Week 72

February 25, 2018

Well this week was SUPER!

On Monday we played some volleyball! There is a new sister who played college ball and she was killer good! Then after we played knockout (the basketball game) and I refused to leave until I won. I finally won after losing 20 ish times! haha

Then right after pday we met with a man who is awesome! We had taught him the restoration and given him a pamphlet and he really loved it! He brought the pamphlet back super marked and he loved the Book of Mormon doctrine and how our church believes you need to pray and know for yourself that our church is true, not have someone tell you!

Sometimes I find myself trying to convince people our church is true. But it never works. Though it makes perfect sense that God would continue to speak to his children today through living Prophets and it makes sense that he wouldn’t just give us the Bible and nothing else. No matter how convincing I am it never works. It has never worked. Because I can’t convince you that something is true or false. Though it seems that all too much, people easily let others convince them that something is false, and almost never let others convince them that something is true; I don’t need to convince you the Mormon Church is true. No one needs to convince you. All you need to do is pray. All you need to do is Ask God. And if you ask sincerely and with faith you WILL get an answer.... but sometimes it is hard to convince people to take 5 seconds to sincerely pray. I invite everyone who reads this email, member, nonmember, return missionary, or less active to take the time today to pray and ask God if the Book of Mormon is true and if God had restored his church. I promise you will get an answer that will strengthen your faith if you already have it, or change your life if you don’t.

Tuesday we had 2 appointments around lunch time! They both went really well. Then we spent the rest of our time out on the streets and we met some really kind nice people! Then we did some studies and played basketball. I’ll say it as simple as possible. My and my companion "destroyed"

Wednesday we had district meeting and it was about being a good person! Our Mission President’s wife is amazing! Every zone conference we always get training on missionary work, but only Sister Turner trains on being a better person. I usually enjoy her training most because in 8 months for me, 24 or 18 months for others, we won’t be missionaries anymore. It won’t matter who taught the most, or was best at Korean, or baptized the most people, or had the best stats. We will just be people, and then it will matter if we are good people.

Then Thursday we had a district lunch and did weekly planning. I was super super super super super tired this whole week so I almost fell asleep like 20 times during weekly planning. Then we taught our gospel English class and I love that class. I really love talking about religion and my belief when someone isn’t looking to fight or prove me wrong!

Then Friday we had some proselyting activities and a few really good lessons! We taught an amazing investigator! He was in the Korean CIA and he is fluent in English and really really wants to learn about the gospel. We talked about the priesthood for 30 minutes, because he was so interested and truly wanted to understand!

Saturday we were so busy with meeting and lessons and English class and a district proselyting activity! We couldn’t even do language or companion ship study because we were so busy!

Sunday was a good Sunday and we went on a nice walk home from church and met some amazing people from Denmark and then some just really nice Koreans!

I promise a lot happened this week... but I don’t have much time. I’ll try to be a little more detailed in the future!

I love you all and I am having a really great time in Korea!

Elder Goon