April 28 2019
So I'll just start off with that I'm being transferred out of
this area. I loved this area so much and the Lord blessed me with so many
miracles here, but it was my time to leave and I'm ready to work hard in my
next area! So my next area is 거제도 (ko Jae island) and it's a
little island that I heard is super beautiful and has a branch of like 15
people. So it's gonna be an adventure there!
I'm gonna have another Korean companion, which will be
needed for my Korean after a transfer with Americans, haha. But the lord's work
is moving forward everywhere!
We had a bunch of stuff this past week that was great. We
taught English about 4 of the days, played soccer with maybe 15 potential
people, gave a talk that will hopefully improve member missionary work even
more, and just felt the spirit a lot!
During this past week I finished listening/reading all of
President Monson's talks, and it was so great! What a learning experience it
was. I know that he was most definitely a prophet of the Lord and I know
President Nelson is His living prophet today.
If any of you need help with just about anything this week,
or you want to feel the spirit extra strong, I'll pass along the advice of
president Nelson when he said, "Ask the missionaries! They can help!"
please try to find out how you can help the missionaries where you live.
Love you all!
Elder Hanks
Pictures:
Elder Campbell and 지훈, the guy we are teaching
Another one with some more people :) 
We all put on these face masks last night
And our district which was somehow only foreigners! 
April 21 2019
So just another week in Korea! We had a few appointments
this past week, so it's nice to feel busy and have something everyday besides
just tracting. So it'll be a little shorter email this week!
Highlights:
- Played Ultimate frisbee last
week, so that was fun to get to do that again
- I feel like my chinese is
starting to come back thanks for my recent convert
- A member gave us some BBQ
Pork Ribs a few days ago, so ate very well!
- Cooked some fish that turned
out pretty good
- and baked a cake the other
night!
One exciting thing that happened this past week was that we
met a guy on the street who looked at the Book of Mormon and was like
"what is that? can you tell me more about it?" Which like NEVER
happens in Korea, it was a first for me. But we met with him the next day...
and found out he was quite a Bible Basher, haha. He told us he had studied the
bible for 5 months and wanted to "learn together from it". I just
felt so bad for him! He told us many things that were very false doctrine, and
asked us to find a scripture from the Bible that proved there was a God... He
literally thought the Bible made no reference to God, and totally denied the
scriptures we showed him. He also wouldn't let us talk longer than 10 seconds
before he would interrupt and say something, haha. So we just felt bad for him,
left him a Book of Mormon and recommend he read it, then we left and got
shakes. :) So that was a fun experience!
Also at church the other day, one of the guys we're teaching
challenged us to a plank competition, haha. So me, him, and Elder Campbell had
a plank competition, and I won! But a bunch of church members were watching,
and then they wanted to have like arm wrestle and push up competitions after,
haha. So I made a mistake doing that
We are really trying hard to teach one person, who has
learned so much, he just has so many questions and has a lot of critical thinking.
So we are working with him slower than we wanted, but he's still progressing
bit by bit and I’m really praying hard that he will accept it all and get onto
the covenant pathway soon! Please send prayers! We have seen so many miracles
here because of the faithful prayers of members.
Love you all,
Elder Hanks
Pictures (not a lot, sorry)
Our Plank competition
When we had some delicious BBQ Pork ribs
picture from a few weeks ago I’d thought I include :)
April 14 2019
What a week!! So much crazy stuff happened but I'll keep it
short for all ya 😉
So first off we had interviews, so we were leaving to go to where
we thought the interviews were but found out last minute that interviews were
being done at our houses, so we ran home and our house wasn't that bad really,
but I mean we spent an hour cleaning up! Then we decided we would surprise them
and we popped in some cookies for our mission president and his wife. But.....
we forgot about them... and then Sister Kim was like "something smells
burnt"... It was at that moment that I realized I am just not meant to be
a baker! Haha, so we pulled them off and sure enough it was a bunch of black
cookies! So that was a great way to start off our interviews, haha
Emergency Transfers!! So this was really out of the blue, we
just got a call last Saturday Morning saying that there were emergency
transfers with another companionship in the mission, and we were going to be
getting one of the missionaries! So we are now a Trio!!! So his name is Elder Campbell and we picked him up Saturday
night and now we are a trio for the next 2 weeks of the transfer! So that's
gonna be exciting!
We finally got to watch General Conference! Just freaking
awesome! So many things that answered so many questions and all those people
are just so amazing and I love those apostles and the prophet so much! And we all
thought there were gonna be missionary changes, but I don't know how those
rumors started, haha. So anyway that was good too!
Sad news second:
Our person being taught said he wants to push his date back
a bit to prepare a bit more (so kind of sad, kind of good)
I ripped some more pants and had to sew them up again, haha
We had to take off a pull up bar from our house that has
probably been there since medieval times, it had like melted and become one
with the door. So we literally had to get a bread knife to cut the rubber off
the ends! haha, so that was fun
It's been a great week! we're really hoping and praying for
our people, specifically our main person to get baptized soon, so please send
any and all prayers! We have seen major miracles of prayers this past week!
Please send prayers!
I love you all so much!
Elder Hanks
pictures
our pull up bar we had to cut down 
New comp elder Campbell
Our chinese class we do with our person being taught and
recent convert (Korean to Chinese is not fun & kinda hard, haha)
We went to a picture taking place last week and it was
quite fun
