Well First, Im glad to hear that Chelsea is now home from
her mission! I am glad she was able to serve her faithful 18 months out
in the field among our Father's Children and help and serve them in the best
way that she could. Thanks for the service chelsea!!!
This week was pretty crazy as well, lots of travelling and
stress and great lessons learned. We went into Seoul on Thursday for our
conference on friday and spent the day doing a lot of stuff.
Unfortunately at one point in the day trying to get to a museum, me and elder
Bae had located the bus that we needed to take to get there, but then Elder
Garff had asked a man who got on a bus and advised him to do so, so we followed
him even though the bus wouldnt take us to where we were going. After a
40 minute bus ride of everywhere but the museum, we finally got off 3 blocks
away from the museum. I was mad. I had just told him that we had
found the bus and then he hopped on another one. I was so angry I couldnt
express it, that he had just wasted a total of almost an hour of our
time. We met up with everyone else that we were supposed to be with, and
then walked into the museum. Inside he told me sorry, that he didnt know
we found the bus, he didnt hear me, he thought we were still looking for the
bus when he started talking to the guy. He thought he was doing the right
thing. Reminds me of a talk from 2 conferences ago, What are you thinking
by Elder Craig W. Zwick. I was rash in my judgements of him and what he
was doing, didnt think to even think about his side and what was going
on. I was humbled (again) and after saying a small prayer asking for
forgiveness and love, I apologized for my actions. I felt really bad for
how I had acted, and actually found out that the man wants to meet with the
missionaries, accepted a book of mormon and a date to meet. We sent the
referral off the other day. I also realized that a lot of my anger
problems, or problems i nthe world in general are because of misunderstandings
between 2 parties or more and the lack of patience to find out what is going
on. So you can safely assume that I will be working on patience over
these next few weeks. Again. haha. Eventually, everything
comes back to the basics of the gospel, including the Christlike attributes.
We had our Christmas conference on Friday of this past week
and were able to hear from president and sister Christensen again. What
wonderful trainings were given! Sister Christensen beckoned us to shine
our lights to the world. Even if we are just one light, without us the
world would be a little bit darker. And President came and hit us with
science. And really changed our views on some things that we just
commonly accept. Talked about the Electromagnetic Spectrum with us during
his training. And about how little we can actually see, let alone how
little we understand about it. Then he compared that to God's
knowledge. He knows light so well that he came down on a beam of it with
His son and talked to Joseph Smith. Wow.... what a great comparison of
how little we actually are! And how great God is. President Talked
to us about a lot of things but that was just one thing that really stuck out
to me. I know I still have a long way to go and things to learn before I
can be like him.
Quick small story: After the Conference, we had some
treats from the President and Sister, and then watched movies and such.
We had to leave early to catch a train from Jungnang to TAebaek. So we
got everything together and left relatvely early. On the way to the
station, elder Bae's luggage broke.... had to go back and pick up parts etc etc
missed the first subway out to our final destinantion of Chungnyangni. But
we still have plenty of time, well the next subway takes about 25 minutes to
get there and screws us. Get to the train terminal and watch the train
leave....great. WE were sprinting with luggage and packages and
such. Absolutely nuts!! But really fun we all prayed even though we
missed the train and headed to the bus station. It was actually really
fun
Well I dont have much time this week we have to setup for
our christmas party today and get stuff ready so I love you guys and miss you
and will talk to you next week! BYE!!!!
Elder Yamagata
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