Well i made it to the great land of korea!! I got reassigned to Elder Snyder and I am serving in sowgypo on the ISLAND OF JEJU!!!! It is so georgeous here!! Our church is about a 20 second walk to the ocean and you can see it from the window in the sacrement room!
K so I left the MTC early monday morning. From there i went to slc airport then we flew to seatlle had a 2 hour layover there and then went on a 12 hour plan ride to japan!! Stopped 5 hours there and then flew to Busan korea! We had to say by to Elder Zaugg, Elder McKenderick and Elder Barney Early monday morning becuase we had different flights! It was really hard, we have all grown really close with eachother! So when we landed in korea we were met by President Barrow and Sister barrow. We quickly drove back to the church in busan where we slept that night! The next morning we woke up ate breakfast and had interviews with President Barrow. Then we had some orientation! After that we got assigned to a trainer for 30 minutes and went out and prosolyted, we got assinged to 3 trainers 30 minutes a piece and prosylited. It was really cool but hard, It is super hot and humid (I thought that was bad.... Jeju was 20 times worse!!!) Then when we finished the prosolyting activity we went back and had a korean feast!!! I LOVE KOREAN FOOD!!! Then we had some Personal study while President Barrow finished assigning us our trainers! He finally came out and we got assigned! In the MTC me Elder Vongsayo and Elder WInters always were joking around that we would serve on JEJU for our first area and Everyone, including me, was super suprised when i was the assigned to Elder Snyder to serve on Jeju!! And then even better is that Elder WInter was also assinged to serve on jeju!! So Jeju is split into 2 areas! There is the JEJU city half, and they have 2 companionships of Elders and 1 Sister companionship and then there is the other half which is in the city of sowgypo which has me and my companion and thats it!! So we have half an island to preach to! and its a pretty big island! So after we got assinged we couldn't go to jeju until Saturday because elder bednar was coming to talk to us on Friday! So we went and served in busan for 3 days. During those three days we did lots of prosolyting, helped a member move and taught english class! Finally Friday came, we went back to the main church and all had to get flu shots and then we went to A church where Elder Bednar talked to us! It was such a good talk! His main message was to be "AGENTS NOT OBJECTS" then we all got to shake his hand then we went back to the apartment we were staying at and prosylited some more! The next day we finally were able to get on ANOTHER plane and fly to jeju! The flight out of korea is amazing because there are 100's of islands everywhere! When we got to Jeju first thing i noticeid was that the humidty was at least double what it was in korea! But there are palm trees and its very tropical! My trainer doesn't let me talk photos unless its p-day so i don't have very many but i will have more next week! After the 3 hours of plane travel ( including waiting time) we had to get on a bus to take us to our half of the island and that took an hour and a half! Since then we have done lots of prosyliting! WE don't have very much succes but we try hard! We have had a couple people give us there number but usaully they just say go away, dont even talk to us, or say im buddhist over and over again! When people see us they either start running, put there heads down and walk really fast or just completly ignore us! Its awesome!! Becuase the more suffering we go through in christs name the more blessing i recieve!! I mostly find it funny but i can see my trainer has lost a lot of hope in ever having success! So i need to try and rub some faith and hope into him! Ok well i have no time to write today so you all have fun back in america!!
Love
Elder Stagg
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