So this week may have been the most crazy week I have ever had in my life. We were super busy all week and saw some crazy insane miracles!! I will start off with the awesome news of our investigator Brother Hwangs baptism!! It went really well and I had the opportunity to baptize him!!! It was really great but had a rocky start because he initially failed his baptismal interview, and needed an interview with our Mission President because of some things in the past, but luckily I later called to President Jeong and we talked about what had happened and he ok'd him for baptism!! So we baptized him Saturday at around 4:30 and he was confirmed yesterday in church!! It was an awesome experience being able to teach him and watch him progress!! It was awesome to give this area that I love so much a baptism!! They haven't seen one in over a year so they were so happy!!! I have seen so many miracles come from this area it's crazy!! All the hard work is really starting to pay off!! This is definitely the hardest area I have been in, but i love it here so much and am so glad o be staying for a 4th transfer!!!

So the other miracle is so insane I can't believe i am saying it. So, to start off here in Busan mission the stat of getting investigators to church is real important, because it doesn't happen a whole lot.  Like it’s awesome when you can get 1 and you feel really proud of yourself and like you are doing a good job, because you are. So yesterday we ended up getting 8 investigators to church..... In Sacheon.... The branch was freaking out and so happy, and to be honest I was too. President Jeong called us when he heard and wanted to know how on earth we did that. Elder Aubrey is knew so he doesn't really know how crazy that was, and I think he is planning on it being that way for the rest of his mission which is awesome, his faith, and expectations are really high, and that's where it all begins!!! Most of the investigators who came are all middle schoolers who really love us and we play basketball with them often! We were worried they wouldn't pay attention during sacrament, but they payed attention so well haha I was so surprised!! This week was a really fruitful week and I am grateful to God for helping us out, because there is no way we could be doing any of this on our own!!!

Other than that, this week I ate the most dangerous food I have ever eaten in my life!! I ate puffer fish, like the fish that blows up with spikes and poisons you and kills you, and if the people prepare it wrong you die, yeah that puffer fish... It was real delicious!

Elder Aubrey really loves tennis and we got him a free 150 dollar racket... haha I guess im passing down my get expensive free stuff trait to him.... hahah this week was great!!! Love you all so much!!!
   
So the scary picture of someone in some face paint and stuff is actually a lady... its some korean traditional weird dancing and singing stuff that scares the daylights out of babies.... and me... hahahaha

Hey everyone!!

This week was super great! We worked a lot with Brother Hwang in order to prepare him for his baptism this Saturday!!! It is so exciting to be preparing him to make his first covenant with God!! It is real fun to teach him because we in turn get to learn a lot about the bible and his thoughts because he really loves the bible and really likes to tell us about his thoughts and the bible!! I have learned a lot from him. His baptismal service was changed from this sunday to this Saturday, because they want him to be confirmed the following Sunday and it is hard for his family to attend on Sunday, so we will be holding the service this saturday in Jinju at 5PM Korea time.

This week was still full of eating tons of food with members and investigators and this coming week is also full. I talked with our Zone leader and he said it’s because God really wants elder Aubrey to eat lots of good stuff in the beginning of his mission. Everyone is really surprised when we save we have meals everyday for the past 4 weeks. It is insane. Hopefully Elder Aubrey keeps it up his whole mission hahaha also for last pday we went with our district and went to this luge place that was so much fun!!! I will send some pics!!!

Last week we went to a dinosaur museum with a potential investigator!! It was pretty great1!! haha so some of the pictures you see are from that!!

This past week we had interviews with President and his wife Sister Kim told me I looked like a zombie.... hahahaha but luckily we have officially fixed my stomach so I can now sleep at eat normal again!!! Yaaaayyyy no more falling asleep at 1-2AM at night and waking up 4 hours later :) Now that my stomach is finally almost 100 percent better I am really excited to work super super hard in this last week of the transfer!! Time flew by so crazy fast!! I should be staying here since I am training but you never know what God has in store!! Sacheon is a real hard area but I love it here sooo much and wouldn't mind another 1-3 transfers here :) I love the members here so much!!! I am really excited to see what goes down this next week!!

Love you all!!! Have a great week!!

Also the pick of the cute little girl is the daughter of our investigator Bro Hwangbo Yunsoo, he is super awesome and she is basically an american girl haha she was born and raised in america for 5 years its really fun meeting with them!! Also the pics of the house are our branch presidents new house that we are remodeling haha, its soooo much fun, i honestly want to go there like every day hahahaha best service project ever!!!

This week was awesome!!!! So to start things off I will let everyone know of one of the most legendary things that has every happened in my mission and maybe all of Korea Busan mission. So we live out here in Sacheon area which is really countryside right?? Which means we shouldn't get fed that often, and in Korea eating with members is not to common of a thing, especially in areas where there is only like 15 members. But, for the past 2 weeks, and this coming week we have been fed everyday at least once.... it is crazzzzzyyyy~~~~ ㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎ

Anyways This week was a really great week!!! So we started it off with a pday that was full of ping pong and what not, we got an awesome meal that night by some older lady who likes the missionaries, and feels bad for us so she wants to feed us lots.

Tuesday we went out with a member to a really nice buffet! And at this buffet they have things called passion fruit and I really love them, so I eat 17 of them at that time, it was so delicious hahahah.

Wednesday we went on exchanges with Tongyeong elders, Elder Johnson and Elder Baldwin (Elder Baldwin is Jed's cousin who went to Snake river BTW) I went with elder Johnson and we met a crazy awesome guy who is named richard and he bought us tons of food.The next day nothing to special happened we just got fed chicken that night.

Friday we went to Namhae island to meet our investigator brother Hwang!! We met him with his daughter and this is wear the miracle came in~ So we taught him the whole first lesson, and once we finished he and his daughter went off for like one hour and it was crazy cause they speak so fast and I try to understand but it was so hard hahaha, anyways I could understand little bit and pieces but I couldn't tell if he was accepting what we taught well or not. Anyways they finished talking and his daughter told me "He will get baptized" And then she offered an awesome prayer and we extended the invitation right after that. He will be baptized the 29th of this month!!! It is awesome to see how the spirit worked on him, because when me and Elder Schimbeck first meet he had no interest really but now to see him accepting the gospel is awesome!!!

Then on Saturday we finally got to meet with Brother Hwnagboyunsoo and his daughter Seogyeong after like five weeks of not being able to meet!!!! I missed them so much and Seogyeong is the cutest girl ever hahahah, she is one of my best friends in Korea, I can't wait till they accept the gospel, they are so awesome!! Later that night our branch president's daughter just barely got back from the Seoul south mission so we had a big meeting with all single adults, and ate and talked about missionary work!! It was awesome!!! This was an awesome week, and I am excited to see what the coming weeks hold for us!!

Wow this past week was insane! I am not sure I have ever eaten so much food in my life... hahahah. It was Chuseok, or Korean thanksgiving last week and it was awesome!!!

Tuesday we went out to the middle of nowhere to meet with and investigator and were able to share a short message of the book of mormon and give him a copy and ask him to read it!! He said he would and so we will see how it goes from there, his name is Son Won Seop. Maybe I have mentioned him before but he is an old guy who used to teach orchestra at a foreigner high school in Sacheon!! And he literally lives out in the middle of nowhere.... hahah 1 bus every 2 hours is the only way to get out to him.

Anyways on Wednesday it was thanksgiving day so President Jeong asked all the zones to do some sort of cultural activity on that day! So we went to a big popular festival in Jinju and had a great time! We also had to take some pictures with some random people so it was fun, and that’s what some of the pictures I will send are!

Then on Thursday we went to Busan and had a big physical competition with Busan zones!! It was pretty fun, but  sadly because of my knee and stomach issues I couldn't participate much but it was a great time!!

Friday we literally spent the whole day at our Branch president's house remodeling. It was actually a super fun time and we ate some really great food for lunch and dinner. For dinner we ate some raw beef, it was actually super good (I will send a picture)

Saturday was a day spent watching general conference and then helping a member home teach and eating with him, it was an awesome day!! I loved President Nelson’s talk in the Saturday session about the Book of Mormon, and I now have set a goal to make sure to read the Book of Mormon everyday for the rest of my life!! I want to make sure that If I were ever offered anything of greater worldly worth, I would choose the Book of Mormon!!

Sunday was a day of conference as well and It was great to learn and be taught from the apostles of Jesus Christ. I loved this week!!! There are many pictures since I haven't sent many for awhile! So the ones with the elder who isn't my companion Elder Ockey was when we ate dog, so that soup is dog meat :)

So this week was great! Sadly, due to the Korean thanksgiving holiday, I cannot send pictures because the city hall is closed today and the rest of the week but next week there will be lots!!

So this week I got to go on exchanges in Geoje with Elder Ockey (from my MTC district) And we decided to do something really crazy, first off in his area there is a krispy kreme donut place, so I bought possibly the most unhealthy food I have ever eaten... 400 calorie donuts...... Sooooo good..... Then after some proselyting we decided for a dinner we would eat dog, so we went and had some dog soup and it was actually quite delicious (Except when we had to eat the skin, and some weird liver looking thing..) And after that we met with a less -active member and ate some live octopus while preparing for english class. Randomly an investigator came in with some domino's pizza (SOOO expensive here), so we feasted that day. Sadly the next morning when we were about to de exchange, some random Jehovah’s Witness lady came out of nowhere trying to bible bash us. Elder Ockey said it was like the first time he met one in his area. In my mission I’m known for finding really rich people who buy me stuff, or for attracting Jehovah’s Witnesses wherever I go. The lady was so creepy too, I have chills just thinking of her.

Anyways this week we met again with brother Hwang, our investigator who came to church last week and it was so awesome! We taught about the Book of Mormon and he said this "I truly only need the Bible in my life, but because I know this book is a good book, I will read it and pray about it". It was sooo awesome!! Later on Saturday, I called him up just to see how he was doing and he randomly told me to get him a ride to church, because his daughter is out of town for the holiday! SO he came to church, and he really loves it!!! He made a really good friend with one of the members because we had to help him fix his door and we went with Brother Hwang and his daughter to do it. It was an awesome experience!

This week was an awesome week! Can't wait to see what is in store for this  coming week!! Love you all! There will be lots of pics next week!! Promise <3