Good afternoon to all! It's been a great week, with lots of just fun things. Everyday is so rewarding. Happy birthday again to Caleb! As we street contacted on his birthday we saw some really fun miracles and met some very, very fun people. An 88 year old grandmother with the most adorable smile I've ever seen, someone who was chewing pine needles for his joints who stuffed some in Elder Killpack's mouth with bandaged fingers, and someone who invited us into his children's bouncy house to talk for an hour.
We met with three students recently who are doing a report on the church for a group at Kyunghee University. It was a fun interview, and hopefully will help some to see us in a better light. That's all we can do, hope that every day, we can help some people and help them to feel God's love, and eventually, as everyone does all they can, perceptions and tides will start to change.
{Editor's note: the next paragraph, and many of Sam's more recent letters, refer to his work as a "Zone Leader" for other missionaries. So he spends a lot of time training with other leaders, and training other missionaries in turn.}
The first half of the week was just nuts. MLC {mission leadership conference} on Monday, interviews for another district on Tuesday, and zone training on Wednesday meant no lessons {with interested people they are teaching}, a lot of travel, and some high pressure situations. We made it out okay, though, and ended up learning a lot and having a lot of fun. The focus for our mission this month is the revelation through the Holy Spirit, and as we have focused on this and tried to help our investigators understand the principles more thoroughly it has been a miracle filled week, and one that has had many personally meaningful moments wherein I can really feel God's love.
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| Some service project, with the Mormon "helping hands" vests |
The sunung is this week, the massive, stressful, ridiculously difficult test for seniors in high school, having a very large bearing on their future opportunities. Please pray for the stressing children and worried parents, they sure will be.
I love you all and hope and pray that all goes well. Enjoy the crisp weather and the still-beautiful leaves. We're having the time of our lives and working as hard as we can. I am tired every night, and it feels good. I want to have nothing left at the end of every day.*
^What I want to be saying after every day and mission and life~ "Therefore, that we should wase and wear out our lives in b
*#teamclearwater *#gobigorgohome
All my love from beautiful Korea,
Elder South
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