November 27

Hi Family!

We are on emails kind of early today, because we are going to the Mission Home to transfer and to a fireside of Mark Peterson, who was a Korean Mission President and now he is a BYU professor. He is teaching about Korean culture! I'm super excited.  I love you all!  I hope you had an awesome Thanksgiving! I am staying in Gyung Ju, which is GREAT!  My companion is going; I will really miss Elder JL, my trainer!  Here's some pictures:

Trying those funny nose pore things... haha!

 Sorry I don't have much time to write today, so I'll cut and paste part of my letter to my mission president to let you know how I'm doing. I pray for each of you and love you all so much!

Wow, training completed!  Not really--I'm not sure if my training will ever be complete, but officially I am out of the 12 week program. I am super grateful to stay in Gyung Ju, and I am excited to work with Elder S. But I will really miss Elder JL.  I hope to have the opportunity to do an exchange or two with him in the future!! He has been a wonderful trainer. I have learned so much from him--about hard work, being dedicated, having faith in our prayers, and faith that prayer works, and also having fun in missionary work! I know that you were inspired to send him to be my trainer.  So thank you so much for listening to the spirit, and I am grateful for the friendship I have developed with my trainer. He has helped me learn and grow so much, and exemplifies diligence.

A sweet little boy in our ward!

Gyung Ju is doing well as an area! I am really excited about one of our investigators __. He is so faithful. He is from China, but speaks Korean pretty well. He has a baptismal date for December 17th, and then confirmation on the 18th. We talked about the Word of Wisdom this week, and he agreed to try to live it, so I'm excited to follow up. He has been keeping commitments very well so far! I am also excited about a new investigator from China, who loves basketball. We played basketball with him and his friends up by the university, and me and him and Elder JL were a team The losing team would switch out, so when we switched out, we would talk to him a bit about himself, his family, and we taught him about Heavenly Father and prayer, and invited him to pray. I also got the contact of another one of his friends, so maybe we can play together and talk again later!

Lastly, I love our one investigator _ so much! He is so fun and a great friend to us. He believes the Book of Mormon is true, but he is pretty involved as a deacon and children teacher in another church in Busan. It is hard for him to leave that church. We are planning to teach the Restoration again with the focus of why the Book of Mormon is important. He also said he was willing to work towards baptism.

We have been visiting and encouraging members a lot, but it can be tough to find someone to teach with. So that is one area I want to improve in.

Also, I was able to finish the Book of Mormon last night! So I finished within the transfer. It is such an amazing and inspired book that has changed my life! I am so grateful for it. Reading that quickly was a wonderful and inspired opportunity. I can now more powerfully testify of its truthfulness to others.

Well, family, that's my email to the mission president. Mom, I got your letter on Thanksgiving, which was a bit of a rough day, actually, so your letter was a tender mercy. Thank you!  I've got to run, but I love you all!

Love,
Elder Beckett

This is a new convert that we did family history with. Almost everyone here has a family history book , and his book went back to the year 1000. The names and info are written in Chinese characters, but Koreans study them in school.

Elder JL at a meat buffet we went to because it was our last week together!