We don't like when he's sad, but we sure do love learning experiences =)
Hey President!
This week has been a little tougher than the past few, but that's okay we keep on working. For study I've started reading Jesus the Christ a lot actually. It's really interesting to learn a bunch of the secular and kinda non church affiliated ongoings of the time around Jesus Christ's ministry, as well as learning more about the spiritual side of things. I though it was really interesting how Elder Talmadge takes a great deal of time to explain basically every facet of pre-birth Christ and what all went on with regard to that. I think it's really great to learn from in that respect and increase our knowledge of whats going on.
One of the reasons that this week has been so tough was because aside from the one investigator that we have that will be getting baptized in not too long, we have no investigators. This isn't because we haven't been looking for investigators, but just because we've had no success finding. It's really tough because we spend lots of time conacting, all to no avail. We want more people to teach but its just more and more hard. That being said we've been trying to work with less actives to help them and find investigators through them. No great success yet but we'll keep trying.
Training is going good as always. This week was cool because I got to see where I was six weeks ago and how far I've come. It really is amazing the progress that is made when the Lord has an active hand in the growth of a young man. While this week we did work pretty hard, there was one day that I definitely could have worked harder. Elder Hunter was working super hard on I believe last tuesday, and I just was being lazy. On the day there was a total of 41 contacts and during our contacting time where we split up, I only got 4 contacts. It really was a shameful experience, and I feel awful for it. While there have been days that were substantially more tough than that one day, that day was definitely the worst day of my mission thus far. Definitely was a day to learn from.
Have a great week president!
-Elder Clawson
Hey everybody!
Another week in Korea and I am still loving it here! So with transfers now, they have whats called the 12 week program, so usually new missionaries stay with their trainer for at least 2 transfers and dont move around really, so I hope that answers your questions about transfers. And yes I did kinda have a day of suck. I seriously had the worst feeling that night of my entire life. I know when I broke my collar bone that I joked around and said "I want to kill myself" and what not, but really having wasted time of both mine, the Korean people's time, and especially the Lord's time, that night I went to sleep hoping that I could feel the slightest bit better the next morning about my performance that day. I ended up not feeling better, but the next day was better nonetheless. The day I sucked we had like 3 hours of planned contacting time, and I didn't talk to hardly anyone, and the next day, we had not a minute of contacting time planned, nor did we do any of it, and I talked to the same amount of people. Needless to say I felt a lot better about myself that day.
A little more about the place we live at since you guys want to know. So the bathroom is also the place where we have the laundry machine, yes it is pretty small, but only kinda small by Korean standards. A huge apartment in Korea is about the same size as an Lindsays apartment in college was. Not big at all... So yeah kinda cramped, but thats okay. The bad actually is big enough for me, Koreans are relatively large with respect to the rest of the Asian community, but still lived in incredibly cramped living quarters. Actually when I first got here, we found a full mattress and I sleep with a 요 on top of that so it's pretty comfy. We talk to other missionaries pretty often. We haven't had a p-day we didn't and usually we do some contacting together at least twice a week, and always do english class together. English class is okay, nothing super crazy and is kinda fun usually, there's some people that come that are just english sucks as we call them, which means they have zero gospel interest and come just to learn english. Kinda tough to put up with usually too but thats okay.
So like I said in the attached thing up top, it is super cool to see the new missionaries come in! Well after the day that I sucked, I had been revitalized in my will and desire to talk to people and such! Thursday, when our district was contacting together, I took one of the missionaries (every companionship in our district is training now, its kinda crazy, I'm technically older than 2 missionaries in my district out of 6 total) and was showing him how to 전도. I ended up running into two people who wanted to bible bash. It really is irritating. It bothered me soooooo much. I seriously don't understand why people get so hung up on things that are of such a trivial nature like what these two people wanted to talk about, especially since later I looked up their arguments in true to the faith, and now I can rebut them, with the bible! Suck on that one crazy people who believe in "Heavenly mother", not with regards to the wife of God, but with regards to Jesus reincarnated as a woman. It's weird, don't worry about it too much. Anyways, yeah, I can understand people to the point where I know when they want to argue with me, but did not argue back! We aren't supposed to bible bash you know, so I just testified, and said that since I'm young I don't know how to answer their questions, and if they want to know why we believe the way we do, they can go to mormon.org ^^. That was fun for me hahaha.
Time is starting to go by pretty fast I would say. Also fun fact, I had totally forgotten that I spoke in the MTC. The new missionaries were saying that my Korean was better when I left the MTC than they are right now. I still don't think so, but my companion says I'm learning stupid fast which is always fun to hear!!!! Yay for self esteem. I like to joke around that my narcissism hit an all time high while I was in the MTC and is slowly being brought back down to a normal human level. It's fun out here and I am getting good at ping pong! Its sweet because my companion is pretty good so I have someone thats at least worth playing around all the time whenever we have time for it. Also, my companion is sick right now. He kind of reminds me of dad because he refuses to let it slow him down. He just always wants to work super hard which is awesome, but at the same time I don't want him to die. That would be problematic.
Well I don't have too much more to say of great note, but keep Korea in your prayers! Really just keep everywhere in your prayers haha, I find myself praying for other parts of the world with regard to missionary work all the time. I think as loyal and devoted that missionaries become to their field, that we just want the work to go forward in anywhere that it can. I simply have the opportunity to serve here in Korea as opposed to all the other places in the world that I could have gone. I love it here even though the weather kinda sucks, its still awesome.
I love you all and keep being awesome!
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