Today was a crazy day already! We went to the biggest public bathhouse in all of Asia super early this morning... it was super fun!!

This past week was pretty crazy!! We met a ton of new people and have made a ton of progress with our investigators. We found a bunch of new people and got 2 baptismal dates with 2 of them. We met these 2 new Vietnamese guys who are super awesome. One of them is really good at english and has been in Korea for only a few days!! We met him at a bus stop and exchanged facebooks and he later contacted us. He started asking lots of questions about the church and ended up saying that he wants to come to church and also become a member.. haha we taught him and another guy the 1st lesson at church yesterday and he translated everything for the other guy!! So the accepted baptismal dates for August 5th!! I think my last transfer may be one of the craziest ones yet because we have lots of people getting ready to get baptized and we have lots of potential investigators who will have lots of free time after this week is over. The highschool students will finish their testing and they probably will come to church when they have time!! It is a very exciting time!!

This coming week is a very busy week.. we have a ton of stuff to get done for the last week of this transfer!! Things in our zone are going great and some crazy stuff is happening in Busan stake!!

We played lots of basketball and it was fun!! We played 7v7 basketball with our vietnamese friends and it was crazy hahaha.

We actually met quite a bit of people last week. We met a guy named Jungho who lived in america for a little bit for college. He decided he wanted to start a business with me to bring Five Guys (the burger place) to Korea haha. He is really good at english and is a pretty open guy!! Sadly he is probably moving to Seoul and then Bangladesh for work.. but his older sister is interested in how missionaries get so good at speaking foreign languages so she might come to english class later!!

We also met the Chinese guy Loui and he ended up coming to church this past week with a girl.. they didn't understand very much because they are just learning korean but they had a good time!!

We also went to Yeonsan area to interview a kid for baptism and it went really well! this transfer the busan zone has been on fire and has a ton of baptismal dates!!! and they just keep adding up haha.

I am still planning on heading up to BAngeojin this week on Saturday and apparently a bunch of the members there found out hta I am coming and have been calling me and they decided to prepare a huge dinner after the baptism.. hah I miss the members there sooo much!! I am really excited to go back!!

Anyways that's about it! love you all and hope you have a great week!!

Hey guys!! Last week was a fun and funny week!!

So I found out this week that I am going on the 7th of next month... pretty crazy and super unexpected.. We just randomly got a call from a kid me and elder Cronin found back in my training. And he decided that he wants to get baptized now!! So i am going home as in going back to my training area to baptize him 🤣  He called asking me to baptize him last week!! so i'm not really going home but i think of Bangeojin as my Korean home hahaha I am really excited!!

Things with our investigator Levan are going really well!! We met him almost everyday last week.. haha he came to church as well and he might be getting baptized next month on the 7th!!! He is super awesome!! He said he really wanted to have a suit so i decided to be nice and I gave him one of my favorite suits ㅠㅠㅠ he really liked it though so its ok haha. We met on exchanges with him and ate some dinner together, and we taught him prayer, and he blessed the food and has been praying everyday since then!! He also posted a picture on Facebook saying he was grateful to God for meeting good friends. He is such a great guy!! We also celebrated one of his friends birthdays with him. His name is Vu hong and he is just a super cute little guy who is super funny haha we had a great birthday party thing in a convenience store filled with Chinese Vietnamese Koreans and Americans hahaha

We also met this other guy playing basketball who is from China. His name is Louie and he is sooo funny. We are the same age but he seems like a 5 year old kid in a giants body hahaha we have some weird conversations in some sort of English Chinese Korean mixture... he is sooo funny haha he said he is coming to church this week and is really excited for it!!

We had a big zone proselyting activity that went pretty well!! We went near a big bus station and set up a couple booths. There was an english booth, balloon animals, family booth and a face painting booth!! It went pretty well and it actually seems to have worked pretty well!! A guy went to church in Oncheon and we have gotten a couple calls about our english class!!

Speaking of english, we had our meeting last week and it went well!! About 13 people came and they had a great time and everything pretty much went as planned!! We had 4 highschool students come and one of them wants to go to BYU after seeing a video about the school haha. Sadly right now is testing so they have no time to meet until the end of next week!! But we will definitely meet them next week!!!

There's a guy who started coming to english class who really likes us and wants to take us out to eat all the time haha and he bought us ice cream when we were doing an exchange then brought us to meet his wife at her store!! They are awesome people who really just wanna help us out! He actually knows a member so hopefully he can get a little bit of interest soon!!

That's about all I remember for now...  hahaha so I hope you all have a great week!!!

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This past week was fun!! We had lots of stuff going on so we were pretty busy! So a lot of our time was spent preparing for our english class explanation meeting this week, which meant we were using computers a lot last week haha. We have been doing so much stuff for the branch that we haven't had much time to be out on the streets sadly. But we have somehow been making the best out of our time and meeting a ton of people haha.

One day while we were headed to meet a less active the first 2 people that we met took Books of Mormon and our english flier and gave us their number haha. We will probably meet them in the coming week! We are almost done with our prep for the english class meeting so we actually have some time to get some stuff done this week!!

We had Busan Stake sports day the past week and it was super fun!! We played soccer and I made some new friends from the Gimhae ward which is in our district. haha we were on the same team and for some reason they thought i was really cool so they wanted to become friends with me.. haha and I was in a crazy mood from the day before as well... we made handshakes and everything.. They are super funny kids!!  They have been messaging me for a little bit now.. hahaha

Also last week I got to go visit the couple me and Hurtado found and taught when I was in Haeundae!! It was awesome to see them again!! We ate together at their house then went to Shinsaegae department store (The biggest in the world) and did some window shopping. Sadly everything was so expensive so all we got was some ice cream haha but it was nice to see them again!! It is super awesome to see how far they have progressed!! It made me so happy to see them progressing in the gospel!!

Last week was a week full of sports! On Wednesday we played a huge basketball game against some Chinese kids and we met some really cool people!! haha We played a game of me us and our Korean players against the Chinese guys! It was a really fun game haha.

We also got one of our investigators out to church last!!His name is Levan and we met him by playing basketball! He is from Vietnam!! He is super funny and he really likes us. On Saturday after the sports day we played with him and then ate dinner with him. And we had tp clean the church around 8ish and he decided he wanted to help us out haha his mom was Catholic and his dad Buddhist so he is pretty open to the gospel!! He has lots of time to meet so we are hoping that he will progress lots!!

This week we have a big english class meeting thing, i honestly don't know what to call it in english 설명회 알아 누나?? ㅋㅋㅋ 너만 이거 이해할거같은데 ㅋㅋㅋ and it doesn't translate very well but its like some sort of explanation meeting thing? like it introduces our class, but anyways we have that this week and we have been preparing pretty hard for it! But we have one student named Jack Lee (He is a teacher at the school near here) who has been bringing students every week and we are hoping he brings a ton of kids this week as well! Last week he brought a few students with him and they really liked us! Things are going really good in Gupo right now!1 WE have been getting tighter with the members here and finding lots and lots of new people!

Last week was crazy!! It consisted of a bunch of exchanges and me getting 몸살.. I got really sick hahaha. It started on the first exchange in GImhae with elder Youngblood. We woke up in the morning to go to zone conference and my throat hurt a lot. So i started drinking tons of water and what not and by the end of that day i was pretty wrecked. but that same day we had another exchange and I went with elder Vanwart back to Gupo and i got a lot more sick haha. but on exchange we saw a super cool miracle!

We were at english class when a teacher me and Smoot had met earlier called and brought in 7 students to have them learn english! He then asked me to explain why our church is different from all the other ones so I got to teach the restoration to all the kids!! And I found out later that I had met one of them and played basketball with him back when i was serving in Sacheon! WE went to Masan to spend a pday there and he was randomly there playing basketball so we all played together! He was there to visit his grandma for the new year haha God's hand is definitely in this! I really hope to meet and teach him more!

yesterday night there was a small little fireside held in busan with Lexie Walker! We went there with our recent convert finn and had a great time! It was awesome because I got to see a couple of my favorite members in korea from sacheon and bangeojin!! The fireside went great and Finn really liked it!

We are making a powerpoint for a meeting in a few weeks so the other day we had to translate the video into english.. it hurt our heads and was super hard but luckily we finished translating it in one day hahaha so now we don't have to really worry about it as much!!

Gupo is going great! WE played lots of basketball with some potential investigators and have been giving out tons of english fliers!

I hope that you all have a great week!! Love you all!

SO Gupo is really great! to start off we pretty much go hiking everyday because our house and the church are on top of a mountain... hahaha it is fun to walk up and down it all the time.. 

So in Gupo we have two awesome recent converts who got baptized in the past transfer. Their names are Finn, and David (English names) Finn is the same age as me and David is around 30 years old. So last week we met with them a couple times and they are super awesome! Finn sadly goes to military next month so I only get to meet with him for a limited time! They are two awesome guys and their faith is really strong! Finn really wants to get his patriarchal blessing before he goes to the military! 

So we met with a couple investigators last week and sadly they all are randomly moving so we have to drop them... haha we don't have much investigators so we are hitting the streets a ton lately!! WE are trying to improve our english class lately so the branch bought us 8 thousand fliers and we have been giving tons of them out. we are hoping a lot of people will be able to come!

Last week we did some basketball proselyting and we met a super hilarious guy from Vietnam. He trash talked us soooo much and was super funny. He wasn't super good at basketball, but because he was so funny everyone had a great time! I talked with him a little bit about church and he randomly said "I cant come tomorrow because I have work, but I will come next week" So we have some high hopes for him!! His name is Levan.. haha We are thinking he can get baptized by the end of this transfer!

Also because I am zone leader, me and Elder Smoot made some zone culture and zone goals last week, and the theme for our zone is greenie fire. When a missionary first comes into the mission they are full of fire and want to work super hard so we are trying to get our zone to be filled with greenie fire. It is actually super fun and the zone is loving it!! we have this group message where we send a bunch of quotes and weird pictures of green stuff to everyone everyday.. it is hilarious hahahah.

Other than that stuff last week we met some LA's played soccer, played basketball, hit the streets super hard, and met tons of cool people! One of the guys we met last week actually played basketball for the Korea national team a long time back, and he was an absolute giant... It was super intimidating to approach him on the street, but he was really kind and had a little bit of interest! He actually knew about the church already!!

Anyways love you guys!!!​

I got transferred to Busan!

So now I am in Gupo with Elder Smoot! I am really sad to leave Gumi because i loved it so much, but I am happy to be back in Busan!!  I am excited for this transfer!!

Last week was super fun! WE had a big helping hands service project and we did a hike in Busan for zone conference! And because President is worried about me hurting my legs he made me take the cable car down from the hike with him.. hahahah

Saturday we did the service project and I got to run into Sister Lee Haebom who came home from her mission when i was in Sacheon! We did some cleaning at a river and there was to many people there so there was nothing left for us to do.. hahaha

Sadly i don't have much time to email so I will just send a bunch of pictures!!

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Hey guys!!

I have like no time today because we just got done with a fun zone pday!! I got to see a couple of my super good friend like Elder Aubrey and Elder Vongsayo and sister Oh and play sports and talk lots so it was a great pday!!

Last week went really well especially at the end!! Yesterday we got a call from a Cambodian guy who used to be an investigator who said that now because he has more time he should be able to meet and that he wants to learn about the church!! And then we got a cool referral from the Gimcheon elders from a guy who came to their church and wanted to learn English!! He is going to come to church this coming week! We met him for a little bit randomly when we were proselyting yesterday and he is a very kind and older man!!

This week on Thursday we go to hike a mountain in Busan for zone conference so that should be super fun!! We get to do it with Ulsan!!

Anyways times up!!

Love you all!!

Lots of pics next week