We met with a few new guys this week, the highlight of which is a
guy named NDY, who is an American stationed next to us at the army
base. He bought us hot chocolate and we had a really great discussion
about..basically everything. From medical school to foreign languages to
missions. He knows a ton about our church, some of the guys he's in
charge of on base are Mormons, and he said he can really see the impact
missions had on his RM troops. He was pretty straightforward that he's
comfortable in his belief and that trying to convert him is pointless,
but he started to ask really good questions, like how we study the book
of Mormon to help us. Do we read a specific story that applies to us or
do we just read from cover to cover?
We talked for a little over an hour, and thing I'm most grateful
for is that when he started to talk about his faith beliefs, I could
feel my testimony growing as he talked about examples of service from
the scriptures, etc. He's a really good guy, and he and his wife will
have us over for dinner later. We're really excited.
There's a less active in our area who's going through a really
rough time with losing almost everything he has, so the church is
stepping in to help, but I have to be the translator, the English branch
is helping, but they don't speak Korean. So we've been with him a lot,
and it's been kind of stressful, handling bills and forms, bank account
numbers and such, but all of that stress goes away when he looks in your
eyes and expresses his deep gratitude for what we do. When it talks
about the worth of a soul in D&C, and how great our joy will be if
we are to save but one soul, it's not just helping people make steps
towards baptism, but also helping them endure to the end. This man was
lost, and he's coming back, and it brings me so much joy to see him at
church, enjoying the atmosphere and the spirit.
Other than that, we just talk to people on the streets or subway. Our zone set a goal for us:
Give out 1,500 Book of Mormons by the end of the month. There are
16 companionships, so that evened out to 94 books in less than 4 weeks.
We have to give out 4 books a day to make the goal. That seemed
impossible at first, sometimes you can go weeks without giving one out,
but as my companion and I focus on introducing the Book of Mormon when
we talk to people, it becomes easy. We're well on our way to completing
our goal of 94 books, hopefully we can surpass that goal. I'll send a
picture of our tower of books, hopefully it'll be gone soon!
I love you all and hope you can find the opportunity to introduce someone else to the book of Mormon this week!
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