Mission Christmas Conference and Christmas Parties

Hey Family!
I sure had a good Christmas! It was really nice being able to call home, too. Last week we had our Mission Christmas Conference on the 23rd, the Sam Cheong Ward Christmas party on the 24th, and then on Christmas Day we just had our zone all come to the mission office right by our house and we ate together and played games. It was a really fun and really busy week. Now I'm looking forward to just having a normal schedule and being able to focus on our investigators better.
We've picked up some really good new investigators lately. One lady named Song Young Mi called the sign by our church to meet with us. She wants to learn English and learn about the gospel with us. I guess she actually attended a baptismal service at our church in Australia a couple years ago and she said she felt a warm feeling and she received a good impression from our members. Also, the other night, I saw an old Investigator Progress Record in our area book and I called the first name on it and a girl answered and wanted to start meeting missionaries again. Her name is Jo Yoon Suh. She came to church on Sunday and we're meeting her again tonight.
Today we took some furniture and other house stuff to a couple of sister missionaries and moved some stuff out of their old house. Fun day! Ha ha. Well, now we're going to eat dinner. Have a good week!
Love,
Elder Lufkin

Preparing for Mission Conference and Transfers

Lunch with the Zone Leader


"The front of our house. In the background you can see our neighbors Buddhist temple thing"

Hey Family!
It's getting cold here! I've got my scarf and gloves back out again. We had a good week last week. Kim Myeong Sae is doing great and is planning to get baptized before the end of the year. He has to sacrifice a little bit though because the job that he is doing right now is tied in a lot with Buddhist stuff, so he feels like he needs to quit before he gets baptized. It's been pretty cool to see his conversion. He really already has a strong testimony that this church is Christ's church. It was only like 5 months ago that he thought Christianity was just some made up story from people, but he has changed a lot...especially through reading the Book of Mormon and praying daily and attending conference. He said he'll try to introduce some friends to us too.
On the 24th of this month were having a Christmas conference! Right now Elder Lee and I are getting ready for that and for transfers and the new missionaries that will be coming next week.
Everything here is going good!
I love you,
Elder Lufkin
PS Here's a scripture I read this morning that I really liked: Jacob 6:5

"I will be extending!"

I've heard that most people think that Korea is a dangerous place until they come here and see what it's like. The crime rate here is like zero and nobody's really concerned about North Korea. It's just a regularly occurring thing to have problems with North Korea.
President Lee's house is right next to our church which is about 5 minutes(by car) away from our house and the mission office. In the mission office we share a big office with the office Elders and then President Lee and a senior missionary couple each have their own office. The office Elders and us live together in a house that is next to the mission office. There's a church building right by our house too, but it's not being used right now. We have a bunch of trees so lately for exercise in the morning we've been sweeping leaves.
The leadership in the mission is like this: President Lee and 2 APs
10 Zones with one zone leader for each zone
2-3 districts in each zone with one district leader for each zone
So the district leaders report to zone leaders and then they report to us about stuff like: stats, training, permission or rules, and needs of missionaries. We just take care of everything that we can without asking president because he's so busy, but sometimes there are things that we don't know or that we need permission from him for. We still need accountability for our work, too, though so we still report to our district and zone leaders.
Shoot I've got to send a x mas package too! Time flies! I'll try and find you something good.
I heard back about the extension and they said yes!! They let me and Elder Hatfield, but denied another missionary.
Thanks, but I can't think of anything else that I need for Christmas.
Hope you have a good week!
Love,
Elder Lufkin

New Investigators

Hey Family!
We had another good week here in Han Gook!
We have been finding a lot of new investigators lately and are helping them to progress. Kim Myeong Sae is planning to get baptized on the 25th (yes! Christmas day).
He's doing really well, but we haven't had too much time to meet with him. He always shows up for church though! Among the new investigators we met are the office couple's next door neighbors who we visited with the couple missionaries and asked if they wanted to meet. Also there's a guy that we met on the street who goes to the "Unification Church" which is a really extreme Korean church. We also met a guy on the street named Go Suk Ir. He's a college student and is progressing really well right now.
My companion and I are doing awesome. It's nice to work with him because he's so diligent and is really obedient.
I heard that I'll be able to extend my mission one more transfer (a month and a half) so I'll be going home in March! That will give me about a month before school starts. I'm really glad. I'm excited to go home, but it would feel too early to go in February.
Well, have a great week!
Love,
Elder Lufkin