So this week was pretty insane!! It started off pretty normal, going to a cool market on p-day and buying super nice ties for 3 bucks and stuff like that for sooooooo cheap and all nice quality.

On tuesday we had a food kitchen service project that wais insane, and then we met with a Jehovah Witness investigator..... ughhh, so frustrating sometimes, bible bashing in english is hard enough. Luckily he is a really good guy and he actually wants to progress and is reading the Book of Mormon, kinda crazy! Some of the most powerful moments of testifying on my mission have been with that guy, and I have learned and strengthened my own testimony by testifying to him!!!

This week in our mission we had an emergency evacuation thing,  I don’t know what to call it but some emergency stuff,. luckily it was a drill, so it ended up being the whole mission meeting together at the headquarters and having an awesome meeting!! Our last big meeting with President Barrow :( It was an awesome meeting!!

The work in Korea is so close to the tipping point where it will just explode! So, so close, I’m working to push it over the top and I feel that it will happen next transfer!! We have been meeting with James Choi and Rachel this week and they are progressing extremely well!! The accepted the baptismal invite!! It was awesome when they did, because we had them read 3 Nephi 11 and 12 just for a reading assignment awhile ago and they read it and when we came around to talk about it, we asked what they learned and 최준호 (James) answered and said "It says that we all have to receive baptism! So it led perfectly into what we had been planning to teach that lesson!! This coming week we will meet with some members and they are so excited to meet them!!!  We think sometime next month they will be getting baptized!! So awesome!

Our other investigator 이호영 (Lee Hoyoung) came to church yesterday and most likely will get baptized next month as well, so awesome!! This week, sadly, we did not meet with 정원영 (Jung Wonyoung) because he got super busy with a test, so we can’t meet him for a few weeks, but he said after his test that he will get baptized!!! So awesome! Normally Korea doesn’t see lots of baptisms (Supposedly) so we are really close to becoming legendary here, 1 baptism a transfer is good let alone 4. Plus we have found lots more people who want to learn!!! It has been so awesome!!!! The work here in Korea is absolutely exploding!! Thank you everyone for your prayers! We couldn’t do it without the faith of the members of the church :) Love you all!! Have a great week!!!​

Mission conference. Can you pick out Elder Davis?

How about this one?

Wow time is going way way too fast. This week was so awesome!!! So it started out with the huge stake-wide physical competition and two of our investigators came with us and had a great time!! This week we were so busy with meeting people that we had no time to do anything!!!! We literally would go to an appointment then run home to get stuff for the next appointment or to eat then go to the next appointment!

This week we met with our new family investigators James and Rachel about 3 times! They are so kind and they are so accepting to the message. We teach them english for 30 mins then do a lesson, they aren't great at english but they really want to learn. The wife Rachel is really interested in eternal families and loves how our church thinks family is so important. We also met a new guy his name is 이호영 (Lee Ho Young) and he is a super ripped guy who is really interested in learning about religion!

So our family investigator came to church this sunday and the ward was really really good at fellowshipping them. It was really funny that night because we had a ward fellowshipping activity in which Brother Lee and another investigator Brother Kong came, our bishop was in awe, because in the transfers before they hadn’t seen much stuff from the missionaries before so when they saw us going really hard he was in awe and just kept saying to our first counselor “wow, our missionaries are crazy.... wow our missionaries......” It was really funny because our awesome first counselor just expected that from me and the other missionaries.

We are hoping to have around 4 baptisms pretty soon, which for Korea is insane, or at least it used to be! The mission is seeing tons of miracles because we are using our faith and there are so many prayers for the korean people. I hope that you guys pray for the korean people. They need this gospel and they need the faith of all members that there can be baptisms here in Korea. I know that the mission can baptize every week because President Barrow said that and he receives revelation for our mission. I’ve been so busy lately that we have little time to proselyte, which is one of my favorite things to do, so I sometimes get frustrated with all our appointments, haha. I just want to go find more people!!!! I love being sooo busy, and being sooo tired. It’s so fun, missionary work is the greatest blessing in my life right now!! I love it so much!! Love you all Have a great week!!!

--Elder Davis

Photo from a baptism in Bangeojin

So this week was awesome!!! We saw so many miracles!! First off, I will tell of one that happened first. President Barrow came out with an announcement that had us start studying outside for language study and part of companionship study as an effort just to get more people to see us when we normally would be inside our house! While we were doing language study outside, randomly a guy came up to us, and we kind of knew him as we had talked to him before, and gave us his card and said he would like us to come by his restaurant so we can talk more later. And then literally 10 seconds after that, while we were still in shock about what had happened another guy came up and sat by us and talked to us for 40ish minutes about life and stuff! It just goes to show how inspired out mission president is!!

So the next miracle was when we were texting one of our investigators 남태원 (Nam Teh Won) because he had been in Seoul for a week taking some test to get into college, and we were asking how his school test went when he randomly invited himself to this big Stake activity that we hadn't told him about... Super crazy and awesome!! And the last one, is a couple that have started investigating, their names are 최준호 (Choi Jun Ho) and his wife 김혜진 (Kim Hae Jiin), they sort of just randomly called us because they had learned english from missionaries 3 years ago, and they decided they want to learn english from us as well as start coming to church!!

The investigators I talked about last week are progressing fine, they hopefully all come to this big Busan Stake physical competition tomorrow and have a blast and meet some members!! This week was super awesome!!! I'm excited to see what else this next week will bring!! God always blesses you when you are doing what you should be, even when it doesn't seem like it will work out, when we trust God, something good will always happen!!!

Quickly I want to tell a funny story that happened last night. We were walking around trying to find an apartment, when we were walking down a kind of old ghetto part of town, and I found a random soccer ball on the street, and for some reason, without really thinking my body just kinda took it, so here i was possibly stealing some little kids soccer ball, but for some reason I just felt like I really really needed that ball. So we walked a little ways down this street when we here some guy say 여기 (which means here in Korean) So we turn around and see three Sri Lankan guys, and started passing the ball with them, and we talked with them and everything and they are now potential investigators, it was really funny because I basically stole a ball, and because of that we now have 3 potential investigators.... Me and Elder Hurtado now call it the Jundo (Proselyting) Ball. Well that was my week!! Have a great week! Love You all!!!!

--데이비스 장로

Busan South Zone at the beach for a p-day activity