So this week has been something different. Fun, but
definitely different and crazy especially at the end.
We had the awesome opportunity on Pday to hike 도봉산
that all of us had been wanting to hike for forever!!! And what a hike it
was! After almost 2 hours of hiking, and near the end going almost
vertical as we had to rock climb for a couple of minutes.Finally we beheld
the wonderful sight of 도봉 와 노원 as we gazed across both of the
cities and breathed in the slightly chilly air. We took lots of pictures
and had an awesome time going both up and down. Definitely hurt the next
couple of days though haha.
Then on Tuesday we had the wonderful opportunity to eat
dinner with Danielle and Taggart Gillespie at their house with Matthew Walls
our investigator and just talk. It was so amazing, for a few seconds I
felt like I was with friends and family and I realized how much I loved each
and every one of these people. We had a really good time getting him
ready for this weekends general conference! We also had to move district
meeting to tuesday because we had a special event on wednesday which was....
A Giant service project! In a different area called
SAnggye that Ive mentioned before we went there to help in a flea market and do
random stuff for them! It was sooo much fun! My job, Making balloon
animals for kids that are walking around!!! I never t\hought that I would
learn how to make balloon animals on my mission but I did and it was really
cool! The kids were super excited but started to push my balloon making
ability and started asking for stuff I didnt know if I could make. I
startd just dog, sword and flower. And by the end I was making crowns and bows
and arrows and all kinds of crazy stuff! Afterwards we helped them clean
up and then had to rush home change and teach english class!
Nothing much happened then until Saturday! GENERAL
CONFERENCE!!! Again I dropped like 30 dollars on food and drinks and we set up
shop at the ward. Unfortunately no projector this time so we had to watch
on a small 20" monitor but it was fine. I felt the spirit and thats
all that mattered. We had some technical difficulties but it all worked
out fine! Also was transfer calls and found out that Im going to 태백
which is wayyyyyy out in the middle of nowhere korea! hahaha jk but its really
nice place! I will be serving with Elder Garff out there. Hopefully I
have fun!
Sunday was when it hit me.... We watched general conference
at Taggart and Danielles house with Matthew and it was amazing!
Afterwards he asked some questions that were really simple to answer and he
loved it! I felt the spirit prompt me to invite him to be baptized and
did so, he rejected it but the spirit was so strong that I didnt care.
Afterwards I told him that I would be transferring and that I wouldnt be here
in Dobong anymore. He said something I will probably never forget
"Man, this morning I woke up, put on a shirt and came over here.
Never did I think I would be saying goodbye to a friend." I felt so
loved by these people and I was sad to be leaving them. We had to leave
soon after though and so we took pictures and I left them with a "God be
with you till we meet again" And then we departed, being filled with
the spirit. Later we arrived at the church and when I walked into the main room
most of the members were there and they all came up and gave me handshakes and
hugs saying they were going to miss me and such... I almost started crying as I
saw this. I couldnt help but feel so much love for these people that Ive
only known for a few short months. After we watched the rest of general
conference we were invited to dinnner by our Ward mission leader and so we went
and when we shared the spiritual message me and sister thomas beared our
testimonies and it was powerful. Near the end I shared with them hymn
number 74 in Korean. God be with you till we meet again. To which the
mother started to sing the ending verse and me and sister thomas started crying
and hugging the family. At the end the daughter of the mission leader
looked at me and sister thomas and said "We Will meet again, we are
family" It was so spiritual I was amazed at it!
So I will say this was a wonderful spirit filled week that I
have had, now I am in the process of packing and getting everything ready for
the move out to TaeBaek. I know I will have fun, but I will definitely
miss dobong ward.
Something too that has been going around the mission is the
kind of theme song for the meet the mormons movie called Glorious by David
Archuleta, if you can I would highly recommend you listen to it!
with much Love
Elder Yamagata
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