• New baptism! I'm transferring! We won in soccer!
Dear Family,
We had another killer week in Sin Dang!
Kim Jin Young, the 21 year old kid, set a goal to be baptized on October 10th! He has a lot of desire to follow Jesus Christ and keep His commandments, but it will be hard for him to quit smoking. We're going to try and meet up with him every day to help him stay strong. He came to church on Sunday and had a good time and learned a lot from the lesson in Elders Quorum. We will also meet up with him today and eat lunch together.
Pak Rae Un and his family are doing well too. He and his wife can't come to church yet because they have an English class on Sundays for the next two months, but they sent their kids to church yesterday and they liked it pretty well. They are 10 and 13 years old. The older kid actually was already friends with another member in our ward.
Elder Heyrend and I have been having a good time serving together. He's pretty laid back and he's a really easy person to get along with. Our zone has all been doing really well too and we're all pretty tight. It's too bad that the transfer's over and our zone will be changing up a lot. I heard last week that I'll actually be transferring tomorrow. I'll be serving as an assistant to President Lee in the mission office area called Sam Chung. It's actually in the same zone that I'm right now. I'm pretty excited to serve around President Lee and see how everything works. I'm gonna be pretty busy though I think. I'll get to drive for the first time in a year and a half, so that'll be fun! My companion is a Korean Elder named Kim Joon Young. I'm excited to be able to work with him. Back when I was with Elder Rigby, he told me that Elder Kim is the best teacher he ever served with.
Last week on P-day our soccer tournament was awesome! Our zone won the soccer tournament so we got prizes from the other zones then we played ultimate Frisbee and our team took it too! My legs were pretty sore for a couple days, but it was worth it!
Everything here is going awesome. Time has been flying by like crazy. I hope you're all doing good!
Love,
Elder Lufkin
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Korean Thanksgiving Holiday-Chu Suk
Hey!
Thanks for all your emails and sweet pictures! All my nieces and nephews are changing a ton!
We had a really good week! We're meeting 2 young guys and a family right now that are all progressing well and are really interested in the gospel. Especially one of the two guys. He is a 21 year old named Kim Jin Young. We ate dinner with him last night at our stake president’s house and had a reeeaaaally good lesson. He felt like living the gospel is what he needs to do and is going to try and find out if it's true or not through prayer and reading the Book of Mormon. He hasn't been to church yet, but he's committed to come next week and I think he'll probably be able to be baptized in about a month.
We saw a lot of success at a college earlier in the week with finding people to teach, but as we met a couple of them for the 2nd time they turned out to not be very good. One of them was actually a pastor from Africa and when we met the 2nd time he tried to teach us a sermon! We had another experience that was kind of similar last week too. It seemed like Satan was working extra hard to try and discourage us, but it actually motivated us to go and find some people that were actually prepared to hear the gospel. It also strengthened my testimony of the doctrine of the gospel as I studied about some of the things that other churches don't believe like the need for prophets and the qualifications for a prophet.
Next week is a holiday here called Chu Suk. It's like Thanksgiving and it is 3 days long. Most Koreans go to there hometowns during it so a lot of our investigators won't be able to meet. Our mission is having a soccer tournament and a training meeting/dinner during the holiday. For the soccer tournament each zone is a team. Our zone ordered some sweet soccer jerseys, shorts and socks for 20 bucks a piece. If we don't win, at least we'll look good! I'll send ya some pictures!
Have a good week! Love,
Elder Lufkin
Thanks for all your emails and sweet pictures! All my nieces and nephews are changing a ton!
We had a really good week! We're meeting 2 young guys and a family right now that are all progressing well and are really interested in the gospel. Especially one of the two guys. He is a 21 year old named Kim Jin Young. We ate dinner with him last night at our stake president’s house and had a reeeaaaally good lesson. He felt like living the gospel is what he needs to do and is going to try and find out if it's true or not through prayer and reading the Book of Mormon. He hasn't been to church yet, but he's committed to come next week and I think he'll probably be able to be baptized in about a month.
We saw a lot of success at a college earlier in the week with finding people to teach, but as we met a couple of them for the 2nd time they turned out to not be very good. One of them was actually a pastor from Africa and when we met the 2nd time he tried to teach us a sermon! We had another experience that was kind of similar last week too. It seemed like Satan was working extra hard to try and discourage us, but it actually motivated us to go and find some people that were actually prepared to hear the gospel. It also strengthened my testimony of the doctrine of the gospel as I studied about some of the things that other churches don't believe like the need for prophets and the qualifications for a prophet.
Next week is a holiday here called Chu Suk. It's like Thanksgiving and it is 3 days long. Most Koreans go to there hometowns during it so a lot of our investigators won't be able to meet. Our mission is having a soccer tournament and a training meeting/dinner during the holiday. For the soccer tournament each zone is a team. Our zone ordered some sweet soccer jerseys, shorts and socks for 20 bucks a piece. If we don't win, at least we'll look good! I'll send ya some pictures!
Have a good week! Love,
Elder Lufkin
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Stake Conference
Hey everybody!
It's been an awesome week! Yesterday was our Stake Conference and it was really good. Elder Choi from the 70 was there and also a Japanese guy that is from one of the quorums of the 70. They talked a lot about member missionary work and attending the temple. In one of the talks they said, "It's the member's job to find investigators and the missionary's job to teach them." Ee Gyung Bok came to it and sat with us.
We've been teaching a really good new family. The father's name is Pak Lae Un and there is a mom and two sons. They are the ones that walked up to our church a couple weeks ago and asked if they could park in the parking lot and then they asked if we could teach them and their kids some English. We've been meeting them twice a week and are teaching them English and about the gospel. They really like the gospel so far and have started praying together as a family almost every day. They had a negative image of churches before, but they can see that our church is a lot different than other churches here. They can't come to church yet because they have an academy on Sundays, but hopefully they will be able to cancel it in the future.
The weather here is getting better. Not so hot anymore. It is still raining a lot, but my Hush Puppies are still pretty water proof. My Eccos have a tear in them though cause I wore only them for over a year. Do you know if Eccos have a warranty?
Me and Elder Heyrend are doing good. It's been a fun transfer so far. We've found some good new investigators lately. We find a lot through calling old investigators, street contacting, English class, and we get some referrals once in a while.
I hope you're all doing well! I love you,
Elder Lufkin
It's been an awesome week! Yesterday was our Stake Conference and it was really good. Elder Choi from the 70 was there and also a Japanese guy that is from one of the quorums of the 70. They talked a lot about member missionary work and attending the temple. In one of the talks they said, "It's the member's job to find investigators and the missionary's job to teach them." Ee Gyung Bok came to it and sat with us.
We've been teaching a really good new family. The father's name is Pak Lae Un and there is a mom and two sons. They are the ones that walked up to our church a couple weeks ago and asked if they could park in the parking lot and then they asked if we could teach them and their kids some English. We've been meeting them twice a week and are teaching them English and about the gospel. They really like the gospel so far and have started praying together as a family almost every day. They had a negative image of churches before, but they can see that our church is a lot different than other churches here. They can't come to church yet because they have an academy on Sundays, but hopefully they will be able to cancel it in the future.
The weather here is getting better. Not so hot anymore. It is still raining a lot, but my Hush Puppies are still pretty water proof. My Eccos have a tear in them though cause I wore only them for over a year. Do you know if Eccos have a warranty?
Me and Elder Heyrend are doing good. It's been a fun transfer so far. We've found some good new investigators lately. We find a lot through calling old investigators, street contacting, English class, and we get some referrals once in a while.
I hope you're all doing well! I love you,
Elder Lufkin
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Standards of Excellence
We had such a good week! It started out pretty bad because pretty much all of our investigators but 1 or 2 dropped and we had no appointments really planned out during the week. But...we saw some miracles in finding and met a new family that we are going to start teaching and we also met this kid named Jin who is 21 and wants to learn about our church.
Sister Ee Me Oak, who was planning to get baptized next week was one of the ones who dropped. Hopefully later on she'll change her heart.
Ee Gyeong Bok is a grandma that really likes learning English from us and really enjoys having some friends. She is reading the book of Mormon and comes to church every week as long as we pick her up. She's not ready to get baptized yet though.
The rest of our zone did really awesome last week too. Last week our zone's stats averaged above what is called the "standards of excellence" which means everybody worked really hard and saw a lot of success. It's the first time I've heard of an entire zone doing that so Elder Heyrend and I were pretty stoked!
I gotta go buy a soccer jersey now for our mission soccer competition in a couple weeks. I love all you guys!
Elder Lufkin
Sister Ee Me Oak, who was planning to get baptized next week was one of the ones who dropped. Hopefully later on she'll change her heart.
Ee Gyeong Bok is a grandma that really likes learning English from us and really enjoys having some friends. She is reading the book of Mormon and comes to church every week as long as we pick her up. She's not ready to get baptized yet though.
The rest of our zone did really awesome last week too. Last week our zone's stats averaged above what is called the "standards of excellence" which means everybody worked really hard and saw a lot of success. It's the first time I've heard of an entire zone doing that so Elder Heyrend and I were pretty stoked!
I gotta go buy a soccer jersey now for our mission soccer competition in a couple weeks. I love all you guys!
Elder Lufkin
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