April 1st:

This week has been busy with lots of planning. We had a very successful and fun Easter activity last Sunday. I'll make a video of it this week and I will send it  next week. It will also probably be on Facebook.                             Last Saturday we had a missionary choir meeting for the Busan stake. We were able to get our investigator, Say Hyun, to be there. We taught her all of the commitments (however because she was very sleepy she struggled with paying attention during the lesson)  She is in line for getting baptized this Sunday. 

In Korea, we watch conference a week later, so  we will watch General Conference and then have her baptismal service.  She loves coming to church and has very good friendships with the ward members. I am very excited for her to get baptized!

Last Sunday we saw a huge miracle. I fasted that our investigators --the Soump family , Alex, and one other man, would come to church. They all have so much potential yet struggle with having time to meet with us. About 20 minutes into Sacrament Meeting, the Soump family walked in!.  All of our translation equipment was broken so 3 of us missionaries had to translate for them! The previous night they had prepared 300 Easter eggs for the kids to have a big Easter egg hunt.  It was very fun seeing them at church.

So this past week, elder Minson and I prepared an activity for our zone. We set up five basic activities. The first main one was Easter egg decorating. While they decorated the eggs we introduced them to our free English class and tried to get them to sign up to our Facebook page. Also we talked about Easter and if they had interest we would teach a little bit about our beliefs.

The next table was a simple game we called Pong. Kind of like the beer game you play with alcohol but instead we had a bunch of cups set up in a triangle formation and inside the cups were little papers with questions in English.  They would take a ball and they throw the ball into a cup and if it made it into the cup they had to answer the question.

 The next game was elder Martin's game. Elder Martin is a Navy Seal in training. he has the biggest arms I have ever seen! We had people try to arm wrestle him and if they won they would win a box of chocolate pies. Let's just say,  we have a lot of chocolate pies left!

 Next we had Eders walk around with a board that had a bunch of balloons taped to it. People would take a dart and throw a dart at a balloon.  Once it popped there was candy and a question in English on the inside.

The last was a big piece of paper on a table that had the question "What is Easter?" And a place for them to write the answer. It was a really fun activity and fun to put together!

 To end my email,  I would like to give a brief testimony about our Savior Jesus Christ. Yesterday was Easter and that helped me contemplate the reason why we celebrate this holiday. In Korea,  Easter is not a very big holiday. If you are not religious you barely even know it exists. If you translate "Easter" in Korean directly to English it translates to "Resurrection Day". Often times in America, we get so focused on Easter baskets and bunnies that we forget the true meaning of Easter.  It is because of our Savior Jesus Christ that we can all be resurrected and become perfect. This should bring hope and joy into our life. 

This time of year, as flowers and other plants are springing into new life we can center our thoughts on our Savior Jesus Christ and the "new life"  that he can bring to each one of us.  We need to be grateful for His amazing gift and in our prayers express that from our heart.

Love you all!

Elder Stagg