June 23 2019 –
Onionhasaeyo
So just another week in Korea, unfortunately nothing too
exciting, so if you're busy you can skip down to the pictures, haha, or you can
read the whole thing to see what the Korea missionary work is like.
First off, the exciting things that happened this week was
that we made a bunch of No-Bake Cookies to give to Members and hopefully
returning members, but we may have eaten too many of them. We went on exchanges
with another team. And we played basketball with Mongolians (they are like
super good at basketball, but also really bad, haha. Hard to explain, but it
was really funny to watch). We also met a guy, who just has english interest,
but said he would take us out to get food all the time, so that'll be a
blessing!
Our week (and most weeks here) was mainly just full of a
bunch of Proselyting on the street. Which isn't too bad anymore, I mean you got
to do it. But to put into perspective what that is like here, yesterday, I met
someone on the street who (for the first time in my mission) actually said he
has interest in religion! So that was weird, we usually just get a simple hello,
a hand if it's an old guy, or a "hello" in english if they want to
learn english. So it's kind of rough, but there are prepared people everywhere!
just in Korea you have to dig down, look through the rocks and find them. A
saying that goes around here is that in Korea we aren't "fishers of
men", we say we are "hunters of men" because it's a little
easier to fish, and hunting takes a lot of time and diligent searching :)
Now I hope that didn't seem like boasting or anything, but
just a little look at the real life. The work is a little hard, but it's pretty
rewarding too. It teaches a whole lot of patience and reliance on the Lord.
We
pray really hard each night to find that one person who is looking for the
gospel.
I love an appreciate all of you and all your support! Please
send prayers for someone to be lead to us, I really just want to teach and bare
testimony of the gospel to someone who is willing to accept it.
Love you all,Elder Hanks
Pictures:
Us
A guy (who we're pretty sure had some mental illness or
something) that we met on the bus and was really fun to talk to
And our sunday school lesson. I include this because you
all can probably understand as much as I can on the board haha
June 16 2019 – moving?
So we started our week with literally nothing, our first 3
days were clearer than scotch tape, so we had a lot of walking to try and find
who may be searching for the truth on the street. But then we got crazy busy
starting thursday.
We had a training meeting for the district leaders, which is
great cause we just get to receive advice from our mission president of how to
be better missionaries and better leaders in our districts, so that was great!
Then we moved! We didn't move areas, but we just moved
houses, and that was not fun! There are so many missionaries who just collect
the randomest stuff off the street, and it's terrible cause then we have to
deal with it later after they leave. But regardless, it took us like a whole
day to move, and the guy that was hired to help move our stuff was not happy we
had so much stuff, haha. But he saw we were Christian, so he took us to his church
while we were in the middle of moving, haha, so that was interesting. But
anyway, moving in and organizing the new house was exhausting, and we had to do
it super fast
Our weird appointment of the week: we met a guy on the
street who invited us to come over to his house later, so we did that last week
and we were waiting for his wife to come home too. But turns out they were both
part of a church called 신천지, sorry I don't know what that
is in english, (Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of Testimony) but to put it simply, they are one of the crazy churches in
Korea. Korea has a few churches who are famous for being really crazy churches, and this is one of them. So the wife got to work to teach us
"the truth". There was a whole lot of false doctrine, but one
interesting part is how much they focus on "the Book of Revelations".
She told us that this book was the password into Heaven, so if you didn't
understand all of the book, you couldn't get into heaven... So it was just
really interesting.
But! That being said there was one good thing about it, I
did feel the spirit, but I was the spirit confirming to me that it was not
true. As I listened, I just thought about the comfort of the true, restored
church, with the restored truths that we can talk to Heavenly Father whenever
we want, and He will talk to us! That we have a living prophet on the earth,
and he receives modern day revelation. That Christ paid for all of our sins
with an infinite Atonement! It is so amazing! I love this gospel! It's so
awesome!
Love you all,
Elder Hanks
Elder Hanks
Pictures:
all our stuff
June 9 2019 – Transfers
And... I'm
staying. :) frankly me and my companion would have freaked if one of us got
transferred. So nothing really happened, I'm staying as the district leader, so
that should be fun!
Last week
we went on a hike with our branch president. Fun Fact about Korea: so in
America when you go hiking, you do like switchbacks up the mountain, like
criss-cross right? Well they don't give half a care in Korea, and they just go
right up the mountain! Now given that Korea doesn't have Utah sized mountains,
but still just hiking straight up a mountain isn't easy! But it was super
pretty at the top
We've been
doing a lot of sports proselyting here, and it has actually turned out pretty
successful! So please pray for us to have any success over here. We also had a
Stake Sports Conference we attended, and Elder Campbell got roasted! (by the
sun 😉) he had a crazy
bad sunburn 😂
We met with
a less active brother who also happens to be the Chief of Police over the
island of GeoJe! So that was pretty cool, showed us around the station. And
found out that the majority of 112
(Korea's 911) calls are
for drunk people 🤦♂️
Also met
two guys that both had mental disorders! We think it was schizophrenia, so they
still had social ability, but just a weird story 😂
It's been a
super weird transfer, but I've still seen many miracles and amazing things.
Even though the work is a little slower here, it's still moving! All prayers are
gratefully accepted :)
Much love,
Elder Hanks
Elder Hanks
Pictures :
Saw this sign here, in Korea, and the 3rd to last word I
feel like can't be a real word, that's just too crazy
This was our dinner one day, just a quarter of a
watermelon
Some pics from our hike up the mountain
