Tongyoung: The only priest in our ward

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Hello! This has been an awesome week! (like usual) First off E Sung Joon got confirmed yesterday! And he wants to go to the temple sometime next month! He also wants the priesthood! (he will be the only priest in our ward) 

Next we called those elementary kids that i talked about last week and they said they wanted to play soccer, so on Wednesday we played soccer with them and a bunch of their friends! And WOW!! They are good! They have amazing ball control and me and Elder Pak, who have both played soccer before, were very impressed! Once we finished we were walking home and one of the kids said what is todays church message? Haha so awesome! So we talked about prayer with them! We have no a group of 4 kids from 5th-6th grade that love us! And we are planning on having them come to church this week and we can teach them and play bang! Hopefully they continue to have interest!

Next we were proselyting in the morning, like we do everyday, and we saw this older man walking so we sped up a bit and started talking to him at first he was kind of rude and kept saying he was busy, but we were persistent, and after a while he warmed up to us, so we went inside a CU (like a 711) and he bought us some drinks and he ate some ramen while we talked. Turns out he gave up smoking 6 years ago, drinking 9 years ago, and said he hasn't had any sexual relations  in 8 years. He said he did it for self control and he just felt like he needed to stop those things but he was not entirely sure why. So our first lesson we taught him was about Word of Wisdom and Law of Chastity. It was cool to see how god has prepared him for while to meet us! He wants to meet with us again and feed us lots of food! :) I think he is very wealthy but not 100% sure. I am hoping that he will recognize that this could be the reason why he felt like he needed to stop doing those things! Hopefully he becomes an investigator! We are planning on meeting him tonight!

The other prepared person we were again proselyting and I started talking to this kid about my age we talked for a bit but it appeared he had no interest, and i was about out of things that i knew how to say. So my companion jumped in and started talking and together we kind of explained our church to him,and he had LOTS of questions. We ended up sitting down on some steps outside and taught him about baptism and the whole 1st lesson! He seemed to except it pretty well. He wanted a book of Mormon but we gave our last one out about 10 minutes  before me met him. He seems SUPER interested! 

We got a new investigator, we met him yesterday and it started out kind of rough. He didn't have any real questions and so we struggled with knowing what to talk about with him because he wasn't giving us much to go off of. So about 4 minutes into the lesson I decided to say a prayer in my head and asked that we would have the spirit with us and be able to discern his needs. After that i noticed a huge difference and the lesson went pretty good! 

We met with Alec this week and had lunch. Turns out his grandma and all his aunts and uncles are LDS, and his grandma sends him Verses in the book of mormon a lot! hehe awesome grandma! His mom went less active before he was born because within 2 months of each other she lost her husband, father, and brother. Really hard for her and she was angry at god. She always raised him telling him you can find faith outside of church or religion. But she had him go to boy scouts every week, between that and his grandma he has a pretty good knowledge about our church. He said he is really busy and doesn't think he has time to meet with us but that he is interested. (I think it is more of an excuse so we are going to keep trying :) 

Thats about it! 

This week I have been reading a lot from Jesus the Christ (SUPER GOOD book! I advise you all to read it!) But it is super cool learning more about Christ's life in great detail. And it is helping me become a better more Christlike missionary. For example, Christ used every opportunity to teach no matter what! Like when he was at the well in Samaria and asked the women to give him water, when she asked why him, a jew, would ask her, a Samaritan, for water. He used the as an opportunity to teach her about the living water he could give her. Even though he was probably thirsty and could of waited till after she gave him water he saw it as a teaching opportunity! He knew who's business he was about, and that was his father business which takes precedence over anything else on this earth. So thats my goal is to always be teaching because i am about my father's business also!

Love you all

Stay Gucci

Elder Stagg

A ping-pong soccer court we made for family night (you need to blow the ball)