Week 76 Goodbye Gangnam

March 25, 2018

Well we got transfer calls and I am leaving! I will be sad to leave. We had some very good investigators and I really loved the elders I lived and worked with! But excited for a new chapter.

I will be leaving to a big city called Suwon and my new companion will be Elder Morazan! He had been out 3 months more than me and I have never really worked around him or talked to him so I am excited for the new friendship!

This week was a good week. I already accepted the fact that I was most likely leaving. So I was mentally prepared to leave. Plus I didn’t really get super close with anyone in Gangnam so it wasn’t a hard goodbye. It was fun to be in the Gangnam area. I got to see a lot of cool buildings and cars and people! But as I leave Gangnam i reflected on the things I learned from this area.

I learned a ton from my companion! He is an awesome guy with a sincere desire to serve and childlike faith! He was a great example of taking correction and trying new things. Following council and following rules. He was a great guy and it was awesome to serve with him!

I learned a lot about the gospel. This transfer I took my personal studies to another level! I read a lot of our Prophets words and they inspired and taught me a ton! I also was able to read the Book of Mormon twice in these past two transfers. I also studied other materials and conference talks and just progressed a lot in my gospel knowledge!

I improved on my teaching skills. We taught a lot of lessons in Gangnam and as I taught and testified my testimony of the gospel increased so much!

Finally... I learned a lot about humility and pride money and happiness. Gangnam is STUPID rich. Like ridiculous. You see Lamborghini's and Ferrari's daily. You can look left or right and see super nice Porches at any second. The building are so expensive. Everyone is wearing Gucci shoes with Louis Vuitton bags. All the girls wear real wolf or fox or cheetah coats. There is so so so so so so so so much money here. And yet Gangnam has the highest rate of suicide and as you walk up and down these streets every day and talk to these people they are not happy. They have so much money. So much material items. But they are not happy. I really realized that true happiness is found not in money or house or cars or clothes. It is found in people. Especially in Jesus Christ. I truly and thankfully learned that money doesn’t buy happiness. That true happiness comes in the "glad tidings of great joy" Family friends. People. God and Jesus Christ. I know that through them we can find true happiness!

I am excited to go into my last 6 months and I have started my final kick! (Anyone who knows running will understand than) and pretty soon I’ll be sprinting to the end!

Have a good week!