Mom and Dad,
How amazing is it to be able to watch the Prophet and
Apostles of the Lord speak to us throughout the world, warning us and giving us
counsel in these days of the things that we need to do be better children of
our Father in Heaven. It is truly spectacular! I know that there
were some things in there that I needed to hear, that helped me grow and have
given me things that I need to work on in order to be a better missionary and
eventually man, husband, and father! Just as the prophets of old
counseled the people of Jerusalem and ancient America about stuff in their
time, it's great to know that Father loved us so much to call another prophet
in these days to do the same thing!
The rest of this week was great too! Pday was good as
Elders Smith, Chisholm, and I went to Frigga (nice buffett) again and had a
good bday lunch for elder Smith, he finally hit the 20's and so we had a nice
little (Huge) lunch at Frigga, before going to the bathhouse again and relaxing
in the pools and saunas. At the bathhouse though no one could ever guess
what happened.... We met our investigator there..... Awkward..... hahaha You
truly grow a special bond with someone after an event like that! Haha
anyways, right there in our birthday suits we decided to ask him to meet again
downstairs at the Lotteria to get some ice cream and talk about the book of
mormon! We ended up extending a baptismal invitation to him and he
accepted! June 1st is the day! Excellent. After that we Did some
jundo and headed home.
tuesday had to be one of the busiest days of missionary life
so far....Left studies half an hour early to meet our potential Bill down at
The burger king... half an hour away. Anyways we got there and then had
to wait 25 minutes because he was late! finally showed up and then he
wanted us to walk with him to Daehwa.... 1 hour away! So we walked and
talked, then he finally had to go, we started walking back and realized we had
about 10 minutes to eat lunch before our next appointment! We grabbed
some kimbap then ran to our next appointment, meeting about 10 7th day
adventists on the way, who all spoke perfect english, weird. Our next
appointment was with our magic investigator Charlie! We met him at a Cafe
down the street from our apartment so had to walk pretty far again to get there
from where we were. We taught him the whole first lesson and then at the
end Elders Chisholm and Smith made me give the baptismal commitment....He
accepted! April 26th is his day! We then had to run, RUN, from the
Cafe to Jungbalsan, about 1 mile away. we made it in time for our next
appointment with Moon Gi, who we taught about the Book of mormon. We
might meet with him later today actually. Then from there we walked about
10 feet and met our next appointment Kang Young Suk. By this point it was
about 5 and we were all starving from not having ate a real meal in about 8 or
9 hours. He took us to a cafe and we taught him the importance of
religion in his life and what the Book of Mormon can do for him. Very
nice man (called me handsome about 4 times in the lesson) and he bought us some
smoothies, which held us over as we then had to catch a bus up to Jungsan,
which is over an hour away walking, but about 10 minutes by bus. Finally
we met with our last appointment of the Day Tae Oo, whos a little wannabe
gangster haha. Gave him a book of mormon and he asked a lot of questions
about god and such so we are really excited to meet with him again and give him
a date :) We walked the 30 minute walk back home, and made it there with
about 20 minutes to eat dinner and then plan. Long day!!!!
Thursday was a very interesting day. Not much happened
till almost 8 where we met with an investigator who's name I dont know.
Anything the only really crazy thing that happened was that Elder
Chisholm bore a powerful testimony of the Restoration and the Prophet Joseph
Smith. I understood almost everything that he said and really loved his
recitation of the First Vision. It brought a tear to my eye, very
powerful. This man then completely ignored what he said and then said you
need to learn how to receive true salvation.... Then bible bashed us in a calm
manner for about 30 minutes. Irritating, needless to say we werent too
happy about that!
Friday I had a very interesting Korean Dish called Soon Dae
Guk 순대국. Ill send pictures but its basically pigs
intestine stuffed with noodles and boiled in there blood. Also on the
side is served some random assortment of pork including, but not limited to:
Heart Liver Ear Skin, etc... Surprisingly tasty, and one of my new favorite
dishes hahaha. Sounds gross but trust me, delicious!
Saturday and Sunday we sat at the church almost all day both
days and watched conference, ate snacks, and enjoyed the sweet spirit that was
with all of us! very nice day! Sunday charlie came to both sessions of
conference and enjoyed it! He said he loved it and it was amazing!
SWEET!!!!
Anyways this week has been amazing and I am loving it here
in korea! I can believe that I am almost done with my second transfer and
done training too! so excited for this upcoming transfer call to see if I
go anywhere! We will see!
I miss all of you and love you so much! Hope all of
you have a great week!
Oh and I loved President Uchtdorfs talk about eternal
things, and when he said we dont like endings because we are eternal beings!
Loved it!
Have a great week!
Elder Yamagata
Silkworm larvae...nuff said
How I had to study, too bright!
Cherry blossoms!!!!
Hard working missionary....
Doing phone calls!!!
Twinning at the Department store, same suit, shoes, similar
ties, definitely similar attitudes.
Rooftop gardens are common in korea!
With an english class member Mike Eating Sun Dae Guk
Sun Dae Guk upclose, yummy!
The rest of the Sun dae Guk , the Misc section of the meat!
Stocked up for conference!
Here we go!!!!!
Butter Waffles! Gods gift to mankind!
#Middleofconferenceselfies!
Cat on a leash.... Weird
3somes sure are fun!
There are a couple of me speaking a little bit of korean in
here, and us singing Ye Elders of Israel, its not great but hey, korean.
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