Hey family! We have new mission rules. One of them is that I will only be able to skype for 40 minutes, and another one is that I can only send one personal email per person per week. Just wanted to let you know! So if you have anything you need answered please make sure you include it in the first email you send to me so I can respond better.
This week, and today alone, we have really seen God's help and hand in our lives!
During the last few months, we have been blessed with investigators little by little, but this week we had a few more people who are willing to meet with us and hear our message who kind of all seemed to appear at once! Also, 2 investigators came to church yesterday! Here are some cool things that have happened:
When I went to Youngdo on an exchange a week or two ago, Elder S__ replaced me here in Haeundae for the day. Well while he and my companion were on the way to visit a family, he said hello to a man sitting next to him on the bus, who was from Australia. They had a great conversation about God, and the Book of Mormon. When the Australian man, A__, stood up to get off the bus, Elder S__ said, "Hey, can we get your number to contact you later?" "A__ looked at him and said, "If you can remember it!" And then A__ told Elder S__ his number, and got off the bus. Well Elder S__, as soon as he heard the number, kept repeating it to himself over and over, trying frantically to remember it (in Korea the numbers are 010-####-####, so kind of long) but, much to his dismay, when he called, it was the wrong number. Well my companion Elder K__ had heard A__ say it, too, so they worked together to try to figure it out. They called so many people, wrong number after wrong number after wrong number. Then Elder S__ decided to give it one last effort. He called 5 more numbers, then heard, "Hello?" instead of "yoboseyo"-- he had found A's number!
Well this week we contacted A__, as he was found in our area, and he agreed to meet! We were super excited to share the Book of Mormon with him.
We were in the 달맞이 part of our area, where he had said to meet him. But we weren't exactly sure where to go-- he told us the name of a cafe, and after walking almost everywhere we could think we still couldn't find it. To make things worse, A__ wasn't responding to texts or calls. So we were not only worried about not finding the place to meet, but now we were also worried that he might not show up.
We met some nice people who showed us where the place is on Google maps, and then we headed out. We found a similarly named place, but weren't sure if it was the right cafe... and A__ didn't respond still to our calls. After the time we had agreed to meet passed we decided to see if there was a different location he could have been talking about--we were close to giving up on the appointment, but we decided to push forward. So we kept walking up this long road that was slightly uphill, a scenic road kind of by the ocean. We were sweating in the cold weather, a little worried about the appointment. And then we found the place he had mentioned, just a little ways farther than expected! We called A__, he answered, we met, and had a great talk about his life, his family, and God. We plan to meet him again this week. Cool miracles!
So things are going well here! If you could please pray for A_, and Y_, that would be great! Pray for their hearts to be open to the Gospel, and especially for them to feel the spirit to know that power of our message.
Lastly, I want to share something interesting I noticed-- we are reading the whole Book of Mormon by Christmas, and I am learning so much... Nephi quoted Isaiah like this,
"And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon [Jesus Christ], the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears.4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth;"
I am so grateful for a God who doesn not judge unfairly, based on appearance, on rumor, but who looks upon the heart. I know his plan for our happiness is perfect. I know he knows all things. I know he wants to save all of His children, and he made a plan the will save the most of us possible. I hope we can trust in that plan and share it with others this Christmas season!
Love,
Elder Beckett
P.S. I am trying to upload pictures but it isn't working. So I will send some later. Love you all! Have a great week :)
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