06/28/2010

Hey family!

Wow, quite the stories for this week. Sounds like this year's Manti trip was really the epic one. That's not talking about the show itself either. XD Glad to hear the trip was good this year, without the side effect of a big scary man taking our spot. >:( Toy Story 3 is now out? Huh, that's cool, pixar has yet to fail us.

This week was good! I did a lot of work this week and met with a General Authority! Elder Ringwood of the 70. He was really cool! I got to shake his hand and talk to him for a bit, he talked a lot about preparing for everything. That if we are prepared the Lord will put people that are waiting in our path. It was a really good talk.

This week is Transfer Calls this Friday, The prediction is this: Elder Grover will leave and I will stay. I will let you all know what happens next week.

Last P-Day you were all informed I went ice skating. I liked to inform you that I walked away with no injuries. Also I got pics. :3 It was a lot of fun. I actually got really good, or Zone Leader Elder Choi ice skated before his mission so he taught a little how to skate. Also while on the ice one of the elder's wore his mission clothes so we decided to make "Missionaries on Ice." Oh it was really funny! We thought of these songs I wish we recorded them they were epic. Some of the songs were: "I hate ice," "전도ing," "I love the Koreans," and "Trunky" oh man it was funny hearing us. Wish you could've seen it.

Lately Grover and I have been working a lot on Less Actives and the program "To the Rescue" have you guys heard of it over there? Just curious it's apparently world spread. Also special prayers to our R.C. he hasn't been able to come out to church for a few weeks so we need your prayers to help him out.

Also the world cup is done over here. Now let me tell Koreans are really crazy for this game. There have been 4 games and we keep hearing people yell "대한미국!" Or Big Korea Team! We can't sleep at night when these games happened. When they won, everyone the next day would walk around all proud, and yesterday when they lost everyone was so down. It was hilarious to watch. Now if America had that kind of unity of pride...oh we'd be in trouble.

But yeah that's going around here, we have hit rain season again...meaning lots of humidity and lots of wet socks. But it's not as bad as last year surprisingly so it's all good.

Well that's it for this week :D

06/14/2010

Hey family!

Welcome back to the wonderful Monday p-day. Hopefully you all like having it on Monday again...or not. D: Well I sort of gave you the weeks detail last email so this will be brief I guess.

I did go out as I said and bought music....in fact a lot of music D: 60,000 W ($50) worth D: And....I can't listen to any of it till after my mission XD be prepared by mail. ;)

A lot of you have been curious of WHY we did this whole Thursday P-day and switch it back to Monday sort of thing. Well back when I was the secretary all the other missions had a meeting on Monday for president and recommended that he switch the pday as well. We all thought it be good but, it sort of cause a lot more problems. We had to change the flight times for the returning missionaries, transfer day was different, and a lot of missionaries would have to change their schedules for the new pday. So recently the area presidency came down and told all the missions that they needed to change their p-days back to Mondays. So we did and hence here we are. Now this rises the question does this mean I still come home on a Saturday or not? The answer: Don't care. ;)

Masan continues to do well, we have a bunch of investigators now due to exam season is finally over. I have president interviews this Wednesday always a fun thing. Looking at our schedule we are going to be really busy this week....well I hope we are. :D We're looking at least 25 lessons this week if we are diligent. Elder Grover continue to try to work and play the mediator with our district. (he's the DL) So we have to help each other or we both get tired very quickly. (We almost always fall asleep at 10:30 these days.

That's happening to us. oh yeah funny moment: You all remember Yu-Gi-Oh right? Well little kids here (including teenagers) love this game....and they have now gotten my companion addicted that he has bought a deck and duels kids on the street. (works too!) The sad thing is that I have to teach him because he's a rookie and I once played the game...I'm such a bad influence. XD

06/03/2010

Hey family!

Wow, this week went fast and a lot of news to talk about with a little bit of time.

I am no longer Elder Harken for I am 하승진 장로! (Elder Ha Sung Jin) I always wanted a Korean name and this is the outcome pretty cool huh? 승: Victory, 진: Truth 하:....(N/C) So greetings :D I even know the Chinese for it :D Actually I still use my regular "하켄" But now I have a real Korean name. Weeee!

So things were crazy this week! First on Tuesday we had Zone Conference early due to the fact later this month we are having a General Authority come visit us! Elder Ringwood is coming to visit us some time around June 21st. w00t! (Aka Quorum of the 70's)

Also another big announcement is that starting maybe July (maybe unsure yet) We are moving P-Day's BACK to Monday's Meaning: early emails? ....maybe. So yes next month (or next transfer we are switching back) cheers!

Zone Conference was good as always. We've been talking about the new program "To the Rescue" and basically preparation for our new greenies that are coming in August! 13 in August and possibly 5 in September. Quite a number huh? ㅋㅋㅋ

On Wednesday we had a HUGE sports day. All of my Zone came to play with the Masan Stake (My Stake) and it was awesome. They truly put our sports day in our Stake ashamed. (That's a bold statement) It was all day and I''m proud to say I did not get burned at all ha!

Due to the craziness we haven't been able to meet with our baptism candidate but we contact him to see how he is doing. Were really excited.

I have now found a new excitement in studying the scriptures. My Zone Leader and I were talking one night about Gospel studying and literally what we talked about made my gears to start to click. It was really cool and now I have a real excitement to study the scriptures it's kind of thrilling. :D

As the camera goes Elder Grover did take some pics of sport day, but it's with him and I'm on splits right now....so um no pics sorry. But, it sounds to me after talking to dad, "Drop it in the garbage can and buy a new one...." Well, Sister Patterson (my sister missionaries) is good at camera knowledge maybe she can give me a hand. We'll see hopefully I can find a new camera. Hopefully a good but reasonable price. We'll see I'll let you know when I get a new one. :P

Well I must go I love you all!

05/27/2010

Hey family!

So, this week was quite the unique one. This week, I'm proud to say that we hit our goal of getting 20 lessons! Was it hard? Yes, but we have now proven it is possible. And it all payed off my other great announcement: We have another Baptism date!!! 婉鷓熱 has now accepted to be baptized on June 12 2010! We are really excited.

Also you all must be really curious: transfer right? Here's the result: *drum roll* Elder Grover and I will be together for another transfer! :O Yep first companion to have 3 transfers with. We work hard and we have good plans for the future transfer (one goal not to drive each other nuts (haha little joke XD) Um our old District Leader is now our Zone Leader so we're really excited for him. Basically our district (the big picture) stayed the same.

The only thing different Elder Kim went AP and Sister Park Song Hee is going home to Seoul (She finished) so we are getting my old companion Elder Lee and a sister named Sister 寰棻翱 (Ahn Dah Yeon). It'll be a lot of fun this transfer so we expect great things. As our district leader (aka Zone Leader) always says "Treasure this moment for time and eternity!" He's really funny.

05/20/2010

...Wow this week went fast...again. D:

SO, tomorrow is transfer day we have are predictions everyone is kind of expecting big things this transfer because we need the following: 1 New AP, 3-4 New Zone Leaders, 1 Elder Trainer, 3 Sister Trainers, and possibly a new secretary. :O Everyone is looking forward to tomorrow night with great interest.

The questions Will I transfer? Probably Not. Will I get a new companion? Probably yes. everyone thinks I'm getting a Korean Companion again so we'll see.

Now last week you saw I gave a very small letter....well...um >.> ....the pics are my excuse *runs*

So basically 2010 is almost at mid point! Holy cow! What happened?

Well I'm low on time so I'll tell you results from last week. Also I load you guys pics.

This week we've been busy as ever, we are preparing 2 investigators right now that are really progressing. Also we got 6 lessons in ONE day. D: I'm actually really tired still from that day and that was on Tuesday. >.> SO yeah this week was really good. We are actually going to meet with Young Man tonight and talk about going to the temple. :D I'm excited. Were doing good, the ward is doing good, and I'm doing ok so it's all good.

Today I'm off to Miryang again because its Elder Morrows b-day so we are all very happy for him. It'll be a blast.