A new week means a new email.
Also meaning new news from the Korea
front. So the weather has been amazing
here, and I love being here in Korea! As
always is wonderful and it really is turning into spring which makes it
amazing. It's been pretty top notch to
go out on bike rides on our Preparation Days! It kind of rained on Friday, but that is
alright because --- we just got to adventure and talk to more people as we
adventured!! Also, because every 6 weeks there is a possibility to moved
because of transfer calls, we waited on Saturday to figure out who
was going to leave and stay, or if we would both leave, or both stay... And my companion and I are staying together
for the next 6 weeks! It will be a ride for sure!! So this week has been a
blast and 27 weeks has been way too short!
So this week's message, I
want to focus on the Savior and his atonement. As Easter approaches quickly, I
find myself learning more and more about our Savior every day. Not only is
being a missionary a perk for always getting to learn more about the Savior,
but also why we need a Savior. A verse I would like to share is from the Book
of Mormon, Alma 34:16 which
states, "And thus mercy can satisfy
the demands of justice, and encircles them in the arms of safety, while he that
exercises no faith unto repentance is exposed to the whole law of the demands
of justice; therefore only unto him that has faith unto repentance is brought
about the great and eternal plan of redemption."
Justice is a law that has
been in existence for eternity, and we as imperfect human beings will always
fall short. But mercy... Mercy can satisfy the demands of justice. The Savior took upon all the pains, hardships,
sins of the world in order for us to be happy, so help him be our Mediator. He is our Savior. He was, is and will be the only means to
satisfy Justice. His eternal, perfect
sacrifice makes it so that all people can live with their loving Heavenly
Father again and with their families for eternity. I love this gospel so much and as we find refuge
in our Savior, we can be made whole. I say these things in the name of Jesus
Christ, Amen.
The news or what happened
this week was pretty fun. So after we got done emailing on Monday, we went
with our sister team on a bike ride up to a place called 위양못 (Wee-Yang-Mot). This was about an 8 Kilometer bike ride, and
it was fun being able to do it in a suit! Another thing was that so we had a Korean
Sister who didn't have a map and didn't know where to go, but my companion has
officially declared me the Korean Companion (I'm still Japanese), so fortunately
I knew where to go. Also the others
thought an 8 Kilometer bike ride would be a short bike ride, which it was, but
they just didn't expect the hills -- haha. They also thought at a point that we were
lost, but I knew where we were going, so it was all good. So we went and we took a lot of pictures. It is like a pretty nice lake with an old
Korean house on the lake. It was super
nice. Afterwards we went and came back
into town and went shopping for food and then did our Family Home Evening and
the Church! So our Family Home Evening
was playing the card game Scum! It was
super fun and we all had a very fun time with all the people that attended! After which we actually had some random people
come in afterwards and we got to talk and it was awesome to just talk and to
really get to know them!!
On Tuesday, we studied
for a little bit and then we got to go help one of our older lady member's who
wanted us to carry some nice, big bags of dirt to help her with her field. After which we ate with her and shared a
spirit filled message and then went and got changed and then went to go have a
meeting with the sister team in our Area. After which we went and taught our
friend who is in Prison... Such a great experience as usual actually and he is
still smiling.. He still has 1 and a 1/4 years left, but he is excited and
happy! Then afterwards we left and
talked to other people on the street and then met with another one of our other
friends who comes to the church every Tuesday. So we talked to him and then we were going to
have English class afterwards, but because no one showed up we went outside and
then talked to people and then we went home.
On Wednesday, we had our
final district meeting for the 6-week transfer so we took pictures and ate and
had a great meeting with each other! It
was super fun! Then afterwards we talked
to a bunch of people and then came back to Miryang because we had our meeting a
place called Dogye. Miryang is not a
city, but the boundaries of Miryang are huge, so we went to a small town SooSan
(수산) and we got to talk to others and actually
got to see a man who we have been dying to get in contact with. We will be meeting him more in the future. We had a 45-minute conversation with him, and
talked about the gospel and how he has been doing. He was very happy to see us!! Then we got to go talk with our great, Sage,
North Korean friend. He is as great as usual :)
On Thursday, we studied
and I cooked up some Japanese dish (Soboro Gohan) and then we cleaned for
3 hours because that is what we have to do every 6 weeks. Then we went outside and talked to a whole
bunch of people and although people didn't really want to talk, it was okay,
because we like talking to everyone anyways :)
On Friday it was
raining so we had to cancel our service activity with the Horses. So, we went to another small town called
Mooan (무안) --- it was so small. It really was!!! Just tiny!!
We got to talk to some people and got to explore and it was a really
great day. Everyone in Korea thinks that the rain is like toxic and if you are
out in the rain you will lose hair or something of that sort, so they don't
come in the rain. Then we actually got invited to go eat at our branch
president's house and got to share many great stories and it was so fun! :)
Then on
Saturday we studied and had English class, and then played Ping pong with
everyone that came and then cleaned the church. After that, we walked and
talked to people on our way to our house and then we waited for a call. My guess was that my companion and I were
going to stay together and he thought he was going to leave... But it turned
out that we are staying together, so the storm passed and so he and I slept
well.
Then on Sunday, one
of our sisters is leaving so she gave her goodbye talk. Then the sisters had someone at church that
is investigating the church, so we taught her with the sisters and her family. We actually had one of the people who doesn't
come to church often, came. It was
awesome!! I was so happy. After church
we all ate together, and then after eating together, we asked him if he wanted
to come with us to go try to meet his friend and he was so happy to do it! So we went.
Unfortunately his friend wasn't home, but we were happy to be with him. His eyes were just lighting up and he was so
happy and we were too! Afterwards we
went home and then went back outside and talked to more people and found a lot
of people that want to learn about our Church and then finally we went and
visited our North Korean Friend again:) He is so happy and so awesome! He is
one of my best friends here!!
So that was our week and
it was kind of slow, but it picked up and everything was fantastic! I love it
here and I'm glad I get to be out here for 2 years, but time is going to
fast!!! Where is all this time going!!
Anyways I love you guys
and hope you guys have a great week! :)
Love Always,
Elder Joshua Matthew
Wilson
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