Week 85

thank you so much for the happy birthday!

my new area is Jeju, yes, Jeju Island. it is great! It feels kinda like korean hawaii or something. the water is super blue and there is a lot of wind and palm trees. it kinda freaked me out when i landed from the plane and saw a bunch of palm tress! it is great though! my new companion is elder Lee junseok. he is in his last transfer and is  maybe having a hard time staying focused... this week has been a little tough, one of the investigators just got baptized 2 months ago and now we dont have any investigators to meet with. so we are trying to find new investigators to come to our english class or just new people we can meet with. we were able to meet with the recent convert brother jeong seo jin. he is about 14 years old and is awesome! he knows a ton about the gospel and soaks everything in. he is really mature for his age and he just wants to do the right thing. when we met with him we were able to talk about the importance of the sabbath day and keeping it holy. he usually wants to just hang out with his friends and play games on sunday but he wants to try to keep it holy. 

the branch has about 50 to 60 members that come to church each week, the branch president has long black hair that is parted down the middle. kinda curly. haha there are a good balance of every kind of member there, some old and some young. there is \really old guy that teaches at a university that calls me elder Mr. president carter haha every single time i meet him.

so far the area is really good, we just need to find more investigators. i taught a little bit about the priesthood at church yesterday during gospel doctrines class and a little bit about the power of the priesthood. it reminded me of how we as missionaries have the authority of God to act in his name. and so as we are finding investigators and people to teach, we will know who to talk to and know what to say. i testify that is true, that the priesthood is the authority and support of God given by Him to do great things! it should be another great week in Jeju!

elder carter

Week 82,83,84

hello this weekwas good, we werent able to meet with yun hae guun very often, so we will see how the baptism goes later this week, maybe it wont happen... i dont know. but we were able to meet with yang jae hong and talk with him a little. he is doing better, after a few weeks of trouble at work. we erent able to meet with him for a little while. he talked with us and said that he has been praying and he feels like he felt Gods love for everyone on earth. this really helped a lot, but he still is not taking these feelings as a for sure answer. He still isnt willing to be baptized, but he really loves the experiences he is having. the spirit was so strong in the lesson and me and elder miller testified with our hearts! we talked about his prayers and he feels like he can get help if he prays. it was great, because we actually didnt plan a lesson for him, we just met him after church. honestly i didnt know what to teach him or what to say, but thoughts just starting coming to me and the lesson worked out really well. the spirit really guided the lesson and i think we made som;e progress with him!

elder carter


Hello!

i got transfered yesterday so now i am in an area called Jeju... haha look it up on the internet. it was really a tough week though, last one in daemyoung. we were not able to meet with yun haegn again so its been awhile since we last met him and now i got transfered... but we talked on the phone and he said he will come to jeju on time in a couple of weeks actually. so maybe we could see him then. we met with brotehr yang jae hong again and had a pretty decent lesson with him but it is still ahrd for him to accept the things we teach him as truth. we studied recognizing the spirit in PMG together but he still said he needed more time to think about things and he will continue learning about them. i think he just needs more time with everything and eventually he will be able to say "i know". all in the lord's time. so i cant remember if i told you or not but our daemyoung ward combined with the neighboring suseong ward. the church is selling our building so they can help build the church in other areas of the world. so now we meet in the suseong ward building all together. it was really weird giving my last talk in front of a bunch of people i didnt know. this was the first time i didnt cry before leaving an area which was weird. but i feel like the daemyoung members were some of the most loving and strong faith members ive met, kind of like jinhae members. we will definitely need to visit them when you come!

so now im in jeju with my companion elder Lee Jun seok. He is in his last transfer so it should be a good transfer! i love you both, and hope you have a good time in japan! my last companion elder miller wanted a japanese tie, so i was wondering if you could send me a couple cheap ties from japan (really japanese style ties) for me to just give to my friends! he really liked the 100 yen tie i have haha so they can just be cheap ties. thank you for all you do il see you soon~!

elder carter