Soo i have survived my second week in Korea!!!! Yay!!! Wow this is a lot harder than i thought!!! Both spiritually and physically!! My feet always hurt cause we walk everywhere, I am always sweating because of the heat and humidity! And People here don't like us!! We have no success and it gets hard to not expect people to not want to hear your message because once you do that you start losing faith! So Highlights of the week!! Tuesday was a rough day for me! In the morning I had a small panic attack! I felt like i was not going to be able to continue my mission! My companion is a real downer and is always complaining!! We have no success i was missing my family and home plus a bunch of other things! I was not happy and my heart was pounding a ton but once we got outside and i prayed the feeling went away pretty quick thankfully! then we proselyted got one persons phone number in 5 hours and ended the day by teaching english!
Wednesday we proselyted for 6 hours no success at all besides giving pass along cards out and then we taught english
Thursday we went to district meeting which is an hour and half bus drive for us and we had fun there then came back and... yup proselyted! During district meeting while i was pretending to be an investigator one of the sisters asked me how the B.O.M has changed my life and i had to think about it for a while and its something i will keep thinking about and urge you all to think about it also!
So Friday was fun!! We went and helped in a tangerine/orange farm for 4 hours and while i was walking i walked into this huge web and looked up to see this huge giant black and yellow spider about the size of a grapefruit running at me!! SOOOOOOOOO terrifying!!! then we taught the members about missionary work and praying for opportunities to share the gospel!
Saturday we met with a less active member, we call him every night at ten to remind him to read the B.O.M and lately he has been having questions about 3rd Nephi so we answered him then told him if he prayed he would have better understanding he would have it! So excited to see how its has helped him!
Sunday's are awesome! We leave our house by 8:30 to get to church by 9ish then we open the church and set up chairs, then i play piano until 9:45 then we walk outside and great the members! Sacrament is hard to not sleep cause everything is in Korean and i have no idea what anyone says! but then we have a class after that then church lunch!!! Every week!! Its soo awesome!! The members here are so nice and loving I love them so much!! we then met with the ward mission leader and talked about how we need to get the members to pray more for missionary work and opportunities! We have half an island and 2 missionaries and we need help! Apparently there are 226 members in our ward but only 26 come... We have no idea where the other 200 are! all we have is names, no numbers no addresses just names. Most of them have probably moved, because that happens a lot here in Jeju! But we don't know where they are! Sunday night we went to dinner with a member and they own a bed and breakfast type thing so she is really good at cooking cause she does it for a living! She made this soup that looks like really runny mud!! It tastes like a spicy minty dirt almost!! Apparently it is one of the healthiest things on this planet and it was actually pretty good!! i was really nervous taking my first bite though! haha
Well the mission is hard and I need to work on my faith that i can find people! I am always tired it is insane!! If i lie down within 2 minutes i am a sleep! haha We have no investigators although i have hope for one of our english students! She has had all the lessons and doesn't seemed interested is what i have been told but she come to church most weeks even though she doesn't want to be a part of it! Although i was talking with her(half english half what i hope was Korean) about families and through translation from my companion he told me that she notices that families in America are happy but Korean families are not. I then told here that all the families she has seen and heard about from America are missionaries and told her the emphasis the church puts on happy families! This seemed to connect with her! It was really cool and we are praying for her and we sent the sister missionaries from Jeju City to go visit with her!
Well best of luck to everyone!! Please pray that we will find ways to have success here!! Thanks love you all!
---Elder Stagg
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| Helping out at the tangerine farm |
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| Check out this spider that is bigger than my head. |
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| Downtown Busan |
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| View from my apartment window |
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| Another view from my apartment window |
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| Downtown Sogweepo where I live |
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| Living on an island |
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| My bed |
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| My study area |
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| Busan Street |
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| Busan Street |
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