This has been another great week! Our investigator 김윤현 (Yoon-Hyun Kim) is doing well and has a baptismal date for this Saturday. He has come a long way and he has lots of room to grow in the gospel (Don't we all?) He said he wants to change his life and he recognizes that this gospel is the way to do it. He also had a difficult family situation and I'm so happy that he will be able to learn the principles of a righteous, gospel-centered, eternal family here. There really is nothing more valuable!
We also met a couple other cool investigators this week. One is a Russian named Dmitry who is studying business here for a while. He is a really solid Christian and asked a lot of great sincere questions. I hope he will open his heart enough to at least "plant the word!" We also met 정희철 (Hee-Cheol Jung), and he also has a lot of potential. He said that he's tried attending church a couple times and is curious about finding if God really exists, but said that each time he tried, he failed. He agreed to try one more time with us and seems really open just to learn and try everything we are inviting him to do. We had our first lesson on Saturday night and he came out to church the next day! He's pretty amazing.
We also had a fun little ward activity yesterday. We all drove out to the outskirts of town with our members, investigators, etc. to one of our member's chicken farm. We had fresh chicken soup and rice porridge boiled over a fire in their yard. We felt like we had traveled a few decades back in time and really had a pretty traditional meal from scratch. It was a neat experience.
I had an opportunity to attend the very end of a youth camp nearby as they were closing the meeting and had their final testimony meeting and it was so fun to see how amazing God's children really are! We really are the children of God! We are often asked to do things that seem out of our reach or seek to do things that other people might consider silly or impossible, but God truly can qualify those whom He calls. He is the head of this church and He is leading this, the work of salvation in these latter days. The most exciting part is that every single one of us is a part of it! But we have to be humble enough to turn to Him so that weak things can be made strong. We are each different and have our unique weaknesses, struggles, and experiences, but I know that God, as the Creator, can guide us, shape us, and help us to become more than we can imagine of becoming on our own. And it's all possible because the fullness of the gospel has been restored and it is found here in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!!!
I am so grateful to live at such an exciting time and to have so many tool and opportunities to reach out and change lives!! I challenge you to ask God what He is seeking to do through you and then to do it! It probably won't be easy but it will definitely be worth it! Give it a shot!!
Have a wonderful week!! I love you all!!!
Love, Elder Tolman
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