It was so fun to see you all on Skype today! You all look so great! It was definitely a highlight when Seth and Mindy started wrestling, haha!!
Things have been going well here. One cool experience from the week:
We had a lot of time for street proselyting one day last week so we were just going around talking to people. Street contacting feels like pure missionary work cause you are just preaching unabashedly to the people on the streets, haha. Ok well you do have to be respectful and tactful while being bold because people have their lives and you want to leave them with a positive impression of our missionaries.
Well after we had been proselyting for a while we met these 3 high school students. Usually high school students love foreigner missionaries, so they practice using their limited English and stuff. We joked around with them a bit, getting to know them, and then shared a little bit about our church. They weren't really interested, but all accepted Book of Mormons, and wanted to play badminton (which is big here in Korea) with us on Saturday! So we agreed. Then on Saturday we went to meet them, and they brought another friend, so there were 4 of them. But the Badminton courts were closed that day. So we asked them if they want to take a 15 minute bus to our church to play ping pong. They said yes, so while we were waiting for the bus we also invited them to the young men's dinner that night. They asked if there were any high schoolers in our church, and we told them there was one kid who was there age. So they asked his name, and when we told them they all were super surprised and laughing because the member was one of their really good friends!
So we had a super fun time playing ping pong, then they came to the Young Men's activity and surprised their friend at the dinner, which was cool!
We want to meet these for guys again this week. Last time we showed them the 'Because of Him' video, but that was about it. It was a miracle that we were willing to meet us, and that one of their good friends was in our church! The church is pretty small here relative to the number of people, and so it can be hard to have school friends at church, but if we could help these kids advance in the Gospel it would strengthen this ward so much!!
Well I love you all so much. I will send you all some pictures real quick. Please pray for me these last few months of my mission-- I really want to make the most of this time, working hard, meeting people who are ready. I am going to keep giving my all!
Just a reminder of the scripture I love in Romans 8--
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| We went to scout out a path for our upcoming hiking zone conference, and stopped at an ancient castle site on the way! |
Well I love you all so much! Take care and keep showing God your love through your actions!! It is pretty hard to beat scripture study, prayer and service! Sure love you-- brighten someone else's day today!
Love
Elder Beckett (Nate)
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