Hey so guess what!! I'm in Korea and it's soo crazy!!!
Everything is so big here!!! well except for the people, but they're not even that small usually! Anyways, I got to korea on tuesday night (at like 6 in the morning USA time) and a couple of missionaries came and greeted us. We took a subway back to the mission home. Before we got on the subway the missionaries gave each of us a book of mormon and we had to make a goal as to how many people we were going to contact!! It was probably the scariest moment of my life!!! The missionary I was assigned to go with made me start talking to people and go as far as I could, then he would translate the responses of the people and I had to try to talk to them as much as I could, it was really really really hard but it was such good practice!!! I even handed out a book of mormon and I got a couple of phone numbers!!! Well we went to the mission president's house, ate dinner and stayed the night. The next morning we ate breakfast, had interveiws and then went to missionary training where we were assigned our trainers. My companion is named Elder Parkllan. He's really nice but he's super shy and so he doesn't really like to talk to people that much.... This makes it pretty difficult for me because I want to talk to everyone but I just have no clue what they are saying!!!! It feels like many times we walk to a member's home for like a half hour and we don't talk to anyone that passes us!! I'm gonna have to learn a bunch of korean so i can talk to people!!! I asked him to speak korean to me but he seems to have forgotten, i'll remind him today!!
Well we have a couple of investigators and I pretty much can't remember any of their names because they're all korean names!!! haha i'm sure i'll get them down though!! A couple of them speak pretty good english and our lessons are a mixture of english/korean (meaning that we try to teach in english but if they don't understand we teach it in korean) One of the investigators want's to learn english and so we teach him english for a half hour and then we switch and teach gospel for the other half hour, it's so much fun teaching lessons!!! Another one of our investigators is actually from the philippines and she's doesn't speak korean so we teach her in english. Her name is Mae and her husband is a member but she's not. I think they just recently got married. She comes to church pretty much every week with her husband and his parents. I have faith that she will eventually be baptized, but I dont know when that will be. Hopefully soon!!! She seems like she understands and believes everything we say, I just need to make sure that we are commiting her to keep commitments, otherwise she won't progress.
In korea all the men work all day long and the kids have school and academy after school (basically more school) and so it's hard for us to get appointments during the weekdays. Usually our saturday and sundays are filled up with appointments but we don't usually have anthing to do during the day except proscelyte ( I'm not sure if that's how you spell it). Proscelyting is pretty hard here because everyone is walking somewhere and they don't ever have time to talk to you (or at least they say that they dont). Sometimes we'll try and talk to someone and they'll tell us that they are busy even though they are just standing there doing nothing... haha it can be pretty frustrating!! When we go door to door the people don't actually come and answer the door, they just yell from behind it (who is it?) and when they hear the word 선교사 (missionary) they just tell us that they already have a religion or just to go away!! It's hard but it can also be very rewarding. Yesterday, we were walking around talking to people and I saw a man who was walking and we decided to talk to him. He actually talked to us and we sat down at a table and taught him a little bit about our church!!! It was so much fun because our hard work had actually paid off!!! he told us that he wanted to meet again and so we're going to meet him on saturday to teach him the first lesson!!! I'm so exited!!!
So today is P-Day and we are going shopping!!! I just want to buy some sweet ties to send to people and just kinda look around at what types of things they sell in korea!! I'm super excited!!!
Well i've gotta get going! I love you all so much and I'm so glad that I can be in korea!! It's hard already and It probably won't get any easier but It's definitely worth it! I love this gospel and I want to share it with everyone around me! I want all of the angry koreans to be happy like I am!!! I always try to go around smiling at everyone because I want to show them how this gospel can bless their lives!!! Well I gotta go but I hope you are all doing well and having a good time!!
Love ya!
Elder Oaks
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