Hey!!!
Ok, so Mokpo is on the sea, and it is not a huge city, but I would say there is about 500,000 or so people that live here...and...6 missionaries, and 1 ward of about 60 people.
Gwangju has more members than Mokpo but is also bigger. The weather is a little bit different; because it is by the beach it is a little bit more humid down here...
The house is great, I get to live with a Korean for the first time on my mission!
The restaurant owners from my first area are doing well. Before I left, I talked to the daughter about the family and the mother does read scriptures with her daughter once in awhile, and I saw the son at church a few times here and there. I heard that the father (who didn't come back because of smoking) has been able to reduce his smoking.
The last that I heard from Eric he is done with High School, and was allowed to visit stake conference and the temple. Right now it should be vacation for him before his first year of college, which he will probably do before his mission.
Yeah...pictures. I do have some, but not of Mokpo yet. Things are really busy. Glad that everyone in the family is doing well!! Sounds like God is blessing us well!!!
As far as an update of the mission...
This is my last area, and I have 4 months here until the return trip to America.
This last area is really great. I have some relatives of people that lived in the previous wards that I have served in, so getting to know the members has been a relatively quick and simple thing. I don't have anything super exciting because I recently just moved here. sorry. ready to start my last area and work forward to the end! yep...that's about it.
Wow. Going back to America is going to be really weird. Right now Korea is in the 1960s but technologically in the 21st century. [I had told him about the Church's latest news conference about nondiscrimination]
Well, the things the prophets always say is that the world is getting further and further away from the church, and I have definitely seen that as I have served as a missionary. I never knew how important the Gospel was until I started to share it and go into the homes of those who don't have it. Frankly speaking, people who don't have the Gospel have nothing that they can really rely on (because everything else is either fake, or changes). But, the Gospel provides us with true principles that allow us to be happy in this life and happy forever. I know that the Gospel will help us in our quest to become like Jesus Christ and return to our Heavenly Father.
I love you all so very much!!!!
I hope that everything is going well in Minnesota! (Melissa mentioned how surprised she was that it has already been a year and a half!!!)
Love you all so much!!!
Have a wonderful week!!!
Elder William Strahl
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