Elder Nathan Stagg: Jeju: First Investigator

Today for P-day we got up at 5:30 and hiked the giant volcano on our island! It took from 7:30-3 it was like a 9 mile round trip! Super fun! Except the view was gone because we were walking in a cloud! at the very top it was so cold and everything was frozen! It is the largest mountain in Korea, fun fact of the day!

Wow this week has been really fun, strange, hard, tiring, short, and very rewarding! First lets start with the fun and strange!

Haha so there were 3 things that happened this week that are super great!

1)This old drunk man was talking to us and kept asking me if i thought the picture of Mary in one of our pamphlets was attractive! then he kept pushing me off the sidewalk and yelling in my face, while doing that he tried to convince us that Mary and jesus were from Jeju! haha really great guy!

2) Yup another old drunk man was talking to us and grabbed book of mormon from my hands was yelling some drunk slurred words that i think were supposed to be Korean, then he started smacking me with the Book of Mormon over and over, we finally decided we were just going to leave then he grabs my name tag so i have to get that back from him, finally when i got it back he started beating me again! Good day! Think of the mansions in heaven the he was building for me!

3)We were walking down the center street and yup another old drunk man was just on the side of the sidewalk peeing all over his hand, right in front of the main street! haha elder Youngblood about had a heart attack he was laughing so hard!

Wow great week!

Now lets get into the hard, tiring and rewarding!

Ok well this has been a busy week! I feel like it has been maybe 3 days since last p-day wow! I am always tired and i count down the hours till i am able to sleep! haha We proselyte for at least 4-6 hours a day! We don't stop contacting till 10:20 just trying to get people we can meet with! Plus the branch has given us the assignment to contact all of our less actives (19-21). So we are always walking as fast as we can! The other day we sat down on the bus and within 1 minute i was out! haha and the bus ride was only 7 minutes! however we are working hard and have seen the fruits of it! I got my first investigator!! We were using the prosolying board, that me and elder Snyder made, for the first time and we got his contact! One thing led to another and we met with him and he was super interested in the book of mormon! He said every time he reads it he gets a super good feeling in his heart and he doesn't know what it is! He flies to seoul every week and said he wants to meet at least once a week! I am very excited for that! Pray for me and him that he will continue to seek this course in his life!

The church has come out with the #Lighttheworld and it is super awesome way to talk to people! They have light the world cards we hand out and it has a QR code that we have people watch the video. and let me tell y'all something the spirit is sooo strong when you watch that video with them! It is such a great video! I encourage you all to keep up with those videos and acts of service!

Anyways i am loving my mission! I am loving the people! I love Christmas! and i love that i get to focus it all on my savior jesus christ! Love you all and thanks for all the support!

-Elder Stagg