Answered Prayers

4/7/2025

When I turned my papers in I really only had two requests for God; 1: please don't put me in Salt Lake (or pocatello). and 2: please, at the minimum, don't send me somewhere with less than the American standard for toilets. When I pulled up to the rinky dink church house the first day I was here and saw that it had a bidet...I almost fell on my face in the attitude of praising my God. It's gonna be a tolerable two years after all. 

Futhermore, there's more American pride here than in the average city in America, there are A10's and F18's flying over everyday so I mean yeah, hard not to scream like an eagle every time you see em. You'll have korean people stop you and ask if you are american, then bow and say "thank you for your sacrifice" when you tell them you are. 

There's no trash cans here, which I was warned of, but my gosh it's so annoying. 

My mission president and his lovely wife are wonderful people, they are very wise. I wen't to the mission home for a home cooked meal the second day here and the food was amazing, Sister Park is an amazing cook. Korean food is gas. It's pretty intimidating to go to a house for dinner and they have pictures of them on trips with apostles on the wall. 

My companion is Elder Lockheart from California, don't worry, I bullied him about the name immediately. He's a super awesome guy and he's got Korean down, it's some impressive stuff. I've just been trying to be as humble as possible and trying to learn from everyone I can, even the old ladies on the bus. Actually I have asked several old ladies on the bus to help me with grammar, they are very sweet and tell me I am doing great because they don't even read english. (They only compliment you when you suck lol)

My first impression of the missionaries in this mission is that they are the most locked in and obedient missionaries I have ever seen. Miricles are happening because of it though, and I'm gonna have to lock in so hard to fit in but I'll do it, amen. 

I gave a talk in church in front of an absolutely massive congregation of 15 people and they were all very nice and said my pronunciation was good. (reminder that they only compliment you if you suck)

The housing we have right now is super nice, I was suprised. Good thing too because the first day here our mission president had us stay inside all day because the president got impeached. My shower is normal, which all of my MTC buddies couldn't say the same, so that's fire. 

I was able to teach a few girls about the plan of salvation before an english class yesterday, which was going great until I found out that every single one of the smokes a pack a day (they're 15) sooo some commitements were extended after I explained to them why we shouldn't smoke. Idk why every child here is smoking, I'll just tell them americans think it's cringe and they'll probably stop. 

Invited a teaching friend to go on a hike with us to a Buddihst temple today, it was my first time meeting him but he's the sweetest guy ever and he's thinking about baptism. After our hike we went to a 7/11 and talked about what baptism has changed in our lives. I'm hoping we can meet with him again this week, he's such an awesome guy. 

Speaking of the Buddihst temple, what a wild place haha. The temple is awesome (pictures attached) but there's a public free gym right next to it on the top of the mountain, and you have to hike to get there haha. It deters you from doing legs I'll tell you that, but I still did for some odd reason. 

Had a slight bible bash with some "God's Church" missionaries a few minutes ago, they were trying to tell me I was a prophet, ight cool man. I think I'd know though haha. 

Spiritual Thought: 

Something that's been going through my mind this week is that "the gospel of Jesus Christ is repetetive and iterative." This is true, and thank goodness it is. Jesus has given us infinite chances to redo what we're struggling with, as long as we are truly trying to change. Life's hard, but it's harder when you're stupid, and believe me... I'm stupid. But even when I make the same mistakes over and over I'm confident that Christ's atonement and love is a lot more powerful than I am stupid, and that's saying something. 

Love you all, 

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