Elder Wardle's Mission Letter

An Apostle of the Lord!  These past two weeks have been phenomenal, and quite busy! We have had many missionary meetings on top of our teaching appointments, and my ward is very active as well! The highlight was definitely visiting Seoul to listen to Elder Anderson speak directly to the missionaries in Korea. He talked much about the future of Korea and of the church as a whole, and gave us specific invitations on how we can help those around us serve missions and come unto Christ. In the past two weeks there has also been Zone Conference, District Leader Training, and Missionary Leadership Council. Zone Conferences have been some of the highlights of my mission in terms of personal revelation, and considering this was President Sargents last zone conference it was a little sad! I am equally excited for the future though. Our teaching friends are coming along wonderfully. We have three people who are on the edge of fully committing to Christ, but each has a specific problem that is...

  Another Transfer, Come and Gone It's been a phenomenal week, and I wish I could tell you all about it, but a few surprise appointments later and my email writing time became 4 minutes, so I have to be brief. Transfer calls happened, and I am staying with my companion here for at least one more transfer! This transfer will be a short 5 weeks, and the last one with my current mission president, with lots of fun movement in our district. Our recent converts are being the best member missionaries out there, and one actually extended a baptism invitation on behalf of us without us asking and without us there and he said yes! Have a great week everyone! Elder Wardle Pictures:  A fun fellowshipping activity with new members, teaching friends, and members

  TEMPLE!! This week was huge, and many exciting things happened, but I am going to bullet point it again this week to keep it focused. We went to the BYU ambassadors event this week! We went with our recent converts. It was a bit sad listening to music that I miss, particularly  the Beatles arrangement as it reminded me how much I miss and love my dad. But they ended the event by playing Dynamite by BTS, and after applause and right before they finished, they played a traditional Korean song titled 아리랑 (A Ri Rang). The evening finished with me realizing how much I have come to love this country, its people, and it's music. We are still meeting strange 신천지 (Shin Cheon Ji) people. More have been calling us and meeting us, and it sucks that these people really have no interest in our message, but I have been taking it as good practice on how to act when we really do find that golden individual. Our zone had a picnic together at the National Korean Cemetery. It was fun....

  This is going to be another short one, so here are the highlights: A cult in Korea called 신천지 (Shin Cheon Ji) has been targeting us, which means that everyone we meet has a high chance to be an undercover missionary there to convert us or cause conflict with us. Just to give you an idea of what exactly this church is, they believe that Jesus Christ has been reincarnated as a Korean man, and they get money for converting others and lose many things if they don't convert anyone in a certain amount of time.  I have been able to teach way more lessons in Korean recently! It is amazing how the gift of tongues works! The friends of one of our recent converts have been sending her large amounts of anti, and her family is attacking her because of her beliefs. She is a trooper and is bearing through, because she knows for a surety what the Lord has shown her I might elaborate on the 신천지 (Shin Cheon Ji) shenanigans next week, but it's lights out soon. You all better have a great week!...