1st week back in Gwang Ju

Hey mom and family!!!

This week went well! we met with quite a few of our investigators and met a lot of people on the street. Our investigators for the most part are able to meet on the weekends, so we have quite a bit of time during the day to work in the area which is good. We have met a lot of good people! 

This past week we were not able to meet with our family of investigators, they were busy. We did meet with our investigator who wants to bring his family to church. He said that he would come to church next Sunday, so we are excited to meet him. 

We met with another investigator that I had not met before who is really difficult. He has been an investigator for a really long time and he just doesn't see the need to really do a whole lot of things. He goes to the military in August and so we were trying to help him come to Christ before then, but he's pretty resistant. He's great though!

On Wednesday I had a split with a Korean companion and we taught our chicken investigator who is actually a frier not a driver...he's doing well. We helped him see the need that he had to read the Book of Mormon and to pray. He is very quiet and a little shy, but if he keeps his commitments he will progress well. 

We also met with a couple from Rwanda this week, Gideon and Rosanne. They had been in Gwang ju for a little while and when we met them they said that they were 7th Day Aventist, but that they did not have a church to go to yet in Gwangju. So, we met them and introduced the Book of Mormon and Gideon got really excited about something new that could help him. It was a great meeting and the two are a great couple! 

Our Chinese investigator traveled over the weekend and so he was unable to come to church and our Uzbekistanian investigator also was too busy to come to church. 

We will go and visit our investigator with the broken knee in the hospital tomorrow...

Today I have a simple thought. Christ and Satan both descended below all things. The difference was that Satan was proud and Christ was meek and lowly of heart. Christ's willingness to go below all allowed him to rise above all while Satan's desire and lust to rise above all led him to descend below all. In our lives it is very similar. If we seek to raise ourselves up in the world we really go down. If we willingly lower our Selves and accept the will of the Lord then we can rise above all things. 

This week at church I had the opportunity to see a convert that I met on the street, taught, and then a week after I was transferred was baptized. He looks so different. The person that I met on the street is gone and has been replaced by something beautiful and bright. It is the light of change through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

God is our Heavenly Father. Because He is our Father He loves us. Because He loves us He sent His Son Jesus Christ. Through following Jesus Christ we can be happy. That is the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know it is true. I know that in my life as I have followed Jesus Christ I have been absolutely most happy. There is nothing that I can put into words that describe the process, but that's ok because everyone, no matter who they are, if they will but choose, can experience the very same thing. 

I love you all so much!

Thank you for every thing that you have done for me! I appreciate it so much!!!