Week 99

September 2, 2018

Well this week to explain the few pictures i wrote a poem,

I’m going home,

I need a new style,

I’m testing these out,

I’m not a poet

Anyways this week was crazy eventful but sorry not too many pictures!

This week we had a mission tour! Elder Choi and Wada of the seventy came to visit us. They were so powerful and I definitely had a wonderful experience. I'm struggling a bit right now. I'm really really tired, and the 2 elders that we live with both go home in 8 days. If you are familiar with the word trunky, this is the hardest it has been to not be trunky. But Elder Choi and Wada really inspired me and taught me a lot about talking to everyone and not being afraid to open our mouth and being obedient. I left that meeting feeling very motivated. And our mission president promised us that if we opened our mouth on the way home and exercised faith in what we learned we would find investigators to teach. I did just that and because of that we were able to find 4 investigators. But more about them later.

Another big thing that happened this week was we met a less active on Friday, I called him the night before and grabbed an appointment with him! We met and talked.... He has lots of hardships in his life, but he knows the gospel is true and he needs to go to church, we just reminded him of that. Well he said if I wake up I’ll go, we called him in the morning and he sent us a text that he is getting ready, he came and the ward welcomed him and was wonderful! I think he has a great experience back.

Also that same Sunday we found another investigator. When I was first in Bundang I taught an old man named mister lim. Well he came to church every week, but didn't think he was worthy to be baptized, when I came back I looked forward to seeing him. When I came and he wasn't there I was worried he may have died (he is 86). Well I asked about him and he had surgery on his knees and could barely walk. So I waited more, but this Sunday he showed up, remembered me and even asked me to sit by him to help him find the hymns and scriptures speakers quoted! That was a great miracle!

Another miracle! Wow this week was full of them.

Our mission is getting a new English program that requires 1 English coordinator and the help of our ward mission leader. Well if you want just one example on why Bundang is the best ward in our mission it is this: we announced we needed some help and an English coordinator and asked for volunteers to come to a meeting at 1:00 after church. I expected 5 people tops.... Well almost 20 people showed up all so excited and willing to help! They all pitched in great ideas and all said they would come to English class every week, invite friends, and come to proselyting activities to advertise for it! We had women, men, young women, young men, and even people from primary! It was so amazing to see how positively they responded and how ready and willing they were to help!

On Friday night we had a district sticker boarding activity in a new area that we have never been to before. And man we saw a lot of success. Our district combined got almost 30 numbers! (8 people in our district). While I was talking to a younger man I had a very special experience. Our board said something like this:

What do you want to learn more about?

English

Religion

Who are you?

The Book of Mormon

And he stuck his sticker on The Book of Mormon. Well I asked if he knew about the Bible. He said know. I asked if he knew about God. He said no. So I explained that the Book of Mormon is God's words, God is our loving heavenly father and he can guide us through the Book of Mormon. I testified and taught about God and the Book of Mormon. As I did a warm peaceful feeling came over me and I knew it was the Holy Ghost. And if I am feeling it they are too. At that moment I looked into his eyes and testified of the joy that comes through the Book of Mormon and I saw tears start to form in his eyes. It was a very special experience.

Another miracle happened just before that sticker boarding activity. We had received a text from a person met a few months ago by previous missionaries saying let's meet. Well she didn't live in our area so we met her I. The neighboring area with that wards sisters to smoothly refer her over. We talked for about 30 minutes just getting to know her then started a church tour we had to leave early, which was great and allowed her to bond with the sisters. Well I asked that night how it went and the investigator told me it was the best day of her life. I asked the sister missionaries to find out more details. This is what they said: It went wonderful, she wants to be baptized. Thank you elders. We don’t have a date yet...figured we could make it tomorrow after she comes to church! But we invited her and she said yes. We toured the church and we sat in a room to talk again and she told us she felt something so peaceful and warm when we were showing her the baptismal font (I know it's so good it sounds fake not kidding though) and she opened up a lot (haha she's a talker^^) and she wants to join this religion. Said she feels a light around us and the elder she met and you elders.

I was really excited to get that text!

Last but not least me and my companion watched a movie called the district last night (we have too because Elder Kim is a new missionary) it is a documentary of a district of missionaries somewhere in the USA. Well they are excellent missionaries and are a model to all of us. As I said early in this email, I haven’t been very focused and it's been hard for me to be motivated. And Elder Kim wasn't that motivated or hard working either, so we have been slacking the last 3 weeks, but as we both watched, often wiping away tears, I knew we both were feeling the spirit tell us "you need to be better."

After watching that video we quietly went into our room and made goals to be better and said a prayer together asking God to forgive us for our weakness and help us be better.

I am excited for the next week!

Elder Goon