Well that’s another week that has flown by! I always think time will start to slow down but it doesn't seem to want too yet. Anyway, this week was a super fun week! The beginning of the week was super boring and not much really happened. Only thing that really happened on Tuesday was eating Chicken that was 5 dollars.... Never again... it was super tasty but afterwards we were dying. On Wednesday we had Zone meeting and it was a super good time our new zone leader is super awesome.

I was doing an exchange with our District leader, and Elder Ockey (from my MTC District) is companions with a district leader somewhere else in Ulsan Zone, and they decided to have a district leader meeting so me and Elder Ockey got to go on splits in an area we didn't know!! We went and did some proselyting in the area (neither of us know Korean) and ended getting invited to a restaurant by a guy. We then proceeded to teach him the ENTIRE Restoration. Possibly one of the funnest times I have had on my mission so far! The rest of the day was filled with lots of proselyting and some lessons.

The next day I came back to Bangoejin, and me and elder Cronin decided it was a good idea to have 20 dollars of ice cream for lunch, and the lady even decided to give us extra. Merry Christmas to us! The next day we decided to eat 20 dollars in pizza,  just the two of us. They told me I was gonna lose weight in Korea, so far I have been eating like a king this Christmas season!!!

We also got a new investigator whose name is Jason (Koreans like giving themselves english names, and Jason is the easiest one for them to pronounce) and he seems very promising! We will se how it goes.

Just yesterday our branch president's wife decided I will be playing flute this Saturday at the branch christmas party. We ate dinner at their house and then had a big practice afterwards.

That’s about it for this week! Still absolutely loving life and loving missionary work even more!!! Hope you all have a good week. Love Ya!!

-사랑와함깨 데이비스 장로

Bundling up to go to work!

Well we are now at another Pday... Somehow?? The week has officially, absolutely disappeared, time is going by super fast!!!! Anyway, the week was awesome! One weird thing, right before I started emailing I had a buddhist monk come and spank my rear-end randomly!!! He walked into a store we were at and was asking for donations, and turned around and was super surprised to see two white boys. He started trying to get us to memorize some Buddhist stuff and then came to me and patted my rear and called me handsome.

Last Pday we took the new sister in our area to the super cool hike that we did on district Pday. At FHE last Monday we made Crepes with some of the branch members and it was super fun! (I ended up getting stuck with keeping the children occupied by having them chase me around the room while everyone did other stuff)

Tuesday we met with 최정수 and ate lunch with him, we are going to hopefully meet with his parents this week. Scary thing is that we ate 5 dollar chicken that day, kinda sketchy.

On Wednesday we randomly got in a guys car that we had never met before and went to his house. But hey, he is super nice and now we get to teach him and his family. So, whatever works! The story behind that is that I started texting a number on accident and the guy wanted to meet us really badly, so we told him to meet us in front of the big store in our area (Homeplus) and he drove up, yelled to us to get in the car and now we have three new investigators from it! Yaaaay!!! He was super nice too.

We also have started to make a music video for our branch christmas party that is on the 24th. If you want to see sort of what we are doing look up the Hello Mormon Missionary parody. Our branch missionary, Seo Jung, is our director and she has been going super ham on making it! She is super good at it too!

This week we had the opportunity to meet two of our recent convert’s friends!! We got to eat with them at the church last night and it was awesome. Sister Jung Mee Oak had me help her clean fruit and she told me she thinks I didn’t work in the kitchen, so now she is determined to make me a master chef. I can clean fruit really well now thanks to her. Anyway, it was awesome to meet his friends. They are super nice and we think at least one of them will be willing to take the lessons. We also are preparing Yeat Lai Hor (Our most recent convert) and Kim Chang Ho to receive the Aaronic Priesthood. While our less active turned super strong member in a few days, will be getting the Melchizedek Priesthood pretty soon! Bangeojin is seeing a lot of progression to becoming a ward. We are working hard here to try and turn the Ulsan Area into a stake. There has been lots and lots of progression. Super awesome!

Love ya and talk to ya next week!

Dinner with recent convert Yeat Li Hor (in white) his two friends (can't spell their names) Branch President (on left) sister from the branch (back row)

When you forgo lunch to "Feast" upon the word! (my desk is not usually that messy)

Life on the bus!

P-day with Elder Cronin.

Climbing on the rocks!

This week was pretty awesome! Two crazy things happened, the first being that I went on trainee exchanges with Elder Golden who was in the MTC at the same time I was. Both of us barely speak Korean and barely know how to get around. Plus the next day we had to make it to Daegu for a mission tour with an elder Whiting (from the 70) but more about that later. Anyway we rocked some proselyting and even taught an english lesson to a guy who barely speaks english and somehow we survived taking buses to the places we needed to go. I am super jealous of Elder Golden’s area, because right outside their apartment the have a free hot chocolate machine, so everyday they get free hot chocolate.... jealousyyyyyyy The next day of exchanges we had to travel to Daegu (about two hours away by bus) and we ended up being super late because the only Elder who knew how to get there was working out until we had to leave. His name is Elder Kim and he works out from 6AM to about 5 minutes before we have to get ready. We made it just in time to get to shake Elder Whiting’s hand though!! So we survived our trainee exchange!! It was a super great experience because it allowed me to realize I actually know more Korean than I thought, and it  was a real confidence booster for both me and elder Golden!!! Elder Whiting had a super good talk about receiving the holy ghost, my favorite quote was this: "We can either say when we wake up at 6:30 'I have to get up now so I can be obedient', or we can say 'I choose to get up now so that I can better have the holy ghost with me'" He had lots of other great quotes but my favorite part was when the three zones that were there all sang the closing hymn and the spirit was super super strong!!! I love being a missionary :)

Also we have some awesome senior missionaries named Sister and Elder Dustin, they made us a massive thanksgiving feast with American food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had mashed potatoes for the first time since the MTC!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!! Yayyyyyyyy!!!! And they were actual potatoes!!!!! :)

The second crazy thing, was when I played our branch president’s (Kim Young Ay) wife again in ping-pong and found out that she went easy on me last time we played. I started beating her this time and she just went crazy and smashed it like 50 times on me, and beat me.... I love the members here so much though!!! The one sister (Jang Mee Oak) who brought us cake for our birthday acted like a cheerleader for me and kept cheering me on then told me I improved. And the the Sister Kim Young Ay bought us a bunch of meat for a pity party, haha. She always calls me her baby missionary and Sister Jang Mee Oak always feeds me tons of food trying to get me to gain weight. I LOVE BANGEOJIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are way to nice to me here!!

The Christmas initiative is super fun as a missionary in Korea!!! We got special pass along cards and we have been giving a ton of them out. The Church gave out these cool little calendars to all the members and you scratch off each day and it tells you something to do. The first day was feed the missionaries...... hehehe. So we have had more than a few invites to members houses because of that:) Just yesterday I was able confirm Yeat Lai Hor a member of our church and it was super awesome!!!! I did it in english which was weird because I have been memorizing the blessings in Korean, but the words all just seemed to flow out when it came time to say them!! God knows and will help you if you have been trying hard! I was extremely nervous about doing it, but it went super well and he says he is extremely happy. "So happy he want cry" (His exact words) It is makes me so happy to bring such happiness to all these awesome people here in Korea!!! And he is such a good member already that he has decided to introduce 4 of his friends to us, and we are meeting them on Sunday! (He might even be bringing them to church) So we will be having another great week most likely. Yyyyyyy :) I am kind of sad that Korea doesn't go as hard as America for Christmas, that's one thing I miss a lot!! The Christmas spirit in America was sooo awesome!!! But I still think Korea has got the edge over Murica.. :) hehe I love being a missionary!! It is too much fun!!!!! :) I feel the spirit soooooooo much in everything I do!!! :) SO awesome!!! Love you all!!!! Have a great week and do work!!! :)

-Elder Davis