'Killer Week'

Thanks for sending the package for me. I haven't got it yet but I probably will at Zone Conference next week. About the Korean recipes, I wouldn't worry about it, I like the food you cook a lot better than Korean food. Ha!
Anyway, we've had a killer week. We've been finding a lot of new investigators and we got a few really good referrals last week. This transfer we've been doing a big variety of things each day and it makes it a lot funner. You get pretty worn out if you just do one thing for like 3 hours. Some of the things we've been doing are: bringing people into the church to teach them, playing basketball with school kids then teaching them, passing out stacks of English flyers at subway stations, setting up a church poster board advertisement thing and sitting people down to teach them, visiting less actives and members.
It's been a really fun transfer. Elder Rigby and I get along really well and he's really motivating.
I got your two letters and the cookie recipes. Thanks. I'll send you one back on P day.
Have a good week! I love you,
Elder Lufkin

First Week in Dong Jak Ward

This was my first week in Dong Jak Ward. My Comp, Elder Rigby, is our District Leader and my former trainer, Elder Houston, and Elder Lealuai are our Zone Leaders.
This area is awesome! Our house is sweet, there's ton's of good people on the street, our ward members are way nice and they help us a lot with missionary work. Elder Rigby is really fun to be around, too, and we get a lot done. We have two investigators that are progressing right now and we have a lot of other appointments set so we should be picking up a lot more investigators.
I guess you're probably back from your trip already. That’s cool you got to go to Nauvoo. I want to go back there some time when I get home. I have a favor to ask you...I'm on my last tube of toothpaste and the stuff they have here is really weird. It’s kind of like kids toothpaste and doesn't really do anything. Do you think you could send me some more tooth paste and also some deodorant? … you can't buy it here. Could you also send some measuring stuff like teaspoons, tablespoons, 1/4 cup, 1/2 cup etc? They use the metric system here so you can't really get that stuff. That would be too cool. Oh and thanks for the cookie recipe. Koreans love cookies so that'll be good to take some to our members to bribe them for referrals! Hope your vacation was awesome! Have a good week. I love you,
Elder Lufkin

New Area, Dong Jak - New Companion, Elder Rigby

I just got to my new area today called Dong Jak. I met my new companion Elder Rigby and we went together. It’s a new area for both of us so it'll be a cool experience. There's already one set of Elders in the ward and they are doing so well that the Pres. sent us over here too. Elder Rigby's a way cool kid and he seems like a really hard worker. I think we'll do really well together. He's from Bountiful Utah and has been in Korea for almost a year. I've already been here 6 months! That’s crazy. Our house is pretty sweet. It reminds me of a cabin even though its in the middle of the city. Its kind of small for 4 missionaries, but it'll be fun. We have a couple of balconies and a little barbeque on one of them.
So, we're starting from scratch in this area. We don't have any investigators right now and neither of us knows any of the members yet. It'll be cool to see what we can do.
My last week in Shin Wol was good. We had 2 people with pretty solid baptism dates for the 27th, so I hope they both go through with it. I'm gonna miss the members and especially Ee Dong He, Ho Ju Suk, and Shin Yong Ha, but they're all pretty solid so I think they'll be fine.

Ee Dong He and Shin Yong Ha

Ho Ju Suk and Elder Lufkin

Ho Ju Suk was especially good. We didn't have a ward missionary leader for quite a while and he didn't have a job for a month so he was teaching with us about 5 times a week. It was great. He's only been a member for 2 months.
Anyways, one of my Zone Leaders in this area is Elder Houston so that'll be cool. I'm pretty excited to work here. Well, that’s about all the news. I'll send you all my pics today or next week. Have a good week!
Love,
Elder Lufkin

District Leader, Elder Kappas from Springfield, UT -
Elder Jube from Provo, UT - Elder Sung from Herriman, UT -
Elder Lufkin from the GREAT STATE OF IDAHO

Milk & Cookies + Lemonade = New Investigators

Thanks for the pictures. The yard and house look way good! It looks like Ben's got things running pretty smooth too.
This has been a really good week. We had family home evening on Saturday night at the church and had a pretty good turnout. We had a lesson about the Book of Mormon then we ate cookies and milk and played ping pong. Ee Dong He and Sheen Yong Ha both came and now they want to read the BOM more than they did before. It was good.
On Monday, we did our 'lemonade finding activity' again and it was really good. The Zone leaders came too so there were 6 of us. We have to take a big tent and chairs, table, and a cooler and two big poster boards to the intersection where we do it so we throw it all on the cart that holds the chairs in the church gym and push it down. It is about a ten minute walk from the church. After we had been there for about an hour and a half some guys that work for the city came and made us leave, but it went good. Thanks for the $! That'll pay for 2 weeks!
We met a new investigator yesterday that called us from an English flyer and he wants to come to church on Sunday. His name is Kim Tae Hoon. He really liked the Plan of Salvation. He is 15 years old and has been going to school in Fiji to learn English. He's only home for a couple weeks so we'll have to meet him a lot.
Our other investigators are doing pretty good. Ee Jay Een got work off for the first time this Sunday so he can come to church. As long as he can keep coming to church he'll be able to get baptized in two or three weeks. I won't be here for that though. We had interviews with the President on Tuesday and he said I'm probably outa here. I won't know where until next Tuesday. It'll be good to go to a new area, but it (is sad) leaving the recent converts and stuff.
Today we are going to a Korean War Museum. I've heard it is pretty cool and we’re excited.

Lemonade Stand ??!!

It's been an awesome day and a really good week too. This transfer we've been doing English class and it is been going pretty good. On Monday we did a ‘finding activity’ on the street for people with English interests with the other 2 elders in our district. We set up a big tent and gave lemonade to people and gave out stuff about the Church, BOM, and English class. We already have 2 new investigators from that. We might start doing this activity once a week because it worked really well. It is a little expensive though.
Could you forward my emails to Dad and brothers and sisters? I'd appreciate it because I don't really have enough time to email everyone. So how’s the yard and grass outside the fence treating ya? How have you been watering the lawn?
Anyway, have an awesome week! I love you.
Elder Lufkin

Elder and Sister Knudsen

Elder and Sister Knudsen are also in our district. They're the senior missionary couple. We get to have district meeting at their house and they always make us lunch too. It is so good to have some American food! They are awesome too. It reminds me of going to Grandpa and Grandma Jones’ house.

Elder Kappas, Elder Jube, Elder Sung, Elder Lufkin, Brother and Sister Knudsen, Senior Missionaries

Sight Seeing and Attending the Temple

I'm in Pyun Tek right now by the American Army base. We came here for a couple hours to look around and get some souvenirs and Mexican food. It's been way fun. It feels like I’m in Mexico or Costa Rica!

This morning we got to go to the Temple too. That is always awesome.


An Yang and Kang Seo Zones attend the temple