Happy Birthday to Dad! (May 21, 2017)

Happy birthday to Dad! I can't believe you are 40!  :)  And to think you only look 39!  Haha, I sure love my pops! Special day for you and us. It was so fun to see you all on Skype last week!  You all seem to be doing great, and I loved to see you.

Here's an excerpt from my letter to President:  "This week we saw some great things happen in Sangin! We visited that man who works at the Citizen Center a second time, shared our favorite BOM scriptures with him, and invited him to read the introduction before we visit this week! So he became a new investigator. I think he sees our visits mostly as friends, and while I do want to be his friend, I think we need to be a little more clear to him about our purpose. When I invited him to read the introduction (he likes English), he said, "If you command me to!" as a kind of joke. I took the time to explain how important this book is to me, that it isn't just nice words or something, but something that I really knew would bless and help his life. I am grateful the spirit prompted me to do that, because if our investigators don't understand why we invite them to act, they may think we are just pushy, or it isn't that important, etc., but when they understand why, they are far more likely to keep commitments. He accepted the commitment, and said we are welcome to visit again this week.

Here we are with our ward mission leader in an elevator

Two awesome brothers in our ward, both super nice, good guys! And hilarious, as you can see!

We also saw a miracle yesterday--suddenly a college student showed up at church during Sunday School and stayed the rest of the time through priesthood. He was someone with originally English interest whom I had met about 2 months ago on the subway. At that time, he didn't want to give us his phone number, so we just gave him an English card. Then yesterday he came to church! He seemed to really enjoy it, and we texted him last night to say thanks for coming. He said that he has been sad lately struggling with things, different trials--but meeting all the people at church cheered him up, and he wants to come next week! I want to help him realize the greater reason for church, the sacrament, and learning of God. He is interested in learning about that too! We never understand how every little effort we make, every little touch, every small conversation, could affect someone!

Sorry to you all, but I'd better go. I love you all so much and think the world of you. Remember how important and special you are! Every one of you. We met with a less active 22 year old kid yesterday, and just told him how much of God's love for him that we could feel. We get that as missionaries sometimes. It is a great blessing!  Keep going forward!

Love
Elder Beckett

Skype was great! So good to hear from you all! (May 14, 2017)

This is Nate's Mom--we got to Skype with Nate on Mother's Day, and it was wonderful!! Here are a couple of pictures of him while we were Skyping.  He still sent some pictures and a short email after our Skype time, so I will put that on now.  WE LOVE NATE!!

One quick cool experience--sorry we have to get some stuff done for p-day.  A few weeks ago Elder S and I were leaving towards the subway to head somewhere, and we saw a 40-50 year old guy standing on the side of the road, by a parked, car, smoking. We said hello to him. He was pretty nice, but I thought maybe a little strange. He tried to use lots of English in talking to us. His name was Joe. He told us he had a son, and worked at the Citizen Center right across from our church. He said we could visit his office anytime, and then we left. I think we gave him a pass-along card. Anyway, he was really nice, and Elder S and I wanted to try and meet him again to share the gospel with him. So we went to the second floor of the Citizen Center, like he said, but all we found was a bunch of kids in/preparing for the army, which was kind of intimidating. They said check the 4th floor, but we couldn't find our guy! So we left. I remember later praying to ask God to help us be able to meet Joe again.

A few mornings later, we were doing our 7:30-9:00 morning proselyting, and just nobody wanted to talk to us. We kept going, nevertheless. We met a few good people, and invited them to meet again later. In the last few minutes, around 9:00, we were walking home, past the Citizen Center, and Joe was standing out there! He greeted us. We explained that we had tried to find his office, but couldn't. He said, "Let's go! I will show you!" So we went up with him into his office. It WAS on the 2nd floor--past all the army guys, because Joe was the general! He was in charge! We sat down with him, he gave us some soda. We talked about him and his family. He is Christian. We taught him about the Book of Mormon, and gave him a copy. He accepted it gratefully and said we could come back any time.

It was a great example to me of how God heard and answered MY PRAYER while at the same time blessing Joe and his family! It was great to get that little lesson in that morning!

This is me with Brother P, who I told you about before--the man who received the miraculous answer to prayer when he was in the military.

We went street proselyting with this young man from our ward who is preparing for his mission. He is super fun! It was a good experience.

 I love this scripture from Romans, that describes both our relationship with God, and facing hardship:

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."

I know that the Bible and the Book of Mormon are God's words! They bless me so much with the wisdom found in them. I love testifying of the Book of Mormon. I know the Book of Mormon is true! The principles in that book have blessed my life and helped and strengthened me. They are not, by any means, the easiest or most comfortable way of living, but they have far greater meaning and reward than any other way to live in our short time on this earth.

Elder S and I with an investigator.

I love you all! Have a great week! And remember that, as Paul says in Romans 8:28:  "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. What shall we then say to these things?  If God be for us, who can be against us?"

Have a great week!! Love,

Elder Beckett

PS:  I just want to encourage you all to KEEP A JOURNAL. The things you enjoy and go through now will be of great value later! They will not only be fun to look back on, with fond memories, but a source of great strength, and a way to see the Lord's hand in your life. We can't always see how He is guiding us now, but as we look back, it becomes crystal clear.  And write fun things too!  Seth--high school friends, activities, etc.  Haha. Love you!!

It's Week 6 of the Transfer :0 (May 7, 2017)

Hello everyone!  I've got lots of pictures to send today, but first, we went to a member of the mission presidency's house this week with our recent convert, Brother J. The member of the mission presidency is Brother B. He is so awesome, and really looks out for Brother J.  While there, their cute little daughter pulled out something called a daygeum and played us a little song. Then the mom pulled a few more out of nowhere, and said, "try it!" So we did! Ha ha, I couldn't even make a sound come out of it, but you wouldn't know it from the picture.  Also, we shared a message and the Prince of Peace video, and gave them little invitation cards. We invited them to invite their friends to church!

Here we are pretending to play the daygeum!

This is our district p-day. These are super great elders! We went to a park, ate pizza, and played board games!

This is Elder S and I eating jim dak. SUPER GOOD! I can't believe Allie never ate this!

These are the two Kim brothers. AWESOME!

We ate with the Kim family this week (see brothers in picture above), and had a miracle! Their dad was the previous bishop, and they are just a POWER family. So good--always willing to make time to come teach lessons, and they really take an interest in Brother J, our recent convert. One time when Brother J hadn't been able to come to church, the father of the Kim family called us and said, "I noticed Brother J wasn't at church. Have you talked with him? If you plan on meeting him this week, I would love to meet with you all!" They just love and strengthen and help others. Anyway, we had not ever gone to share a message with the Kim family in the time that I have been here. Their son is our ward mission leader, too. Anyway, here is the miracle part.

So we had called them the previous week and tried to set up a time where we could share a message with their family. But we didn't hear back, and we got distracted and forgot to, until Thursday when we texted them again. They invited us for lunch on Saturday, and we eagerly agreed. Sister Kim is a great cook, so we were excited to see their house and have a fun lunch with their family (it can be hard to get to see member's houses in Korea, mostly people just meet in public). Anyway, at the last second, they called and asked us to meet at a different subway station, but we didn't know why. We arrived a little early, and were just talking to people, introducing our message, and met a few nice guys. The family showed up, and told us they wanted to take us to a restaurant. There is an awesome sister in our ward who is the only member of her family, always so kind to give us food and anything we need, visiting and taking care of less actives, etc. Anyway, her husband lives in Seoul, and he had come down for the weekend, so the Kims invited them to lunch with us, and at the last second we ended up going to this restaurant. Allie probably recognizes the food from the pictures! They have a soup that they put the body of a little stuffed chicken inside, it is pretty good!  A lot of work to eat, haha, but pretty cool. And there was this little half clam thing inside that has a cool looking shell that I kept hahah!

Here's the little stuffed chicken

The clam and shell

We shared a spiritual message about the plan of salvation, and about keeping the commandments. It was an okay message, but nothing too special, especially because we were in the middle of the restaurant. Anyway, it was while we were leaving that the miracle happened. There was one worker there, in his 20s, who kind of smiled funny at us when he brought us some food, like kind of curious. As we left, it was that same server at the cash register. He said, "Are you from Utah?" in great English! We were surprised, and introduced ourselves. Turned out he was a nonmember who went to school in America. He said, "I went to UVU for 5 years! Today I opened the Book of Mormon...and then you came in! I didn't know you would come in."

We were amazed! Our plans were changed last second, on the quick decision of the family we were meeting with. This guy had gone to school in Utah, surely heard lots about Mormons. That morning he had opened up the Book of Mormon, perhaps wondering if there was something more to be found in life. And then the Lord guided us to met him.

I know the Lord is in the details of our lives! He sees those things that we do to try to be close to Him, and magnifies and builds upon them. The Lord works through small and simple things:  "Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise." We are super excited to go meet with this guy again! Even better--it turns out that his uncle or grandpa is in our ward! So that is a miracle for the week. We saw SO MANY but I will share that one. :)

I better go! Love you all, and have a great week. One quick thought:  This week I learned a lot about prayer. I wrote this in my study journal:

"I just learned, through personal experience, that sometimes, in order to get an answer to our prayers, in fact OFTEN, we need to really think about the problem and TALK about it with God. Tell Him what we feel, and WHY. Explain our reasoning. Ask directly if it is right. He will answer. He will lead your reasoning. He will bring peace if it is right, and will tell you if it is wrong. Sometimes, when we don't receive an answer, it is because we need to discuss it a little more and come to a greater understanding of it, through prayer with God. But when we talk to God, like He is another man nearby. He will answer."

Love you all! Press forward, Saints!

Love
Elder Beckett

Another Great Week in Korea! (April 30, 2017)

 Hello my Family!

Zone Conference Time!

This is the start of our Daeju hiking zone conference

That's my awesome trainer on the left!

Daeju Zone

This week we did a super cool zone conference. We hiked up a mountain, and stopped 7 different times to talk about the Savior's life. It was awesome!  And did I tell you I got glasses?

Another picture with my trainer, and my new glasses!

Here's our great AP. He was super nice to me in my district when I was a trainee. He is going home, sadly, but that is life!

PS, I don't think I mentioned this yet, but happy anniversary, Mom & Dad! I love you and am so grateful for your goodness and faith and marriage. I have the BEST parents in the world! And I wrote you an anniversary letter that should be coming in the mail.

Sorry I have been busy taking care of some other things, and don't have much time to write. I hope you know I love you SO MUCH and want to keep emailing you forever! But alas, I can't. So here's a copy of my update to the mission president:

"Thank you for the scriptures on remembering! I look forward to studying them. And thank you for the awesome zone conference! I know you and many others put a lot of planning and work into that, and it was such a neat experience. I learned a lot, mostly from things that were not specifically said, but that the Spirit helped me identify in my personal life to work on and put into action. Some things I learned were that the Savior used scripture when He taught, not because of His lack of authority or power or Spirit, but, I believe, because He knew He wouldn't be with those around Him forever. By teaching them to use the scriptures, He taught them to learn on their own from the scriptures, and that, though He wouldn't always be there with them, if they were diligent and obedient, they could always have His spirit to be with them.

I learned that Jesus Christ was able to overcome all by focusing on His love for us, and that I, too, by remembering my love for others can gain the strength to do hard things. I learned about repentance, and how it is far more than stopping a bad action, but overfilling life with goodness and service, to both show God our repentance and protect us from sin. It was a wonderful zone conference. Sangin is going well. We have many people who are learning in the Gospel, but still not quite ready to just take off, all in. So we are working with them, little by little. We read the Book of Mormon with an investigator and had a special experience as we all felt the spirit, and as Elder S and I testified of its truthfulness. He seemed touched, as well. We also met a man who has heard of our church through his friend's mother, and will probably become a new investigator this week. We are seeing many miracles! God is definitely in the timing of all things. I love working with and learning from Elder S. He is a diligent missionary with an amazing love for God and especially his Savior, Jesus Christ.

We met with our high school age investigator this week, and were very open about our purpose, and what we wanted to do. He is willing to meet with us and learn, and he knelt in prayer with us, but because of his family's strong belief in Buddhism, he feels that things like personal prayer betray Buddha. I can see his goodness, and his willingness to learn, but see that his family ties, perhaps the "traditions of his fathers" are holding him back."

Well family, we had some great experiences this week, and some funny ones! I have to go, though. LOVE YOU ALL!  Sorry for not writing more...I hope you understand! Go forth with faith and hope! You are my wonderful family, and I pray God to be with all of you in your various areas and challenges.

Love
Nate
Here's a few more pictures from our Zone Conference.

President Barrow, me, and Elder S.

Here's a shot of Elder S and I on our hike.

Remembering (April 23, 2017)

Beautiful spring flowers!

Well hello family!  Let me tell you about this week.  After 4 miracle weeks of finding 2 investigators per week the last few weeks, last week we weren't able to find any!  It's alright, though, this week is ours!  Those brothers we met last week couldn't meet this week, and we had a lot of other people cancel, but our 30/30 program all kept their appointments, and one of them is progressing! So that is great. Yesterday we also had the opportunity to take the sacrament to Brother S_, the amazing blind man in our area.  Visits with him are always wonderful experiences. We started teaching him the missionary lessons again because he doesn't come to church very much, so Bishop asked us to do that. I love Brother S_! The sacrament means so much to him. He really respects it and appreciates it. And on the way back, we walked past these apartments that didn't have a code on them--most places here are coded to prevent non-residents from entering. Anyway, we decided to knock through the apartments. We decided to start on the top floor and work down, and we knocked a couple buildings with nothing too special happening. I wondered why we felt like we should do that, but then on the bus ride home, we met an awesome kid who is my same age, who has met missionaries before! He has a Book of Mormon and stuff, and wants to become friends with us which is cool!! We will just be friends with him and share the Gospel with him at the same time. :)

I went on exchanges this week with Elder S. He is a trainee, and such a great kid. I really love him!

Also this week we had a zone meeting! And I gave a talk at it, in all Korean! Yikes. It was about what I learned in General Conference. I talked about some patterns I noticed--the Spirit, love and charity, and the Savior. I loved general conference, and I'll share more about it.

Overall, another fun week in Sangin! This area is pretty amazing. Also today I am going to get my eyes checked and maybe get glasses.

Here I am with our zone leader, Elder H. We met one of the missionaries who trained him at a climbing gym a while ago!

Here is something special I learned this week. It is a principle that is so simple, yet profound and powerful. This principle is something that can bring us joy, give us strength in hard times, help us look to the future with hope and reassurance. It is a tool to protect us when we are buffeted with fears, concerns, and even doubts. This principle is the principle of remembering.

In his general conference talk, President Eyring shared:

My message tonight is a simple one. We have all felt peace tonight. All of us would like to feel such peace often within ourselves, in our families, and with the people around us. The Lord promised peace to His disciples as He was about to leave them. He has made the same promise to us. But He said that He would give peace in His way, not in the world's way. He described His way of sending peace:

"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 14:26-27)

He added, "You will at times have your faith challenged by Satan; it happens to all disciples of Jesus Christ. Your defense against these attacks is to keep the Holy Ghost as your companion. The Spirit will speak peace to your soul. He will urge you forward in faith. And He will bring back the memory of those times when you felt the light and the love of Jesus Christ.

Remembering may be one of the most precious gifts the Spirit can give you. He will "bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever [the Lord has] said unto you." (John 14:26)  The memory may be of an answered prayer, of a priesthood ordinance received, of a confirmation of your testimony, or of a moment when you saw God's guiding hand in your life."

Elder S and I at the service project.

I have found this principle so true in my life. Our loving Father in Heaven understands that we need spiritual experiences to keep us on the path. We can seek these experiences through heartfelt prayer, through pondering a question we need answered, through serving and loving others. However, one very common method that God seems to answer our prayers is through remembering a spiritual experience that we have already had. In fact, in one of the foundational scriptures of the Book of Mormon, in which we learn how to gain a witness of its truthfulness, one of the first and often overlooked things that we must do is to remember.  Moroni 10:3 says, "Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God tat ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts."

There is great power in remembering God's hand in our lives. I can remember spiritual experiences that have meant a lot to me: my baptism, receiving the priesthood, receiving a priesthood blessing, various experiences where God spoke to me through the scriptures, and one of the greatest, my Patriarchal Blessing.

I invite you to take a second tonight, or tomorrow morning, sometime when you have a little bit of quiet time. And take some time to remember. Try to think of specific experiences where your prayers were specifically answered. Maybe it was through a feeling. Maybe it was the Lord helped you in your own small way. You may need to review your personal journal to remember some, but that is okay! Try to think of experiences where you served and loved others in a Christlike way, and the Spirit testified to you that it is what the Savior would do had he been in your situation.

Elder S at McDonalds

I have found great help and strength during those times that I seem to be unable to feel the spirit, or when I wonder where God is in my life, by simply remembering a time when I knew He was there. The Lord says to us, as he did to Oliver Cowdery, "Behold, thou art Oliver (or Nate, Andy, etc...) I am Jesus Christ...Verily verily, I way unto you, if you desire a further witness, cast your mind upon the night that you cried unto me in your heart, that you might know concerning the truth of these things. Did I not speak peace to your mind concerning the matter? What greater witness can you have than from God?" (D&C 6)

(Here is a video Nate sent today of him while he was emailing us. I love to see him and hear his voice!!)

I know that God speaks to us. He loves us! He will talk to us, through our spiritual experiences, both present and past. I love you all! Have a great week. And hold on to the spiritual experiences you have had :)

All I can say is--wow! What a package, thanks!

Love
Elder Beckett

Happy Easter! (April 16, 2017)

Hello everyone! Happy Easter--I hope you all had a great day!  This has been a cool week. Here are some cool things we did this week:  I think you have all seen the Prince of Peace video, right? The church produced some cool pass along cards that go with it, as well as church invitations. So we have been working with those a lot, sharing the video with different people. One of my favorite activities was visiting a great family in our ward, sharing the video with them, and giving each member of the family an invitation card to use to invite a friend to church.  They have 3 sons and 2 daughters, the oldest is my age, so it was pretty fun!  We also did practices/role plays with them for how to invite friends. They are a super cool family.

We also met with a few new investigators this week. These last few weeks we have just been meeting people like crazy!  We ate at a burger place called Lotteria, I think, in English, with one of our investigators. Koreans kind of don't like that restaurant, but to me it doth not stink, I like it! Haha...

Also, our bishop has a restaurant that we travel to every other week, and we share a spiritual message with him and talk about missionary work, and he feeds us delicious food! He and his wife are just so...just so good. They just emanate love and really take care of us, like parents! And what humble good people. Most people in Korea are converts if they are over the age of maybe 30, so it is neat to ask people about their conversion stories. Anyway, after Bishop fed us pork ribs (they cook them right at the table!) and soup and lots of delicious stuff, they gave us a bag of cereal, milk, chocolate, etc. We shared the Easter video with them, too, and gave them invitations to give out.  As we left, they told us that they were so grateful for us, that they loved us, and were always so glad when we come. It is so humbling to meet these kind of wonderful people, who just give and give and love and serve. I want to be that way!

Last week we also had an interesting experience with these two potential investigator brothers, 19 and 20 in Korean age. Elder M and I had met them on the street a long time ago; we had invited them to come play basketball with us and the young men, but they cancelled last minute, and then we didn't contact them again because of how many different people we are trying to contact and meet with. Sangin used to be a two team area, but now we are the only ones. Anyway, earlier this week, these brothers called us. The little brother said he wanted to meet this weekend, so I asked if wanted to play ball with us, and he said, "Let's go to a meat buffet together!" So we thought that would be fun, but a little expensive. We made an appointment for Saturday. Then Saturday morning he texted us and said he and his bro didn't have money, and they asked us to pay. Elder S and I were a little frustrated and sad, because sometimes people meet with missionaries, because they see them as rich--someone who will buy them food--and we thought these boys didn't really want to meet with us, but just wanted free food. We suggested just eating fast food so we could pay our own, and they said they really had no money, and asked us again to pay. Although I want to help, it is probably best to not just buy food for people.  Even though we were frustrated and things with their forwardness, a part of me was sympathetic, and wondered what kid of background they were from. A member had given us a bunch of ramen, so we invited the boys to come to the church and eat ramen with us. They gratefully accepted.

Although a little unkempt, they were such smiley boys. Just happy, and had a very innocent feeling to them. I asked about their family, and it turned out that they had no father, just a mother. The older boy was attending college, and the younger one is a senior in high school. They were very grateful for the ramen, and we shared the Prince of Peace video and taught a little bit about what we do as missionaries. They were willing to pray with us at the end, and want to learn more about the gospel. They were very excited to meet again, and said, "Next time we will bring the ramen!"

I learned so much from this experience about not pre-judging others, and giving people the benefit of the doubt. Because we have been given much, we too must give! I was grateful that God provided a way for us to "do what we can" without overstepping our boundaries as missionaries. I saw how much these brothers loved each other, and they were willing to jump in and help. Without being asked, they went to the kitchen sink and worked together to wash and dry the dishes. I couldn't help but see two brothers with a rough background, working together, and though they may miss a father's influence, they do their best to keep going in the way they think is best.

I am grateful for my missionary calling. I am grateful for the times when God gives me "eyes to see" others as, in some small degree, their loving Heavenly Father sees them.  I loved what Elder S. Mark Palmer taught about the scriptural phrase: "Then Jesus, beholding him, loved him." Somedays I feel an outpouring of love for those I don't even know. I look at them and think, "Isn't it amazing how much potential they have? How much their Father in Heaven wants them to be happy, to be successful and to return home to Him some day?" I know this love doesn't originate from me, but from a much more deep, eternal, and great source of love. Everything God gives to us, any trial or blessing, is given out of love. I know that He understands us perfectly!

One last thing I want to share in this message. Dad shared this with me, and I think originally it was from President May in a Stake Conference talk. When you substitute the word "infirmities" for the word "weaknesses," we gain a greater understanding of the Savior's sacrifice:

"11. And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.

12. And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their weakness, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their weakness."

We all have weakness. I know that I do! God knows it too. And because He perfectly understands my weakness, He also perfectly understands what kind of things I need in my life to help me overcome my weakness. And He who "makes weak things become strong" will give us those circumstances we need to best prepare us to live with Him again. I testify that is true!

Love
Elder Beckett

Hello! Week 1 with Elder S! (April 9, 2017)

Hi ya'all!  First week with Elder S--he is awesome! Super faithful, good missionary. Fun to work with! We share a lot of things (same height, same training areas, similar concerns and hardships, and similar perspectives), and so it is really neat to work with him. He is super good at Korean, even though I am follow up training him, he knows more grammar than me it seems like! Great kid!

My new companion, Elder S, and Brother K and his wife. They fed us delicious food at their restaurant. Such a good and faithful family.

Elder S and I with K, a senior in high school. He loves America and will probably live there someday.

Okay, we have had a miracle few weeks! Finding lots of investigators! No one who is super progressing or anything yet, but a few different investigators who are doing 30/30 English program, but when we set it up, we gave them a church tour and a Book of Mormon. And they seem pretty curious about our church.  We have found 3 investigators that way (one was a member referral), one was an old investigator who we met on the street on exchanges, and then the others I told you about. It is great to have people to teach and work with.

Saying goodbye to Elder M

Bye Elder M!

I was on splits with Elder H until my new companion came. Elder H is a convert of a few years, a great missionary.

I found GRASS!!! So beautiful. I wanted to eat it or something...

An interesting/funny thing:  I think I am getting used to Korean. Or at least it is getting ingrained in my brain. Elder S said I was talking in Korean for a couple solid minutes in my sleep.  Also, we got a referral sent to us from....Mexico! A missionary in Mexico met a Korean business man, and we got the referral through the web! I couldn't help but think how cool it was that Parker is serving in Mexico! I don't know if he met any Koreans, but either way, we are all kind of working together out here! I think of Wesley, right next to me here in Korea, and Allie, who used to be. We are all one large work force!

Random thought--have you guys seen Elder Holland's Mormon message about two brother's climbing?  It's such a good mormon message. I was crying. (See the Mormon Message here) And are you all sharing "Prince of Peace?"

Okay, I've got to run, but I love you all! Have a great week!

Love
Elder B