Hello!!
My week has been amazing like all my other
weeks. I have one thing on my mind here
in Yeongdo and that is... Yeongdo. Every
time I deeply ponder about Yeongdo or just anything to do with missionary work,
my heart swells and I have such great joy!! Yeongdo is so magical and I will just give you
a little blurb about Yeongdo. So Yeongdo
is an island in South Korea right off of Busan. If you have seen the Movie "Ponyo"
this is what the island kind of seems like. There are many people here and Yeongdo is very
historic. They are known for their shipyards
and for fishing. It is a beautiful
island for sure. It is super nice and I
couldn't not be more happy :)
So this week's spiritual message is from Mosiah 16:9 in the Book of
Mormon. It reads "He is the light
and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be
darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more
death." This passage is talking about Christ. Christ is the light of
the world and I know that for a fact. Things
in life can be dim, they can be very very boring, in fact, life can be very
dark. Yet there is no need to ever get
down. We have a Savior, we have a
wonderful redeemer, because of him, death cannot separate families, we do not
need to be sad. Christ atoned for all
mankind that they may be happy and find joy. I think a lot about the beginning phrase
"Because of him". My favorite video is actually the "Because of
him" video. So Because of him, I can live with my wonderful family forever.
So what would you say to this statement? Because of him...?
SO on to the week!! So this last week on
Monday, I went and got my hair cut and I really loved that. My hair looked great... One of the many things
I can really get excited about in missionary work obviously. ;) Then
after P-day, we went out to eat with people in our District and then we went
out for about 3 hours and shared the gospel with everyone! It was so fun and I love sharing the gospel. The joy that it brings cannot be described in
words and my heart just beats so loud and I just feel happy! :)
Tuesday was a day filled with greatness. So we
studied in the morning and then went to our special needs English class! It was so great. Every week they ask if both of us are coming
back and we say we are, but in 3 weeks, one of us might end up having to get
transferred out. Usually new missionaries stay with their companion for 12
weeks and then they split... But things are going so well here and there is so
much change happening, so there may be a point soon where I can't say that I am
coming back.
So after we went and met with out friend Soung
HoSok and we played ping pong for a bit and then he started asking about the
Church and talking about how Koreans like Brands for everything. Even Churches. So we talked about that and we talked about
how he can be happy and just had a great lesson and he said after our last
meeting he went home and told his parents that he wanted to be baptized. But
his parents said wait, so we are waiting to meet with him this upcoming
Wednesday!
So then after that we made calls to people and
talked to a whole bunch of people of the phone! We have a land phone at the
Church so we are now making double the amounts of calls! I think it is pretty
efficient! ;)
On Wednesday we got to talk to the Mission
President face to face for interviews and that went super well! I was so happy
that I could talk to him and he is such a wonderful man! He gives wonderful,
inspired insight as well! Then after that we went to go visit a member and had
a very good talk with her and she is doing super well! Her name is Lee Hyosook! Then after that we went outside and got to
spread the gospel to people! We also
received a few contacts and they were interested in the Gospel! We did a lot of talking to people which was
great! After which meet with a man named
Kim Donghyun. He had met missionaries
before and I talked to him last Sunday. So
he came by and is now investigating the church after we talked to him a little
more and in depth! :) It was amazing and
the fire in my heart was just so hot it was amazing! My body was so warm and I
couldn't stop smiling and appointments are great!
Thursday is our planning day so we studied and
planned for the week to come! It was
super good to plan although normally planning takes about 3-4 hours! Then after planning, I taught my Japanese
Class and that went super well and was super fun for sure! I love being able to speak Japanese and help
them!
Friday in the morning, we went and helped out
our loving Sister Choi SongJa! :) So we
cleaned her place and then talked to her and got to see one of our
investigators Mr. Won!! He came down and
ate some fish bread, and we talked to him for a good bit! He was super happy and right now he is in Seoul!!
Then after we finished talking with
Sister Choi SongJa and Mr. Won, we went home and ate lunch! After lunch we went
outside and talked to many people and to make calls to others as well! After which we had a dinner appointment with a
girl's family that comes to English Class named Sarah! Sarah is Korean and is super good at English! We ate a thing called Dwegi Gookbab and that
is amazing :) Then after that taught a small lesson and then made calls! We did
a lot of calling people
this week! :)
Saturday we had English class, and then after
English class we went outside and explored Yeongdo and talked to many people.
We actually found some skaters over here in the 대한민국
(Korea). It was pretty sick and then we were to the shipyard and
talked to some people and a guy approached us and talked to us about the gospel
and was interested! Then after that, we
went to our Young Men's activity which was bowling because we are that
presidency now and it was super fun. We
went bowling and so we use 2 lanes and we formed teams. So the youngest got to
choose teams and he chose me, so for the first frame I messed around and bowled
a couple of gutters and the kid was like “ohhh no.. I picked the wrong
teammate.” So then I told him I was just
messing around and then I bowled for real and got about 150 and that wasn't bad
at all, so our team won and then the next game we won again by a pretty big
amount!
Then we finished the night by eating some Ddok
Boki and that was so bomb!! We had a great time and they really do like us a
bunch and we bonded super well for sure! :)
On Sunday we got to go to Church and that was
super awesome. I love going to Church so much and it just makes me feel so
great inside! After that we went home and ate lunch and then after lunch we
were going to go talk to people outside... But it started pouring rain... So we
went to the Church, made more calls and then had an appointment that
unfortunately cancelled on us, so we went and did sticker board gospel sharing!
It was so nice to have fun and to be able to talk to many people. There were
many people that had a lot of interest and were happy to talk to us! It is so
great to be a missionary!
This last week was so amazing and I absolutely
love being able to do this work! As I say a lot, I pray for you guys and I hope
everything is going well!
I love you all so much!
Love,
Elder Wilson
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