Well, I dont have a lot of time. I didn't read any of your emails yet. I just saved them to my elecronic dictionary to read later ( kinda nice huh? ;-) )
So This week has gone by really great. Pray for Shim-Kyoo-Up so that he will have some greater desire and pray. Pray for also Kim-Dong-June so that he will have the courage to accept the gospel dispite his family. Yes, we found a couple new people. We met them both yesterday and are going to continue meeting them. We have really seen some blessings.
We worked really hard even though it would have been easy to slack off (chinese new year is really big here and it is normally less effective to do missionary work then.) But we did our best anyway and the Lord blessed us with a couple more people to teach!
Well I gotta go! My companion needs a turn. I will email on Monday. Pray for us to have more charity.
Thank you, Love you,
Bye! Elder LeGrand Shumway
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Some Good Hard Missionary Work
So Family,
Well so far this week is pretty cool and good. I have a question for caleb and Dad. I came out really hard in Yeoung-Cheon and we started the tranfer off really great. You work hard every day and go home exhausted. Its great. But after a while you kindof reach a point where you are really tired and it is hard to put in the same effort. Do you have any tips? Well thank you for the tips on how to establish good relationships with the members. I like them. We are planning on doing one nice thing for all the active members each week and then focusing on the inactives one at a time.
This week got off to a good start. We talked to a few really cool people and have stayed pretty busy. We had some really good meetings with people. Can you pray for Park- Jay-Whan so that he will gain the testimony that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that he will have the desire to act. Right now he is between catholic and Our Church and LOVES the Book of Mormon. He reads it and really feels that it is making him a better person. Now he just needs to act. And also Kang-Sook-Jeen. She is a member. Just pray that she might open up to us and that we can be able to really help her.Well thank you. I love Korea and the people. The language is hard, but I am getting through it. Keep praying for us and the people of Korea especially Yeoung-Cheon and the people here.
Oh, you can stop praying for the people we had in Yeoung-Do. Well, that sounds bad. Pray for them if you desire.
Love you very much,Elder Shumway
Ps- can you send some more Got 2B Glued and Pomade. thanks!
Well so far this week is pretty cool and good. I have a question for caleb and Dad. I came out really hard in Yeoung-Cheon and we started the tranfer off really great. You work hard every day and go home exhausted. Its great. But after a while you kindof reach a point where you are really tired and it is hard to put in the same effort. Do you have any tips? Well thank you for the tips on how to establish good relationships with the members. I like them. We are planning on doing one nice thing for all the active members each week and then focusing on the inactives one at a time.
This week got off to a good start. We talked to a few really cool people and have stayed pretty busy. We had some really good meetings with people. Can you pray for Park- Jay-Whan so that he will gain the testimony that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that he will have the desire to act. Right now he is between catholic and Our Church and LOVES the Book of Mormon. He reads it and really feels that it is making him a better person. Now he just needs to act. And also Kang-Sook-Jeen. She is a member. Just pray that she might open up to us and that we can be able to really help her.Well thank you. I love Korea and the people. The language is hard, but I am getting through it. Keep praying for us and the people of Korea especially Yeoung-Cheon and the people here.
Oh, you can stop praying for the people we had in Yeoung-Do. Well, that sounds bad. Pray for them if you desire.
Love you very much,Elder Shumway
Ps- can you send some more Got 2B Glued and Pomade. thanks!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Miracles and Blessings
Well family,
I am doing really well up here. I think this whole experience is turning out to be a real blessing and being a senior defenately feels different. We are working really hard out here and I have seen so many small miracles and blessings in these last two weeks. It has only been two weeks but we have collected a lot of things to talk about. Well the ward is very small. I really feel like we need to push towards building them up and gaining their trust. I get the feeling that the missionaries before didn't hit it off too well with them. I think there is alot of improvement there. If you have any good ideas of building the relationships with members, lay 'em on me! Its a small branch with about 10 people that come out every week. So there is a lot of room to work on a more personal level...
So anyway, it snowed here. We took pictures. My companion is a pretty big Elder as far as height goes. We have fun. We are working like mad though and it feels good to be working so hard. Tiring, but definitly rewarding in every sense of the word. So I have a cool experience that really lifted my spirits and was really a witness to me that The Lord does have a hand in this work. So we did zone procelyting on the street on wednesday. We started talking to people and by the end of the activity, I got contact information from 5 people. Since they weren't from our little city of Yeoung-Cheon, I refferred them over to the missionaries in Deagu (the city where we were procelyting). I just heard yesterday that two of those five have already met the missionaries and comitted to attend church this week. One in particular told the missionaries that he wanted to know the truth and if he gained a testimony that it is true, he said he will be baptized. Although it wasn't a direct blessing for our area, it was a strength to me to know that through some of my finding efforts, some really prepared people were able to find what I know. We're all on the same team. There are not a lot of people on the streets in Yeoung-Cheon. That is a little unfortunate. But we are working hard and are meeting some really cool people from our efforts.
Today we went hiking. I am a bit tired.
Love you all. Elder shumway
I am doing really well up here. I think this whole experience is turning out to be a real blessing and being a senior defenately feels different. We are working really hard out here and I have seen so many small miracles and blessings in these last two weeks. It has only been two weeks but we have collected a lot of things to talk about. Well the ward is very small. I really feel like we need to push towards building them up and gaining their trust. I get the feeling that the missionaries before didn't hit it off too well with them. I think there is alot of improvement there. If you have any good ideas of building the relationships with members, lay 'em on me! Its a small branch with about 10 people that come out every week. So there is a lot of room to work on a more personal level...
So anyway, it snowed here. We took pictures. My companion is a pretty big Elder as far as height goes. We have fun. We are working like mad though and it feels good to be working so hard. Tiring, but definitly rewarding in every sense of the word. So I have a cool experience that really lifted my spirits and was really a witness to me that The Lord does have a hand in this work. So we did zone procelyting on the street on wednesday. We started talking to people and by the end of the activity, I got contact information from 5 people. Since they weren't from our little city of Yeoung-Cheon, I refferred them over to the missionaries in Deagu (the city where we were procelyting). I just heard yesterday that two of those five have already met the missionaries and comitted to attend church this week. One in particular told the missionaries that he wanted to know the truth and if he gained a testimony that it is true, he said he will be baptized. Although it wasn't a direct blessing for our area, it was a strength to me to know that through some of my finding efforts, some really prepared people were able to find what I know. We're all on the same team. There are not a lot of people on the streets in Yeoung-Cheon. That is a little unfortunate. But we are working hard and are meeting some really cool people from our efforts.Today we went hiking. I am a bit tired.
Love you all. Elder shumway
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Senior Companion
Yes I got your package! Thank you very much! I am actually wearing the long sleeve shirt right now. Yes, it's cold. I have been putting on double layers of long johns and had to bring out the big jacket. no snow though. the river is freezing pretty good though and we somethimes get a good breeze going.
I love my companion. This was my first week as senior and man was it ...humbling. I realized I dont really know korean, finding people can getfrustrating, and the Lord gives us the blessings all in one week. A good week! Right now we dont have any real good investigators and it looks like the lastfew missionaries lost some of the trust and love of some of the members here soI will try to work on that dispite my limitations in the language...Thank you for the chocolate moose recipe. we'll give it a try.
We've seen some miracles happen. One, when I left Yeoung-Do. I'll tell you some later. time is almost up.We are going to Costco today :-) I promise I'll tell you of them in the next one...
Love you all,
Elder Shumway
I love my companion. This was my first week as senior and man was it ...humbling. I realized I dont really know korean, finding people can getfrustrating, and the Lord gives us the blessings all in one week. A good week! Right now we dont have any real good investigators and it looks like the lastfew missionaries lost some of the trust and love of some of the members here soI will try to work on that dispite my limitations in the language...Thank you for the chocolate moose recipe. we'll give it a try.
We've seen some miracles happen. One, when I left Yeoung-Do. I'll tell you some later. time is almost up.We are going to Costco today :-) I promise I'll tell you of them in the next one...
Love you all,
Elder Shumway
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Transfer to Yeong-Cheon
hi family.
I dont have a lot of time. But thank you so much for the package! I am on a train right now for a place called yeoung- cheon. Guess what?! I'm a "senior" now. Scary huh? yeah me too. my comp is elder Ballam. He is really cool And I think we will get along great! Well, I gotta go. I have some amazing stuff that happened this last week.
I will talk to you later!
next week!
Love you all!
bye
I dont have a lot of time. But thank you so much for the package! I am on a train right now for a place called yeoung- cheon. Guess what?! I'm a "senior" now. Scary huh? yeah me too. my comp is elder Ballam. He is really cool And I think we will get along great! Well, I gotta go. I have some amazing stuff that happened this last week.
I will talk to you later!
next week!
Love you all!
bye
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