THIS WEEK HAS BEEN AMAZING!!!! I cant believe how much
stuff has happened and its only been a week! I am having an awesome time
right now on my mission!!! Ill start from the top!
Monday was an awesome P-day at the Zoo at the giant kids
park they have in Seoul! Definitely fun seeing elephants and lions in the
middle of a huge city!! almost our entire district went and we had such
an awesome time together and then that night we went with Sister 오현숙
to a nice restaurant down the street from our house where she took us and fed
us leaving missionaries for the last time before we left! Super nice of
her and we had an awesome time!
Tuesday we were swamped with all kinds of stuff to do, I had
to send my boxes to taebaek to make sure that they were there in time for my
arrival. After that we went to the bishops house and had lunch with him
and 이기호,
김길복,
강병석,
and a couple of other people too. And it was such a fun experience.
Afterwards we went to 이기호's english academy and did english tests with some
of his students. It was pretty fun but then we had to leave to help
sister Thomas get her stuff sent to her new area too and so as we were lugging
her huge bags down from their apartment, the bishop and a bunch of people show
up in a van and take us to the post office and help us send her stuff.
Super nice, then suddenly they took me and elder Bak to gireum area south of us
and dropped us off at a members salon so she could give me a hair cut becuase
they said that elder bak's haircut on me wasnt very good haha. So I got
my haircut. After dinner me and elder Bak wanted to go out one more time
so we hit the streets and met the nicest boy that gave us some of his popcorn
and hoddeok. It was super nice. After him we met a drunk guy that
almost fell over on us about 10 times. we managed to somehow get him to
his wife and kids and they were absolutely furious at hime for what he had
done! It was crazy but they thanked us and we were on our way. got
ready for the next day which was....
TRANSFERS!!! CRAZY!!! SCARY!!! Saw some of the missionaries
who were going home and met my new companion elder Garff from Michigan.
Really cool guy, gets missionary work. Spent some time that day walking around
and getting stuff done before getting on the 4 hour train ride out to
Taebaek!!! It was truly awesome though seeing the city fade and the rolling
hills and mountains spring up and all the trees with the leaves turning sooo
nice! Taebaek is a really small town at the very edge of our mission,
actually had to pass through the daejun mission to get to here. Its a
really beautiful town, Upon arrival we went straight to work.
visited a member in the hospital and then back to the church where I did
calls while Elder Garff did branch presidency work because the branch is so
small that the missionary is always the 1st counselor in the presidency.
so yeah
Thursday we had to visit some people and had some lessons
and then sat at home and did weekly planning because on friday we have
service! We also met the branch president and his family at their house
and introduced ourselves and had a good time
Friday we served at this place called The lunchbox of love
for our service project. They give meals to home ridden people for free.
super cool. so we washed dishes and got everything ready for their
next meal shipment. After that we had a short amount of time before
english class so we had some chicken for dinner. english class was fun!
Saturday we went to a place called Dogye in our area
super fun, no one was there.... that about sums up all of my area now....
Moving on!
Sunday met the branch for the first time and had an awesome
church time! Meal afterwwards where everyone asked about my conversion
and everything else, it was super fun! went out and visited some people had
some sudden lessons then all of a sudden president was coming and we were going
to start interviews!!! crazy!!! But he didnt get here till late so we went
home!
Today we finished interviews
and now we arejust going to hang out shop and get some work done
afterwards. We really do a lot of stuff here in Taebaek because we are
doing everything we can to build the branch here so I think it will be
amazing! We do a lot of service and helping the members out here and I cant
wait to get to know all of them! I love it here already
Well Hope everyone had a good time this week! Be safe
and have a good week this week and always look to God in all your
doings!!! Have charity for everyone because love isnt enough! Love
is the feelings we as mankind have for each other, Charity is what God has for
us! Charity really is the pure love of Christ, nothing can taint it and
it will always be the most powerful force! As you can tell Ive been studying
some love and charity lately, as well as some Joseph Smith history. If
you can, pick up a copy of Teachings of Joseph Smith, its really good and he
says some really profound things in there that are straight from his
Discourses. It really is a good read!
Have a great week!
Love
Elder Yamagata!!!
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