Elder Nathan Stagg: Jeju: Trump and a Fork

Hello from the other side!!! (of the world) I must have emailed you a thousand times! To tell you a story of everything that ive done!

That song was playing in Mcdonalds so it is stuck in my head now! sorry about that! Anyways I am still alive!! And i am still loving the mission! It is crazy to see how much my testimony of this gospel is growing! A mission is such a blessing and if there is anyone that is considering going on one but isnt sure just do it! it will change your life and its just so darng fun and fulfilling!!!

Ok this week not much out of the ordinary happened! OHHH except for the fact that our country is no being run by a man with fake hair! haha it is so funny how big of a deal that is here! everysingle t.v in korea was watching the elections and the second trump got elected everyone on the streets was telling us.... and lets just say everyone here HATES TRUMP!! haha we actually use this to start conversations! We walk up and we will talk really loud about how we are dissapointed trump won then people will start talking to us about how much they hate trump then we slowly bring it back to the B.O.M hah actually kind of works!! But yeah if there is one thing i have noticed being in korea is how big of an influence america has on the world! Everywhere i walk i here american pop music and all the models are american! haha really funny how westernized it is over here!

Ok next we went on splits this week i got to go on splits with Elder Proffit! Such a cool guy! He is our zone/district leader! Becuase we only have 8 missionaries on jeju they are one and the same! haha Elder proffitt is such a good missionary and a really fun guy! I learned alot from him and i am try ing to incorporate that into my work!

The next day we went to the branch presidents house to eat and teach a lesson! His daughter and her husband live there with them and they have the 2 cutest l ittle kids! anyways they are the nicest people and i love them to death! they treat us like close family and are so fun and loving! They fed us an amazing meal! We had a bunch of really good meat (i think it was pork) some donkasu which is like a fried pork, we had some REALLY good kimchi! and i usually dont like kimchi! but this was good! then a fruit salad the only bad part was this tomato soup....; I hate tomotoes! I can deal with the onions and other wierd things that i used to not eat but the tomato soup was so hard i hate about 3/4 of it then i gagged a little bit, luckily no one saw, but i didnt dare finish it! I lucked out though becuase most people ate how much i ate and leaft the rest! as long as all your rice is gone you are good! we taught them about needing to pray and read the scriptures in faith and when we pray for missionary opportuonites we need to trust in god and have faith, by going out and trying to find them! (D&C 100 5-8 and 2 nephi4: 34)

Then the next day the district presdient took us out to eat pizza and wings! We had sprite and a FORK i fel like i was in america again! haha the pizza is different but super good! We got a steak pizza with cheese filled crust! IT was heaven! Then we taught him the same lesson!

The members here are so nice i love them to death! it is going to be hard when i need to leave this area! WHenever we go to church we try and talk to every one and they are all so happy and ahh they are so fun! i love when we visit with them! We have a smal branch but what they lack in size they make up for in the spirit! After chruch we prosolyted for 5 hours straight... in the rain! it poured the whole time and i got pretty wet even with the umbrella!

So thats my week one thing i have noticed is when we stay inside a little bit extra during meals or whatever i always get unhappy and think about home and dont feel good but the second we walk outside and start doing the lords work he blesses us and we feel happy again! For we are on the lords time and we shouldnt waste it!

Love it here so much!

Elder stagg