Got Bread?

This week was definitely an interesting one. We spent a large part of it going through a section of our area called Gamchon. It's a very historic area that was big during the Korean war. Thousands of refugees lived here in shacks which eventually turned into a ramble of cement shacks. Basically this area is the closest I'll get to third world on my mission. We have been looking for inactive's homes which is really hard because the addresses are written in sharpie on walls doors and other places. In all honesty it reminded me a little bit of a corn maze or a video game because of the way it twists and turns. Me and my companion had a lot of fun running through here:) Didn't find anyone who was interested though.

​Another fun part of this week was all of the teaching that we were able to do. We taught one investigator about baptism. He is unfortunately not ready for a baptismal date but it was really great to share with him my testimony of baptism and the blessings that we get from it. We also taught Kim Eekdong. He said that he has been really wondering if God is there. We taught him about prayer and scripture study. As we talked I thought about the story of Enos. I thought about how much this story applies to Kim so I asked him to read it. I haven't heard back from him yet but I am so happy for the Book of Mormon. We've run into a couple more people that want to fight because we have the Book of Mormon. I don't know how they can do without it. My testimony of Jesus Christ comes so much from that book. The message of the Book of Mormon is so great. The book of Mormon is proof that God still cares and is still providing for his children on the earth.

Something that was really funny that happened this week was when we tried to teach prayer. We used an analogy to teach the person the order of prayer. We said that prayer is like a sandwich. Every sandwich starts and ends with bread. This bread is "Dear heavenly..." and "...in the name of..." What we put in the middle is what we want like meat or peanutbutter. These things are like our gratitude, our needs and our wants. After we explained this the man said, "So when I pray, I must prepare bread?" In retrospect I realize that I'm probably not good enough at Korean yet to explain gospel concepts through abstract examples. Oh well.

​This is a memorial to a general who died fighting the Japanese about three hundred years ago. (Koreans really like memorials for people who fought the Japanese) I thought that it was really cool and so I took the picture. The memorial made me think a bit about work for the dead. When someone is brought into the church they have the opportunity to give the blessings of the gospel to their ancestors. People like this guy who has the memorial need baptism just as much as the people we talk to everyday on the street.

Have a great week, 

I know I will,

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