The last week of 2016 and the first few days of 2017 have been a roller coaster of good, betters, and bests! It really is a blessing to be serving in Korea!! I was able to sing the national anthem this week in Church and it was amazing to hear all the Koreans sing it and also be able to participate as well!
Because it is 2017, everyone loves talking about goals or resolutions they make so that way, they can become a better person! I love goals and, really everything is motivated by having a goal. When I think about goals though, there are meaningful and effective goals, and not as meaningful and effective goals. Goals are rather interesting and it has been a topic in my mind for a few weeks now, but as we as people
think about the ultimate goal of life, we tend to shy away achieving greatness and settling for satisfactory. Indeed, we will have continuous struggles and hardships, but that is because goals are to make us excel. But, due to the Savior's everlasting atonement, these "unattainable", "perfect" goals become something more attainable. I hope that as we make goals, that we don't just set the bar high, but we make a plan to create stairs to reach that bar. And when we stumble, to always rely on Christ's love and for us to choose to get back up and change, not shy away.
Last week on Monday, we got to skype our families! So on Monday at 7:30, we left our house and our internet was down in Haeundai, so we had to go to another ward building and Skype! It was such a joy and a blessing to not only see and communicate with my family, but it really felt as though I was home! I was so happy this week probably because of that and it will have to last me the next few months, but it was
soo great!~ Then we had other missionaries Skype their families and that was also great to see others be so happy and with their families!
Then we went out to go eat and we went with all the elders in our house and then we went home and chilled! Then after that we went outside and talked to other people and that was our day!
On Tuesday, we went and helped out with our service activity and then after that, we went on exchanges with a couple of elders that live in downtown Busan. So I went to a place called Sujeong and we were able to talk to a bunch of people and then visit with some members and less active members! It was fantastic to meet new people and to love them and feel their love as well.
Wednesday we had a meeting in the morning and then came to Haeundai and talked to other people and then we went outside and tried talking to other people while it was kind of raining. But people stopped and talked with us and being able to talk about the gospel with them was so great and nice.
On Thursday, we went exploring! We went to the more countryside part of our area and took some buses and tried to find some members to no avail... But it was good being able to talk to other people on the street and then we came back to Haeundai and talked to some other people on the street and were able to talk to them about the gospel!!
On Friday morning, I woke up feeling kind of weird and it turned out I had a pretty decent fever. So I slept and took some medicine and then went out after a bit to go do some office work, and then I spiked a higher fever during the middle of the day, so I rested a little bit and later in the day, I decided that I was going to go outside and just do work, and everything turn out alright.
On Saturday, the sickness kind of lingered, but we went outside and talked to others and for some reason, no one really wanted to talk to us, but we kept talking to people and had some people want to talk with us and although they didn't want to meet again in the near future, it was great talking to them and getting to know them.
Then Sunday was fantastic! Everything was kicked and we were able to go to church and have some great church meetings and then we met with Suzepeng, our Chinese friend, and talked with him and he is doing great! Then we went outside and talked with a bunch of people and then
we went to a members house for dinner and then after dinner, we went outside and finished up our new year with helping others come close unto Christ!
It is wonderful being in Korea and talking to the Korean people! I truly do love them and we are finding some great people to talk to and people that want to meet with us! Korea truly is wonderful!
Love Always,
Elder Joshua Wilson
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