Keep the Commandments

Today was the end of the transfer, but Elder Houston and I are staying in the same area. I'm glad.
We’ve had a good week. We have a couple new investigators who are doing well. Ho Ju Suk is getting baptized on Saturday. I'm way excited for him. We've been meeting with him every day this week. He said he feels happier now that he is following all of the commandments. That reminds me of Mosiah 2:41.
Last week Ee Dong He said he wouldn't be able to come to church for a couple months because he is too busy studying for his tests. We talked about it and told him how much happier he'd be and that he will do better in school if he follows that commandment. That night he called me up and said he decided he would come to church every week. I was pretty happy. We've got to be good friends and he comes with us to teach sometimes when we meet people his age. He talks to us about pretty much everything. The other night he was like, "I gotta admit it, you guys are my (good) friends." He referred his best friend to us and he is doing pretty well too.

I get your letters about once every 3 weeks. We only get mail when we go to big combined district meetings and stuff. It’s always good to get letters!
Well that’s about it. Thanks for the e mail. I love you!
Elder Lufkin

'Golden' opportunities....

I had an awesome week. Huh Ju Suk wants to get baptized on the 28th! He has progressed really fast and remembers everything he reads and everything we teach him really well. He lives close to our house so we visit him almost every day. We’re also teaching a new 18 year old kid. His name is Sheen Een Jay. He lived in Salt Lake City for a year with an LDS family as a foreign exchange student. He really liked going to church and mutual there. He said LDS people are a lot different than some because they live what they teach and just seem really pure and good. He has been back for 5 months and has been looking for some missionaries to show him where to go to church and stuff. I don't really know what all he's been taught yet.
We got to go to the Temple today. That was really good. I get more out of it every time I go. It makes me want to try and live better.

I wouldn't worry about North Korea too much. No one here is really worried about it. The ex president of South Korea jumped off a cliff and killed himself a couple weeks ago. That was pretty big news.
I had to buy some new shoes today too because I left mine on the subway. Dang it! I'm having a great time though. We have learned to cook some pretty good Korean food. We usually eat pretty well.
Well gotta go. I love you,
Elder Lufkin

Ping Pong and Cards

That is good you're getting some rain. How is Ben doing? Was he already done planting?
Ee Dong Hee received the Aaronic Priesthood last week and we got him a white shirt and tie so he can pass the sacrament. He came to all his classes last week for the first time and I think he'll keep on coming to all of them because he has a crush on his Sunday school teacher! Ha.
We've met with some of his friends and hopefully we can start teaching them regularly.
Huh Ju Suk is doing awesome. We played Ping Pong with him at the church the other night and he gave me some good pointers. He gets along really well with our members.
Today was way fun. We went to the Senior Missionary’s house and played 'Scum' and some other card games. They made us a really good lunch, too. They remind me a lot of Grandpa and Grandma Jones.
I went on splits this week again. I stayed in our area with Elder Jube. It was a really good day and everything went smooth.
Well that is about all the big news. I'm doing awesome!
I love you,
Elder Lufkin

"I LOVE GETTING MAIL!"

Elder Houston and Elder Lufkin at Seoul Temple

There are 8 stakes in our mission and there are 4 missions in Korea, so it has grown quite a bit since then. (Note from Elder L’s Mom- I wrote that I talked with Brother Jenkins who went to school with Myron and served a mission in Korea in the 70’s. He was serving when the first stake was formed). There's about 80,000 members in Korea but only about 10,000 are active.
Elder Houston and I are doing awesome. He’s easy to get along with. He's been here about 10 months. We ate some good lunch with that b day money. Thanks! He made me a b day cake, too.

Today, we went to the Mission Home to do "Pass Off" with the AP's.
Pass off is kind of a test on vocabulary, teaching, and scriptures. I passed it off today so that’s good. Now I have 3 bigger books to study and there is a test for each one of them. Elder Houston took the test on the 2nd book today.
I got my mail at the Mission Home. I LOVE GETTING MAIL! I haven't had a chance to read it yet though. We also finally got the conference Ensign in English! We've been waiting forever for it.
We have an awesome new investigator named Ho Joo Suh. He teaches English at an Academy here. He just wanted to learn English at first, but I think he's really interested in the church too. He has awesome questions and has been keeping all our commitments.
I've been studying Moses and Abraham a little bit lately. There is some cool doctrine in there! Do you know how Joseph Smith got the Book of Abraham? I'm almost done with Our Search for Happiness too. It’s a really good book. It explains our beliefs really well. I also read the Book of Mormon for about 30 minutes every day. I'm in 3 Nephi Chapter 18 right now.
Well, thanks for the letter. It’s good to hear from you! Tell Taylor to have fun at the concert and tell Bridger thanks for the awesome Picture. I love you.
Elder Lufkin