mormon tells you to do without faith and go through the motions, and that's good, but armor chaffes without clothes under it right? That's where charity comes in. It makes it a pleasure to wear the armor.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We actually are going to have a little Brazil in [our area] for the next couple of weeks. This Saturday we are baptizing three children of members who are reactivating. They kind of just go to [our] district. Technically the sisters’ investigators on paper, but we all teach together. ... The next week we have our Chinese investigators (who totally should come to Utah) and an investigator each for the other two teams. That's more than the mission was getting in a month when I first got here, and no district has hit that many while I've been here. It's fairly exciting.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yeah...things are happening. It's nice. We also found three new investigators next week, including one that seems fairly golden. If we can get a second wave in our back pocket, we might be able to save [this] ward. If we don't, it only has a few years left. Most of them aren't long for the world and one member fulfils almost all of the needs of the ward, but he's planning to move in a couple of years. We need new blood.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Nice to hear that you and Dad are still working miracles. Someday. Hopefully. I tried praying to know again last night and again got nothing. Let's hope I can find God in the next nine months.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>They're going to get baptized, the only question is if they get baptized before they go back to China. If they can stay, they are planning on being baptized this month or next month. The fear with China is twofold. 1. They worry about being able to maintain the habits they have of living according to church standards in China. 2. They worry about the potential difficulty of finding a job (they both studied in tracks that lead into working for the government, because that's where the best jobs are, and you can’t have a govt job unless you are in the communist party... and you can't be in the party unless you are not religiously affiliated).</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>The district is not doing so hot. Things aren't horrible in most ways, but the sisters are having [some struggles].... and I can't really do much about it because they are sisters and I'm not a sister training leader, and they are hours away.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How is your new companion? I guess his brother was in T's mission. Where is he from? I believe he has been out 6 months, which should mean he is still working hard to understand the language? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>That's right, his brother used to be the AP is what I heard. He's doing good! Any transfer requires adjustment and this is no exception, but he's doing alright so far. He's a hard worker, for which I'm thankful. His Korean is fine for where he is at, but that is a pretty early stage, so that's a little hard for him. His biggest problem is just that he beats himself up. He's got the skills and the drive he needs, just not the confidence. He'll get there.</i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462603884321641465.post-73075851588487377192014-07-20T22:32:00.004-07:002014-07-20T22:32:46.430-07:00Best of the Best<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Chinese investigators are doing great. I'm confident he's going to be a big leader in China. Their faith is incredible. We are still waiting to find out if they can stay in Korea and get baptized or not. His wife also has the gift of prophecy. Transfer calls were this weekend (I'm staying, still the district leader working with someone I've never met named Elder B) and in the prayer she said something to the effect of "Heavenly Father, we know that Elder J will leave..." and sure enough later that night... in the same prayer she said that the best thing that happened to them since they got to Korea was to learn about the gospel.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So like I said. First an opening mission president in Shanghai, then an area 70 over China.</span><br />
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Happy Summer everybody!</div>
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I've got obedience nailed to the wall. I act without knowing on things that I hope are true... Just keep going out and doing my part and waiting for something to save me.</div>
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This week was better though. Not good. Better. There are two ways I feel like I've improved on my mission. One is humility. The other is endurance. I can keep enduring.</div>
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Love you so much... Hope you enjoyed Korra for me.</div>
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