July 7th 2019
Yeah so happy Independence Day back in America, what did I
do to celebrate over here? Glad you asked, I made some hot dogs at home... I’ll
attach a picture of how pathetic it was, haha. But also we were blessed and a
random Returning member called us and said he was taking us out to get
McDonald's, so basically had the most american meal you can have, haha.
Other good news: We found a volleyball group!!! Yeah we were
just walking around and saw some guys playing volleyball, so we asked if we
could join and they were like "yeah come next time" So it was super
fun, and we have some potential with a few of them hopefully!
Other great news: we went to a ëĒŠėí, or
a bath house, this morning, which was great. If you don't really know what
those are, simply it's where you go when you want to feel like you got baptized
again. It feels so good! An awkward part was that me and some korean guy
briefly grazed cheeks, if you know what i mean, and needless to say i didn't
make any eye-contact and quickly got out of there, haha.
Also quick news: we merged with the next door DaeJeon
Mission this week, so i could be heading over there next transfer. So
"Cool beans? Yeah, cool beans." - Rod
Some cool miracle: we were visiting a guy at his work, then
his friend also came to visit him at his work. And we really hit it off with
his friend. He was apart of another church, and told us that most people didn't
really have the best view about our church, some people thinking it was a cult
and what not. But we just told him the truth and befriended him, and by the end
he was saying how he felt "oddly connected to us" like "we were
close friends" and he called us "pure people" and that kind of
really nice stuff. He called me and gentleman and my companion cute, haha, so
that was kind of funny. But regardless, it was a really good opportunity to
correct this man's view about our church. We shared a Tabernacle Choir video
with him, and he said he got goosebumps from it! haha, so it was a good
experience.
Again I just hope you are all reading your Scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon every day! Such an amazing book and so many blessings we get from it. Also read a conference talk every now and then, I’ve been going through President Hinckley's talks and there is so much wisdom in them!
Love you all,
Elder Hanks
Pics
This is what you do in korea if your dating, you match
PERFECTLY
My pathetic hot dog... feat the plain white bread
Elder Campbell had a fun time at our service activity where
we play legos with special needs kids, haha
This is where we study our scriptures
To get to the bath house today, we could either walk around
a mountain in 30 minutes, or just hike over it in 15, so we took the latter
option and just hiked over it
June 30 2019
Hello everyone!
I put that as the subject (awkward missionary moment) so you'll have to read the email
to figure out why đđ but another
week in Korea!
Some highlights:
We had zone conference and that's always great to receive
teachings from our leaders. The whole mission used to have to read (at least) 2
chapters of the BOM, everyday, and now it got upped to 3 chapters đđ¤đ¤
We went on exchanges with our zone leaders, had a good time
:) but the elder I was with got really sick and we had to go to the hospital
and they IV'd some mysterious yellow liquid into his body... Korea has weird
health care stuff
We also played soccer in the pouring rain with a bunch of
Korean students! Which was fun because most Koreans would never go play in the
rain, but because we are Americans and have what we call "foreigner
power" they came and played with us. It was good BRT!
The awkward missionary moment: so when we went on exchanges, we had
a dinner appointment with a member there. So we were all eating dinner when all
of a sudden the sound of a drunk guy singing came on! So what happened was that
a while back a really drunk guy had called the other missionaries and started
singing a bunch of songs for them! But because he was really drunk, it was
super funny and the Elders took a recording of it. But for some reason the
recording was set as an alarm on their phone and it went off! So it was super
funny cause we were just eating and then a drunk guy singing starts up and we
were all so confused đ but we all laughed
about it, so it was okay đ
Elder Hanks's reminder: if you aren't reading the Book of
Mormon everyday, resolve whatever is stopping you and start! It is so important
and the power that you get from reading it cannot be replaced by any other
thing!
Love you all,
Elder Hanks
