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Wow this week was a lot different from the past 4ish months!! Being with a korean companion is very fun!! Something awesome that I found out, is that I can now carry on a conversation in Korean with no English!! I am now officially speaking Korean :) Yay!!! So sorry for the lack of pictures and lack of email last week, but it was insanely. Elder Pak (new companion) is from Incheon and he is super awesome!!

This week (the beginning at least) wasn’t super exciting, I had to show elder Pak around the area and show him what’s what, which was kinda stressful trying to tell him all the info he needs in Korean, but it worked, so now things are smooth!! We got to go to Busan because Elder Pak is the District leader and he had to go to a training meeting, so I got to go on a 2 hour split with elder Haskell, (he was in my MTC district) and it was awesome to go out and proselyte with him and get work done!! We have both improved our Korean a lot and he is a super good missionary!! I won’t be surprised if he becomes AP at some point!! (AP's are some of the best missionaries!!)

Nothing really too crazy happened until Friday. We met with a mom and her two children who are doing something called the 30/30 program, which is 30 minutes english and 30 minutes gospel message, and it went awesome!!! Originally she was a referral from an awesome member and when me and elder Cronin taught them she wasn’t there because she was busy, and the children were kinda weirded out by our message. But then this week, it went very well, and she might be coming to church this next sunday!!! Later Friday night and part of Saturday we got to watch a devotional with Elder Holland, and it was possibly one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my whole life!!! Elder Holland is hilarious!!! But it was also super uplifting too!!! Everyone should watch it!! The link is here http://www.lds.or.kr/event/devotional-with-elder-holland! Other than that not much happened that day!

But Sunday..... Oh dear Sunday...... Church was awesome and I love our members!!! But later in the night, while we were proselyting we came across a man, I said hello and he jolted up with a crazy look in his eye. I was worried but we could tell he needed the gospel so we started talking to him, and he was pretty crazy, and he was insanely drunk! At one point we gave him a card and he said Elder Pak was Jesus, and we kept telling him we represent Jesus, and then he gave Elder Pak a hug and kissed his neck. Then he looked over to me, gave me a hug and kissed me too. After that he told us “let’s pray”, so in the middle of a busy sidewalk in Bangeojiin South Korea, we knelt down with a drunk man and said a prayer. It was possibly one of the most spiritual experiences I’ve had on my mission, the Spirit was strong and I could feel God’s love for this man. When we finished the prayer, he was very serious and was crying and said how thankful he was to us for speaking to him, he said that we better call him later and we promised we would! I never expected that something like that would happen to me, but I’m very grateful that it did. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to be serving the Lord and helping the people of Korea!!

I’m excited for this upcoming General Conference because Elder Choi (of the 70, and only Korean in the 70) will be speaking and I have had the privilege to talk to him before. I know he is called of God and I love him so much, I also know that President Monson is the true prophet, and I fully sustain him and the other general authorities! I hope you all watch the devotional because it was amazing, and super funny ^^ I love Korean people so much!! Love you all too!! Have a great week!! :)

Saying goodbye to Elder Cronin.

Elder Pak Heeyoung

Bangeojin missionaries eating lunch.