"Dream Team"

Elder Lufkin and Elder Heyrend at Seoul Temple

Hey everybody!
Things are going awesome in Korea! Elder Heyrend and I had a really good week. The other missionaries in our zone are doing awesome too. There are 8 other missionaries in our zone and Elder Heyrend and I think they're pretty much the "dream team." We are all meeting up at our church today, since we have a gym in ours, to play some games and eat some lunch during P day.
Lots of cool stuff happened last week. A lady named Lee Mi Oak randomly showed up to church last week and afterwards told us that she wanted to meet with us to learn English and learn the gospel. During the week we met her and found out that she had already met with missionaries before and she believes in Jesus Christ and that Joseph Smith was called as a prophet and that the Book of Mormon is true. We set a date for 9/12 for her to be baptized through the priesthood! She does have some weird concerns about things like the word Jehovah being used in the bible and stuff, but we should be able to resolve them.
Another cool thing happened when we went to meet our investigator from South Africa named Earnest. We went to his hair shop and he wasn't there yet, but the girl that was working told us that she had been baptized in Nigeria and was looking for our church in Korea. Her brother is actually a Stake President in Nigeria! She plans to come to church at the English branch next week and she's going to refer one of her friends to us! Pretty sweet huh!
The Lord is definately guiding people to us that need the gospel and us to them.
Elder Heyrend is pretty good at making Korean food so we made some good stuff last week. One thing that was really good is called Boo Day Chee Gay. It has hot dog, spam, onion, green onion, Raman noodles, rice cake, Kim Chi, and Tofu in it with some other Korean seasonings and rice on the side. It was soooo good! We usually still eat American food for breakfast though. I'm not hard core enough to eat Kim Chi right when I wake up.
Well that’s what I've been up to. Have a good week!
Love,
Elder Lufkin

New Companion-Elder Heyrend

Hey Lufkin’s,
Here's a pic is of Max. He had a great baptism and is doing great. A guy that he knows in his new branch baptized him. He goes to the English speaking branch which ends an hour after our church in a different area. We plan to keep on meeting him about once a week to teach him the new member lessons and also to help him learn some Korean. He works at a textile plant with a bunch of Koreans so it will be helpful for him.
We met some other new investigators from South Africa last week named Earnest and Lorita. They were a referral from the missionaries in South Africa. They had met the missionaries right before they came to work in Korea and Lorita has really wanted to come to our church. We meet them during the week and they're coming to the English branch for church next week.

Elder Wade is outa here and my new companion is Elder Heyrend from Ontario, Oregon. His dad is actually an anesthetic nurse and he is planning to do the same thing just like Jake. His dad enjoys it a lot. Elder Heyrend is way nice and easy going. He's been out for about 3 months less than me and was in the old Seoul mission before we combined. He and Jake have got me thinking about going into nursing too. It sounds like a pretty good deal.
On weeks that we go to the temple our p day moves to Tuesday in case you were wondering why I'm late e mailing you. We got to go to the temple today and it was really nice. I was able to think of some things that I want to improve on as a missionary and some goals/standards for when I get home. Afterwards we went to the mokyoktong which was really relaxing. Next we got some groceries to make some good Korean food at our house this week! We're teaching an English class every Tuesday night at our church so I'm going to prepare for that in a second. It's been pretty fun and we've found a lot of new investigators through it. The English class members even threw a party for elder wade last week when he went home.
I hope you're all doing well. I love you guys,
Elder Lufkin

Hey family,
It's been a good week here in Shin Dang! Yesterday at church Eem Sam Nyae got the gift of the Holy Ghost and her and her son already have tons of friends at church. Our investigator named Ee Gyung Bok also came to church yesterday for the first time! She's like 63 and doesn't have many friends and was never married so she enjoys meeting a lot and we help her learn English too. She doesn't want to be baptized yet because she feels like she got forgiveness from the father at her catholic church. Max from Uganda is doing great and his baptismal interview is today then he'll be baptized this Sunday. He has a really strong testimony of the Book of Mormon and wants to follow Christ so as we taught him commandments like The Word of Wisdom and The Law of Chastity he wanted to keep them even though it will be a little bit of a sacrifice for him.
Elder Wade is off to Utah this week and I will get a new companion on Wednesday. He has been really good to work with and has helped me round off some of my not so good personality traits. I think our whole zone will have a sweet new transfer.
I hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Lufkin
PS Am I looking skinny?

Hey Family,
I and Elder Wade sure saw a lot of miracles last week!
Sister Eem Sam Nyae's baptism went great yesterday. Her son Kim Joon Hee who's been baptized for about 6 months baptized her. It was a really good service and she has real desire to live the gospel. She said at the service that she was grateful to be reborn and have a clean start on life.
We also met an old investigator named Max yesterday that Elder Wade was meeting with his old companion and we set a baptismal date with him for the 22nd. It's a pretty cool story how we came back in contact with him. He was meeting with the missionaries about 6 months ago and he understood the message of the restoration of the gospel and felt like he needed to read the Book of Mormon to know if it was true or not. However, one day he just quit answering the phone and never called the missionaries back. Then, about a week ago, I was calling a guy from our English class named Max to set an appointment and to invite him to church and I accidentally called Max the old investigator. When he picked up he was really excited to talk to me and said that he couldn't meet, but that he'd come to church on Sunday. Later we found out that while he was meeting the missionaries 6 months earlier he had lost his phone and all of the numbers in it so he didn't know how to get a hold of the missionaries. Even though he wasn't able to meet with the missionaries he continued to read the Book of Mormon all the way through and felt that it was definately the word of God and that our message was true. Yesterday, when we asked him if he'd follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by some one holding the Priesthood authority, he said, "ya of course, it's true!" It was a pretty cool experience! Max is from a place called Uganda or something like that in Africa. His family is still there and he was pretty excited when we told him that the church was there and that if he got the Priesthood he could go back and baptize his family into the Church. It's pretty cool how the Lord works sometimes!
That was the highlight of the week, but we also were able to find a lot of new investigators last week. Some of them have a pretty strong desire to learn too. Our zone is all doing really well too. In the past this was one of the least baptizing zones in the Mission, but everybody is doing great now! I sure am glad to be here.
I know that the Lord is helping us and guiding us. It's hard to recognize when things aren't going well, but He's still there. I've really come to recognize that and the blessings that come from following His gospel.
I hope you guys are all doing great!
Love,
Elder Lufkin

Hey I hope you're all having fun at Lopez!(and Leslie and John in Norway!)
I had a way good week!
Yesterday Sister Eem Sam Nyae came out to church again with her son. She had a good time and is prepared to be baptized next week. She told us as she's studied the gospel and tried to repent her heart has changed and she has become more comfortable and peaceful in life. We also had a couple teenage girls named Pak Sun Young and Kim Yae Un come to church yesterday. The sister missionaries that used to work in this area referred them to us and they are doing really well. They read the Book of Mormon together and feel like its true! We plan to set a date with them for baptism next Thursday.
Our zone is doing really well lately. We have 4 assistants to the president and 2 office elders in our zone. In the past they hadn't done much missionary work because they felt like they were too busy with their other duties, but this transfer they have been doing pretty good. We have some sister missionaries in our zone that are really ripping it up. They have a desire to share the gospel with everyone and are seeing a lot of success in their area.
Lately we have received a lot of training on teaching by the spirit. It's seemed to help me a lot. Now I try harder to slow down and ask more inspired questions when we teach. It helps a lot to bring out people's concerns and help them to understand better.
Today Elder Wade and I are taking a subway for about an hour and a half to this place to get a custom made suit. I guess you can get pretty much whatever you want for about 110 bucks! Elder Wade really wants to go because he's only got 2 and a half weeks left in country. I'm not planning to get one though.
I've been kind of stressed out lately about different things and I read this scripture in the Book of Mormon that I really liked. It's Mosiah 4:11-12. I wrote it down on a piece of paper and taped it on the wall and I read it whenever I get stressed or frustrated about something. It's pretty good. There's an answer to pretty much any problem in the scriptures.
I love all of you!
Elder Lufkin