May 25, 2025
Fellow Korean missionaries, listen up. The Monsters here have tea in them. My heart is brokerd 
and the news is a tad bit late cause I've drank like 5 of them! The worst part about it is now is I have nowhere to turn when I'm going to die of exhaustion. Imagine almost falling asleep walking to an appointment, and then having to sit in a hot house for an hour and a half listening to a conversation you can hardly make sense of. This is the predicament that I found myself in this week. This house had no chairs in it, but after 45 minutes of sitting on a hard wood floor the guy could tell that my lifelong chair-priveledged American heiny was getting pretty uncomfortable so he gave me a folding stool to sit on, which was very kind of him. That leaves me still with the problem of being incredibly tired. I felt like an apostle outside Gethsemane. It was rough, but since didn't have any tea-free Monster to drink, I figured the next best option was to pray for the strength to stay awake. Brutha I didn't even start the prayer. The second my eyelids touched I was out. I opened them to the realization that I was falling out of the stool! Needless to say that failed attempt to pray gave me the necessary adrenaline boost to stay awake the rest of the hour.
and the news is a tad bit late cause I've drank like 5 of them! The worst part about it is now is I have nowhere to turn when I'm going to die of exhaustion. Imagine almost falling asleep walking to an appointment, and then having to sit in a hot house for an hour and a half listening to a conversation you can hardly make sense of. This is the predicament that I found myself in this week. This house had no chairs in it, but after 45 minutes of sitting on a hard wood floor the guy could tell that my lifelong chair-priveledged American heiny was getting pretty uncomfortable so he gave me a folding stool to sit on, which was very kind of him. That leaves me still with the problem of being incredibly tired. I felt like an apostle outside Gethsemane. It was rough, but since didn't have any tea-free Monster to drink, I figured the next best option was to pray for the strength to stay awake. Brutha I didn't even start the prayer. The second my eyelids touched I was out. I opened them to the realization that I was falling out of the stool! Needless to say that failed attempt to pray gave me the necessary adrenaline boost to stay awake the rest of the hour. Elder Kost and I had a lesson with our friend Patrick this week. Patrick is super curious about the gospel, and he has done a lot of studying because he wants to know if it's true or not. The poblem is, he's been studying the deepest doctrine out there. He doesn't take my advice that deep doctrine will not help grow his faith, especially when he doesn't have a testimony of any of the basics yet. He basically derailed our entire planned lesson with super deep gospel questions, which I could technically answer but I knew they wouldn't help him at all. Super funny though, after an hour and a half of these questions we were like... so.... do you want to get baptized on the 28th? and he was like "yes" so hallelujah.
He's been texting us hecka questions this week though, and it's been super hard to reply to them and make sure they don't sound bashy. I have to say though, some of my replies reminded me of the music video of the guy writing on flaming paper surrounded by flames, cause I was moving the pen like Kendrick.
Another highlight was when we met a guy on the bus in the morning, and that night had a lesson, ping pong, and dinner with him. Finding can lead you on crazy side quests!
I finally locked in hard on ping pong this week, the first time I played here in Suwon I was dog water but two days ago I was in inner peace or something because I was airbending that ball.
Spiritual thought:
One of Patrick's biggest struggles is that he is trying to make the doctrine of the church fit what he already believes. It has made me think about my ongoing conversion and what I need to do to become truly converted. Conversion is about complete submission to the will of Heavenly Father, not picking and choosing what we will and won't do. Jesus Chist is completely perfect at following the Fathers will, which is why we need to become more like him. I challenge all of you to think of something you do that isn't aligned with Heavenly Fathers will, and kick that sucker out the window.
Current weight 198.11 lbs.
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