Elder Nathan Stagg: Jeju: Burning in the New Year

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

2017 is the year of my mission! This is the first year in my life where I have the chance to give 100% of everything that I have to the lord!! And i am so excited for it! This has been a very fun and fulling week.

Ok so update on my investigators.

So we met with one who is our only progressing investigator, his name us 변준의 (byon Joon oui) he is in his 60's and loves the book or mormon. He talks a lot so we cant teach him a lot when we meet, but we keep meeting with him and he keeps doing the things we ask, When we asked him how he deals with stress he says he drinks then reads the book of mormon! at least he got one thing right! He is an awesome man, but its so sad seeing how often he drinks and smokes. We told him that he knows its not healthy and he said he knows and will try and stop. We haven't taught about the Word of Wisdom yet but that should come soon.

Next is 김은파 (kim un pa), He is an orange farmer and a super nice guy. He is very christian but wont budge from his beliefs, he doesn't think he needs to do anything besides belief and be a good person in order to be saved. Super nice guy but we might drop him this week if he keeps on not progressing.

Then we got a new one who is about Brendon's age, we taught him the whole 1st lesson (restoration) and he was really curious why we serve missions. When he found out the prophets and apostles do everything for free he was very surprised and astonished! Super cool guy, we are meeting again tomorrow. His name is 노현우 (no hyon ooo).

Then there is 신경식 (sheen kyong sheek) he hasn't showed up twice now to our scheduled meetings so if he doesn't show up this time we are going to drop him also.

My week

On Monday I went to Jeju City and got sticker pictures with the rest of my zone. That is basically like the most girly thing you can do! You basically put on weird hates and accessories and get pictures in a photo booth then you can add effects to them then it prints them out as pictures. Super fun haha!

Tuesday we spent they day on a orange farm with our investigator (김은파) burning things! We made a huge fire with a bunch of dead branches, then we burnt all his trash! Super fun! We taught him some more about the restoration but he doesn't think we need to do actions, but we only need a belief...

Wednesday was district meeting and exchanges. And I went on exchanges with Elder winter, who is also a trainee! We were came into the MTC the same day. I was kind of nervous going into them because we are both trainees, but they turned out really good. It was a huge confidence and testimony builder to me! I actually got the most contacts and lessons that night then i have the rest of my mission. But the even cooler part was feeling the spirit work through me! I could literally feel the gift of tongues working in me. When people talked to us, I couldn't really understand the words they were speaking but, through the holy ghost i was able to understand the message they were trying to convey. It is hard to explain but it was really cool to experience!

Last Monday we were planning when i got the feeling to look at the beginning of my planner and i saw a name with some notes by it and i felt prompted to call it, so we called it and he wanted to meet with us. We met him on Thursday and taught him about the restoration. His name is 노현우 and he is about 24! really cool guy

Loving my mission! Cant wait for this next year!

Elder Stagg