Today is transfer calls!! Elder Strahl is leaving and I will stay. He has been such an amazing companion! I have progressed so much with him and I feel so blessed to have spent the last 6 weeks learning from his diligent, loving example. I will be training again next transfer and will also be the new district leader over the 8 missionaries in 충장 와드 (Chungjang Ward). Our ward is doing really well right now and is one of the areas leading the mission, so it will be a pretty big, fun responsibility doing my best to help us all keep up the good work and be worthy for God's blessings. It's slightly intimidating to train and go district leader, but I'm not worried. I know it's God will, so I know He can provide the way. It will definitely be a learning experience.

This week we met a new investigator on the street. His name is 신효면 (Shin Hyo-Myeon) and he is 61 years old. He's pretty poor and doesn't really have a regular job, so he met us every single day from Tuesday to Saturday last week. He learns really well and is beginning to understand what we teach and he said he wants to be baptized! He's been a pretty big miracle this week and I am so excited to keep teaching him this week and help him come unto Christ through the restored gospel of Jesus Christ! 

We also have done a lot to improve the way we teach by finally making our lessons more interactive. Why didn't I do this earlier?! It has been really helpful to both make it easy and simple to understand and to help us teach more simply and directly. It has been a lot of fun figuring out those changes.

I have thought a lot this week again about opening my mouth. We have the promise in the scriptures that if we open our mouths, they will be filled. I have come to the realization again that I think in my efforts to talk to everybody and teach everybody, sometimes I find my self talking and never really opening my mouth that it may be filled. I have felt the difference between when I open my mouth with words already there that I hope to say, and when I open my mouth with trust in the promise that God has something He wants to say and it will be given to me that which His children need to hear. I had a really cool experience with this yesterday as we visited a less active. We ended up changing the scripture we were planning to share mid-lesson and just focused on testifying about our Savior and she began to cry because the Spirit was so strong. I know that God had something He wanted her to know and that we were willing to really open our mouths that God could fill them with His words, not just our own. This really is God's work and I know it! We really do have a Savior and He lives! Through Him, according to God's perfect plan, we can gain peace in this life and eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God. So amazing!

I love you all! Have a wonderful week and don't forget to open your mouth that it may be filled!

Love, Elder Tolman