HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey president,
This has been a tough week. We've been working super hard, trying to find new investigators, but its been tough.
Anyways, study has been pretty great, I've been continuing reading Jesus the Christ, and studying for investigators and members just to try and figure out what they need. Its been a struggle to stay awake during study recently, but I'm doing better right now. Study is something thats pretty important to me and a lot of times I feel selfish about it. I feel like I spend too much time studying for myself and not for our investigators, but I've been having trouble picking out what their needs are to tell the truth. All the same I feel if I just stay awake, I can get all the study I need done, both for me, and for the investigators haha.
Speaking of investigators, we have a baptism on saturday! I'm super excited about it because to tell the truth, I feel like I did nothing with the previous baptism, and this one I've played a much more active role in. The investigator is pretty awesome in my eyes. At first it was really obvious that he was just going to church and meeting us because of the pressure his brother (the investigator is a referral) had been putting on him. Now he has some real friends in the ward, and I think he is really genuinely progressing in great ways.
Training is still going great, Elder Hunter and I get along really well. Interestingly enough, this week, Korean has been super hard for me. I am not sure what is is, but its just been harder this week. Maybe I need to be more aware of it in my prayers, but regardless, its not the most important part of the work.
One miracle that was awesome this week, is that despite the difficulties, we did find a new investigator!! He came to english class, and we shared a message with him, and we think he has interest. He is being fellowshipped by another investigator actually, really interesting haha. That other investigator is an amazing missionary and when he gets baptized he will be amazing for 계산 ward.

Have a great week President and see you on Sunday!

Wooooooooo!  Happy birthday dad!
I'm sorry I haven't sent anything, but I plan on sending things for Moms birthday for all of you!  Especially Mom and Dad though because of birthdays and then Christmas too, but nonetheless, things will be sent.  Hopefully they are fun Korean things!
If you have any requests for things you want, I'd love to do my best to try and find them.  Still no dice whatsoever on a Korean nativity.  Christmas isn't big, but I could probably find you something with a big fat schwastica on it because it doesn't mean anything bad in Korea!  It was really weird when I first came here and saw them all over the place.  It's some ancient symbol for something here.  I'm not sure what it is yet, but nonetheless, that can be sent if you so please.  However it probably will not be remotely well recieved in America so I discourage having interest in that.  Seriously.
This week has been tough to say the least.  It was super hard to stay motivated.  We keep on recieving promises that we will find investigators, and for the longest time, had not a lick of success.  I can street contact on my own now, and can more or less understand whats going on when I call people on my own too, so between the two of us, talking to lots of people is not a problem.  The thing that is problematic, is finding people who are genuinely interested, and don't just want to learn english.  We're supposed to be able to find three investigators a week, and we have been pulling up zeros for weeks in a row, BUT... this week we finally saw success, and we found a new investigator!!!... as you already read in the part to president haha.  I don't know much about him really because the way he showed up and was an investigator all the sudden was really surprising.  I would be meeting with him again tomorrow, but we're going on exchanges with the zone leaders and I won't be here for his lesson :'(  That's alright though, as long as he gets taught by someone,  I have no preference, and the zone leader who will be teaching him with my companion is super awesome anyways. 
I want to give a huge thank you to Kari really quick for helping out my sister with her bridal shower!  That's so awesome that that could work out, and it's so nuts how soon Lindsay will not share the same last name as me...  Kinda sad but cool at the same time.  Just as long as the first child's middle name is "waitforit".
I had heard about the shooting that occurred this week, I didn't know that it was that many people that were involved.  I heard about it at a meal we were having with a potential investigator, who is awesome, but unfortunately doesn't really have much desire to learn.  Anyways, I heard about it and was just immediately upset.  It was like a two hour long lunch appointment, and it took me like 20 minutes to be willing to talk again.  I feel so sorry for what happened.  It makes me sad to think that people are put in that state of mind to where that sort of violence seems becoming to them.  Reading about it only made it harder to think about, and it was hard to maintain composure really as I read it.  I think this is the second shooting that I've heard about in the past two weeks or so.  I really hope that none of this has to do with stupid theories about 2012.  How are people doing with regards to that anyways?  Fortunately nobody in Korea believes in that by the way.
Well with regard to other things, I had a really good experience yesterday at church.  It was with the investigator who will be baptized on saturday, and I lead the lesson.  My companion was helping people do something, not sure what , but it doesn't really matter, so I was with some young Elders, like Kyle Merkley's age, teaching this young man.  In missionary work, you're always supposed to give commitments and such, and there weren't many new commitments to give to the investigator, but his older brother who referred him seemed in need of one.  In Korea, if somebody older than you in your family tells you to do something, you do it.  THats the way the culture is pretty much, but it's kinda problematic in that regard for people to actually be converted.  Anyways, I told the older brother to make sure he's helping his younger brother as best he can.  I told the younger brother it was his responsibility to himself to follow christ.  Granted, his older brother has stock in the situation, but that he should not be converted for his brother.  It was really cool in my opinion, just because it was the first time I've played much of a role in the lesson and felt really prompted to do something out of the ordinary.
This week has been tough, but awesome at the same time.  There's always something to learn from and I love serving here in Korea.  It's tough, but luckily our ward members are awesome, and seeing them is a great motivation to keep working.
Everyone is so awesome and I'm sorry that I haven't been able to do Korean time, it's just hard to teach for me haha.  I can talk, and usually understand, but teching via email is tough.  If people are upset at its absence let me know, and I will try and accomodate time for it in the future

I love you all!
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