Mission Conference-Elder Oaks

Historic Korea Seoul West Mission Photo

Hey! I am having a killer week.
Our best investigator, Ee Sung Jeen, is planning to be baptized on the 28th. He will have to quit going to a study group that he attends on Sunday in order to be able to go to sacrament meeting though. We explained how important the Sacrament was and he felt like he needed to go. He also came to listen to Elder Oaks with us last Sunday.
It was awesome! There were over a thousand people in the chapel where the conference was held. There were several speakers before Elder Oaks including his wife. When he spoke it really caught everyone’s attention, because his voice was deep and loud. He told us about an experience a couple nights before on the day of his arrival to Korea. He said his wife’s legs had been hurting from the plane ride and then that night they were hurting so bad that she woke up and was crying and asked him to give her a blessing. He kneeled and prayed to know what to say and then gave her a blessing and within a few minutes she had fallen asleep and was snoring! He also talked about marriage and some other things, but that was the most memorable. Ee Sung Jeen said, "His words touched my mind."
We've been finding a lot of new people through English class lately. We used to put up these little English fliers at bus stops and stuff, but the street cleaning people would rip them all down every day. Now we are putting up posters instead and taping them on so good that they're basically laminated to the pole or wall. So far the street cleaners haven't been able to rip them off and we are getting a lot of calls off of them!
We had a mission wide conference last Friday which doesn't happen very often, so we knew it was for something special. President told us that in July, when he and Sister Burton's mission is over, our mission will be combining with the Seoul mission. Also, in March, one zone from our mission will become part of the Daejeon mission and the missionaries who are currently serving there will be in the Daejeon mission. One of them is my MTC companion Elder Pearson. The reason is because they need more missionaries in the rest of the world in areas like India or Africa, where one mission is baptizing 1000 people per month! So because our missions will be decreasing in number, they need to combine them. We were all pretty surprised to hear that, but if they need more missionaries somewhere else than its fine with us. It kind of reminded me of Helaman in the Book of Mormon when he needs more soldiers and supplies, but he doesn't complain because he figured that Moroni was probably in need also, in a different part of the land. So he and his army just prayed and had faith that they could maintain their cities with the means that they had and everything worked out well for them.
Well have a good week! I love you,
Elder Lufkin