Elder Nathan Stagg: Jeju: PSAB

Hello i survived one more week here in Korea! and wow this is not what i expected when i read i was going to serve in korea! This looks a lot more like hawaii then anything!!! It is sooo pretty here!! This week has been colder and super clear days! We walk along the ocean while we 전더 (Prosolyte) and it is sooo pretty!! There are palm trees and islands with thick green trees surronding them!! Im in love with this island!!!

Anyways this has been a fun week! Some days were really long others flew by, I have noticed that the more busy i am in serving the lord the faster and more enjoyable the days are!! Ok well I just want to testify about the power of prayer and being diligently obedient to everything we are commanded in! If we do that god will bless us and provide for us! On Monday we had p-day and since we had lots going on we didn't have time to go out and do anything besides shopping so we came back and had an hour to rest before dinner and then back to work at 6. So we took a nap however we forgot to set an alarm and we woke up at 5:55.... We discussed maybe being late that way we can eat, but we decided we can make a pb&j sandwich in 1 minute get dressed and leave. So we went as fast as we could and we ended up only being 12 minutes late, but we prayed before we left our house and said sorry that we had slept in and were late, we asked god to bless us as we go out and prosolyte and that we wouldn't notice to much how hungry we were! So we left and we were walking down the road to go to down town sogweepo (서귀포) where all the people are! After about 15 minutes we started talking to this guy, Who was completely drunk! However that wasn't suprising to us becuase about 1/2 the people who will talk with us or listen to us are drunk! anyways we were talking with him for a while when he sayed he was hungry so he offered to buy us food! So we sayed sure and started walking to go get food, however we just kept walking and he couldn't choose where to eat so we decided we were wasting time, so we left. But after we were talking about it and realized that we were trying to be obedient and skip dinner so we could not be to late, and since we did that god helped place someone in our path who was willing to feed us! There have been so many expierences like that this week!

Tuesday was really wierd but again it involves a drunk guy! (Alcohol and smoking is a HUGE problem in korea) He walked past us and we sayed hi and once he noticed we had a B.O.M he started walking away so we followed him becuase most people just walk away, but once we started talking to him he sayed he had read the B.O.M and sayed it was all lies, and that all man kind are doomed and sayed that god is a hateful god who is going to curse us for the rest of our lives stuff like that, we didn't get all of it due to the language barrior, but then he started talking about the bible and how it says god hates all of us. we kept trying to talk but he wouldn't listen so after about 15 minutes we decided to leave but then he told us he would buy us drinks, so we said ok. We walked into a store and he kept trying to buy us alcohol but we kept saying we don't drink then he finally angrily bought us some juice and then to the store person said some insulting thing about us to him. haha the Store manager or owner starts going off at this guy and they are yelling at eachother! I have no idea what is going on so i just start drinking my mango juice, finally we leave and let them argue. afterwards my companion told me the guy in the store has a daughter in texas who is mormon. So we went back there a couple days later becuase i felt like we should, we went in right as him and his wife were eating but we gave him card and he told us that his daughter was a missionary and he was going to show us pictures then told us to come back when he wasn't eating. So we will probably do that tomorow! hopefully it leads to something!

PS: I have been writing my own scriptures and i call it the Book of Stagg every transfer is a new book and every week is a new chapter and i write about 3 verses a day!

1 Stagg ch. 2 v5-v8

5)and it came to pass that we went forward to preach things concerning christ, to all the people in the land.

6)Yay and the drunks and nay-sayers did confound with our words

7)and they did try and persuade us with costly drinks, but nevertheless we being servants of our lord, yay even our god, did deny the drink and did swifftly leave!

8) For behold we did wpend our day proclaiming the gospel of christ to everyone, nevertheless we did find no success, for there hearts were hardened!

Wednesday and thursday not much happened on wednesday we went to a sea town in our area, which was sooo pretty!!! But there were not very many people so we ended up coming back and taught english that night, and thursday we had District meeting this time at our church so all jeju missionaries had to come to our half of the island! The could not stop saying that our area was so much prettier than theres! and the loved the ocean view from our church! Then we handed out to B.O.M that day one to a guy who was going to the army that weekend but he said he would read the book while he was at the army and we told him if he did that it would hel p him through the hard times that will come. We also told him once he is done with his service to call the missionaries

Friday

our church bathrooms were disgusting and we didn't want to bring investigators to our church because it kind of stank so we bought bleach and we deep cleaned the bathrooms!

Saturday!

Wow this was a busy day! We started out the day teaching Regis (his english name) We meet with him every saturday and call him every night to read the b.O.M we were talking to him (mostly in english because he like to practice it and is pretty good) and he told us that he wanted us to pray for him becuase he always feels revenge and anger, turns out a little bit a go him and his friend got into a argument about there buisness, and his friend is a lot bigger than him but he ended up beating him up. Regis was telling us that he wanted that feeling to go away becuase he didnt want to kill his friend. So we told him if he remembered the feeling he had when he was baptized (he is not active) and he said yeah then i had him read Alma 22: 15-16 which talks about aaron preaching to the king and the king tells him he wants "this wicked spirit uprooted from his chest" and aaron teaches him about repentence. so we told him to repent and come to church to take the sacrement! (which he didn't do) Then the sister missionaries came down to teach some old sister investigators that had been dropped becasue the last time sogweepo had sisters was a year ago. Well sister hwang hey gyong has been coming to our englsh twice a week and comes to church a lot and they said they have hope for her becuase she belives in christ so she is now our investigator, however she hates the priesthood holder in our ward and we can't meet with her unless we meet with her and one of them so we are trying to figure it out! She is such a nice lady and she is really worried about her family's happiniess!

Well i am loving it here! The church is true and god really does care and watch out for us! I have seen it in my life!

-Elder Stagg