Goodbye Incheon!

 Josh made a very special friend who he will miss A LOT while serving here, she has sat with him in church, waits for him at the door and holds his hand the whole time. They have become best buddies and he will miss her!!

Josh and his comp, in his favorite apartment so far!

Transferred again!

Elder Chizzy is being transferred again! Back to the heart of Seoul to Dongdaemoon. He will be back in the Seoul mission and will still be a zone leader. He seems to be excited but is having mixed emotions since he has only been in Incheon for 6 weeks. Apparently he is needed in Seoul and in the Seoul mission! He has learned a lot from the short time he's been in Incheon, he's learned how difficult it is to be with someone 24/7 who speaks zero English, he's learned to deal with a companion who wasn't really like him or necessarily got along with and to love him anyway! He's seen miracles in his area and he's exercised faith while teaching his zone members, which has resulted in miracles for them as well! He's learning that the almost unbearable heat and humidity is common for Korea and that air conditioning is a luxury almost unheard of there! He has gained a very strong testimony of Joseph Smith from reading a book he had in his appartment, he read it cover to cover (over 500 pgs) in whatever spare time he's had and loved it. We love how grateful and kind and converted he is. He is positive even when it's hard, happy even when he has very bad days and weeks and so incredibly faithful and commited to what he's doing. We couldn't be more happy that he's where he is doing what he's doing. Being a missionary family is the BEST!

I am pretty excited. I am bouncing out of Incheon right into the heart of Seoul! I will still be zone leader but will stsy in the Seoul mission! I am happy to still serve with President Christensen! I have just hear that Dongdaemoon is a good zone and that it is a lot of fun. It will have a lot more people so that will be really cool. . Haha this last week was kind of a blur.... When you have something like a transfer, it kind of blows out everything about the last week... We had some success and some cool miracles! We really just had a good time so that was good:) Life was much more exciting this week and working was a lot funner. I realized how much I have improved in my Korean in these last 6 weeks this week for sure and I am definitely grateful for that. I have learned a lot so I am hoping I can continue working hard and keep learning.  It will be nice to serve with an american again just so when we need to understand each other, we can. There are a lot of super young missionaries in my zone... I was looking at it, and only 3 or 4 of them are older than me in the mission which is totally insane but that just means I get to step up and be a leader which will be awesome. I will miss Incheon that is for sure. I was just starting to get to know my ward and the area and what not so it is definitely weird, especially cuz I was only here for 6 stinking weeks!!! Haha and I was in Gaebong for 6 months!! Haha kind of nuts... But I learned a lot in thisarea and I feel like I am leaving it is a better state than when I got here so that feels good. WE found three new investigators this week which was super good. I taught the first lesson in english for really the first time on my mission and it felt really good. Haha the guy is korean but he was like fluent in english so I just taught him in english and  I felt it went really well. It feels good sometimes to teach in your native language:) Haha but yeah, like I said, this week kind of got all blurred up with the news that I am bouncing out of here and my thoughts have been all over the place like "Why did I even come to Incheon?" and "Why do I have to leave now?" And "What do I need to do in Dongdaemoon?" So those things have been troubling me a bit, but like I shared when I talked to my ward yesterday, we just have to trust the Lord and trust that he knows what is best for us always. I don't know to what extent I effected people in this area, but I know I changed a lot and learned a lot of things that will help me throughout the rest of my mission. So I will just keep trusting the Lord and realizing that he always knows what is best for me no matter what."

Moving to the new Seoul South Mission and Zone leader!!!

Just a little update from our Korean missionary. He's been called as a zone leader and will be moving into the new Seoul South Mission to Incheon. (A coastal "smallish" city of 2.6 million!) it looks like a nice city, and is home to big name Asian business like Samsung. He has had a pretty tough few weeks, in fact, he says they were so tough he didn't want to even tell us about them.  As hard as that is, he is being humbled and refined, and for that trial, I think he is grateful. 


"So I'm getting transferred and.........I've been called to be a zone leader in the new Seoul South mission in Incheon! Crazy huh? Haha Incheon is sweet from what I have heard. It isn't in Seoul so I will be in the new Seoul South mission which is kind of sad but not really a big deal. I am serving with a Korean companion as well for the first time so I am fairly excited and pretty nervous!  I don't know much about incheon and the church there! There is a ward so that is good?I didn't think I was going to transfer but I am so excited for the opportunity!! 


Don't worry, I got a lot of pictures and will write all the great peoples names down!!... It is crazy to me how close you can get to people in 6 months and what not but I love them!! Haha I am super excited to go out there though,.... It is going to be an awesome opportunity and it will be a good change of pace for me that is for sure!! Haha I wasn't going to tell you tons about my week this week cuz it was another tough one... Maybe the toughest of my mission. We had about 8 people cancel on us and we really didn't teach at all this week. It was really hard, but I learned a lot about enduring and I wanted to tell you about something that you said last week really hit me hard. I was thinking as we went to a missionary meeting a little bit about the holy places thing that you talked about last week and I actually, at first, didn't think about it tons. But I was sitting there and all of a sudden it came to my head and it really made a huge impact on my week. We contacted a ton this week and i found that as I focused on making those times, those contacts, into a holy ground, a holy place, the spirit was so much stronger and at least I felt the spirit. It was really cool to see like how you said, a place on the street, or the subway can be turned into that little  spot of holy ground. In the bible dictionary, it talks about how the opposite of holy is common or profane and I thought about that a lot. The places I am talking to people are very common, but when we transform them from common to holy, through bearing our testimony and showing our light, it is so cool how it can change. It says in D and C 87:8 Therefore stand in holy place and don't be moved or something like that. We can always be standing in those places if we are worthy and able to make those places into something holy. Super cool!! Thanks for sharing that. 

The language is coming:) It will probably shoot up with a Korean companion!! I will miss Elder Brewer. He is a great guy and I'll miss him. The best thing about this week was that holy ground thing. That was a really cool realization for me to come to and to learn from . I also loved church yesterday. That 11 year old is still getting baptized next Sunday so that is cool!! I might not get to see it.... But he will get baptized so that is great:)_ I don't have to see it... Just as long as it happens I am happy:) I will miss my ward mission leader a lot, and another return missionary is awesome so I will miss him as well. They rock! And my bishop is awesome so I will miss him too. I will miss my house a lot… 

And I will just miss knowing everything about Gaebong!! Haha I know a ton of people here and have a lot of memories so that is tough. My zone has 16 missionaries I think... So fairly big!!
Yeah my companion was my last district leader and he is a super good guy and I am excited!! I leave bright and early on Wednesday morning and then head out there. It is kind of a strange experience moving. I said goodbye to most of the people in my ward yesterday and that was kind of tough! I have been here for a long time and don't really know anything else so I am excited for the opportunity for sure!! I am still very surprised at the fact that the Lord trusts me so much. I have never heard of anyone doing exactly what I am doing right now. Be trained, train, train for a transfer, and then go be a zone leader. It is kind of unheard of and sometimes I just don't totally understand why he trusts me so much ya know? I feel fairly unadequate most of the time and I am a little nervous!! And yeah I get a new mission president and everything so that will be an interesting experience cuz I love my mission president. But it will be good. That happens in July:)"

Doing great "Korean Mission Style"

 Elder Chizzy continues to do great in Seoul! Here are some pictures of life in Korea. He says the subways are usually packed and everyone is on their smart phones (usually Samsung, which is huge in Seoul) and that he does most if not all of his contacting on the street or in the subway. He emails us from a little store, maybe similar to the one above. He says some of the most common stores are Paris Baguette stores and coffee shops similar to Starbucks... a little random I think!

 He often talks about how much he loves the Korean elders and enjoys it when he gets to go on splits with them and talk to them. He loves the Korean people and is feeling very good about his language. He says "it's crazy hard, but I'm getting more and more comfortable every day!" He is training for the second time and is still in the same area through two transfers, Gaebong Seoul. He has loved all of his companions so far and really enjoys being a trainer!

 Our boy was never a big soccer fan, but since going there he has come to LOVE it and said he's bought a few soccer jerseys, asked for his soccer cleats and sent home a cool ball for his little brothers to practice with till he gets home and "shows them how to play for real"...apparently soccer is a HUGE deal in Seoul....who knew?

 "One of my favorite things to do is service, we don't get to do it as often as I'd like, but when I do, it is so much fun and so rewarding to work with the other missionaries and members and do something for the community." Here is picking up a local park, he said it's a beautiful park and Seoul has many of them.

Every time I look at my boys pictures with that name tag on his suit I get emotional. Something our Bishop said last week really made me think. These Elders and Sisters bare Christ's name over their heart every day, every hour, every minute for two years. It is obvious who they stand for and who they represent, and it's written on their hearts. I am learning so much from my son, who bears our Savior's name and hope that I can live my life so that it's obvious that His name is written on my heart too.

Here are some small parts of his letters over the past little while.

I had a really cool experience on Thursday that really strengthened my testimony about so many things. We went to this guys house that really has a hard time accepting anything but his own beliefs. He is a really nice guy but just want english help and stuff but the more we started talking, the more interest he seemed to have about the book of mormon. This guy was insanely hard to understand though, he honestly did not speak a lick of english and spoke so fast. But I literally felt my ears just being opened up though and I was just able to understand and even though it may not have been all of what he said, I was able to answer his questions and try to help him understand why we are even here as missionaries. He had a ton of questions but I was able to answer them by the spirit. There was one specific point where he asked if he could ever come to know the things we were teaching him for himself. And I know for a fact that without the spirit, I would not have been able to answer the way that I did. I can't even remember exactly what I said but I just felt that I opened my mouth and Korean came out and I'll tell you what, I haven't felt the spirit as strong as I did for a long time. It was so insanely strong and I just felt so grateful to my Heavenly Father for the help he was giving me. I felt the spirit working through me to touch this mans heart that really had been stubborn in the past when missionaries had taught him. So it was cool to experience that and to feel the spirit so strongly in this mans home

Well, I will first tell you about a lesson that I had with a guy on thursday that was super cool!!  We found him off of a referral and he is a really nice guy that is buddhist. We met him at the church and he walked in and said he wanted to learn about the Book of Mormon so we were like sweet! Haha and then we asked him if we could pray and he asked if he could say it. Well, the problem was that he had no idea how to pray. So we taught him and he prayed an awesome prayer. He finished and said that his heart was burning! Crazy right? The spirit was super strong. So we taught him about the Book of Mormon and he really was accepting everything and I just had a strong impression to extend the baptismal invitation to him. (Later I found out that my comp felt the same way.) So I talked to him about baptism and then extended the commitment. He said he felt like he wasn't ready but that if he felt ready, he would definitely think about it. It was awesome! He said he wants to meet every thursday and stuff like that. It was an amazing experience! I was being led by the spirit the whole time and I was so grateful for that experience. It was like a dream lesson for sure. I never felt so happy after teaching something. I don't know if it will really go anywhere or anything, but it definitely felt amazing. I felt the spirit and it was just a great experience. The Korean is definitely coming faster now. I am starting to understand more and more every day and my mind is just being opened. It is honestly the coolest feeling ever. I can't thank my Father in Heaven enough for what he has done for me the last 2 weeks or so. I feel so blessed. We have had a ton of miracles this past week and some really cool lessons. We were hoping the one sister was going to get baptized

 We both like Korean food so we usually eat that. Our favorite is probably soon dae and dokboki which is really good. soon dae is a pig intestine stuffed with noodles and cooked. Haha sounds weird as heck but it is super super good! And then dok boki is this spicy rice cake stuff. In Korea, there is stuff called dok and it is super popular and is really really good. I don't know how to make it our anything or how they make it, but I love it! Haha I also got McDonalds a couple times. Last time I got the MEGAMAC! Haha it is a big mac just supersized. It has four patties instead of two! Haha it is dang good. Anyways, we also eat stuff called donkas sometimes which is a pork cutlet thing which is super good as well. Sometimes we get kimbab which is a seaweed roll with vegetables and rice in it and it is super tasty as well! I really enjoy it:) Hmmm.... So yeah that is some about the food. Any time we eat at members house or out, we always have kimchi which is great! I love kimchi. Haha it is so good. Their meat is also amazing! Haha so so good. Hmm other things.... We almost always just contact on the street! Homes are even harder to get into then in america, and there are tons of people on the street all the time so we spend most of our time out on the street. We talk to at least 20 people a day and last week, we talked to 170 people and set up maybe 10 street lessons for this next week. Out of those 10 lessons, maybe 2 will meet if we are lucky! Haha we have to have faith though right? Anyways, church is pretty much the same besides the fact I can't always understand... (Even though my understanding is skyrocketing right now which is sweet!!) And the church is very small. It is good though for our 70 member ward! Shopping malls are fairly similar to the ones in America! there are just a lot of street vendors here. Imagine Chinatown and that is what Korea is like. Just a million of tiny little stores and they all seem to be the same store

But that night, we met with 이은심  And she is totally awesome. I talk to her on the phone every night about what she has been reading and she is progressing so well! She is 54 and just a really nice lady. Anyways, that night we gave her the baptismal commitment which she actually declined... She said she didn't feel ready... But she came to church again on Sunday which was so good! She is hilarious. There was a talk in sacrament meeting about Mother's and she started clapping after it because she liked it so much. It was so funny. The whole ward laughed and she is just kind of oblivious to all of that:) But she is awesome and I love her. But anyways, then we met with her after church and talked to her about repentance and baptism again. I talked about how when I was 8 years old, I was not in anyway ready for baptism... haha I didn't really know what I was getting into but how because I had the holy ghost, I was able to learn faster and more correctly than if I didn't have the Holy Ghost. She seemed to really like that and the spirit was super strong. Our member gave a great testimony and so did my comp and she finally accepted a date to be baptized!! She will be baptized on April 13th!! I am honestly so pumped. It was amazing to see how all my hard work for 5 months, really paid off in the end. Granted, the work is not over, and I had so much help it was ridiculous, but it was so nice to finally see someone actually willing to progress and work towards a date. I am 90% sure she will be baptized then and I just hope I can stay in my area so I can see it. She is so awesome and I love her tons! 

One of the kids just got back from a mission and is awesome, he has helped us teach twice and is just sarcastic and hilarious and the other kid is leaving today for the MTC! Anyways we ate with them and their family and then our ward mission leaders family and it was just so awesome. We talked and laughed and just messed around and I really felt like I was just part of them I guess. I felt that I had connections with these people, and even though I am far from perfect in Korean, I could communicate with them and joke with them and just have fun. It just made me realize how far I have come in a very short amount of time and how much the Lord has helped me to this point. It also for some reason helped me realize how stinking much I absolutely love Korea! I absolutely love it and it is going to be so hard for me to leave it some day. It will be so hard and I am just trying to soak it all in cuz honestly, I am having the time of my life. Nothing, besides being with my family, has ever brought me so much joy as this work has. I am imperfect and have a lot to work on still, but the Lord is helping me and he will continue to help me. That just meant so much to me and just the fact that a little dinner appointment helped me realize that was awesome. I love being here and I love serving the Lord so much! 

Pictures...finally!

 We were so excited to get a package last week with the looong awaited memory card inside it with pictures of Elder Chizzy and  some fun Christmas presents from Korea! He is doing great!

Chewing pleasure at its finest!

 In one of his letters, Elder Chiz said he dunked the basketball while playing with his Korean friend and investigator, Gyeong Meen.  I can't imagine my boy liking basketball or anything.....ha ha ha! I love the B of M in one hand!! Maybe that's how he dunked it!!! (some spiritual power!)

 Seoul looks like a really big, really beautiful city!

The church.

 Snowy Seoul. Look at that cute smile! I am so happy he got his Christmas packages!

 His little tree and the 12 days of Christmas we sent him and his companion.

 Elder Chisholm, and Elder Hatch. They and the rest of their district went singing Christmas Carols in the subway stations often during the holidays, Josh said he loved it!

 I LOVE THIS! He was Santa at their ward party and handed out gifts to all the kids. He often refers to how much he loves the Korean children and how fun they are.

 These are the other Elders Josh was in the MTC with, he got to see them at their mission Christmas party and was a fun reunion for them.

I am amazed that this boy, who I taught to spell his name, who I taught to speak, who I taught to pray and sing...can now write, speak, pray and sing in Korean. He is doing well and so happy. He has been called as a trainer, and he was quite overwhelmed with that, this week he was amazed at how the Lord has helped him and how he has grown in such a short time. Missionaries are the best!!!

 

"I am great. This last week has been kind of absolutely insane. Haha I am training an American Missionary!!! He came straight from the MTC like I did and yeah... Fun stuff.  Haha he went to BYU for 2 years before coming on a mission and lets just say that he wants to work hard and talk to absolutely everyone. He has a huge heart and loves everyone. He is very bold and very loud and loving!!This last week may have been the craziest week I have ever have. Haha but honestly, it has been awesome. We have had some super cool experiences and I can't believe how much the Lord is helping me right now. I honestly, am understanding so much right now. I can understand maybe 80 to 90 percent of what people say and The Lord is also just totally opening up my mouth. We taught a lesson yesterday and it was to a guy that Elder Hatch said I better have a member come to because he is super hard to understand. Well, I tried all day sunday to get a member to help but none of them could so we ended up teaching alone. Well, it went AWESOME! I could understand every single thing he said and I opened my mouth and words came out. It was crazy. I don't really know how to explain how it feels besides the fact that I know its not because of anything I did. I mean I study hard and stuff, but even when I was with Elder Hatch 6 days ago, I wasn't understanding this much. It has been awesome and all I can say is that I feel very undeserving of the blessings I have received. It has been awesome. I feel like yesterday, after we taught that lesson, I had it hit me like "Wow, I am doing what the Lord wants me to do and I am the one that is portraying the gospel in a language that 5 months ago, I didn't even know how to say hi." Haha that is how I felt. It was one of the strongest spiritual experiences I have ever had. I just felt Heavenly Father's love and I was able to feel like I was doing what he wanted me to do. We also taught the second half of the plan of salvation on Saturday to 임진영  And we extended a baptismal invitation and she was praying and fasting about February 9th yesterday and church so we are hoping we will have a baptism that day! It would be so dang cool if it happened:) I am pumped. Anyways, it has been an awesome week and I have seen a ton of miracles. I feel like I am a miracle! Haha Heavenly Father his working through me and it is an amazing feeling!

 It is definitely where the Lord wants me to be! The Scripture that says "The Lord doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called." took on a whole different meaning for me this week!   He is lifting me up to where I could not go by myself. It has been a great experience and I am looking forward to continue to have cool experiences and keep progressing.
Oh, I made korean food the other day! It didn't turn out to bad!!  I thought you would like that. I just made this soup stuff that has tons of random stuff thrown in it!  It's called budae chigae! I like it a lot."

Love you all,
Elder Chizzy

Christmas as a missionary!

Elder Chizzy spent his first Christmas in Seoul and he's doing great. He said he enjoyed caroling in the subway stations with his zone, decorating a ward Christmas tree with some kids in the ward, eating a Christmas Eve dinner at a Korean grill (kind of like Golden Corral only you grill your own food) and having a party with the rest of the missionaries with his mission President and wife. He is happy, cold, grateful for heated floors and warm quilts and hand warmers and learning more and more Korean every day. When we talked to him on the phone he told us the first vision in Korean and we were all blown away by how great he sounds. We miss him, we are proud of him and the struggles and accomplishments he is having as a missionary. He is growing so much and loves his mission so far! He would love letters!!! We are excitedly awaiting his SD card which he says has over 500 pictures on it....he said he sent it last week and I can't wait to see his face!!!


"Well first off, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! THANK GOODNESS WE AREN'T ALL DEAD!! Haha that whole end of the world thing came and went didn't it?? HAha pretty funny stuff. Anyways, Talking to you guys was so good and it made me so happy. It wasn't long enough but at the same time, it made it so I didn't miss you guys to much and that made it so I could focus on the work still which was good:) Haha but I do miss you guys tons and I am grateful we got to talk! It made me so happy. Anyways, it sounds like this last week has been crazy busy like normal! Haha I miss being around the craziness but oh well... I am glad everyone had such a good week. It sounds like it was so much fun and just being around family is an amazing blessing. That is one thing that I really came to feel during Christmas was even though I did some of the things we always do, and I was around people I wanted to be around and was where I was supposed to be, there was one thing missing and that was you guys! I came to realize that those traditions would be absolutely nothing without the family and I am so grateful for our family and for the traditions we have. They are so much fun and everything but, it is the time we spend together that really is so much fun! 

Well this week, we got back to work which was a relief! And we were able to meet a lot of cool people which was good. Actually on thursday,  we knocked on this door and this lady actually let us in. She lived in NEw York for 15 years and spoke good English and she believed a lot of things we believed. The great thing was that she is just searching for truth and not judging by just the church name or whatever. What a great situation! She took a Book of Mormon and said she would read it and I felt the spirit as a testified to her about the truthfulness of it. It was a really good experience! We also had a great sunday which was really good .) On Saturday, I  had president interviews with President Christensen which was awesome! He is such a good man and I respect him a ton.  He definitely is called of God and I am so glad he is my Mission President. That day, I was also able to pass off with the A.P's which was awesome. I memorized D&C 4 in Korean and the Korean A.P said it was awesome. So that made me really happy. Now all I need to do is teach him and I will be certified basically to be a trainer and stuff. Pretty cool. I have worked hard on that so it was good to finish that and get it off my back so I can work on some other things!

Anyways, now I will answer some questions you had::) Me and Elder Hatch are doing great. We are nothing alike and he doesn't like sports and we don't have the same personalities, but we get along and he is great. He helps me a lot and I have learned a ton from him which is really good. I was blessed with a great trainer. Transfers are in two weeks. One of us will be transfered and I will have a new companion more than likely. I want to stay in 개봉 but I will do whatever the mission President asks for sure:) Change will be good and it will push me to work hard! Whatever happens it will be for the best. Koreans celebrate the Lunar New year. It is called 설날(Solar) And it is the second biggest holiday in Korea next to their thanksgiving. Everything shuts down and we can't do missionary work for a bit and we just study and what not! So they party hard then:) Haha pretty funny! They like to party for sure. Answering your other questions, this mission is so much different than what I thought a mission would be. We contact all the time and we don't teach that much which is really hard sometimes. But at the same time, it has given me the opportunity to really rely on my Savior and learn so much about myself and about the gospel. It has been a great blessing! The work is hard but very rewarding, fun, and it is just changing me and I can feel it which is awesome! I am definitely grateful for the blessings of being on a mission. I know me being out here will also bless you guys so much and I am grateful for those blessings as well:) 
Well I gotta go soon but I really hope you have a great week. Sounds like it has been crazy at home... But what is new right? Haha I hope Eisley is doing ok. Like you said, she does have a plan. All of us do and Heavenly Father knows our weaknesses and our strengths and he tests both of them.  I was reading in the  War chapters this morning and I think it is in Ch 50 that Moroni is strengthening the weak cities in the region. When he did that, the lamanites could not even fight back. So just let the Lord strengthen those weaknesses and trust him. "

First Month in Seoul

 Thanksgiving at an army base with an LDS Chaplain and family, the Degn's.

 Elder's Chisholm and Hatch, a yummy Thanksgiving dinner!

 We think this is an ice sculpture turkey!

 The view outside Elder Chizzy's apartment!

 Halloween tie, pillowcase and Batman! Apparently, Halloween isn't a big deal in Korea!!!


Elder Chizzy is doing great! He is enjoying cold, snowy, wet Seoul. He is learning little by little to understand and talk and is positive, happy and healthy! We love hearing from him and look forward to his emails every week! We love hime and are super proud of him! Here are a few excerpts from his recent letters.

"Thanksgiving was a great day! The Degn's were a very nice family and I was grateful for them. They lived on an Army base so we got to visit that and see a lot of other American's which was nice. 

We also taught a couple other lessons that went really well:) Heavenly Father really blessed me this week and made me see that I really can make a difference in these peoples lives. For that, I am definitely grateful."

"Church this week was really cool! It was the primary presentation and the kids were so dang cute:) HAha asian kids just in general are so dang cute and awesome! I was touched by the primary music and I was grateful for that experience. The other cool thing about Church was just that there was a sense of just love and everything. Haha it was super cool and the spirit was just super strong at church! It was a good day for sure:"

"This week was full of very cool experiences. It started off with the Bathhouse... HAHA it was way sick and super relaxing! Like, it wasn't near as weird as it sounds. There really weren't tons of people there and it was actually big and it was nice. It didn't remind me of anything in particular because it was like nothing I've ever been in... But there was like a sauna and like four or five big hot tubs basically. Then a wet room and then a cold pool. The cold pool was absolutely freezing but fun. I am pretty sure this is one of the only missions in the world that you can go swimming! Haha it was sick:) Anyways, then we went to Costco and got food and stuff which was fun. Then Tuesday was Temple day!! We got to go to the temple which is about a 30 minute subway ride away... It was super relaxing and a great experience. The temple is aboslutely puny. I am pretty sure there are two endowment rooms and initiatory and the baptismal font and thats it. It is smaller than the Oquirhh Mountain temple and yeah. It is so small. But it is very pretty and very spiritual. It was cool because when you go in, it is noisy and you can hear the city and it is right in the middle of the city, but when you enter the temple, it is quiet and just spiritual. I really liked that part and just being able to feel the spirit was great."

"This week was a better all around week with teaching people and things as well. WE actually had some lessons and one of them in particular was insanely cool. This kids name is 경민 (gyeong meen) He is 21 years old and I actually contacted him like the first week or two I was here. I speaks english super well so that was nice

I actually had some good conversations with people on the street! In our mission, since teaching lessons is really hard, they also set a goal for how many people you talk with on the street every week. the standard is 140 but me and Elder Hatch wanted to get 200 this last week and we did it! It was hard work but way fun. I learned a lot and the time absolutely flew by. We had some really good lessons too. We are meeting with 경민 (gyeong meen:)) today again.. We will see how it goes! We are just doing the same thing as last time so hopefully it goes well. We also met with a guy named 권혁태 (gwon hyeok tae) and he was a really nice guy."

"Luckily, last Monday, we found a super cheap
Christmas tree and ornaments at this place and we were able to buy it
so we have a Christmas tree in our house! Haha and we found a Michael
Buble c.d. and we have been listening to it:) It has made this week
feel a little bit more like christmas:) And then on Wednesday, we went
to another area and it was snowing so hard! But us and the
missionaries in our zone proselyted and handed out Books of Mormon for
presents and stuff:) It was fun and freezing! It has snowed quite a
bit.. Which has really made it feel like christmas.
We haven't been able to meet with a lot of people which has been pretty
frustrating... That is one thing about Koreans... They are always
busy! ALWAYS! Whether it is a test, or something else, they are always
busy with something. So they always say that they can meet next week
and that ends up being the end of the month and then they just never
meet. It is pretty frustrating... We haven't taught a normal lesson
since the 2nd week I was here. But even though that is the case,
missionary work is still good. 
Oh cool story, we got to carol last night!! It
was way fun:) We went to a big subway station and just stood in a
really busy area and sang christmas carols in both english and korean.
It was way fun! It was us, another zone, and a companionship from our
zone. It was awesome to just spread the happiness of christmas and
stuff:) But yeah, life is good... Hard and freezing... But good!"