Oct 15 2018
Hello everyone!!!
We only have like 45 minutes to email today, so I'll try to
get the majority of what happened, and again if I can't get to a personal email
today, I'm sorry! I'll try next week!
But the mission is amazing!! Every day continues to be
another day full up uplifting and enlightening experiences. We experience a lot
of rejection because many Koreans seem to be content with their life, and frankly
there are a lot of churches here, so it's hard to get the truth out there when
so many people think they have already found it. Like honestly I've never seen
so many different churches before in my life. One church was called the Grape
Tree Church. So there's a variety.
Last P-day we went to a board game cafe, it was oddly
entertaining, haha. and today we went to a Buddhist temple up in the mountains,
so that was a cool experience. I also decided to join the Mission Choir and today we did a practice for like 3 hours, not including
the travel to the mission office, so that takes up a lot of time, but it is a
lot of fun. We get to travel throughout the mission and do performances for
stakes and stuff.
We were also able to watch general conference this week, and
that was s great. All those messages are so inspired for each and every one of
us, and the church as a whole. The Apostles of the Lord receive constant
revelation for this church, for which I am so grateful for.
The korean is still a little hard, understanding the Busan
accent is difficult, and understanding the language is difficult too, haha. One
member asked me where I was from, and I responded with "last
tuesday"... so I still got some progressing to do.
Last thing, which I think is funny. The topic of my email
comes from a conversation I had with my companion, Elder Gailey. I love elder
Gailey, and he is very smart and thinks very deep about a lot of stuff. So one
day while we were doing street contacting, he started talking about Mars. And
then it led to how he wasn't sure how the church would work if people start
living on Mars. I thought this conversation was great, because it
was just so out of the blue and I had no idea why, but I was very grateful
because it was entertaining.
So there's my update, still adjusting, and always loving.
From general conference I found that the common theme and answer to every issue
or problem is Love. If you have Charity, the pure love of Christ, nothing can
go wrong. "charity never faileth" So i hope we can all strive to have
charity. :)
Much Love,
Elder Hanks
Also I guess we are a facebook mission, so if you want to
hear some scriptures and other updates throughout the week, my name is just Max
Hanks. :)